Our people
Our team consists of researchers who contribute their expertise to deliver innovative and practical solutions for a wide range of applications within mathematical modelling and analytics.
Victor Miranda
Deputy Director
Generalised regression for time series with VGLMs/VGAMs and computational statistics.
Jiling Cao
Member
Financial modelling and analytics, mathematical analysis, mathematical economics.
Catherine Hassell Sweatman
Member
Mathematical modelling in health and biology, in particular, the modelling of type 2 diabetes linked to diet.
Patricio Maturana-Russel
Member
Data analysis, Bayesian statistics, Bayesian model selection, gravitational wave data analysis, Bayesian power spectral density estimation.
Wenjun Zhang
Member
Modelling and data analysis in financial mathematics, development and application of quantitative techniques, stochastic processes, statistical analysis, machine learning.
Shu Su
Member
Mathematical modelling and analytics, deep learning with applications in finance.
Ryan Ip
Member
Spatio-temporal statistics, applied statistics, stochastic modelling, decision forests.
Hammed Fatoyinbo
Member
Mathematical physiology, mathematical and statistical modelling of infectious diseases.
Yiming Ma
Member
Mathematical and statistical modelling with applications in Geophysics, change-points detection in time series, seismic data processing, inverse problems.
Parul Tiwari
Member
Stochastic modelling and computation, data analytics, machine learning and AI.
Matthew Pawley
Member
Analysis of ecological data with emphasis on multivariate methods.
Sergei Gulyaev
Member
Science data analysis, astrophysics, radio astronomy, quantum physics, geoscience.
Research affiliates
- Professor Jeffrey Hunter, Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences, Member RSNZ, Fellow NZM (stochastic modelling and applied probability).
- Professor Graeme Wake, Adjunct Professor of Industrial Mathematics, Fellow RSNZ, Fellow NZMS (research and consultant to industry in the development and application of mathematical systems science).
- Professor William Wong. Human-computer interaction, cognitive engineering, and interaction design of user interfaces.
- Associate Professor Boris Bacic. AI, video and image processing, data analytics and human activity recognition.
- Associate Professor Andrew Ensor. High performance computing.
- Associate Professor Xuejun (Jack) Li, Programme Director Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (wireless networking and communications, radio frequency integrated circuits, digital signal processing, system optimisation, evolutionary computing, machine learning).
- Associate Professor Nurul Sarker. Network design, modelling, and performance evaluation.
- Associate Professor Wei Qi Yan. Deep learning, intelligent surveillance, computer vision, multimedia computing.
- Dr Mahsa Mohaghegh, Director of Women in Technology and Senior Lecturer (artificial intelligence subject matter expert, advocate for diversity in tech).
- Kenneth Johnson, Senior Lecturer (formal methods, probabilistic verification, self-adaptive systems, model checking, algebraic specifications).
- Kerri Spooner, Senior Lecturer (tertiary and secondary mathematical modelling education, mathematics education).
- Shoba Tegginmath, Senior Lecturer (natural language processing for knowledge discovery).
Master's degree students
- Swanand Karandikar
Adapative controller for a dynamic system using MATLAB and interfacing with RPi.
(Master of Engineering) - Siwon Lee
Industrial controller tuning with a touch enabled mobile.
(Master of Engineering) - Eric Nand
A study of identification of dynamic systems at fast sampling to minimise quantification errors.
(Master of Engineering) - Aniket Pade
Polarization properties of rotating neutron star.
Doctoral students
- Nazeela Aimen
Bayesian Characterization of Noise in LISA - University of Auckland - Fraser Borrett
Fault tolerant robotic controllers with evolutionary algorithms. - Shaojuan Chen
AI use within Mathematical Modelling Education. - Nzubechukwu Grace Echezona
Efficient numerical methods for solving fractional differential equations and their applications - Wasala Ekanayake Mudiyanselage Dilmi Theja Ekanayake
Mathematical modelling of assessing the impact of delayed diabetes (Type 2) diagnosis on long-term Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) and stroke risk in New Zealand by using dynamical systems - Dimtrii Erkin
Optimal strategies for semi-periodic scheduling of urban rubbish pickups. - Xing Fan
The Interplay Between Slow Slip Events and Large Earthquakes - Sheng Gong
Optimal trading strategies in derivatives under (rough) stochastic environment. - Saveeta Haresh
Spiking neural network applications on FPGA hardware. - Doris Iso-Osene
The Role of Machine Learning in Understanding Nigerian Women's Family-Career Balance. - Samuel Nartey Kofie
Advancing forage quality prediction: A simplified hybrid framework using NIR spectroscopy
- Siqi (Vicky) Liu
Vector generalised linear mixed models with an implementation in R. - Dalin Marakkadath
Piezoelectric micro-energy harvester integrated with CMOS energy extraction circuits. - Stephen Pan
Overhead powerline recognition using image processing and deep learning. - Bishwash Paudel
On-chip terahertz antenna design for next-generation wireless communications. - Asif Rasha
Analysis and Optimization of Surface and Optics Measurement Technique of Radio Telescopes. - Yajun Shi
Application of queues driven by a Cox-BESQ process in insurance - Wendong Song
Deep learning for pricing volatility derivatives under hybrid stochastic volatility models - Ha Truong
Advanced Acceptance Sampling for Bounded Food Quality Characteristics: Statistical Methods and R Package Development - Karalaini Lia Radinaceva Verebasaga
Mathematical frameworks for financial technology and digital assets: modelling, optimization and risk analysis - Weijan Zhu
Analog CMOS design of deep machine learning.
Alumni
PhD alumni
- Tanvi Chandel, 2025
Impact of blood pressure measurement error on cvd risk prediction and management. - Wenqiang Liu, 2025
Valuation and prediction of financial options via deep learning approaches. - Sahar Barmomanesh, 2024
Potential discrimination or unfairness associated with the process of developing predictive risk models in the child welfare context. - Gaurav Kapoor, 2024
Analysis of New Zealand electricity financial derivatives and risk management strategy. - Rewat Khanthaporn, 2024
Analytic methods in finance with applications to portfolio and risk management. - Xi Li, 2024
Pricing exotic options under fractional stochastic environment - Axl Rogers, 2024
The Role of Advanced Polarimetric Calibration in High-Precision Pulsar Timing. - El Mehdi Zahraoui, 2024
Bayesian Techniques in the Pulsar Timing Array - Shilpa Mehta, 2022
Reconfigurable mixer design for software-defined radios - Shu Su, 2021
Pricing volatility derivatives under Lévy processes - Reza Moosavi Mohseni, 2019
Mathematical analysis of the chaotic behaviour in monetary policy games - Teh Raihana Nazirah binti Roslan, 2016
Pricing variance swaps under stochastic volatility and stochastic interest rate - Bing (Frank) Huang, 2014
Real option games with stochastic volatility - Anuj Bhowmik, 2013
Blocking efficiency and competitive equilibria in economies with asymmetric information