Visitors to the school

Below is a list of all current and expected visitors. If you would like more information about a visitor, please talk to the Local Contact. If any details are incorrect, inform the School Office.

  • Lindsay Groves
    21/02/2020 to 20/12/2026
    Research Field: Formal Software Development, Computational Logic, Programming Language Theory, Concurrency
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • James Noble
    22/02/2022 to 31/07/2027
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • Bryan Ng
    15/03/2022 to 01/09/2025
    Research Field: Software Defined Networking, Analytics, Big Data, Stochastic process, 802.11, SDN
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: A/Prof Ian Welch

  • Mansoor Shafi
    10/03/2023 to 05/07/2027
    Research Field: Wireless Communication Systems
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • Peter Andreae
    15/04/2023 to 31/12/2026
    Research Field: Artificial Intelligence
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • Xinxin Xu - CO322
    20/10/2023 to 18/10/2025
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Fangfang Zhang

  • Ajay Kapur
    13/11/2023 to 16/11/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Prof Dale Carnegie

  • Shaojin Geng - CO348
    23/04/2024 to 29/10/2025
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

  • Damien O'Neill
    08/08/2024 to 30/08/2025
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Andrew Lensen

  • Christopher McGavin
    12/11/2024 to 12/11/2025
    Research Field: digital policy and artificial intelligence.
    Home Institution: VUW
    Local Contact: Dr Andrew Lensen

  • Tao Shi
    23/01/2025 to 31/01/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: A/Prof Hui Ma

  • Wan-Duo Ma
    20/02/2025 to 20/02/2028
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Prof Bastiaan Kleijn

  • Emily Jin - AM411
    27/02/2025 to 30/09/2025
    Research Field: Information and Telecommunication Engineering
    Home Institution: Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics
    Local Contact: Prof Winston Seah

  • Paul Teal - AM221
    03/03/2025 to 30/06/2027
    Research Field: Signal Processing and Communications
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Prof Bastiaan Kleijn

  • Harisu Abdullahi Shehu - AM221
    05/03/2025 to 31/12/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Georgia Dix

  • Chen Wang - CO322
    31/03/2025 to 30/11/2026
    Research Field:
    Home Institution: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
    Local Contact: A/Prof Hui Ma

  • Tianlei Ma - CO322
    17/04/2025 to 15/04/2026
    Research Field: Artificial intelligence, Pattern recognition, Image processing, Target detection
    Home Institution: Zhengzhou University
    Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

  • Mohammad Nekooei
    12/05/2025 to 11/05/2027
    Research Field: Wireless Communications and Networking, Health Informatics, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless Body Area Network, Fuzzy Logic, Artificial Intelligence
    Home Institution: GoldenSet Collective
    Local Contact: A/Prof Ramesh Rayudu

  • Guanqun Ai - CO348
    13/05/2025 to 29/08/2025
    Research Field:
    Home Institution: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
    Local Contact: Dr Aaron Chen

  • Rita Garcia
    18/06/2025 to 18/06/2027
    Research Field:
    Home Institution: NVIDIA
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • David Pearce
    30/06/2025 to 30/06/2028
    Research Field: Programming Languages, Compilers, Program Analysis, Software Verification
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: Dr Craig Watterson

  • Lizhong Zhang - CO322
    01/07/2025 to 30/06/2027
    Research Field: He has been focused on energy management since September 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Lei Zhu, whose research centres on evaluation methods and decision optimisation for energy technologies
    Home Institution: Beihang University
    Local Contact: Dr Heitor Gomes

  • Elena Barbera Gregori - AM421
    01/07/2025 to 31/12/2025
    Research Field: Elena is researching online learning.
    Home Institution: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
    Local Contact: A/Prof Karsten Lundqvist

  • Haoran Gu - CO322
    09/07/2025 to 06/07/2026
    Research Field: Evolutionary computation and learning and generative AI for multi-objective optimisation and decision making
    Home Institution: Xidian University
    Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

  • Tong Guo
    08/08/2025 to 23/08/2025
    Research Field: Large-Scale Global Optimization for 4D Trajectory-based Air Traffic Flow Control
    Home Institution:
    Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

  • Biyue Li
    08/08/2025 to 23/08/2025
    Research Field: Evolutionary computation, planning, decision making
    Home Institution: China Agricultural University
    Local Contact: A/Prof Yi Mei

  • Junhua Zhu - CO322
    01/09/2025 to 31/08/2026
    Research Field: AI, Evolutionary Computation,  renewable energy
    Home Institution: Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
    Local Contact: Prof Bing Xue

  • Yan Xing - CO334
    01/09/2025 to 30/08/2026
    Research Field: Deep learning application in 3D Reconstruction, Image Processing, Depression detection, and solving partial differential equations; Quaternion Algebra, etc.
    Home Institution: Department of Mathematics,  Hefei University of Technology
    Local Contact: Dr Fanglue Zhang

  • Arnold Berger - AM411
    06/01/2026 to 30/03/2026
    Research Field: Prof Berger's research is in embedded systems and renewable energy and will be working with EEEN staff and give talks. Home Institution: University of Washington, Bothell
    Home Institution: Bothell University of Washington
    Local Contact: A/Prof Ramesh Rayudu