Prof. Louise Leenen
| Position: | Associate Professor and Acting Head of Department |
| Department: | Computer Science |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Natural Science |
| Qualifications: | PhD in Computer Science (University of Wollongong, Australia) |
| Tel: | 021 959 3008 |
| Fax: | 021 959 1274 |
| Email: | lleenen@uwc.ac.za |
Biography
Louise Leenen holds a Rsearch Chair in AI and Cybersecurity. She completed her PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the University of Wollongong in AUstralia in 2009 and joined UWC in 2019 after working as a Principal Researcher at the CSIR in the Cyber Defencce Reseearch Group.
Louise is an NRF SARChl Chair and leads a node in the national Centre for Artificial Intelligence (CAIR) in AI and Cybersecurity. She regularly serves in various positions on committees of national and international bodies and has authored more than a 100 journal publications, book chapters and confeerence papers.