Staff of the Department

Head of Department and Professor

• Ken MacGregor BSc Strathclyde MSc PhD Glasgow

Professors

• Edwin Blake BSc (Hons) Wits PhD London
• Pieter Kritzinger MSc (Eng) Wits PhD Waterloo

Adjunct Professors

• Andrew Hutchison MSc HDE UCT PhD Zurich

Associate Professors

• Sonia Berman BSc Rhodes MSc PhD UCT
• Gary Marsden BSc (Hons) MSc PhD Stirling

Senior Lecturers

• James Gain MSc Rhodes PhD Cantab
• Mike Linck MSc PhD UCT
• Patrick Marais MSc UCT DPhil Oxon
• Anet Potgieter MSc PhD Pretoria
• Hussein Suleman MSc UDW PhD VPI&SU

Lecturers

• Marshini Chetty BSc (Hons) UCT
• Donald Cook BSc (Hons) UCT
• Justin Kelleher
• Michelle Kuttel PhD UCT

Lecturers - Academic Development Programme

• Gary Stewart BSc (Hons) UCT

Computer Systems Managers

• Samuel Chetty, MCP
• Mattew West

Administrative Assistant

• Freda Parker

Senior Secretary

• Shanaaz Solomons

Laboratory Assistant

• Bernie Sam

Part-time Research Assistant

• Eve Gill

Professional Activities

S Berman

• Member of the NRF Review Panel evaluating NRF grant applications in the ICT Focus Area, and reviewer for SAICSIT and SACJ.

D Cook

• Chair of the South African Computer Olympiad Technical committee, and Coach of the South African Olympiad team. He also oversees the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest at UCT and is the UCT site manager.
• Attended the finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest in Shanghai.

J Gain

• Member of IEEE, ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH
• President of Afrigraph
• Member of the International Resources Committee for SIGGRAPH 2005

P Marais

• Member of IEEE Computer society, ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH

G Marsden

• Part of the DST HCI Roadmapping process
• External examiner for Honours at NMMU
• External examiner for 3rd year at University of Johannesburg
• Member - ISO 20282 committee (Usability of Consumer Devices).

H Suleman

• Member of the Board of Directors of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organisation to promote the widespread adoption of digital library technology in higher education.
• Organised workshops on DSpace and Greenstone in conjunction with the Sivulile group promoting Open Access.

Faculty and University Involvement

S Berman

• IT Programme Convenor.
• IT Programme Management Committee chair.

D Cook

• Serves on the Physical Planning Committee.
• Chair of the SCILAB committee.
• Serves on the Faculty IT committee.

J Gain

• Serves on Committee for University Education in Science.
• Member of the UCT SciFest subcommittee and (along with Gary Marsden) the Heritage committee which was responsible for developing an interactive visualization of the history of UCT that is currently on display in the Molly Blackburn Foyer.
• Chair of the CUES subcommittee for Postgraduate Affairs.

P Marais

• Serves on Committee for University Education in Science.
• Serves on IT Programme Committee.
• Serves on UCT Travel Grant Subcommittee.

G Marsden

• Serves on the faculty Marketing Committee.
• Serves on the university Heritage Committee.
• Serves on the faculty Research committee.

A Potgieter

• Worked as an Assistant Student Advisor.

H Suleman

• Served on the selection committee for the faculty posts created by funding from The Atlantic Philanthropies.
• Member of the Faculty Readmission Review Committee.
• Served on selection committee for Web Developer in CET/CHED.