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PhD Defence Success

Benjamin Denham successfully defended his PhD thesis "Tolerant Machine Learning for Deficient Training Data" on the 7 March. Benjamin received his Bachelor of Information and Communication Technologies from Manukau Institute of Technology, and his Master of Computer and Information Sciences from AUT. Benjamin was supervised by Prof Edmund Lai, Associate Professor Roopak Sinha, and Professor Muhammad Asif Naeem. We congratulate Benjamin and his supervisors, thank them for their great contributions, and wish Benjamin all success in his future endeavours.

PhD Defence Success

20 March 2023, Nurul Afser Talukder successfully defended his PhD thesis. His research was on Understanding Coordination in Distributed Agile Software Development. Nurul obtained his BSc in Computer Science from the American International University, Bangladesh, and his MSc from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain. His supervisors were Dr Mali Senapathi, Jim Buchan, and Prof Stephen MacDonell. We congratulate Nurul and his supervisors, thank them for their great contributions, and wish Nurul all success in his future endeavours.

PhD Defence Success

7 March 2023, Mujtaba Alshakhouri successfully defended his PhD thesis titled “Applied Software Visualisation: Active and Continuous Synchronisation of Code and Requirements in Agile Development Processes”. Mujtaba received his Bachelor of Computer & Information Sciences from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia, and his Master of Computer and Information Sciences from AUT. His supervisors were Prof Stephen MacDonell and Jim Buchan. We congratulate Mujtaba and his supervisors, thank them for their great contributions, and wish Mujtaba all success in his future endeavours.

Paper accepted in “Artificial Intelligence Review” journal

‘Privacy preserving data (stream) mining techniques and their impact on data mining accuracy- A systematic literature review’ co-authored by Waruni Hewage, Roopak Sinha, and M. Asif Naeem has been accepted in Artificial Intelligence Review journal, 2023.

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Presentation at IEEE ONCON 2022

Matthew, James, and Barry presented their paper on the simbIoTe simulator at the IEEE ONCON 2022 conference this week. This project is creating an Open Source toolkit and Integrated Development Environment for building simulations of Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical System environments. The paper discusses the software architecture and the design decisions made to enable researchers to quickly create realistic simulations.

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