Computer Science & Information Technology - Massey University Albany

16/06/2022

Research Internship Opportunity

The CRISiSLab at Massey (Wellington) is hiring 2-3 part-time interns (paid) to work on some of our research project related to computer science. Please check the application submissions if you’re interested.

03/02/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpb48gXsDDI&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=issiporg
Dr Arzoo Atiq, senior tutor of CSIT, Albany talking with Jim Spohrer, founder of Service Science (https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/servicescience/)
Massey University CSIT will be introducing a new course on Service Science soon (158730 in development phase) and this correspondence was done to get Jim's input on the course outline and assessments' design. He really appreciated her teaching model. This video is just a glimpse of how students found the course when it was offered as a special topic in 2021, it is also about Dr Atiq's research on Service Science, and her idea on collaborative teaching methods for students' benefit.

With the world’s economy shifting from manufacturing to services, IBM has led the charge to create the academic and research discipline of service science in the 21st century, just as it helped pioneer computer science in the 1940s.

19/01/2022

Congratulations to Yuanhang Qiu, who has successfully passed the oral examination of his Ph.D. thesis.🎓🎉
Yuanhang's research is on speech enhancement with deep learning approaches. During his doctoral study, he proposed three novel approaches to improve the intelligibility and perceptual quality of the contaminated speech signals. The experimental results showed that his approaches improved the speech enhancement performance progressively. Two of his studies were accepted by InterSpeech, which is the top conference in speech signal processing.
Well done Yuanhang!

25/11/2021

Congratulations to Niloofar Aflaki, who has successfully passed the oral examination of her Ph.D. thesis under the supervision of Dr. Kristin Stock. 🎓🎉
Niloofar's research is on the semantics (or meaning) of qualitative, geospatial relation terms, specifically geospatial prepositions. In addition, she explored the influence of different contexts on the interpretation of location descriptions.
She developed a machine learning model to predict the distance associated with use of geospatial prepositions in specific geospatial descriptions.
She is now working as a postdoc on the He Tatai Whenua project for the next year.

19/11/2021

One of our PhD students, Claire Zhao experimenting with some new exciting toys that have just arrived 🤩

10/11/2021

07/11/2021

Congratulations to Azadeh Izadi, who has successfully passed the oral examination of her Ph.D. thesis under the supervision of Dr. Kristin Stock.
Azadeh’s research presents a multidimensional mereotopological theory using part of and boundary part as primitive concepts. She introduces a set of nine spatial relations with the jointly exhaustive and pairwise disjoint property based on these primitives.
In addition, she demonstrates her multidimensional theory by applying it to a real-world scenario (i.e., a flood event). The results showed an improvement in the query answering procedure relative to current methods implemented in spatial information systems such as the Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

03/11/2021

Happy 💛

Image by Satheesh Sankaran from Pixabay

03/11/2021

Virtual reality has been found to be an effective treatment method for anxiety, according to a new study, led by Computer Science Senior Lecturer Dr Nilufar Baghaei and co-authored by PhD student Vibhav Sunil Chitale.

The study has recently been published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Mental Health and has already received media coverage, including an article in Psychology Today. It was done in collaboration with Auckland Institute of Studies (Dr Lehan Stemmet), University of Otago Mental Health Clinical Research Unit (Prof Richard Porter), Otago Polytechnic Auckland International Campus(Andrej Hlasnik), and Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (Prof Hai-Ning Liang).

The study examined the ways VR exposure and interventions have been used in the treatment of mental health conditions, the technologies used, and how effective they have been as a treatment method. The authors say the use of VR in mental health is an innovative field that holds a lot of potential, and that it will be interesting to see where the field is heading. This is particularly the case as standalone VR headsets are becoming more affordable,

Dr Baghaei is also leading a research project funded by the Massey Strategic Research Excellence Fund on intelligent individualised VR for supporting the treatment of depression. The idea for the project stems from the recognition that there is little research on using VR to support the treatment of depression, and very little work in offering patients an individualised VR experience.

The project uses the experience of an interdisciplinary team of researchers working at the interface of mental health, VR and artificial intelligence to enhance the quality of psychological treatments and improve mental health outcomes for New Zealanders. "We believe our contribution could pave the way for large-scale efficacy testing, clinical use and cost-effective delivery of intelligent, individualised VR technology for mental health therapy across Aotearoa New Zealand in the future."

Read more about the story: https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=061267D5-A56C-46D0-AC0D-609224DCB933

01/11/2021

🚨Massey Meme Monday - Exam Time!🚨

Don't end up like Mr Bean😅📚

Good luck with your exams this week!

30/10/2021

Happy ! 🎃👻

Photo by Łukasz Nieścioruk on Unsplash

17/10/2021

Study online or on campus. Explore your options for 2022:
https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/programme-course/programme.cfm?prog_id=93068