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Visitors to KEDRI in 2022
Tan Ming Xuan Samuel is an international visiting researcher to KEDRI from Nanyang Technological University - NTU Singapore for six months (staring in July 2022). Samuel is a PhD student at NTU and conducting his collaborative research with KEDRI as part of the funded Catalyst: Strategic – New Zealand-Singapore Data Science Research Programme via Data Science Funding and the National Research Foundation, Singapore.
Vice-Chancellor’s Doctoral Scholarship Award
Balkaran Singh has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Doctoral Scholarship award for his PhD studies at KEDRI. After finishing his Master of Computer and Information Sciences degree from AUT, Balkaran is continuing his studies at KEDRI and will be working under Dr Maryam Doborjeh, Nikola Kasabov and Dr Zohreh Doborjeh (University of Auckland).
Global Young Scientist awards
Global Young Scientist awards were recently awarded to Dr Zohreh Doborjeh and Sugam Budhraja.
Vice President of Membership and Board of Governors (New Zealand) for Asia Pacific Neural Network Society in 2022
Dr Maryam Doborjeh has been elected as the Vice President of Membership and to the Board of Governors (New Zealand) for the Asia Pacific Neural Network Society in 2022.
Dr Zohreh Doborjeh received the KEDRI Best Journal Paper Award
Dr Zohreh Doborjeh received the KEDRI Best Journal Paper Award, AUT University - 2019
Visitors to KEDRI in 2019
Franz Ludwig Lake Moctezuma, a PhD student of Computer Research Centre (CIC) of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), Mexico is a visitor to KEDRI from February 1st, 2019 to August 1st, 2019.
Isaac Figueroa Aguilar, a masters student of Computer Research Centre of the National Polythechnic Institute, Mexico is a visitor to KEDRI from February 1st, 2019 to July 31st, 2019.
From Data to Concepts: Augmented Principles, Symbolic-Granular Descriptions, and Quality Analysis
Concepts constitute a concise manifestation of key features of data. As being built at a higher level of abstraction than the collected data themselves, they capture the essence of the data and usually emerge in the form of information granules.
Professor Nikola Kasabov receives the honorary degree Doctor Honoris Causa from Obuda University, Hungary
On 23rd November 2018, at a formal ceremony held in Budapest, the AUT KEDRI Director Professor Nikola Kasabov received the honorary degree Doctor Honoris Causa from Obuda University ‘in recognition for his internationally recognised work in soft computing methods which make him a leading expert in this field’. This is the highest honorary science degree in Hungary. After the ceremony he presented a talk “From Aristotle to AI today”. He was accompanied by his daughter Assia Kassabova, who is working in this field in Switzerland.
Neelava Sengupta received the Design and Creative Technology Award
Neelava Sengupta received the "Design and Creative Technology Award for Outstanding Doctoral Study" from DCT Dean Prof. Guy Littlefair on 13th November 2018.
Mary Ann Rebera received Dean's Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Study - 2018
Mary Ann Rebera, Masters student of batch 2017 received "Dean's Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Study".
Joyce wins AUT Excellence Award
Joyce won an AUT Excellence Award in the category "Individual Professional Excellence". This is the University's premier award for an individual member of staff for the excellent professional achievement and commitment to the strategic development of the University over a number of years.
KEDRI journal paper voted the best paper in prestigious Journal
The editorial board of a prestigious international journal Neural Networks, published by Elsevier, has selected the paper led by Prof Kasabov which includes a team from 4 countries and 6 labs in AUT as the best paper for 2016 published in this journal. Every year the Board selects the ‘best paper biennial’, based on quality of the paper, scientific rigour and impact. The awarded paper enhances the prestige of research carried out at AUT. The paper is available through the AUT Library:
N. Kasabov, N. Scott, E.Tu, S. Marks, N.Sengupta, E.Capecci, M.Othman, M. Doborjeh, N.Murli, R.Hartono, J.Espinosa-Ramos, L.Zhou, F.Alvi, G.Wang, D.Taylor, V. Feigin, S. Gulyaev, M.Mahmoudh, Z-G.Hou, J.Yang, Design methodology and selected applications of evolving spatio- temporal data machines in the NeuCube neuromorphic framework, Neural Networks, v.78, 1-14, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2015.09.011.
Prime Minister visited AUT
Research fellow Maryam Doborjeh and PhD student Zohreh Doborjeh presented the advanced neuromarketing system and the NeuCube development to the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern when she visited AUT University to unveil the plaque and officially open the newest building WZ (31 August 2018).
Visitors to KEDRI in 2018
Dr Liu Haijun, visiting scholar from the Institute of Disaster Prevention is a visitor at KEDRI from February 1, 2018, to February 28, 2019.
Zohreh Doborjeh received Dean’s Excellence Award
Zohreh Doborjeh received Dean’s Excellence Award for outstanding performance in postgraduate studies for the year 2018.