Our Team

Academic Researchers and Industry Experts

Professor Michael Witbrock
Co-Director of NAOInstitute
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland

Professor Gill Dobbie
Co-Director of NAOInstitute
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland

Madeline Newman
Head of Industry Partnerships for NAOInstitute
Executive Director, AI Forum New Zealand

Associate Professor Patrice Delmas
Associate Director for Grants and Fundraising for NAOI and Associate Professor
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland

Dr Matthew Egbert
Associate Director for Events for NAOI and Senior Lecturer
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland

Professor Robert Amor
Professor and Associate Dean PBRF
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland

Professor Yun Sing Koh
Professor
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland
Professor Jim Warren
Professor
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland

Associate Professor Jason Brown
Associate Professor and Associate Dean Academic
School of Cultures, Languages & Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland

Associate Professor Jing Sun
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland

Joerg Wicker
Senior Lecturer
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland

Dr. Jiamou Liu
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science, University of Auckland

Dr. Diana Benavides Prado
Lecturer
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland

Dr. Jingfeng Zhang
Lecturer
School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland

Dr. Alex Peng
Research Fellow

Dr. Yang Chen
Research Fellow

Dr. Trung Ngyuen
Research Fellow

Dr. Vithya Yogarajan
Research Fellow
PhD students

Stefan Fuchs
PhD Candidate | 2020 – 2024

Qiming Bao
PhD Candidate | 2020 – 2024

Yonghua Zhu
PhD Candidate | 2020 – 2024

Sam Wei
PhD Candidate | 2023 – 2026

Dr. Neşet Tan
PhD Candidate | 2020 – 2024

Gaël Gendron
PhD Candidate | 2021 – 2024

Tim Hartill
PhD Candidate | 2021 – 2024

Andrey Borro
PhD Candidate | 2021 – 2025

Minjung Kim
PhD Candidate | 2021 – 2025

Nathan Young
PhD Candidate | 2022 – 2025

Kobe Knowles
PhD Candidate | 2022 – 2025

Timothy Pistotti
PhD Candidate | 2022 – 2025
Alumni

Dr. Joshua Bensemann
Research Fellow

Dr. Aaron Keesing
PhD | 2019 – 2023

Dr. Qianqian Qi
PhD | 2019 – 2023

Dr. Zhenyun Deng
PhD | 2019 – 2023

Ming-Bin (Bryan) Chen
MSc | 2020 – 2021

Ziqi Wang
MSc | 2020 – 2021