Prof Meyer elected a TWAS fellow

Prof Tommie Meyer has been elected as a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) in recognition of his outstanding contribution to science and its promotion in the developing world. 

Based in Trieste, Italy, TWAS was founded in 1982 and supports sustainable prosperity through research, education, policy and diplomacy. Originally known as the Third World Academy of Sciences, the academy now has more than 1400 elected fellows worldwide. 

Tommie is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Cape Town, holder of the DSTI/NRF-UCT Co-funded Research Chair in Symbolic Artificial Intelligence, the Deputy Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Unit, and the Co-Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research. He is recognised internationally as an expert in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, and is one of only three South African Computer Scientists to have obtained an A-rating from the South African National Research Foundation. 

He is an editorial board member of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, a member of the advisory board of the KR Conference series, and a past chair of the International Non-Monotonic Reasoning Workshop series. He has played leadership roles in numerous conferences and workshops related to Knowledge Representation and Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence, and is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed research outputs.