CSSE Seminars
Seminars are presented fortnightly during the academic year, by staff, students and visitors to the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Seminars Information
Please send an email to organiser Dr Fabian Gilson to arrange a seminar.
2020 Seminar Series
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:00:26 NZDT | Andrew Davidson |
Machine Learning Classification of Histologic Information of RNAscope Stained Breast Cancer Tissues Using Whole Slide Images | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:00:37 NZDT | Bilal Ishfaq |
Network Level Defenses for Internet of Things (IoT) | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:00:00 NZDT | Dibash Basukala |
Automated Segmentation of Substantia Nigra and Red Nucleus using Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping Images: Application to Parkinson’s Disease | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:00:23 NZDT | Sam Pell |
Evaluating Network Technologies for Industrial Vehicular Networks | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:00:30 NZDT | Jordan Gavan |
Reconstructing 3D Models of Objects from Incomplete RGB+D Data | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:00:00 NZDT | Dan Barry |
UAV Search Behaviour for Wireless Transmitter Detection | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:00:00 NZDT | Sarmad Soomro |
Empirical Characterization of Human Proprioceptive Target Acquisition Capabilities for In-vehicle Touchscreens | E16 - Engineering Core |
Amelia Samandari
E16 - Engineering Core
Sam Schofield
E16 - Engineering Core
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:00:10 NZDT | Casey Peat |
A Multi-View Stereo Evaluation for Fine Object Reconstruction | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:00:00 NZDT | Guillaume Payet |
"Improving 6 DoF Pose Estimation for Agricultural Environments" | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:00:49 NZDT | Kashif Amanullah |
The use of block-based languages and elementary patterns in teaching programming to children | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:00:34 NZDT | Andrew Curtis-Black |
Scout: A framework for Querying Networks | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:00:00 NZDT | Shanelle Dyer |
Seals, Surveys and CNNs | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:00:27 NZDT | Haipeng Li |
A Robust Imaging Texture Descriptor for Analysing and Classifying Medical Images | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:00:00 NZDT | Tim McKenzie |
Addressing Challenges in Video Game Development Using Agile ‘Best’ Practices from Industry | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:00:00 NZST | Camila Costa Silva |
Themes in Instant Messaging Communication of Software Developers | E16 (Engineering Core) |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:00:15 NZST | Adam Tupper |
Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Based General Video Game Playing | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:00:00 NZST | Bhagya Munasinghe |
Teaching Programming with Confidence – Can CS Unplugged help? | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:00:00 NZST | Gus Ellerm |
Utilizing the ArchiMate framework to model secure micromobility services | RM E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 07 Sep 2020 15:00:00 NZST | Faiza Tahir |
Investigating the Effects of Gamifying SQL-Tutor | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 07 Sep 2020 15:00:03 NZST | Negar Mohammadhassan |
Developing Personalised Nudges to Improve the Quality of Comments in Active Video Watching | E16 - Engineering Core |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:00:00 NZST | Aaron Stockdill |
Finding an Analogy | Engineering Core E5 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 03 Aug 2020 15:00:00 NZST | Dr Fabian Gilson |
When Natural Language Processing jumps into Software Engineering | Rm 105, Beatrice Tinsley Building |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 24 Jul 2020 12:00:00 NZST | Professor Tanja Mitrovic |
Investigating the effect of voluntary use of an intelligent tutoring system on students’ learning | Jack Erskine 340. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:00:00 NZDT | Peter B. Henderson |
Binary Patterns in Computing Education | Jack Erskine 240 |
2019 Seminar Series
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:00:00 NZST | Professor Mohd Saberi Mohamad |
The Fourth Industrial Revolution - Current and Future | Jack Erskine 445 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:00:00 NZDT | Prof. Bodo Rosenhahn |
De-hyping Neural Networks | Jack Erskine 340 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:00:00 NZDT | Elizabeth Belding |
Expanding the Focus of Digital Innovation | Jack Erskine 340 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 01 Mar 2019 14:00:00 NZDT | Alistair Moffat |
New dogs for old tricks: Improved Compression for Inverted Indexes | Jack Erskine 340 |
2018 Seminar Series
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:00:00 NZDT | Simon Yusuf-Enoch |
Dynamic Cybersecurity Modelling and Analysis | Jack Erskine 340 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Thu, 18 Oct 2018 16:00:00 NZDT | Carola Fellenz Thompson |
Design Education for CS and SE students - or - What on earth are you teaching in COSC368, Carola? | Jack Erskine 240 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Wed, 19 Sep 2018 12:00:00 NZST | Prof. Armin Zimmermann. |
Modelling and Simulation for Systems Engineering of Stochastic Discrete-Event Systems | Jack Erskine 340 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Professor Sungdeok (Steve) Cha |
A Paradigm Shift for the CAPTCHA race, and its application towards more robust authentication mechanism | Jack Erskine 340 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:00:00 NZST | Professor Ljiljana Brankovic |
Gamification of STEM courses: What Works and How to Do it | Jack Erskine 340 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:00:00 NZST | Dr Steve Mills |
Four- and Seven-Point Relative Pose from Oriented Features | Jack Erskine 340 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 15 May 2018 15:00:00 NZST | Dr. K. Khorasani |
Protection and Survivable Control of Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS) Against Malicious Attacks and Adversary Intrusions | Jack Erskine 340 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:00:00 NZST | Christoph Treude |
Repacking software artifacts to bridge the gap between documentation authors and readers | Erskine 101 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:00:00 NZST | Krys Pawlikowski |
Pseudorandom Number Generators for Scientific Computing in the 21st century | Erskine 340 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:00:00 NZDT | Caitlin Duncan |
Development of Computational Thinking, through Computer Science and programming, and its benefits for primary school students. | Erskine 240 |
2017 Seminar Series
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 24 Nov 2017 13:00:00 NZDT | Robert Schattschneider |
Underwater reconstruction and localisation for ship hull inspection | Erskine 315 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Wed, 15 Nov 2017 11:00:00 NZDT | Elora Walmisley |
Human Movement Identification with Arduino Sensors | Erskine 111 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Thu, 09 Nov 2017 13:00:00 NZDT | Benny Chor |
Teaching Computer Science in the Community | Erskine 315 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:00:00 NZDT | Dr. Paul Wagner |
From POGIL to Flipped Classrooms: Current Trends in Computer Science Education | Erskine 315 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 16 Jun 2017 10:00:00 NZST | Ben Daniel |
The Paradigm of Big Data in Educational Research: iMethod and Learning Analytics | Erskine 315 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:00:00 NZST | Associate Dean Tanja Mitrovic |
Supporting Constructive Video-Based Learning: Requirements Elicitation from Exploratory Studies | Erskine 315 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 05 May 2017 10:00:00 NZST | Bastian Wollschlaeger Scientific Researcher at the Chair for Technical Information Systems |
Automated Design of Building Automation Systems: Overview and Research Problems | Erskine 315 |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:00:00 NZDT |
Prof. Carsten Felden |
From Self Service Discovery, Data Preparation to Data Story Telling: the Swiss Army End User | Erskine 315 |
2016 Seminar Series
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 02 Dec 2016 11:00:00 NZDT | Prof. Phuoc Tran-Gia and Valentin Burger |
Network Virtualization and performance issues | Erskine 315. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:00:00 NZDT | Jun Wang |
The State of the Art of Neurodynamic Optimization: Past, Present, and Prospect | Erskine 315. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 22 Nov 2016 10:00:00 NZDT | Paul Tymann |
The Changing Face of Computing Education | Erskine 315. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Thu, 06 Oct 2016 13:00:00 NZDT | Paul Wagner |
Developing New Relational Database Operators for Complex Data Analysis | Erskine 111. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:00:00 NZST | David Bowes |
When is a Software Defect not a Defect? Different Classifiers Find Different Defects although with Different Level of Consistency | Erskine 315. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 02 Aug 2016 13:00:00 NZST | Christian Esposito |
Reliable and Timely Event Notification over Wide Area Networks | Erskine 315. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Fri, 13 May 2016 10:15:00 NZST | Amir Moravejosharieh |
PhD oral exam: Mitigating the Impact of Mutual Interference in IEEE 802.15.4-based Wireless Body Sensor Networks | Erskine 121. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Thu, 09 Jun 2016 14:00:00 NZST | Jalel Ben-Othman |
DoS in VANETs an issue or a fatality? | Erskine 315. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 03 May 2016 15:00:00 NZST | Tim Bell |
Gradescope: Gamify your exam marking! | Erskine 315. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Mon, 26 Dec 2016 09:00:00 NZDT | Musibau Ibrahim |
Multifractal Techniques for Image Analysis and Classification with Applications to Emphysema Databases | Erskine 315. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Thu, 31 Mar 2016 14:00:00 NZDT | Tanja Mitrovic and Moffat Mathews |
Computer-based post-stroke rehabilitation of prospective memory | Erskine 315. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:00:00 NZDT | Jakob Eriksson |
Tracking your every move - today and tomorrow | Erskine 315. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 08 Mar 2016 15:00:00 NZDT | Philipp Diebold |
Agile Capability Analysis - How to select the right degree of "Agility" | Erskine 315. |
| Time/Date | Speaker | Talk Title | Location |
| Tue, 16 Feb 2016 10:00:00 NZDT | Prof. Shimon Schocken |
From Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles | Erskine 315. |