Staff & Faculty
Meet the academic and administrative staff of the Computer Science Department at Stellenbosch University.
Academic Staff
George Azzopardi
Associate Professor Extraordinary
Research Interests: Brain-inspired computing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning
Willem Bester
Junior Lecturer
Research Interests: Software Engineering, Formal Methods, Formal Language and Automata Theory
Judith Bishop
Professor Extraordinary
Research Interests: Programming languages, software engineering, mobile computing, open source software
Loek Cleophas
Associate Professor Extraordinary
Research Interests: Model-driven engineering, Digital Twins, Algorithm + model variability
Marcel Dunaiski
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Data Science, Informetrics, Scientometrics
David Baker Effendi
Research Fellow
Research Interests: Program analysis, static analysis
Andries Engelbrecht
Professor
Research Interests: Swarm intelligence, Evolutionary computation, Hyper-heuristics, Neural networks, Machine learning, Data analytics, Optimization, Fitness landscape analysis
Bernd Fischer
Professor
Research Interests: Software engineering, formal methods, program analysis, program generation, program verification, artificial intelligence
Trienko Grobler
Lecturer
Research Interests: Machine learning, remote sensing, radio interferometry, coding theory and the epoch of reionization
McElory Hoffmann
Senior Lecturer Extraordinary
Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning, smart cameras
Cornelia Inggs
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Formal methods, model checking, concurrency
Maria Keet
Professor Extraordinary
Research Interests: Ontology, Semantic Web, Conceptual Modeling, Knowledge Representation and reasoning
Steve Kroon
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence/machine learning, statistical learning theory, probability and computing
Mkhuseli Ngxande
Lecturer
Research Interests: Machine learning, computer vision, bioinformatics, wide area surveillance
Francesco Petruccione
Visiting Academic
Research Interests: Interim director of the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS) and Professor Extraordinary in the Department of Physics at SU.
Laurette Pretorius
Associate Professor Extraordinary
Research Interests: Multilingual NLP, Semantic computing, Ontology development, Machine translation, Language generation
Moeketsi Raselimo
Lecturer Extraordinary
Research Interests: Programming Languages, Software Testing, Fuzzing
Gavin Rens
Lecturer
Research Interests: Cognitive Robotics focusing on knowledge representation and reasoning under uncertainty. Probabilistic planning. Reinforcement learning.
William (Bill) Tucker
Professor
Research Interests: Computer networks and their applications; human computer interaction; social impact; ethical, responsible, and sustainable computing
Brink van der Merwe
Professor, Head of Division
Research Interests: Tree automata and applications, Learning of grammars and languages from data
Lynette van Zijl
Professor
Research Interests: Implementation and applications of automata; assistive technologies
Wolf-Tilo Balke and Florian Plötzky
Visiting Academic
Research Interests: Query Processing, User Preferences and Personalization, Cognitive User Modeling and Conceptualization, Peer-to-Peer Networks and Distributed Retrieval
Willem Visser
Part-time Professor
Research Interests: Software engineering, testing, symbolic execution, and model checking
Fabian Yamaguchi
Professor Extraordinary
Research Interests: Computer security, Program analysis, Machine learning
Administrative Staff
Emile Dreyer
