PhD
Amritha Anavankot
Room 7.08 Otago Business School
Email amritha.menon@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Stephen Cranefield, Tony Bastin Roy Savarimuthu
Topic: Norm entrepreneurship by proposing local coordination plans
Jithin Cheriyan
Room 8.05 Otago Business School
Tel +64 3 479 8317
Email jithin.cheriyan@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Tony Savarimuthu, Stephen Cranefield
Topic: Norm Identification in Online Communities
Matthew Cook
Email cooma376@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Tobias Langlotz, Holger Regenbrecht
Topic: The New Office of the Future
Stuart Duncan
Room 3.25 HCI Lab, Otago Business School
Email dunst934@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 5420
Supervisors: Holger Regenbrecht, Tobias Langlotz
Topic: Facial Expressions in Voxels
Natalie Grattan
Room 8.07 Otago Business School
Email natalie.grattan@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8317
Supervisors: Daniel Alencar da Costa, Nigel Stanger
Topic: On Human Error in Software Development and Maintenance Tasks
Song Han
Room 8.05, Otago Business School
Email heich186@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 7390
Supervisors: Peter Whigham
Chris Heinrich
Room 3.25 HCI Lab, Otago Business School
Email heich186@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 5420
Supervisors: Holger Regenbrecht, Tobias Langlotz
Topic: Home- and community-based neurorehabilitation with mobile augmented reflection technology
Robert Hou
Email houro440@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Jeremiah Deng
Topic: Understanding video representation
Nuzla Ismail
Email ismnu369@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Brendon Woodford, Sherlock Licorish
Topic: Detecting Withering of Leaves Using Data Mining
Marzieh Jahanbazi
Email jahma967@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Martin Purvis, Maryam Purvis
Topic: Agent-based modelling of Meta-Level Institutional Structures
Research interests: Simulation, Modeling, Agent-based simulation
LinkedIn Marzieh Jahanbazi
Sean Lee
Email leehs756@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Jeremiah Deng, Martin Purvis, Maryam Purvis
Topic: Reliability and Sustainability of Renewable Electricity
Jingjin (Jean) Li
Room 8.08 Otago Business School
Email jean.li@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8097
Supervisors: Jeremiah Deng, Dirk de Ridder
Topic: is EEG Signal Analysis using Deep Learning
Saurabh Malgaonkar
Email malsa876@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Sherlock Licorish, Tony Bastin Roy Savarimuthu
Topic: Prioritizing remedial efforts for software products and services through the use of users' reviews
Research interests: Software Engineering, Data Science, Data Mining and Information Visualization, Machine Learning, Ensemble Learning
Maryam Nakhoda
Email nakma093@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Sander Zwanenburg, Peter Whigham
Topic: The Measurement and Impact of the Interdisciplinarity of Research Systems
Research interests: Scientometrics, Interdisciplinary Reseach, Research Collaboration
Pascal Omondiagbe
Email omopa629@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Sherlock Licorish, Stephen MacDonell
Topic: Incorporating Model Uncertainty in Transfer Learning and Automating Hyperparameter Tuning using Parallel Optimization
Caitlin Owen
Room 8.06 Otago Business School
Email oweca636@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Grant Dick, Peter Whigham
Topic: Bias and Variance Decompositions of Genetic Programming
Research interests: Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning, Data Science, CQA Platform Code Quality, Collaboration Network Visualisation
Google Scholar: Caitlin Owen
Noel Park
Room 3.25 HCI Lab, Otago Business School
Email parju458@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 5420
Supervisors: Holger Regenbrecht, Robert Lindeman, Steven Mills
Topic: Interfaces for Maori Mixed Reality Telepresence Communication
Chamindi Samarasekara
Room 8.08 Otago Business School
Email chamindi.sam@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8097
Supervisors: Claudia Ott, Anthony Robins
Topic: Digital Technology in Primary and Secondary Education in New Zealand
Abira Sengupta
Room 7.08 Otago Business School
Email senab196@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Stephen Cranefield, Jeremy Pitt
Topic: A Computation Investigation of Collective Action Problems
Aladdin Shamoug
Email shaal822@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Stephen Cranefield, Grant Dick
Topic: Supporting Decision Making during Response to Humanitarian Crises through Reasoning Upon Semantics of Open Data Generated in Humanitarian Environments
Pankaj Sharma
Email shapa907@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Tony Savarimuthu, Nigel Stanger
Topic: Mining norms from Large Software repositories
Ashal Srivathsan
Room 7.08 Otago Business School
Email ashal.srivathsan@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Stephen Cranefield, Jeremy Pitt
Topic: A Computational Theory of Collective Action
Jonathan Sutton
Room 3.25 Otago Business School
Email sutjo752@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 5420
Supervisors: Tobias Langlotz, Holger Regenbrecht
Topic: SmartGlasses – Head-mounted displays for the visual impaired
Tanh Tran
Room 3.25 HCI Lab, Otago Business School
Email trnta557@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 5420
Supervisors: Holger Regenbrecht, Tobias Langlotz
Topic: The relationship between human perception and interaction performance in virtual environments and its applications
Research interests: Mixed Reality, Presence, Embodied Interaction, Human Perception, Human-Computer Interaction
LinkedIn Tanh Tran
Lakmal Vithanage
Email lakmal.deshapriya@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8317
Supervisors: Sherlock Licorish, Brendon Woodford
Topic: Proofing code reuse: Detecting errors in publicly available software
Paul Williams
Supervisors: Grant Dick, Stephen Cranefield
Topic: Distributed Virtual Daemon
Chathrie Wimalasooriya
Room 8.08 Otago Business School
Email wimch984@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8097
Supervisors: Sherlock Licorish, Daniel Alencar da Costa, Stephen MacDonell
Topic: Enhance the quality of software products by analyzing human-centric differences in users' online feedback
Wendy Wlasak
Room 8.08 Otago Business School
Email wendy.wlasak@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8097
Supervisors: Sander Zwanenburg, Brian Spisak, Michael Winikoff
Topic: Overcoming of bad habits in IT usage through software design changes
Research interests: Behavioural Science, Technology Impact on Behaviour, User Experience, Wearables, Activity Detection.
MSc
Chontira Chumsaeng
Room 8.07 Otago Business School
Email nimch681@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8317
Supervisor: Jeremiah Deng
Topic: ECG data classification using Ensemble learners
Valentin Kiselev
Supervisors: Peter Whigham, Tony Moore
Topic: Quantifying and Visualising Spatio-Temporal Point Patterns
Priyanka Patel
Supervisors: Tony Savarimuthu, Sherlock Licorish
Topic: Mining user expectations of energy applications
