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 identification in Online Communities
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: ECG data classification using Ensemble learners
Research interests: Norms, Data science, Agent systems
Matthew Cook
Room 3.25 HCI Lab, Otago Business School
Email cooma376@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 5420
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
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
Room 8.07 Otago Business School
Email houro440@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8317
Supervisors: Jeremiah Deng
Topic: Understanding video representation
Nuzla Ismail
Room 8.07 Otago Business School
Email ismnu369@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8317
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
Room 8.08 Otago Business School
Email leehs756@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8316
Supervisors: Jeremiah Deng, Martin Purvis, Maryam Purvis
Topic: Reliability and Sustainability of Renewable Electricity
Adriaan Lotter
Room 8.06 Otago Business School
Email lotad400@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Peter Whigham, Grant Dick, Sherlock Licorish
Topic: Analysing and predicting the behaviour of house prices in New Zealand
Saurabh Malgaonkar
Room 8.05 Otago Business School
Email malsa876@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 7390
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
Room 8.06 Otago Business School
Email nakma093@student.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Sander Zwanenburg, Peter Whigham
Topic: The Measurement and Impact of the Interdiscriplinarity 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
Amir Sedigh
Room 8.08 Otago Business School
Email amir.afshar@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8097
Supervisors: Tony Savarimuthu, Martin Purvis, Maryam Purvis
Topic: New Approaches to Social Agent Modelling
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
Room 8.08 Otago Business School
Email shaal822@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8097
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
Room 8.07 Otago Business School
Email shapa907@student.otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 8317
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 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
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.
LinkedIn Wendy Wlasak
Jacob Young
Room 3.25 Otago Business School
Email jacob.young@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 479 5420
Supervisors: Tobias Langlotz, Holger Regenbrecht
Topic: Removing Spatial Boundaries in Immersive Mobile Communications
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
Elijah Zoldouarrati
Room 8.07 Otago Business School
Email elijah.zolduoarrati@postgrad.otago.ac.nz
Supervisors: Sherlock Licorish, Nigel Stanger
Topic: Investigating Cultural Dimensions via Developers Artefacts: The Utility of Repository Mining
Research interests: Big Data, Bioinformatics, Cloud Computing, Computational Linguistics, Data analysis (Data Mining, Management, Visualization, Exploration, Inspection, Cleansing, Transformation and Modeling), Data Brokerage, Database Architecture and Management, Information Assurance, Information Systems, IoT, Machine Learning, Micromarketing, Operating Systems, Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis, Robotics, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Software Engineering
