Staff: researchers in the AI Initiative

Find your local expert on AI: this page lists the researchers behind the initiative’s AI projects.

Computer Science / Information Technology and Software Engineering departments

• Professor Ajit Narayanan (Artificial Intelligence, Nature Inspired Computing, Mind and Brain)
• Professor Edmund Lai (Head of Department - Information Technology & Software Engineering,Neural Networks)
• Professor Nikola Kasabov FIEEE, FRSNZ (Director of the Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute, Spiking Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence)
• Professor Wai Kiang (Albert) Yeap (Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, Computational Theories of the Mind)
• Professor Dave Parry (Head of Department - Computer Science)
• Associate Professor Jaqueline Whalley (Geocomputation and Nature Inspired Computing)
• Associate Professor Russel Pears (Mining high speed data streams, pattern recognition, and time series prediction)
• Associate Professor Wei Qi Yan (Director of the Centre for Robotics and Vision (CeRV))
• Dr Maryam Doborjeh (neuroinformatics, mental health technology, spiking neural networks, deep learning, personalised modelling)
• Dr Zohreh Doborjeh (neuromarketing, neuroinformatics, brain dynamics modelling)
• Dr Boris Bačić (Computational Intelligence for Sport Science)
• Dr Elisa Capecci (bioinformatics, computational biology and chemistry, computational neuroscience, machine learning)
• Dr Israel Espinosa Ramos (computational neuroscience, evolutionary algorithms, machine learning)
• Dr Ji Ruan (Logic, formal verification, multi-agent sytems)
• Dr Mahsa Mohaghegh (Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, Founder/Director She#)
• Dr Minh Nguyen (Academic Advisor, Image Processing)
• Dr Muhammad Asif Naeem (Data Science and Big Data Management)
• Dr Parma Nand (Head of Learning and Teaching, Natural Language Engineering)
• Dr Sira Yongchareon (Business Process Analytics and Intelligence, AI/Machine learning for IoT, and Ambient Intelligence)
• Shoba Tegginmath (Ontologies and knowledge discovery, data modeling and databases)

Engineering department

• Professor Adnan Al-Anbunky (Director of the Sensor Network and Smart Environment (SeNSe) research laboratory)
• Professor Peter Chong (Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
• Professor Tek-Tjing Lie (Deputy Head of School (Research))
• Associate Professor Andrew Lowe (Modelling of physiological systems, health informatics)
• Associate Professor Boon-Chong Seet (Wireless communications, antennas and radio frequency based sensors)
• Associate Professor David Wilson (Modelling, simulation and control of industrial processes)
• Associate Professor Hamid Gholamhosseini (Biomedical signal and image processing)
• Associate Professor Loulin Huang (Mechatronics, robotics, dynamics and control)
• Associate Professor Tom Moir (Adaptive signal processing for noise-reduction in speech-driven systems)
• Dr.-Ing. Martin Stommel (Machine Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Soft Robotics)
• Dr Willem van Straten (Autonomous classification, scheduling, and data modelling for large-scale pulsar surveys)

Visiting researchers

AUT hosts researchers from around the world who collaborate on projects. Find out more about our partners.

• Jesús López Lobo (stream data mining, online learning, concept drift, ensembles, spiking neural networks)
• Dr Haijun Liu (pattern analysis, textile defect detection, earthquake prediction)