computer science

I am one of the named researchers of the CoRE Brain Research New Zealand and one of the principal investigators of the Brain Health Research Center.
I am also associated with the University of Otago research area on Bioinformatics and Computational Molecular Biology. At my department, I am a member of the AI & NN Research Group.

• Does language syntax mirror the structure of sensorimotor cognition? AI of the research project 13-UOO-048 funded by the Marsden fund with A/Prof. Alistair Knott (PI), and Dr. Martin Takac. Link to the article in Otago Magazine, issue 37, Feb 2014, p.32.
  
  
• Computational models of synaptic plasticity with Prof. Cliff Abraham from the Department of Psychology at U. Otago and Peter Jedlicka, MD, PhD from J.W.Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. (In 2009 funded by U. Otago Research grant.) - PhD student Azam Shirrafi, start date 1/9/2011 (co-supervisor Prof. Joerg Fraundiener ). Link to the article in He Kitenga 2009.
  
  
• Gene regulatory networks in LTP with Dr. Joanna Williams and Dr. Margaret Ryan from the Department of Anatomy at U. Otago. Our former PhD student: Dr. Gonzalo Sanchez Nido is currently a researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway.
  
  
• Functional networks of the brain with Prof. Liz Franz from the Department of Psychology at U. Otago and A/Prof. Maria Markosova from Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. Our former PhD student Dr. Paul D. McCarthy is currently with the FMRIB Centre, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, U.K. Link to his talk .

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