April 2022 — Prof Tommie Meyer, co-director of AIRU and leader of the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning group at the University of Cape Town, has been awarded an A rating by the National Research Foundation (NRF). He joins a group of only three Computer Scientists ever to have been awarded an NRF A rating. Tommie is recognised internationally as an expert in knowledge representation and reasoning, a subarea of artificial intelligence, focusing on belief revision and non-monotonic reasoning (NMR), as well as their application to description logics (DL).
A-rated researchers are those who are unequivocally recognised by their peers as being leading international scholars in their field for the high quality and impact of their recent research outputs. For more information on the NRF ratings, visit the NRF website.
