Marelie H. Davel is a Research Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, North-West University (NWU), Potchefstroom, South Africa.

She is the director of the MUST Deep Learning research group and holds the national SARChI chair in Deep Learning. She is also a node representative of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR), an NITheCS (National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences) Associate and a National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher.

She received her PhD from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, in 2005. Before joining NWU, she was a Principal Researcher and research group leader at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa. Her current research focuses on deep learning theory and applications.