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- DCT Allied Staff Employee of the month
Joyce D'Mello was awarded DCT Allied Staff Employee of the month
- University Medal
Professor Nikola Kasabov was awarded the University Medal.
- A Delegation from Chile for higher education, research and development visited KEDRI
Chilean professors visit KEDRI on the 15th of June
- Visit by Chinese delegation to KEDRI
Chinese Delegation visit KEDRI on 23rd March 2015 - KEDRI: 5 Years of Special Cooperation Between 'AUT' and 'PKU'Auckland University of Technology's 'Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute' (KEDRI) signed an agreement with Key Laboratory of Machine Perception, Peking University, in 2010. This year, the involved parties celebrate five years of cooperation.
- Visitors to KEDRI in 2015Visiting Professors and Students to KEDRI in 2015.
- Joyce D'Mello received the KEDRI Award for Effort and Professionalism
The KEDRI Award for Effort and Professionalism was bestowed on Joyce D'Mello. - Prof.Nikola Kasabov received the Design & Creative Technologies 'Research Award'
The Design & Creative Technologies ‘Research Award’ was assigned to Prof.N.Kasabov. - AUT is shining at the Commonwealth Science Conference
Invited speech by Prof. Kasabov at the First Commonwealth Science Conference, in Bangalore, India.
- Joyce D'Mello Received the Dean's Allied Staff Award
Joyce D’Mello received the Dean's Allied Staff award. - KEDRI & Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Automation (CASIA) Collaborate
The collaboration has resulted in several Journal Papers, 1 joint Patent, Conference presentations and workshops.
- Visitors to KEDRI in 2014
Visiting Professors and Students to KEDRI in 2014.
- Visit by Brazilian delegation to KEDRI
Brazilian professors visit KEDRI on 25th August.
- Muhaini Othman Won the Best 3 Minute Thesis Competition
Muhaini Othman won the best 3 Minute Thesis Competition in Doctoral Consortium held during 26th Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2013 at University of Otago.
- Visitors to KEDRI in 2013
Visiting Professors and Students to KEDRI in 2013
- KEDRI Strengthens its Research Links with Leading Universities in Asia
In June, Professor Kasabov, KEDRI Director, gave talks and met with PhD students at 3 universities in China and Malaysia.
- Prof Zeng-Guang Hou visits
Professor Zeng-Guang Hou from the Institute for Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, visits KEDRI to discuss joint projects. - Prof Zeng-Guang Hou is KEDRI's newest Distinguished Visiting Researcher
Prof Zeng-Guang Hou of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was awarded KEDRI's newest Distinguished Visiting Researcher. This award is given only to researchers at the highest international level who contribute to KEDRI.
- Vivienne Breen received the Vice Chancellor’s Doctoral Scholarship Award
Vivienne Breen has been awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Doctoral Scholarship award for her PhD studies at KEDRI.
- Nathan Scott awarded the Linton Giles Memorial Cup
Nathan Scott has been awarded the Linton Giles Memorial Cup for top BCIS Hons graduate. - Nathan Scott awarded the Linton Giles Memorial Cup
Nathan Scott has been awarded the Linton Giles Memorial Cup for top BCIS Hons graduate. - Nathan Scott Awarded Vice Chancellor's Scholarship
Nathan Scott has been awarded the AUT Vice Chancellor's Doctoral Research Scholarship - Prof. Nikola Kasabov awarded APNNA award at ICONIP 2012
This is the highest award given once a year by APNNA to a prominent scientist for his/her overall scientific contributions to the area of neural networks.
- Prof. Nikola Kasabov was presented with the Gabor award at the WCCI 12 in Brisbane.
Prof. Nikola Kasabov has been selected by the Board of Governors of the International Neural Networks Society as the 2012 recipient of the Gabor Award.
- Vivienne Breen received the best poster award at NCEI '12
NCEI '12 best poster award winner: Vivienne Breen
- Dr. Raphael Hu was awarded the AUT Short-term Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2012
Dr. Raphael Hu was awarded the AUT Short-term Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2012 - Visitors to KEDRI in June 2012
Visitors to KEDRI in 2012 - Prof. Nikola Kasabov has being selected as the 2012 recipient of the Gabor Award
The International Neural Network Society's Awards Program is established to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the field of Neural Networks. - 3rd April 2012 - KEDRI Open Lecture on Advanced Algorithms for Machine Learning and Remote Sensing Image Analysis by Prof Jie Yang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Prof Jie Yang will be visiting KEDRI and giving a lecture on 3rd April at 1 pm in WY315. - Nathan Scott was awarded the "Convergent Science Network of Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems" (CSN) Fellowship
Nathan Scott a BCIS Hons. student at KEDRI was awarded the "Convergent Science Network of Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems" (CSN) Fellowship to the 2012 Cognitive Neuromorphic Engineering Workshop, held in Capo Caccia, Sardinia, Italy. - Prof. Kasabov received the INNS Gabor Award for 2012
The INNS Gabor Award is given every year by the INNS Governing Board after anonymous voting to a scientist who has made a significant contribution to engineering applications of neural networks (www.inns.org). - KEDRI Open Lecture : Series I
The KEDRI Open Lecture is being sponsored by School of Engineering and School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. - Prof. Kasabov was awarded the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Distinguished Lectureship ProgramThe Computational Intelligence Society awards Professor Kasabov the Distinguished Lecturer award in recognition of his efforts and contributions.
- September 2005 - Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA) Excellence Award
Prof. Nikola Kasabov, FRSNZ, was awarded the Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA) Excellence Award. - 21 July 2005 - KEDRI Best Researcher Award Presentation
2005's Best Researcher Award winner is Dr. Zeke S.H. Chan.
- 4 April 2005 - KEDRI Student Awarded Top Scholarship
Nisha Mohan was awarded the Eagle Technology Scholarship. - 12 December 2005 - Prof Nik Kasabov Presents Keynote Speech in AI2005
Professor Nik Kasabov has been invited to present the keynote address at the annual A12005 conference. - 10 November 2005 - KEDRI Efforts and Professionalism Award Presentation
Dr Qun Song won the award for his work.
- 28 September 2006 - KEDRI Efforts and Professionalism Award Presentation
Dr Qun Song won the award in recognition of his work.
- 10 August 2006 - KEDRI Distinguished Scientist Award
The award was presented to Prof Mario Fedrizzi.
- 27 October 2007 - KEDRI’s PhD student among top ten in international competition
KEDRI’s PhD student, Peter Hwang, among the first ten in an international Artificial Neural Networks & Computational Intelligence Forecasting Competition
- 30 September 2007 - Bio-informatics post-graduate student among New Zealand’s best
Yingjie Hu has been recognised as being among the top ten per cent of doctoral students in New Zealand, winning a prestigious Top Achiever Doctorate Scholarship. - 24 January 2008 - Japanese delegation visits KEDRI
Professors from Kyushu Institute of Technology Japan discusses collaboration with KEDRI in visit. - 30 November 2007 - Bayer Innovators Award
Prof. Nikola Kasabov was awarded the prestigious Bayer Innovators Award.
- 23 March 2009 - Prof. Kasabov and Dr Pang's Visit to NiCT and NAIST in Japan
Prof. N.Kasabov and Dr Paul Pang visited the collaborating organisations NiCT and NAIST to present the KEDRI 2008 report on a joint project.
- 12 - 15 April 2010, Wellington "8th New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference (NZCSRSC)"
Three PhD students from KEDRI were participating in the conference, where Stefan Schliebs and Kshitij Dhoble presented on the poster session and Harya Widiputra presented a full-paper.
- IJCNN Conference: 13-19 June 2009
Professor Kasabov opened the premier International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), held in Atlanta, USA.
- 20 - 22 April 2009, New Zealand Wind Energy Conference 2009
“Novel models for wind forecasting in the context of Integrative decision support system framework”was the presentation delivered by Marin Karaivanov.
- 15 October 2010 - Signing an agreement between KEDRI/AUT and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Automation (CASIA)
Both the Chinese and the New Zealand Ministries of Education support the tripartite joint research on ‘Computational Intelligence: Methods, Systems and Applications for Ecological and Environmental Modelling in China and New Zealand’.
- 24 September 2010 Colloquium - Institute for Neuroinformatics (INI), UZH and ETH
Professor Nikola Kasabov gave a presentation titled "Connectivity, Computability and Complexity of Evolving Spiking Neural Networks and Applications for Computational Intelligence".
- AUT presence in China - for the present and the future
The NZ Education in China was held in Shanghai, 13-18 June 2010, during the World Expo.
- Prof Kasabov delivers keynote speech at ICANNGA '11, April 2011
His presentation was titled "Computational Neurogenetic Modelling: Methods, Systems, Applications". - Professor Kasabov received the Vice Chancellor Individual Research Excellence Award for 2010
23 February 2011 - Professor Kasabov is recognised for making outstanding contributions and demonstrating exceptional achievement as an individual in his research domain.
- 5 February 2011 - First Workshop for the Tripartite Programme
This workshop is a part of joint research initiatives of both the Chinese and New Zealand Ministries of Education to support the tripartite joined research for computational intelligence approach for ecological and environmental modelling.
- Prof Kasabov delivers keynote speech at CIBB 2011, June 2011
His presentation was titled "Computational Neurogenetic Modeling Using Probabilistic Neural Models". - Prof Kasabov delivers keynote speech at EANN (Engineering Applications of Neural Networks) 2011, Greece, September 2011
His presentation was titled "Evolving, Probabilistic Spiking Neural Network Reservoirs for Spatio- and Spectro-Temporal Data". - Prof Kasabov delivers keynote speech at AICS (Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science) 2011, September 2011
His presentation was titled "Spatio-temporal Pattern Learning and Recognition in Spiking Neural Network Reservoirs". - Japanese delegation from Osaka City University to visit KEDRI on 2nd December
Top on the agenda is possible areas of research collaboration. - Prof. Kasabov received the EU FP7 Marie Curie Fellowship for 2011 and 2012, hosted by ETH and Uni Zurich
The Marie Curie Fellowship allows an outstanding scholar from outside the EU to work with a European team for a period of up to about 18 months. Professor Kasabov has chosen to go to the Universitaet Zuerich and ETH in Switzerland for a total period of 12 months.
- Prof Dato Dr Hassan Said, President and Vice Chancellor, along with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mushtak Al-Atabi, Dean, School of Engineering, Taylor's University, visited KEDRI on 25th October 2011.
KEDRI discussed possible areas of collaboration with our Malaysian visitors.
- KEDRI student to graduate and receive Dean's award
Come December 15th, Harya Widiputra will be awarded his Doctor of Philosophy degree. - 8th June 2012 - 12th Conference on Neuro-Computing and Evolving Intelligence (NCEI'12)
The NCEI 2012 workshop is organized as a pre-conference workshop held just before the WCCI'12 in Brisbane, Australia (June 10-15, 2012).