computer science
OPENS DOORS
Research groups
We have several research groups which maintain their own presence on the web:
- Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
- Computer Theory
- Graphics and Vision
- Information Retrieval
- Systems
Externally funded research projects
Current
- Brendan McCane, Steven Mills and Holger Regenbrecht are associate investigators in a Science for Technological Innovation (a National Science Challenge) Spearhead Project worth $2,000,000 called: "Karetao Hangarau-a-Mahi: Adaptive learning robots to complement the human workforce". July 2017-June 2019.
- Alistair Knott is co-investigator on the AI and Law in New Zealand project (together with Colin Gavaghan from Law, and James Maclaurin from Philosophy). This grant, worth $337K, was awarded by the New Zealand Law Foundation, and runs from 2017 to 2020.
- Stefanie Zollmann - $300,000 Marsden award for her project 'Bringing 3D to home videos'.
- Stefanie Zollmann - $1,000,000 MBIE research funding award. Her three-year project is called "Situated visualisation to enrich sports experience for on-site spectators". Secured September 2017.
- Yawen Chen's Marsden-funded project secured in 2016 is entitled 'Optical Network-on-Chips (ONoCs): Architectures and Routing Algorithms for Ultra High-Throughput and Energy-Efficient On-Chip Communications'.
- Brendan McCane is an associate investigator in the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, in the Photonic Sensors and Imaging theme. His interests are in analysing the images that are created by these new sensors and technologies.
Previous
- Brendan McCane has an applied research contract with InterAg, a NZ company focusing on using infrared thermography for assessing animal health and welfare. The research involves in locating important parts of the animal from thermal images (e.g. their eyes or nostrils).
- Michael Albert is a principal investigator in the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, on the theme Quantum Manipulation and Information. His current project, running from 2015-2016, focusses on Quantum Debugging, and employs Matthew McKague.
- Michael is also a co-investigator on Finding structure in sets of permutations (Icelandic Research Fund, 2014-17, PI: Dr Henning Ulfarsson).
- Alistair Knott and Lubica Benuskova have a Marsden project, running from 2014-2017: Does language mirror the structure of sensorimotor cognition? The project employs two postdoctoral researchers: Martin Takac and Lech Szymanski.
- Steven Mills is a consultant on a project to develop a vine-pruning robot, led by
Richard Green at the University of Canterbury, also involving
Lincoln University, funded by MBIE. Steven's involvement relates to computer vision aspects of the work. For more information, see:
http://www.comsdev.canterbury.ac.nz/news/2010/100712a.shtml
http://www.pcworld.co.nz/article/482987/nz_researchers_plan_vine-pruning_robot/
http://www.3news.co.nz/technology/vinepruning-robot-in-development-2010071305 - Zhiyi Huang is leading an industry-funded project 'Brain-Computer Interface for gaming' (Duration: 1 February 2015 to 31 January 2016).
