AUT - Staff
Staff
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Prof. Nikola Kasabov - Director
Professor Nikola Kasabov is the Foundation Director of KEDRI, and a Chair of Knowledge Engineering at the School of Computer and Information Sciences at AUT, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Fellow of the New Zealand Computer Society and a Fellow of IEEE. He holds a MSc and PhD from the Technical University of Sofia. His main research interests are in the areas of: intelligent information systems, soft computing, neuro-computing, bioinformatics, brain study, speech and image processing, data mining and knowledge discovery. phone: +64 9 921 9506 |
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Joyce D'Mello - KEDRI Admin. Manager
Joyce is the Manager of KEDRI and also the Personal Assistant to the Director of KEDRI. Joyce provides administrative and secretarial services, maintains financial and personnel data and documentation of KEDRI, takes care of purchases, acts as a co-ordinator and contributes to the functioning of a high-performing team. phone: +64 9 921 9504 |
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Peter Hwang - PhD Student
Peter is the technical support at KEDRI and the manager of the NeuCom project. NeuCom is a complete software package for data processing. Visit the NeuCom website for more details. His research areas are neural networks, software agents, process modelling and software internationalisation. He is currently completing his PhD study on the topic of local and personalised modelling. phone: +64 9 921 9526 |
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Asso. Prof. Frances Joseph - Associate Professor
Frances Joseph is Associate Professor in Art and Design at the Auckland University of Technology. She holds an MFA from the University of New South Wales and has worked as a designer in areas of sculpture, puppet design and animatronics. Since joining A.U.T. in 1997 her teaching and research interests have centred on design history and theory, with a focus on the representation of design knowledge. Frances was visiting research fellow at the Design History Research Centre, University of Brighton in 2002 and is a member of the Designers Institute of New Zealand. At KEDRI she is working on the development of design ontology and exploring potential applications of evolutionary computation to design problem solving. phone: +64 9 921 9999 # 8750 |
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Dr. Russel Pears - Associate Researcher
Russel holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Physics, and Masters and PhD degrees in Computing Science from the University of Cardiff, United Kingdom. Russel is a Senior Lecturer at the school of Computer and Information Science at the Auckland University of Technology, where he teaches Data Mining and Research methods. He has a strong interest in Machine Learning and is currently involved in several projects in this area, including classification methods for imbalanced data sets, dynamic credit scoring methods, contextual search techniques and mining high speed data streams. phone: +64-9-9219999 ext 5344 |
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Prof. Stephen MacDonell - Associate Researcher
Stephen G. MacDonell is Professor of Software Engineering in the School of Computer and Information Sciences Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. He holds BCom(Hons) and MCom degrees in information science from the University of Otago and a PhD in software engineering from the University of Cambridge. His main research activities are in the areas of software engineering, software measurement, project planning, estimation and management, data analysis, and software forensics. He is a member of the ACM and NZCS. phone: +64 9 921 9773 |
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Prof. Ajit Narayanan - Associate Researcher
Professor Ajit Narayanan is the head of school of computing and mathematical sciences. His teaching areas are artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, quantum computing, scientific computing and cognitive science.His research areas are application of artificial intelligence techniques in bioinformatics and systems biology; computational statistics, modelling and simulation. email: ajit.narayanan@aut.ac.nz |
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Dr. Qun Song - Associate Researcher
Qun obtained his Bachelor degree, Masters degree and PhD degree from Textile University of China, Tokyo University of Mercantile Marine, Japan and Otago University, New Zealand respectively. The research fields he specialises in are AI systems, neural networks, fuzzy systems and their applications in prediction, control and image processing. email: qsong@aut.ac.nz |
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Dr. Lubica Benuskova - Associate Researcher
Luba has got a Master degree in Psychology from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA and a PhD degree in Biophysics from Comenius niversity, Bratislava, Slovakia. Her research interests include biological modeling, e.g. modeling brain plasticity, and investigation of relationships between genes, brain functions and artificial neural networks. |
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Dr. Mark Laws - Associate Researcher
Mark has a Masters and PhD degree in Information Science from the University of Otago.He has a 3 year Post-Doctoral fellowship at KEDRI where he will integrate selected Polynesian languages using similar data models and language frameworks developed for the Maori language. This will provide the foundations for further research in to languages, linguistics and computing. Mark's primary research goal will be to piece together selected Polynesian language and linguistic elements to build a speech and language database management system. This database will contain the lexical, phonological and phonetic frameworks which will provide the core components for a Polynesian speech and language database translation system. Mark has just completed a visiting fellowship at the University of Hawaii, and is currently visiting the Tribal University of Te Whare Wananga O Awanuiarangi in Whakatane to assist in the development of indiginous speech and language information technology based degrees. |
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Dr. Ilkka Havukkala – Associate Researcher Dr Havukkala received his PhD in Zoology from Imperial College, University of London and is a Docent of Zoology at University of Helsinki, Finland. His past research spans insect behaviour modelling by Markov chains, insect orientation and host selection behaviour, biological control, fungal enzymology and plant and microbial molecular biology. He worked in 1991-1996 as bioinformatician in the Japanese Rice Genome Program, and in 1996-2005 in New Zealand biotechnology company Genesis R&D working on plant, microbial and animal genomics and developing RNAi therapeutics. He is an inventor in a number of genomics related patents and was European Union Advising Expert on epigenomics and medical informatics in 2004-2005. His current interests include discovery and classification of non-coding RNAs from genomic data and utilization of neural computing methods in bioinformatics and biotechnology. |
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Dr. Defoin Platel Michael - Associate Researcher
Dr. Defoin Platel Michael received a M. Sc. in Bio-Informatics from the University of Paris 5, France and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Nice, France. His main research activities are the Evolutionary Algorithms (with emphasis on Genetic Programming), Inverse Problems solving and the development of new Machine Learning techniques. From 2004 to 2006, he was funded by the CNES (the French national centre for spatial studies) and worked at the LOV (a French Laboratory studying oceanography) on the ocean colour inverse problem. Since January 2007, he is now Associate Research Fellow at KEDRI to define the Dynamical Spiking Neural Networks Systems and create the future Quantum-inspired Evolutionary Algorithms. |
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Dr. Dave Parry - Associate Researcher
Dave's research interests are internet based knowledge management, health informatics and information retrieval. He is finishing a PhD thesis on the topic of "An intelligent system for finding useful information on the internet". phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext 8918 |
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Dr. Vishal Jain - Associate Researcher
Vishal Jain obtained his Bachelors (H) and Master degrees (Biotechnology) from India with distinction records. He holds throughout first class academic records and has won many awards and scholarships at national and university level. In India, he carried out research work on Mycobacterium tuberculosis at National Institute of Immunology (NII), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and also worked as a visiting lecturer in biotechnology/bioinformatics modules for postgraduate students. phone: +64 9 921 9341 |
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Dr. Simei Gomes Wysoski – Associate Researcher
Simei received his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Parana, Brazil in 2000, and M.E. degree in 2003, in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan. His current interests include image processing, pattern recognition, evolving connectionist systems and modelling brain functions.
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Dr. Paul Shaoning Pang - Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Shaoning Pang holds B. Sc. in physics, M. Sc. in electronic engineering, and Ph.D. in computer science. From 2001 to 2003, he worked as a research associate in Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea. His research interests include SVM Aggregating Intelligence, Incremental Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, and Industrial Business Intelligence Systems and Strategies. He has been serving as a program member and session chair for several international conferences including ISNN, ICONIP. ICNNSP. He was a best paper winner of IEEE ICNNSP 2003. He is currently acting as a paper reviewer for IEEE Transaction on SMC-Part B, Image and Vision Computing Journal and Pattern Recognition Letter, and a guest editor for International Journal of Computers, Systems and Signals. Dr. Pang is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Member of IEICE, and ACM phone: +64 9 921 9580 |
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Paulo Gottgtroy - PhD Student
Paulo Gottgtroy received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree from the Brazilian Air Force Academy in 1984 and a post-graduate degree in system analysis from Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 1989. He received a MSc degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - Brazil in 2000. His research interests are ontology learning, onto-mining, biomedical informatics ontologies, and mining techniques. Currently he is integrating ontologies and data mining in order to improve the knowledge discovery process. phone: +64 9 921 9577 |
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David Zhang - PhD Student
David Zhang is a part-time research officer at Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI) and currently pursuing his PhD at AUT under the supervision of Prof. Nik Kasabov and Senior Lecturer Dr. George Coghill (Auckland University). David’s interests are in Artificial Intelligence and speech and image recognition with neural network technology. email: dzhang@aut.ac.nz |
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Maggie (Tian Min) Ma - PhD Student
Maggie is a PhD student of KEDRI, under supervision of Professor Nik Kasabov, Dr. Qun Song and Dr. Mark Marshall. Her study and research work is mainly on "Evolving Connectionist System for Medical Diagnosis and Prediction" which will enable patients to know their expected longevity on haemodialysis, administrators to engage in more accurate service planning, and medical care to be targeted at specifically those with high risk on haemodialysis. Maggie Ma has been awarded a Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). phone: +64 9 921 9564 |
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Snjezana Soltic - PhD Student
Snjezana Soltic obtained her B.E. and M.Sc.Eng. degrees in Electronic Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. She is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student at Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. Since 1996, she has been lecturing at Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests are in areas of neural networks, data mining and image processing. phone: +64-9-968 8000 ext 8219 |
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Anju Verma - PhD Student
Anju Verma's research interests are nutrigenomics related to aging and diabetes. Her PhD topic is "Personalised Modelling Based on Selected Gene DNA data and their use for Personal Decision-making". She is doing her Phd under the supervision of Prof. Nikola Kasabov and Dr. Qun Song. phone: 64-9-921-9556 |
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Raphael(Yingjie) Hu - PhD Student
Raphael has received his MCIS degree (Hons) in Computer and Information Sciences from Auckland University of Technology in 2006. He is a PhD student at KEDRI under the supervision of Prof. Nikola Kasabov and Dr. Paul Pang and is currently working on the project of the construction of integrated models for gene data analysis. His research interests are in the areas of neural network computing, fuzzy logic systems and data mining techniques. phone: +64 9 921 9578 |
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Alex K Tjahjana - PhD Student
Alex received his BEng in Software Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from Tarumanagara University, Indonesia in 2000, where he was the best graduate university wide. He received a Post-graduate Diploma in Commerce majoring Information Systems and Operations Management from University of Auckland in 2006. His current research interests include ontology learning, integration of ontology and knowledge discovery process; decision support systems; neural networks, fuzzy logic, and their applications in pattern recognition; system dynamics and software development. phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 86517 |
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Stefan Schliebs - PhD Student Stefan received a Diploma in Computer Science at University Leipzig, Germany in 2006. He is currently enrolled in a PhD programme under the supervision of Prof N. Kasabov and Dr. Michael Defoin Platel. In his PhD thesis he will investigate novel evolving connectionist models inspired by the principles of quantum theory. phone: +64 9 921 9578 |
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Haza Nuzly - PhD Student
Haza's research interests are Swarm Intelligence inspired by quantum theory in Integrative Connectionist Environment for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. He currently works under the supervision of Prof. Nikola Kasabov and hold scholarship from Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia.
phone: +64 9 921 9578
email: hnuzly@aut.ac.nz |
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Harya Widiputra - PhD Student
Harya received his Bachelor in Information Technology from Institut Teknologi Telkom, an institute of technology owned by Indonesian goverment telecommunication company in 2002, where he graduated as first class student. He received a Master of Science majoring in Information Technology from Swiss German University in 2005. He is a PhD student working in KEDRI under the supervision of Prof N. Kasabov and Dr. R. Pears, and has been awarded a scholarship by the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences of AUT. In his PhD research, Harya will be working in developing a novel method for multiple time-series prediction. His research interest are in the areas of inductive learning, transductive learning, dynamic clustering, time-series prediction and bayesian inference and probabilistic computation in integrate-and-fire neurons.
phone: +64 9 921 9564
email: harya.widiputra@aut.ac.nz |
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Marin Karaivanov - PhD Student
Marin received his MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Technical University of Sofia in 1999 and Postgraduate diploma in Business in 2001. After several years of professional experience in corporate business environment , he joined The Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Researc h Institute (KEDRI) as a Ph.D. student. Marin holds PMP and ITIL certifications, as well as a number of industry related certifications in the area of software systems and information technology. His major research interests are decision support systems, fuzzy logic, knowledge engineering and forecasting techniques. His PhD research "Integrative Decision Support Systems: Methods and Applications" is under the supervision of Prof. Nikola Kasabov, Dr. Russel Pears and Dr. Qun Song. |
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Gary Chen - Master Student
Gary received a B.Sc in Computer Science at University of Auckland in 2005. He is currently enrolled in a Mphil programme under the supervision of Dr. Paul S. Pang and Prof N. Kasabov. In his PhD thesis he will investigate high speed algorithms for outlier detection and classification over huge-size network data streams. Gary has been awarded a scholarship in connection with the NICT Project that KEDRI is involved with. phone: +64 9 921 9577 |
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Kshitij Dhoble – Master Student
Kshitij has received his B.Sc degree in Computer Science from University of Bombay (Mumbai), India. Kshitij is currently working on his thesis in KEDRI, under the supervision of Prof. Nikola Kasabov and Dr. Paul Pang. He has been awarded scholarship by NICT, Japan for investigating high speed algorithms for outlier detection and classification over huge-size network data streams using techniques such as Active Learning and Incremental Learning. phone : +64-9-921-9578 |
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Lei Song – Master Student Lei is currently working on his thesis in KEDRI with his supervisors, Prof. Nikola Kasabov and Dr. Paul Pang. His thesis work mainly involves Modelling Correlation Aided Prediction for Intelligent Finance Data Analysis and Decision Support. The interesting domains of Lei are Support Vector Machine Regression and Correlation. Real world financial data has been used in his research. The main purpose of his research work is to allow the computer to make investments based on the predicted results. phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext 9578 email: wyh9808@aut.ac.nz |
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Linda Liang - Master Student Linda is a master student of KEDRI, under the supervision of Professor Nik Kasabov. Her research interests are in the areas of "Integrated Feature, Neighbourhood, and Model Optimization for Personalised modelling and Knowledge Discovery". email: liawe05@aut.ac.nz |
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Sean William Gordon - Master Student
Sean completed a Bachelor of Information Science (Computer Science) with distinction at Massey University, New Zealand in 2007. He is currently finishing his Masters Thesis, researching the applications of curiosity in an autonomous security robot. email: cky1047@aut.ac.nz |
The KEDRI Team
16th of November, 2006
Past KEDRI Members
- Liang Goh, finished PhD in 2005, moved to Duke University, USA.
- Nisha Mohan – Finished MSc 2005
- Zeke Shun Heng Zhang, Senior Research Fellow
- Dougal Greer, Research Fellow 2003-2005
- Andreas Magusin, MSc student 2002-2003, moved to John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
- Scott Heappey - Finished MSc 2005
- Lawrence (Yufei) Wang - Master Student
- Simei Wysoski - finished PhD in 2008
- Vishal Jain - finished PhD in 2009
- Peter Wang - Finished MSc in 2008
- Qun Song, Senior Research Fellow
- Lubica Benuskova - Senior Research Fellow
- Ilkka Havukkala - Senior Research Fellow
- Akbar Ghobakahlou - Research Fellow