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psallis

Professor Philip Sallis - Philip is the Deputy Vice Chancellor at AUT but also retains his Chair in Computer Science. His research background is in Software Engineering but includes Spatial Information Processing and especially computational model building for multivariate mixed data types.

hone: +64 9 921 9510
email: psallis@aut.ac.nz

subana Dr Subana Shanmuganathan - Subana is a research fellow in the CGGR.  Following the completion of her PhD at AUT she was for two years a Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Post Doctoral Fellow at Ritsumeiken Asia Pacific University (APU) before returning to her Research Fellowship.  Subana’s research background is in environmental modelling using contemporary computational methods based on neural network technology.

phone: +64 9 921 9567
email: sshanmug@aut.ac.nz
akbar

Akbar Ghobakhlou - Akbar is a research fellow in the CGGR. He received his BSc (Hons) degrees in information science from the University of Otago. He is finishing a PhD thesis on the topic “connectionist-based adaptive speech recognition systems”.  He has been involved in number of research projects ranging from robotic navigation to multimodal biometric person verification systems.   His current research interest includes signal, and image processing, pattern recognition, evolving connectionist systems, audio and text mining.   

phone: +64 9 921 5860
email: akbar@aut.ac.nz
Leopoldo

Professor Leopoldo Pavesi, Universidad Catolica del Maule, Chile. Leopoldo's research interests are in Computer Engineering and especially in Computer System Architecture and Robotics. His work with server design and software development underpins the telemetry and data logging aspects of this project.

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Mary Carmen

Professor Mary Carmen Jarur Manoz, Universidad Catolica del Maule, Chile. An Electrical Engineer, Mary Carman's principle interests are in system configuration design and computational neural network methods. She and Leopoldo work together in these areas and robotics and sensor technologies.

phone: +56 71 203542
email: mjarur@ucm.cl

Carlos

Professor Carlos Mena, Geomatics Research Centre, Universidad de Talca, Chile. Carlos is the Director of the National Facility for Chile. His personal interests in cartography and geo-referenced data management sit alongside his major work in developing national policy for this field.

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Christian

Professor Christian Bobadella, Universidad Catolica del Maule, Chile. An agronomist, Christian has interests in climatic influences on crop production and how data can be gathered and analysed for the improvement in crop quality.

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Student Researchers
John

John Gajardo, Geomatics Research Centre, Universidad De Talca (will be undertaking PhD studies at AUT University in 2008). John's background is in Forestry and Agronomy. His postgraduate work was in remote sensing and he is particularly interested in systems of classification for atmospheric influences in environmental planning.

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Merlyn

Merlyn Nunuxa Conejero Pino, Final Year Dissertation student at Universidad Catolica del Maule (conducting climate trend analysis.

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Bernie

Bernardita Josselin Hernandez Valenzuela, Final Year Dissertation student at Universidad Catolica del Maule (conducting radio frequency saturation analysis.

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Associated researchers at AUT
Professors MacDonell
Professors Gulyaev
Professors Kasabov
Professors Yeap
Professors Diegel
Associated external researchers and project collaborators
Professor Mark Apperley, University of Waikato, NZ
Dr Larry Carver and Catherine Masi Map and Imagery Laboratory, UC Santa Barbara.
Dr Howard Jelinek, UC Irvine and EDA Systems, California , USA .
Professor Monte Cassim and Dr William Claster, Ritsumeikan Asia pacific University, Beppu, Oita, Japan
Management and Technical advisory staff at AUT
Deborah Goudie, PA to Professor Sallis
Gordon Grimsey Principal Lecturer and IT Resource Coordinator

 

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