http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/ The latest Blog feeds from www.airesearchers.nz en-us Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:43:56 +1200 Rocketspark http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/168904/congratulations/ Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Prof Sandhya Samarasinghe on this well-deserved recognition by Lincoln University (NZ), celebrating a career dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, and interdisciplinary research.Sandhya has made an enduring contribution to AI research in Aotearoa through her work across agriculture, environmental science, health, and engineering, while also mentoring generations of students and researchers.We also acknowledge Sandhya's v... Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post168904 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/168903/new-board/ A slightly belated welcome to our new Board and thank you to outgoing Board members following this years elections.Our new Board 👉 Albert Bifet (University of Waikato) - Co-Chair👉 Richard Green (University of Canterbury) - Co-Chair👉 Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington) - Co Deputy Chair👉 Veronica Liesaputra (University of Otago) - Co Deputy Chair👉 Daniel Wilson (Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland) - Treasurer👉 Fangfang Zhang (Victoria University of Wellin... Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post168903 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/168902/2026-anz-digital-twin-summit/ Our Executive Director Jannat Maqbool will be Chairing the 2026 ANZ DigitalTwin Summit in Wellington later this week. For more information visit - https://lnkd.in/gimqFCY8The Summit brings together leaders from across infrastructure, urbanplanning, utilities, technology, research, and wider to explore how digital twins, AI and data are helping shape smarter, more connected and more resilient places.For AIRA, this is a valuable opportunity to contribute to conversations at the intersection of AI,... Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post168902 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/168901/endeavour-fund-2026-contract-extension-round/ Congratulations to Board co-Chair Richard Green on being amongst the 19 research programmes receiving funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Endeavour Fund Contract Extension Round, for their work in "Enabling unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to use tools in complex dynamic environments".For more information on this research visit - https://lnkd.in/gfwa5ZxdCongratulations also to the other 18 research programmes and the 45 smart ideas proposals receiving a funding ex... Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post168901 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/163294/digital-technologies-reshaping-the-agrifood-landscape/ An in-person opportunity to join a seminar on 23 February 2026 at Lincoln University (NZ) exploring how digital technologies are reshaping the agrifood landscape, with Forbes Elworthy and Paul Windemuller.For more information visit https://www.lincoln.ac.nz/news-and-events/the-digitisation-of-agribusiness-and-the-future-role-of-artificial-intelligence-in-agrifood-systems/... Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post163294 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/163293/communication-and-information-commissioner-appointment/ Congratulations to Association Board Member Dr Mahsa McCauley (Mohaghegh) on her appointment as Communication and Information Commissioner for the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO by Hon Hon Erica Stanford MP, Minister of Education.For more information visit https://www.aut.ac.nz/news/celebrating-success/dr-mahsa-mohaghegh-mccauley... Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post163293 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/163292/conference-recordings-now-available/ Visit www.ainz.ai to access photos and recordings from this years conference hosting by Victoria University of Wellington in November. ... Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post163292 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/158027/forget-robot-doctors-whats-holding-back-ai-in-healthcare/ Introduction: Beyond the HypeWe are constantly bombarded with futuristic visions of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Headlines promise AI doctors on our smartphones, robot surgeons performing flawless operations, and algorithms predicting disease years in advance. While the potential is immense, the reality on the ground is far more nuanced, challenging, and in many ways, more interesting than the hype suggests.A recent panel brought together a diverse group of New Zealand experts—spanni... Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post158027 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/152226/september-webinar--digital-ai-and-ag/ Digital AI in agriculture has great potential to help farmers make management decisions based on gathering data, transforming that data into actionable information and then taking those actions. In this session Professor Rains presented work his lab is currently working on to assess multiple data management schemes for storage, analysis and management to track each individual plants growth, crop inputs and field production. Professor Rains also went over some recent work to forecast irrigation b... Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:23:00 +1200 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post152226 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/post/149080/mid-year-workshop-session-recordings-now-available/ We had a great turnout for our inaugural mid year workshop #AI Research Nexus and now recordings from the following sessions are now live at the event website - OECD AI Principles and New Zealand panel discussionResearch presentationsAI in Education panel discussionWhat is different about data ethics presentation... Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:59:41 +1200 http://www.airesearchers.nz/blog/#post149080