Our Team
Our research group has provided support to honours, postgraduate, and doctoral students, as well as professional researchers from the University of Auckland.
Lab Director
Dr. Michael Witbrock
Professor
Michael’s research is at the intersection of machine learning, reasoning and natural language understanding, with an additional focus on achieving the best social and civilisational impacts of increasingly powerful AI.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Alex Peng
Research Fellow
Alex’s research focuses on NLP tasks and automated reasoning with neural networks.
Dr. Yang Chen
Research Fellow
Yang’s research focus is on applying reinforcement learning to automatic reasoning and proving.
PhD Students
Stefan Fuchs
PhD Candidate | 2020 – 2024
Transformer-based Semantic Parsing of Building Regulations: Supporting Regulators in Drafting Machine-Interpretable Rules
Qiming Bao
PhD Candidate | 2020 – 2024
Assessing and Enhancing Language Models for Complex and Robust Logical Reasoning over Natural Language
Yonghua Zhu
PhD Candidate | 2020 – 2024
Inductive Reasoning over Multiple Texts for Reading Comprehension
Sam Wei
PhD Candidate | 2023 – 2026
Echoes of Authenticity: Exploring the Frontiers of Copyright Protection in Music AI with Watermark Technologies and Adversarial Machine Learning
Dr. Neşet Tan
PhD Candidate | 2020 – 2024
Gaël Gendron
PhD Candidate | 2021 – 2024
Robust reasoning in Deep Learning engines with Causal Graph modelling
Tim Hartill
PhD Candidate | 2021 – 2024
Teaching Smaller Language Models To Generalise To Unseen Compositional Questions
Andrey Borro
PhD Candidate | 2021 – 2025
Generating Optimal Path Subgoals through Supervised Learning
Minjung Kim
PhD Candidate | 2021 – 2025
General-purpose time series modelling for interpretable and domain-agnostic time-series analysis
Nathan Young
PhD Candidate | 2022 – 2025
Explaining State-of-the-Art Models as Approximations of Unbounded Ideals
Kobe Knowles
PhD Candidate | 2022 – 2025
Integrating Insights from Human Cognition with Artificial Neural Networks to Improve Data Efficiency During Learning
Timothy Pistotti
PhD Candidate | 2022 – 2025
Leveraging Linguistic Knowledge for Low-resource Natural Language Processing
Alumni
Dr. Diana Benavides Prado
Lecturer
Diana’s research focuses in the areas of lifelong/continual learning and human-centred AI.
Dr. Trung Ngyuen
Research Fellow
Trung’s research centers on modularizing deep learning models to enhance specialization, interpretability, and scalability.
Dr. Vithya Yogarajan
Research Fellow
Vithya’s research is motivated by the advancements of technology, and what AI can do to improve lives.
Dr. Joshua Bensemann
Research Fellow
Josh’s research interests include incorporating concepts from psychology into deep learning and applying machine learning techniques to psychological data.
Dr. Aaron Keesing
PhD | 2019 – 2023
Classifying Emotions Across Variations in Speech Data
Dr. Qianqian Qi
PhD | 2019 – 2023
Incorporating Multiple Types of Information in Condition Text Generation
Dr. Zhenyun Deng
PhD | 2019 – 2023
Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering
Ming-Bin (Bryan) Chen
MSc | 2020 – 2021
Open domain interviewing agent
Ziqi Wang
MSc | 2020 – 2021
TQALL: Text-based Question Answering for Low-resource Languages
Join our team
The Strong AI Lab has immediate opportunities for Ph.D. Students, Post-doctoral Fellows, and Senior Research Programmers.