Systems Research Group Members
Paul Werstein

Paul graduated from Houston in 1971 with a BSc in electrical engineering and began working for Schlumberger, a multi-national company in the business of evaluating oil and gas wells using sophisticated electronic equipment. Among other positions, Paul managed computer-aided design systems and was DBA (database administrator) for product information systems. While still working, Paul completed his MSc in Computer Science in 1990 on Knowledge-Based Systems. He joined the Department of Computer Science at Otago as a lecturer in 1995, and completed a PhD in 2003. He became a senior lecturer in 2005.
Paul's current research is focused on cluster computing, power consumption of network devices, embedded systems, networks, and operating systems. His teaching commitments include database courses, computer architecture/operating systems and computer networks. Paul is currently the manager of the Systems Research Group.
You can find out more about Paul from his personal homepage, here.
Email:
werstein@cs.otago.ac.nz
Telephone: (64) 3 479 8534
Zhiyi Huang

Zhiyi has a BSc and a PhD in Computer Science from National University of Defence Technology (NUDT), China. He worked in industry for four years. His interests include parallel/distributed/Internet computing, cluster computing, computer networks, embedded systems, and open source projects. Zhiyi has also done some work in parallel logic programming, neural networks and pattern recognition. Zhiyi has collaborative research projects with Tsinghua University (China), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Griffith University (Australia).
You can find out more about Zhiyi from his personal homepage, here.
Email: hzy@cs.otago.ac.nz
Telephone: (64) 3 479 5680