Dr Rita Garcia is a Senior Software Engineer at Unity Technologies and an Adjunct Researcher at Victoria University of Wellington. She has 15 years of software development experience in the Visual Effects (VFX) industry. She previously worked at Pixar Animation … Continued
Prof. Stephen MacDonell has recently attended a webinar that discussed strategies and tools for successfully conveying impact stories, which he thought could be useful for SI^NZ members pursuing external funds. “I think it could be helpful for SI^NZ members who … Continued
An opportunity of a Marsden Fund PhD Scholarship is available! The scholarship will pay NZD35,000 per year for three years, plus creative research & programming will also cover the student’s fees. This scholarship is tenable at any New Zealand University, … Continued
Dr. Jemma König is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Software Engineering at the University of Waikato. Her postdoctoral research is part of a larger MBIE funded project called Tini o te Hakituri. Hakituri focuses on investigating the use … Continued
Sherlock Licorish, who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago, believes that online code snippets, such as those shared on Stack Overflow, should be reused with caution during software development. His research … Continued
Our SINZ members actively participated in the most prestigious conference on Software Engineering, (ICSE 2023), which was held in Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Valerio Terragni chaired the Java Test Generation Competition of the 16th International Workshop on Search-Based and Fuzz Testing … Continued
We are thrilled to announce that Software Innovation New Zealand (SI^NZ) is hosting its inaugural International Workshop on Software Engineering on May 22nd and 23rd. The workshop will be held right after ICSE, which takes place in Melbourne, Australia. As … Continued
The objective of the Rutherford Discovery Fellowships is to draw in, maintain, and cultivate New Zealand’s brightest researchers in the early to mid-stages of their careers, while supporting their professional growth and enabling them to establish a foundation for future … Continued
SI^NZ held its sixth AGM from 4th to 5th December 2022 at the University of Auckland, with 17 members attending the meeting. This event was special as it was the first AGM to span over two days as well as … Continued
Daniel Alencar da Costa is a Senior Lecturer in the Information Science Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand, having started his employment with the department in 2019. Daniel is originally from Belém, Brazil, which is a capital near … Continued