Dr Irene Nandutu, a postdoctoral research fellow working with the Neuroscience Institute and the AI Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, won the 2024 Kambule Doctoral Award at the Deep Learning Indaba, which was held from 1 to 7 September at the University Amadou Makhtar Mbow, Dakar, Senegal. The award recognises the legacy …
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June 2024 — Tommie Meyer, co-director of AIRU, has been elected as a Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) in recognition of his excellence in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The AAS is a pan-African organisation dedicated to pursuing excellence by funding and recognising transformative research across the continent. Fellowship recognition is …
March 2024 — Mbithe Nzomo, PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town and member of the Artificial Intelligence Research Unit (AIRU), recently attended the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24) which was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 20th to 27thFebruary 2024. She presented her PhD research on a hybrid AI framework …
Ameerah Allie a Masters at the University of Cape Town and member of AIRU has been awarded the Science Faculty Master’s Equity Scholarship for 2024-2025. Ameerah became interested in logics and their application after a lecture from her eventual supervisor, Professor Tommie Meyer. “I’ve decided to pursue this into my Master’s, looking at defeasible reasoning. In the …
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