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Professor Philip Sallis, Philip is the Director of the
Centre, which was established in 2007. Until December 2008 he was the Deputy
Vice Chancellor at AUT, a position he held for 10 years after coming from the
University of Otago, where for 13 years he was Foundation Professor of
Information Science. Concurrently with his role as Director of the Centre, Dr
Sallis is a Pro Vice Chancellor at AUT advising the Vice Chancellor on strategic
development, chairing the Board of Directors for AUT Enterprises Limited and
participating in numerous committees and university development projects.
Philip has an adjunct research professorship position at Universidad Católica
del Maule (UCM) and is a Principle Investigator at the Geospatial Information
Processing Laboratory there. He carries out this role in conjunction with
being Director of the GRC at AUT and spends several months each year working at
UCM and with the GRC partners in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.
Philip has undergraduate degrees in History and Computer Science from Victoria
University of Wellington, a PhD (Information Science in the Faculty of
Engineering, The City University, London, England and a Post Graduate Diploma
(in Theology) from The University of Otago. He is a Fellow of the New Zealand
Computer Society and was President for 3 years. He is a member of the Royal
Society of NZ, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institution of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
He has held senior academic positions as Head of Department, School and latterly
DVC in the UK, Australia and New Zealand universities with visiting and adjunct
professorships in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Chile. He has held numerous
government and industry appointments internationally as advisor and commission
chair or member.
Philip’s research background is in Software Engineering, Computational
Linguistics and Geo- Spatial Information Processing. He has published
extensively, taught at all levels and supervised to completion numerous Masters
and PhD students.
phone: +64 9 921 9010
email: psallis@aut.ac.nz |
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Akbar Ghobakhlou, Akbar is a Research Fellow in the Centre. His early
tertiary qualifications are in Electrical Engineering and he received his
BSc(Hons) in Information Science in signal processing from
the University of Otago. His PhD thesis is on the topic of “connectionist-based
adaptive speech recognition systems”. He has been involved in a number of
research projects ranging from robotic navigation to multimodal biometric person
verification systems from which he has published numerous articles and
registered a patent. His current research interest includes signal and image
processing, pattern recognition, evolving connectionist systems, audio and text
mining.
phone: +64 9 921 5860
email:
akbar@aut.ac.nz |
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Sergio Hernandez,Sergio is a post doctorial fellow, a joint
appointment with AUT and Universidad Católica del Maule, Chile. He studied
Acoustic Engineering at the Universidad Tecnologica de Chile and completed a
Masters in Computer Engineering at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He
developed a neuro-fuzzy method for dimensionality reduction and classification
in non destructive testing. He has just finished a PhD degree in Computer
Science at Victoria University of Wellington, where he has developed a method
for tracking multiple objects in video sequences. The method uses random sets
and point process theory under the Bayesian filtering framework, and the goal is
to estimate the state of a system with time varying dimensions. He will be
working on a variety of projects in both Chile and New Zealand.
email:
shernandez@ucm.cl |
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Centre Administrator
Kitty Ko, Kitty is a research officer in the Centre. She is
responsible for the administration of the Centre, GRC website and involved in
the projects of the Centre as well. Her background is in Information
Systems. She has a BA(Hons) in Accounting, an MBA and is a Chartered Accountant.
phone: +64 9 921 9999 x5803
email:
kko@aut.ac.nz
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Dr Subana Shanmuganathan, Subana is a research fellow in the Centre.
Following the completion of her
PhD at AUT she was for two years a
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Post Doctoral Fellow at
Ritsumeiken Asia Pacific University (APU) before returning to her Research Fellowship.
Subana’s research background is in
environmental modelling using contemporary computational
methods based on neural network technology.
Her current work is predominantly in data mining and data depiction using
contemporary statistical clustering and visualisation techniques. She has
published a book, several journal articles and presented refereed papers at
leading international conferences.
phone: +64 9 921 9567
email:
sshanmug@aut.ac.nz |
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Sara Zandi, Sara is a research officer in the Centre. She has a
BSc in Computer and Information Sciences. She is undertaking MPhil degree
research in the GRC. Her research topic
relates to Geoinformatics and Geospatial Database Processing. She is also engaged in
database and web monitoring application development currently underway at GRC.
She mostly works with the GRC's real time database (design and development) and
also the web monitoring application interface for the various monitoring
projects of the GRC.
phone: +64 9 921 9999 x6592
email:
szandi@aut.ac.nz |
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Enobong Bassey, graduated with a Master of Science degree in Petroleum
Engineering, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, after obtaining his Bachelor of
Science degree in Chemical Engineering. He will be developing a novel set of
chemical sensors or “e-nose” in short, for analysing grapevine and wine taste
for a wider project called “Eno-Humans”. The aim is to building models to
analyse and predict climate change effects in weather conditions and on wine
quality.
email: enobongbassey@yahoo.com |
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Isaac Nti, graduated with a Master of Science in Geomatics, University of
Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, Germany. He is a lecturer in the Department of
Computer Engineering, University of Ghana, Legon.
His study in AUT is sponsored by the University of
Ghana.
email: inti@aut.ac.nz |
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Peter Sumich is a Chartered
Accountant with a background in Information Systems, Technology Transfer and
Financial Systems. Currently, he is Finance & Planning Manager for the Faculty
of Design & Creative Technologies and Innovation & Enterprises at AUT
University. He is also a contractor for the New Zealand Institute of Chartered
Accountants (NZICA). Peter has a Masters in Commerce with Honours in Management
Science and Information Systems and has worked across a number of industries
including multinationals, public and private companies, academia and charitable
trusts. In 2003 Peter was Auckland Young Chartered Accountant of the Year. He
has always maintained strong academic and commercial links. Peter has
represented New Zealand in sailing and performing arts.
email:
psumich@aut.ac.nz |
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Sara Zandi, Sara is studing toward a MPhil and is a research
officer in the Centre. Please see the entry in the GRC Staff above. |
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AUT Assoicates |
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Professor Olaf Diegel, director of the Creative Industries Research
Institute at AUT. His main areas of interest are in reduction of time in the
product development cycle, product development and design, CAD/CAM, smart
machines, smart homes, mechatronics, visual basic and on-line communication
technologies. Olaf is working particularly in the area of sensor and telemetry
systems with GRC. He is the winner of three science and technical innovation
awards and is regularly invited to international conferences and meetings.
email: odiegel@aut.ac.nz |
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Professor Ajit Narayanan, Ajit is the Head of School of Computing and
Mathematical Sciences. His research areas includes application of artificial
intelligence techniques in bioinformatics and systems biology computational
statistics, modelling and simulation and computational linguistics, artificial
intelligence, and cognitive science. He is interested in applying discriminant
analysis and other analytical methods to GRC's quest to observe and determine
correlation and variable value dependance between different data types. His
publication includes books, journal articles and international conference
presentations.
email:
ajnaraya@aut.ac.nz |
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Professor Krishnamacher Prasad, Electrical and Electronic
Engineering at AUT. Krishnamachar Prasad’s research focuses on the development
and reliability studies of novel interconnects in conventional and three
dimensional integrated circuits. He has worked extensively on the technology
development and characterisation of a variety of silicon and compound
semiconductor devices and integrated circuits. He is currently venturing into a
study of semiconductor based sensors for odour, colour and chemical profiling,
in order to develop smart tools that can be used in the fruit, wine, fish and
fast food industries. He has published about 150 papers in peer reviewed
international journals and conferences.
email:
krishnamacher.prasad@aut.ac.nz |
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Dr Jacqueline Whalley, Jacqui
is a Senior Research Lecturer in Computer Science. Her research interests
include: Geoinformatics, Computer Graphics, Image and Sound Processing, and
Information Visualization. Prior to joining AUT Jacqui developed a system for
the European Union that provided fisheries data analysis and visualization with
a focus on knowledge discovery and informed decision making. Since then she has
been undertaking research into 3D GIS with a focus on the integration of
multimedia and historical records for Whenua (land) and Whanau (people) and
visualizations of Genetic Biodiversity and Environmental Genomic data.
email:
jwhalley@aut.ac.nz |
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