GRC Staff
	Professor Philip Sallis, Philip is the Director of the Centre, which was established in 2007. Until December 2008 he was the Deputy Vice Chancellor at AUT, a position he held for 10 years after coming from the University of Otago, where for 13 years he was Foundation Professor of Information Science. Concurrently with his role as Director of the Centre, Dr Sallis is a Pro Vice Chancellor at AUT advising the Vice Chancellor on strategic development, chairing the Board of Directors for AUT Enterprises Limited and participating in numerous committees and university development projects. He also holds a Adjunct Research Professorship at Universidad Catolica del Maule in Chile where he has established a geospatial information processing laboratory and works with others there to co-ordinate joint GeoComputing projects with AUT in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. Philip has undergraduate degrees in History and Computer Science from Victoria University of Wellington, a PhD (Information Science in the Faculty of Engineering, The City University, London, England and a Post Graduate Diploma (in Theology) from The University of Otago. He is a Fellow of the New Zealand Computer Society and was President for 3 years. He is a member of the Royal Society of NZ, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He has held senior academic positions as Head of Department, School and latterly DVC in the UK, Australia and New Zealand universities with visiting and adjunct professorships in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Chile. He has held numerous government and industry appointments internationally as advisor and commission chair or member. Philip's research background is in Software Engineering, Computational Linguistics and Geo- Spatial Information Processing. He has published extensively, taught at all levels and supervised to completion numerous Masters and PhD students. phone: +64 9 921 9010 email: psallis@aut.ac.nz
	Akbar Ghobakhlou, Akbar is a Research Fellow in the Centre. His early tertiary qualifications are in Electrical Engineering and he received his BSc(Hons) in Information Science and Master's degree in signal processing from the University of Otago. His PhD thesis is on the topic of "connectionist-based adaptive speech recognition systems". He has been involved in a number of research projects ranging from robotic navigation to multimodal biometric person verification systems from which he has published numerous articles and registered a patent. 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
	Sergio Hernandez,Sergio is  a post doctorial fellow, a joint appointment with AUT and Universidad Catolica del Maule, Chile. He studied Acoustic Engineering at the Universidad Tecnologica de Chile and completed a Masters in Computer Engineering at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile. He developed a neuro-fuzzy method for dimensionality reduction and classification in non destructive testing. He has just finished a PhD degree in Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington, where he has developed a method for tracking multiple objects in video sequences. The method uses random sets and point process theory under the Bayesian filtering framework, and the goal is to estimate the state of a system with time varying dimensions. He will be working on a variety of projects in both Chile and New Zealand. email: shernandez@ucm.cl
	Centre Administrator Kitty Ko, Kitty is a research officer in the Centre. She is responsible for the administration of the Centre, GRC website and involved in the projects of the Centre as well. Her  background is in Information Systems. She has a BA(Hons) in Accounting, an MBA and is a Chartered Accountant. phone: +64 9 921 9999 x5803 email: kko@aut.ac.nz
	Dr Subana Shanmuganathan, Subana is a research fellow in the Centre.  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. Her current work is predominantly in data mining and data depiction using contemporary statistical clustering and visualisation techniques. She has published a book, several journal articles and presented refereed papers at leading international conferences. phone: +64 9 921 9567 email: sshanmug@aut.ac.nz
	Sara Zandi, Sara is a research officer in the Centre. She has a BSc in Computer and Information Sciences. She is undertaking MPhil degree research in the GRC. Her research topic relates to Geoinformatics and Geospatial Database Processing. She is also engaged in database and web monitoring application development currently underway at GRC.  She mostly works with the GRC's real time database (design and development) and also the web monitoring application interface for the various monitoring projects of the GRC. phone: +64 9 921 9999 x6592 email: szandi@aut.ac.nz
GRC Students and their projects
	Enobong Bassey, graduated with a Master of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, after obtaining his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. He will be developing a novel set of chemical sensors or "e-nose" in short, for analysing grapevine and wine taste for a wider project called "Eno-Humans". The aim is to building models to analyse and predict climate change effects in weather conditions and on wine quality. email: ebassey@aut.ac.nz
	Isaac Nti, graduated with a Master of Science in Geomatics, University of Applied Sciences, Karlsruhe, Germany. He is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Ghana, Legon. His study in AUT is sponsored by the University of Ghana. email: inti@aut.ac.nz
	Peter Sumich is a Chartered Accountant with a background in Information Systems, Technology Transfer and Financial Systems. Currently, he is Finance & Planning Manager for the Faculty of Design & Creative Technologies and Innovation & Enterprises at AUT University. He is also a contractor for the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (NZICA). Peter has a Masters in Commerce with Honours in Management Science and Information Systems and has worked across a number of industries including multinationals, public and private companies, academia and charitable trusts. In 2003 Peter was Auckland Young Chartered Accountant of the Year. He has always maintained strong academic and commercial links. Peter has represented New Zealand in sailing and performing arts. email: psumich@aut.ac.nz
	Sara Zandi, Sara is studing toward a MPhil and is a research officer in the Centre. Please see the entry in the GRC Staff above.
AUT Assoicates

	Professor Olaf Diegel, director of the Creative Industries Research Institute at AUT. His main areas of interest are in reduction of time in the product development cycle, product development and design, CAD/CAM, smart machines, smart homes, mechatronics, visual basic and on-line communication technologies. Olaf is working particularly in the area of sensor and telemetry systems with GRC. He is the winner of three science and technical innovation awards and is regularly invited to international conferences and meetings. email: odiegel@aut.ac.nz
	Professor Ajit Narayanan, Ajit is the Head of School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. His research areas includes application of artificial intelligence techniques in bioinformatics and systems biology computational statistics, modelling and simulation and computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. He is interested in applying discriminant analysis and other analytical methods to GRC's quest to observe and determine correlation and variable value dependance between different data types. His publication includes books, journal articles and international conference presentations. email: ajnaraya@aut.ac.nz
	Professor Krishnamachar Prasad, Electrical and Electronic Engineering at AUT. Krishnamachar Prasad's research focuses on the development and reliability studies of novel interconnects in conventional and three dimensional integrated circuits. He has worked extensively on the technology development and characterisation of a variety of silicon and compound semiconductor devices and integrated circuits. He is currently venturing into a study of semiconductor based sensors for odour, colour and chemical profiling, in order to develop smart tools that can be used in the fruit, wine, fish and fast food industries. He has published about 150 papers in peer reviewed international journals and conferences. email: kprasad@aut.ac.nz
	Dr Jacqueline Whalley, Jacqui is a Senior Research Lecturer in Computer Science. Her research interests include: Geoinformatics, Computer Graphics, Image and Sound Processing, and Information Visualization. Prior to joining AUT Jacqui developed a system for the European Union that provided fisheries data analysis and visualization with a focus on knowledge discovery and informed decision making. Since then she has been undertaking research into 3D GIS with a focus on the integration of multimedia and historical records for Whenua (land) and Whanau (people) and visualizations of Genetic Biodiversity and Environmental Genomic data. email: jwhalley@aut.ac.nz