Information Science Research

Staff in the department are actively involved in a broad range of research. The list below provides an overview of the main research areas within the department and the staff involved.

We are always interested in developing new research collaborations with other academics and industry partners.  Please contact staff directly if there is a particular area that you are interested in.

Area of Interest
Staff Involved
Computer Vision Brendon Woodford, Jeremiah Deng
Database Systems Nigel Stanger
Decision Support Systems Brendon Woodford, Grant Dick, Holger Regenbrecht, Nigel Stanger, Peter Whigham
E-Learning Maryam Purvis, Michael Winikoff, Tony Savarimuthu
Health Informatics Alec Holt, Brendon Woodford, Holger Regenbrecht, Jeremiah Deng
Human-Computer Interaction Holger Regenbrecht
Information Assurance and Security Hank Wolfe
Machine Learning and Data Mining Alec Holt, Brendon Woodford, Colin Aldridge, Grant Dick, Jeremiah Deng, Mariusz Nowostawski, Nigel Stanger, Peter Whigham
Modelling of Complex Systems Grant Dick, Martin Purvis, Michael Winikoff, Peter Whigham
Multi-agent Systems (MAS) and Multi-agent based modelling (MABM) Mariusz Nowostawski, Martin Purvis, Maryam Purvis, Michael Winikoff, Stephen Cranefield, Tony Savarimuthu
Robotics and Embedded Systems Mariusz Nowostawski
Social Media Alec Holt, Maryam Purvis, Tony Savarimuthu
Software Engineering Mariusz Nowostawski, Martin Purvis, Maryam Purvis, Michael Winikoff, Stephen Cranefield,Tony Savarimuthu
Spatial Information Systems Colin Aldridge, Peter Whigham
Telecommunications and Mobile Computing Alec Holt, Holger Regenbrecht, Jeremiah Deng, Mariusz Nowostawski, Martin Purvis, Stephen Cranefield

The department is home to the Otago Next Generation Networks and Services Test Bed Facility (ONGENS; including the NZ Virtual World Grid).

Due to the expertise of Otago's Information Science and Computer Science departments in computer architecture, networking and parallel computing, the university was selected as one of only seven universities worldwide to be a SUN Microsystems OpenSPARC Centre of Excellence.