Staff: researchers in the AI Initiative

Find your local expert on AI: this page lists the researchers behind the initiative’s AI projects.

Computer Science / Information Technology and Software Engineering departments

  • (Artificial Intelligence, Nature Inspired Computing, Mind and Brain)
  • (Head of Department - Information Technology & Software Engineering,Neural Networks)
  • FIEEE, FRSNZ (Director of the Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute, Spiking Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence)
  • (Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, Computational Theories of the Mind)
  • (Head of Department - Computer Science)
  • (Geocomputation and Nature Inspired Computing)
  • (Mining high speed data streams, pattern recognition, and time series prediction)
  • (Director of the Centre for Robotics and Vision (CeRV))
  • (neuroinformatics, mental health technology, spiking neural networks, deep learning, personalised modelling)
  • Dr Zohreh Doborjeh (neuromarketing, neuroinformatics, brain dynamics modelling)
  • (Computational Intelligence for Sport Science)
  • Dr Elisa Capecci (bioinformatics, computational biology and chemistry, computational neuroscience, machine learning)
  • Dr Israel Espinosa Ramos (computational neuroscience, evolutionary algorithms, machine learning)
  • (Logic, formal verification, multi-agent sytems)
  • (Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, Founder/Director She#)
  • (Academic Advisor, Image Processing)
  • (Data Science and Big Data Management)
  • (Head of Learning and Teaching, Natural Language Engineering)
  • (Business Process Analytics and Intelligence, AI/Machine learning for IoT, and Ambient Intelligence)
  • (Ontologies and knowledge discovery, data modeling and databases)

Engineering department

  • (Director of the Sensor Network and Smart Environment (SeNSe) research laboratory)
  • (Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
  • (Deputy Head of School (Research))
  • (Modelling of physiological systems, health informatics)
  • (Wireless communications, antennas and radio frequency based sensors)
  • (Modelling, simulation and control of industrial processes)
  • (Biomedical signal and image processing)
  • (Mechatronics, robotics, dynamics and control)
  • (Adaptive signal processing for noise-reduction in speech-driven systems)
  • (Machine Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Soft Robotics)
  • (Autonomous classification, scheduling, and data modelling for large-scale pulsar surveys)

Visiting researchers

AG飞禽走兽电子 hosts researchers from around the world who collaborate on projects. Find out more about our partners.

  • (stream data mining, online learning, concept drift, ensembles, spiking neural networks)
  • Dr Haijun Liu (pattern analysis, textile defect detection, earthquake prediction)

Contact us


Email: mgholami@aut.ac.nz

Co-founders

The co-founders of the AG飞禽走兽电子 AI Initiative are: