Misc

Matthias Galster (Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch) is part of a multi-disciplinary team of researchers that was awarded an MBIE Smart Ideas grant ($999,753) for the project … Continued

Associate Professor Tony Savarimuthu from the University of Otago’s Information Science department studies human factors as applied to artificial and real agents (e.g., robots and humans respectively). Thus, his research spans two main areas: multi-agent systems and software engineering. In … Continued

Jessica Turner is a Lecturer in the Department of Software Engineering at The University of Waikato, Tauranga, New Zealand. She completed a BCMS(Hons) and PhD in Computer Science at the UoW Hamilton campus.  Her research interests are in the area … Continued

Software Innovation New Zealand (SI^NZ) held its fourth AGM on 24th November 2020 (online/virtually). The meeting was attended by members, representing Auckland University of Technology, Massey University, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury, University of Otago, and Victoria University of Wellington. … Continued

Dr. Panos Patros, Lecturer in the Software Engineering Department of the University of Waikato is part of a team awarded $12.5M to Decarbonize the Industrial Sector of Aotearoa NZ via Self-Adaptive Software. The funding is over a seven-year period as part … Continued

Dr Kelly Blincoe from the University of Auckland was awarded a Marsden Fast-Start grant ($300k) in the 2020 funding round. This grant will enable her to investigate methods to enable automated updates of software dependencies even when breaking changes are introduced … Continued

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic there has been some disruptions to our usual activities. We have shifted activities online where it is possible to do so, and will reschedule other events which require in person attendance. Please follow the health … Continued

A number of SI^NZ members have enjoyed recent success in securing funding from the Science for Technological Innovation National Science Challenge (SfTI) 2020 science investment round. SI^NZ members received four of the fifteen new Seed project awards for 2020. Each of … Continued

Members of the Software Innovation NZ steering committee met in Auckland on Tuesday, 22nd October 2019 to sign the newly created and formally approved constitution. With this, SI^NZ is now formally and officially constituted!   In photo (left to right): … Continued