I am a DAAD/NRF-funded PhD student in computer science, supervised by Prof. Tommie Meyer, at the University of Cape Town. I conduct research as a member of the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning research group, also affiliated with the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR).
My research expertise is propositional logic and belief revision. I employ empirical methods, that stem from data science and cognitive science, to evaluate the theory of belief revision with human reasoners. For his expertise in cognitive logics and formal reasoning, Prof. Prof. Marco Ragni has joined my PhD as co-supervisor.
Honours and achievements
- Invited young researcher, 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF2022), Heidelberg, Germany, 18 – 23 September 2022
- Master’s (MSc) thesis was awarded with distinction (88%), University of Cape Town, 15 December 2022
- Dean’s Merit Award and Top Achiever in Computer Science (BSc), University of the Western Cape, 2016-2018
Professional and academic affiliations
- Student member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022-2023
- Student member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2020-2021
- Student member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, 2017-
Professional experience
- Doctoral consortium and poster presentation, 19th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2022), Haifa, Israel, 2 – 5 August 2022
- Program committee, Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation (CAKR), 2022
- External reviewer, Journal of Applied Logic (Special issue: Formal and Cognitive Reasoning), 2022
- Research assistant, Department of Computer Science and Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, University of Cape Town, 2021-2022
- BSc capstone project supervisor, Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, 2021
- Membership recruitment director, Golden Key International Honour Society – University of the Western Cape, 2018
Funding awards
| Year | Title |
| 2023 | DAAD-NRF Doctoral Scholarship |
| UCT Doctoral Research Scholarship | |
| UCT Vice-Chancellor’s Doctoral Research Scholarship | |
| 2022 | DAAD-NRF Doctoral Scholarship |
| UCT Doctoral Research Scholarship | |
| UCT Vice-Chancellor’s Doctoral Research Scholarship | |
| 2021 | DSI-CSIR Inter-bursary Support Programme Master’s Scholarship |
| UCT Master’s Research Scholarship | |
| UCT Vice-Chancellor’s Master’s Research Scholarship | |
| 2020 | DSI-CSIR Inter-bursary Support Programme Master’s Scholarship |
| UCT Master’s Research Scholarship | |
| UCT Vice-Chancellor’s Master’s Research Scholarship | |
| 2019 | NRF Honours Bursary |
| 2018 | Multichoice (Pty) Ltd. Bursary |
| 2017 | Multichoice (Pty) Ltd. Bursary |
Past talks
- “A reproducible approach to evaluate postulates of revision and update with human reasoners”, presented at the SACAIR2022 unconference on 5 December 2022
- “Asking human reasoners to judge postulates of belief change for plausibility”, presented at the 20th International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR) on 8 August 2022
- “Belief change in human reasoning: an empirical investigation on MTurk”, presented (online) at SACAIR2021on 9 December 2021
- “Cognitive defeasible reasoning: the extent to which forms of defeasible reasoning correspond with human reasoning”, presented (online) at SACAIR2020 on 25 February 2021
Upcoming talks
- TBA
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