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


Lecturer, Manukau Institute of Technology.

Auckland, 2007 – 2010. 

Lecturer for Mathematics and Computer Skills, School of Electrical Engineering and Trades. 


Teaching Assistant, University of Auckland.

Auckland, 2004 – 2007.