We aim to encourage greater connection and knowledge-sharing between tertiary and wider research organisations and industry to support the development of a vibrant AI ecosystem in New Zealand. The Institute has a special focus on real-time analytics for big data, machine learning and deep learning.
The establishment of the Institute is the culmination of many years of leading AI research and teaching led by staff at the University of Waikato, including the development of some of the most popular open source tools in the world (WEKA, MOA, and ADAMS) which have been downloaded more than 12 million times. Our researchers have also published books which are used by many universities across the world to support their teaching.
AI Institute Senior Leadership
Director
Co-Director Māori, Associate Professor
Professor, Co-Director AI Institute
Professor, Co-Director
AI Health Lead
Honorary Professor
AI Ethics Lead
Professor
Members
Pro Vice-Chancellor Health, Engineering, Computing and Science
Adjunct Professor Marine Science KB
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Associate
Senior Lecturer
Lecturer
Senior Research Manager
Senior Research Programmer
Current Doctoral Students
Yibin Sun: Data Stream Regression
Justin Liu: Anomaly Detection in Streaming Data
Nilesh Verma: Adapted Automated Machine Learning for Data Streams
Léa Cassé: Quantum Machine Learning
Paul Schlumbom: Density Modeling of High Level Feature Spaces
Simna Rassak: Improved Horticulture Forecasting using Multi-Source Data Streaming and Incremental Learning
Ayman Chaouki: Reinforcement Learning for Evolving Data Streams
Matthew Skiffington: Normalising Flows for Environmental Applications
Associate Members
Dr Marinho Barcellos, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Waikato
Dr Jason Kurz, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Waikato
Dr Shaoqun Wu, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Waikato
Dr Mark Hall, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Waikato
Dr Lyn Hunt, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Waikato
Dr Tony Smith, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Waikato
Professor Yun Sing Koh, School of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Associate Professor Minas Liarokapis, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Dr Heitor Gomes, School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Dr Varvara Vetrova, College of Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Dr Joerg Simon Wicker, School of Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Professor Talel Abdessalem, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Professor Jose Luis Balcazar, Department of Computer Science, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya,Barcelona, Spain
Professor Hendrik Blockeel, KU Leuven & Leuven.AI, Belgium
Professor Jose del Campo, University of Málaga, Spain
Professor Javier Del Ser, TECNALIA, Basque Research & Technology Alliance, Spain
Professor Stefan Kramer, Institute of Computer Science, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Professor Joao Gama, INESC TEC, and University of Porto, Portugal
Professor Ricard Gavaldà, Amalfi Analytics and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Professor Latifur Khan, Department of Computer Science, Director Big Data Analytics and Management Lab, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Professor Niklas Lavesson, Professor of Computer Science at Jönköping University, Sweden
Professor Rafael Morales-Bueno, University of Málaga, Spain
Professor Mykola Pechenizkiy, Chair Data Mining, Data and AI Cluster, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Professor André Carlos Ponce de Leon Ferreira de Carvalho, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Professor Omer Rana, School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, UK
Professor Jesse Read, DaSciM team in LIX at École Polytechnique, Paris, France
Professor Heike Trautmann, Data Science: Statistics and Optimization, University of Münster, Germany
Professor Silviu Maniu, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Professor Indrė Žliobaitė, University of Helsinki, Finland
Professor Beatriz López, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
Associate Professor Emanuele DellaValle, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Associate Professor Maciej Grzenda, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Associate Professor Carlos Soares, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal
Associate Professor Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Associate Professor Joaquin Vanschoren, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Associate Professor Jorge Igual, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Dr Maroua Bahri, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Dr Vitor Cerqueire, University of Porto, Portugal
Dr Eva Garcia-Martin, Spotify, Sweden
Dr Nicolas Kourtellis, Research Scientist, Telefónica, Spain
Dr Dino Ienco, Senior Researcher, INRAE, UMR Tetis, Montpellier, France
Dr Jesús López Lobo, TECNALIA, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Spain
Dr Diego Marron, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain
Dr Jacob Montiel, Applied Scientist, in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security, USA
Dr Gianmarco Francisci De Morales, Principal Researcher, CENTAI, Turin, Italy
Dr Wenbin Zhang, Assistant Professor, Knight Foundation School of Computing & Information Sciences, Florida International University, USA
Dr Viktor Losing, Senior Data Scientist, CrowdStrike, France
Ziad Ismail, Security Engineer, Amazon Web Services (AWS), USA
Peng YU, Telecom Paris, France & Shopify Inc.
Administration
Syuhaida Safian - Research Administrator