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Academic Staff Researchers
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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
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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:
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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
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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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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
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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.
phone:
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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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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 Nunuxa Conejero Pino, Final Year Dissertation student at Universidad Catolica del
Maule (conducting climate trend analysis.
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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 |
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Professors
MacDonell |
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Professors Gulyaev |
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Professors
Kasabov |
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Professors
Yeap
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Professors Diegel |
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Associated external
researchers and project collaborators
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Professor Mark Apperley,
University of Waikato, NZ
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Dr Larry Carver and Catherine Masi
Map and Imagery Laboratory, UC Santa Barbara.
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Dr Howard Jelinek,
UC Irvine and EDA Systems, California , USA .
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Professor Monte Cassim
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Dr William Claster,
Ritsumeikan Asia pacific University, Beppu, Oita, Japan |
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Management and Technical advisory staff at AUT |
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Deborah Goudie, PA
to Professor Sallis |
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Gordon Grimsey
Principal Lecturer and
IT Resource Coordinator
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