About me
Hello, I’m Clayton. Born in South Africa and raised in the picturesque suburbs of Cape Town. I have a background in computer science and a family legacy in academia. I find joy in exploring various interests such as the world of coffee, staying active at the gym, capturing moments through photography, and embarking on adventures through travel. Currently, I work as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of the Western Cape. I teach students the essentials of Java programming, data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis. I’m also pursuing my PhD under the guidance of Prof. Tommie Meyer at the University of Cape Town, focusing on knowledge representation and reasoning. My research background includes working with propositional logic and belief revision. My current work has two aims. The first is to predict individual human responses to belief revision problems. The second is to investigate the effect of confirmation bias in human belief revision. I’m fortunate to have Prof. Marco Ragni from Chemnitz University of Technology as my PhD co-supervisor, bringing expertise in cognitive logics to enrich my studies.
Highlights at IJCAI-23 (Macau, S. A. R. 🇲🇴)
Honours and achievements
- Young researcher, 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), 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
- Member of Mensa South Africa (High IQ Society), 2023–
- Student member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023–
- Academic member of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT), 2023–
- Academic member of the South African Artificial Intelligence Association (SAAIA), 2023–
- Student member of Artificial Intelligence Research Unit (AIRU), 2023–
- Professional 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 Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR), 2020–
- Student member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, 2017–
Highlights at KR-23 (Rhodes, Greece 🇬🇷)
Professional experience
- Program committee, 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 20 – 27 February 2024
- Sub-reviewer, 2nd Pan-African Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PanAfriCon AI) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 5 – 6 October 2023
- Co-chair, 2nd Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation (CAKR) co-located with 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR), Rhodes, Greece, 2 – 8 September 2023
- Participant, Doctoral Consortium, 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Macao, S. A. R., China, 19 – 25 August 2023
- Student volunteer, 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Macau, S. A. R., China, 19 – 25 August 2023
- External reviewer, Journal of Applied Logics (JAL) Special issue: Formal and Cognitive Reasoning, 2023
- Participant, Doctoral Consortium, 19th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR), Haifa, Israel, 2 – 5 August 2022
- Student volunteer, Federated Logic Conference (FLoC), Haifa, Israel, 31 July – 9 August 2022
- External reviewer, 1st Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation (CAKR) Workshop
- Research assistant, Department of Computer Science and Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, University of Cape Town, 2021–2022
- Research supervisor, BSc capstone projects, Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, 2021
- Membership recruitment director, Golden Key International Honour Society – University of the Western Cape, 2018
Teaching
- COS101, Problem-Solving, Algorithms and Programming (University of the Western Cape, 2024–)
- CSC211, Data Structures (University of the Western Cape, 2022–)
- CSC212, Algorithms and Complexity (University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Highlights at SACAIR-23 (Muldersdrift, South Africa 🇿🇦)
Clayton Kevin Baker 