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Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science
Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, New Zealand
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Dr. Ajit Narayanan is currently Professor in the Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. He spent 25 years as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Professor of Artificial Intelligence (personal chair) and Dean at the University of Exeter, UK, before moving to AUT in 2007 as Founding Head of the School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences (over 50 academic staff and 1200 students) before stepping down from that role in 2013. He has over 160 refereed journal and international conference publications in the areas of statistics, bioinformatics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and nature-inspired computing. He has authored and co-authored four books and jointly edited four collections of papers, all dealing with artificial intelligence, bioinformatics and applications of machine intelligence. He is statistical consultant on a number of healthcare related projects, with a special interest in analysing patient satisfaction data. He also has interests in identifying potential biomarkers in gene expression data through the use of novel machine learning techniques, with specific applications to cancer and mental health. He has a BSc (Hons) from the University of Aston in 1973 and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Exeter in 1976.
