About Me
I am a Research Fellow at the School of Computer Science, University of Auckland. My primary research interest lies at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and the health sector. I gained my Ph.D. in domain-specific language models for multi-label classification of medical text at the University of Waikato under the supervision of Professor Bernhard Pfahringer. I worked for more than a decade in both academia and the health sector in New Zealand before returning to complete my Ph.D. My mother tongue is low-resourced, and I grew up in a society with unequal socialisation. Thus, I have a special interest in the preservation of low-resource languages and data sovereignty. I am motivated by the opportunities AI provides towards revitalising and preserving New Zealand’s own endangered language, te reo Māori; and also towards increasing the awareness and fostering of such linguistic minorities to improve health outcomes and equity in the health sector in the long term.
Research Areas
Machine learning
Natural language processing
Health informatics
Low resource languages
Health Equity
AI and Bias
AI for Good