Thomas Meyer

I am a professor in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Co-Director of the national Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR). I am also the leader of the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning group at UCT, as well as the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Unit (AIRU) – CAIR UCT node. Prior to this I held positions at the CSIR in Pretoria, National ICT Australia (now Data61), the University of New South Wales in Australia, the University of Pretoria, and the University of South Africa. I am recognised internationally as an expert in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. I’m one of only three South African Computer Scientists to have obtained an A-rating from the South African National Research Foundation.

My main claim to fame is that I made a brief, uncredited appearance in an Academy Award winning movie.

My primary research interests and expertise are in the area of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR), a subarea of Artificial Intelligence (AI), focusing on Belief Revision and Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR), as well as their application to Description Logics (DL).

Qualifications

1. PhD (Computer Science), University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, 1999.
2. MSc (Computer Science), Rand Afrikaans University (now the University of Johannesburg), Johannesburg, South Africa, 1986.
3. BSc Honours (Computer Science) with distinction, Rand Afrikaans University (now the University of Johannesburg), Johannesburg, South Africa, 1985.
4. BSc (Computer Science, Mathematical Statistics), Rand Afrikaans University (now the University of Johannesburg), Johannesburg, South Africa, 1984.