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Academic Staff

Anthony Robins: Neural Networks, Cognitive Science.
Alistair Knott: Computational Linguistics.
Lubica Benuskova: Computational Neuroscience, Neural Networks.
Brendan McCane: Computer Vision.
Willem Labuschagne: Applied Logic.
Andrew Trotman: Information extraction; information retrieval.
Nathan Rountree: Neural Networks, Databases.
Richard O'Keefe: Logic Programming.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Martin Takac: Computational Linguistics.

Postgraduate Students

Alicia Monteith (PhD) Learning and emotion in artificial life.
Halizah Basiron (PhD) Dialogue-based CALL.
Ignas Kukenys (PhD) Face detection.
Lech Szymanski (PhD) Support Vector Machines.
Hayden Walles (PhD) Language and sensory motor cognition.
Andrew Webb (PhD) Language and sensory motor cognition.
Jayson Mackie (PhD) Hand pose estimation.

Research Fellows and Research Assistants

Peter Vlugter: Māori-English natural language processing; human-machine dialogue systems.

Past Staff and Students

Past Academic Staff

Hans van Ditmarsch: Logic.
Simon McCallum Computer games.

Past Research Assistants

Ian Bayard: Māori-English natural language processing.
Janet Rountree: Learning a first programming language.
Tori Weatherall: Māori-English natural language processing; Mäori language education.

Past Postgraduate Students

Simon McCallum (PhD) Catastrophic learning and pseudo-rehearsal solution in Hopfield networks.
Michael Liddle (PhD) Neural network models of vision and visual attention.
Corrin Lakeland (PhD) Computational Linguistics.
Andrew Trotman (PhD) Information extraction and retrieval.
Nathan Rountree (PhD) Initialising neural networks with prior knowledge
Gregory Caza (MSc) Language and intention recognition in infants.
Robin Sheat (MSc) The effect of representation on the evolution of genetic algorithms
Tom Eastman (MSc) The use of constructive neural networks in serial learning.
Anar Khan (MSc) A text mining tool for biomedical applications.
Andrew Rowse (MSc) Neural networks, motor control.
Andrew Webb (MSc) Multi-agent simulations of language evolution.