Postgraduate Research Students
I supervise several MSc, PhD and MInfoTech students in Low-resource languages and QA, Machine Translation, Healthcare AI, Data and Algorithmic bias, and Automatic Speech Recognition.
PhD Students
2022 - 2025: Kobe Knowles - Co-Supervisor PhD (with Prof Gill Dobbie and Prof Michael Witbrock).
Topic: Low resource languages and QA
2022 - 2025: Timothy Pistotti - Co-Supervisor PhD (with A/Prof Jason Brown and Prof Michael Witbrock).
Topic: Low resource languages and QA
2022 - 2023: Aaron Keesing - PhD Mentor (supervisors A\Prof Yun Sing Koh & Prof Michael Witbrock).
Topic: Automatic Speech Recognition (thesis submitted)
Master in Data Science
2023 Sem 1: Ziqin Shen - Academic Supervisor: Master Data Science (completed)
2023 Sem 1: Kapil Bhati - Academic Supervisor: Master Data Science (completed)
Master of Science (Research)
2023 - 2024: Ji Xiaoheng - MSc (Research) Mentor (supervisor Prof Gill Dobbie)
2022 - 2023: Tianheng Ma - MSc (Research) Mentor (supervisor Prof Gill Dobbie) (completed)
2021 - 2022: Ziqi Wang - MSc (Research) Mentor ( supervisor Dr Josh Bensemann) (completed)
Master of Information Technology
2023 Sem 1: Zongyi Xu - Academic Supervisor. NLP (completed)
2023 Sem 1: Siyu Zhang - Academic Supervisor. NLP (completed)
2023 Summer: Charles Cao - Academic Supervisor. Topic: Spectrum Unit Testing and Integration. (completed)
2022 Sem 2: Zhuo Wei - Academic Supervisor. Topic: Data cleaning for machine learning. (completed)
2022 Sem 2: Jue Zhao - Academic Supervisor. Topic: Machine learning. (completed)
Summer Scholarship
2022-2023 Summer: Manasvi Goyal (with Dr Diana Benavides Prado). Topic: Machine learning for Healthcare Applications (completed)
2022-2023 Summer: Ziqi Han (with Dr Alex Peng and Aaron Keesing). Topic: An optimal system for training pronunciation in second languages. (completed)
Tertiary Teaching
Doctoral Assistant, University of Waikato.
Hamilton, 2018 - 2019
Teaching and marking duties for undergraduate computer science courses.
Lecturer, Manukau Institute of Technology.
Auckland, 2007 – 2010.
Lecturer for Mathematics and Computer Skills, School of Electrical Engineering and Trades.
Chosen as the liaison between student reps and the faculty and the International Student Advisor for the School. (Based on student review).
Development of teaching material for adult learners.
Researched and applied various techniques of incorporating technology to teach mathematics at different levels (Certificate, Diploma and Degree) and for different age groups.
Teaching Assistant, University of Auckland.
Auckland, 2004 – 2007.