Deshen Moodley is the SARChI Chair in Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and the co-director and co-founder of South Africa’s national Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR). He is currently a research fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study undertaking a research project in collaboration with the Sorbonne Centre for Artificial Intelligence on augmented AI systems for scientific knowledge discovery. His research focus is on designing human centred AI systems. He is interested in novel mechanisms for adaptation, cognition and interaction in AI systems to enable scientific knowledge discovery and decision making. He has worked on AI systems in diverse application domains, including the health, energy, finance and earth observation domains.