Staff from the Department of Computer Science (in alphabetical order):

Sonia Berman

Emeritus Associate Professor

BSc Rhodes, MSc PhD UCT

Student Advisor, Computer Science

Office: Room 310, Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 2668
Email: sonia@cs.uct.ac.za

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Jan Buys

Senior Lecturer

MSc Stellenbosch, DPhil Oxon

Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Large Language Models.

Office: Room 314, Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 21 650 7375
Email: jbuys@cs.uct.ac.za
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Josiah Chavula

Senior Lecturer

BSc University of Malawi, MSc Lancaster University, PhD UCT

Student Advisor, Computer Science

Office: Room 305, Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 1330
Email: jchavula@cs.uct.ac. za
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Melissa Densmore

Associate Professor

BA Computer Science Cornell, MSc University College London, PhD Berkeley

Expertise: digital maternal and child health and well-being, community wireless networks, local digital content and services

Office: HPI Research School, HPI d-School building
Email: mdensmore@cs.uct.ac.za
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 4315
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James Gain

Professor

MSc Rhodes, PhD Cantab

Expertise: Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Visualisation

Office: Room 315, Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 4058
Email: jgain@cs.uct.ac.za
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Maria Keet

Associate Professor

BSc(Hons) OU UK, MSc WUR, MA Limerick, PhD Bozen-Bolzano

Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, ontology engineering ontologies, conceptual modelling, natural language generation, human language technologies for Niger-Congo B (Bantu) languages, applied computational logic; also: social issues in computing and IT, computer ethics

Office: Room 314.1, Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 2667
Email: mkeet@cs.uct.ac.za
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Michelle Kuttel

Professor, Head of Department: Computer Science

MSc, PhD UCT

Expertise: Glycobiology, Molecular modelling, Computational Science, Visualisation, High Performance Computing

Office: Room 317.1 Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 2663
Email: mkuttel@cs.uct.ac.za
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Zola Mahlaza

Lecturer

Msc, PhD (UCT)

Expertise: Natural language generation, Human language technologies, Conceptual modelling, Knowledge engineering

Office: Room 306.2, Computer Science Building
Telephone: 021 650 4235
Email: zmahlaza@cs.uct.ac.za
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Patrick Marais

Associate Professor

MSc UCT, PhD Oxon

Expertise: computer vision with machine learning

Student Advisor (January-June 2023)

Office: 309 Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 4086
Email: patrick@cs.uct.ac.za
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Francois Meyer

Lecturer

BSc and BSc Honours (Stellenbosch), Msc (Amsterdam)

Expertise: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Deep Learning

Office: Room 316, Computer Science Building
Email: fmeyer@cs.uct.ac.za

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Tommie Meyer

Professor

MSc RAU, PhD UNISA

CAIR-UCT Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence

Expertise: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Office: 312 Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 5519
Email: tommie.meyer@uct.ac.za
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Deshen Moodley

Associate Professor

DSI/NRF-UCT SARCHI Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems

MSc Natal PMB, PhD KwaZulu-Natal

Office: 304.1 Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 2663
Email: deshen.moodley@uct.ac.za
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Geoff Nitschke

Associate Professor

BSc(Hons) Curtin, PhD VU Amsterdam

Expertise: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Evolutionary Robotics

Office: Room 308, Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 3981
Email: gnitschke@cs.uct.ac.za
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Krupa Prag

Lecturer

MSc (Wits)

Expertise: Computational Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Control Systems

Office: Room 307, Computer Science Building
Email: krupa.prag@uct.ac.za

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Aslam Safla

Senior Lecturer

BSc(Hons) Natal, MSc UKZN

Senior Student Advisor

Expertise: Computer Science Education, Introductory Programming

Office: Room 317.2, Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 2664
Email: aslam@cs.uct.ac.za

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Rob Simmonds

Professor

Bsc(Hons), PhD Mathematical Sciences Bath UK

Expertise: Distributed Systems, Scientific Computing, Cloud Computing, Web Based Applications, Parallel Discrete Event Simulation, Parallel Computing, Remote Visualization.

Office: Room 317.2, Computer Science Building
Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 5108
Email: simmonds@cs.uct.ac.za

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