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03/03/2024

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24/02/2024

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22/02/2024

Professor Tobias Langlotz talked to the University of Otago Newsroom about leading a multidisciplinary MBIE-funded project that’s using innovative technologies to support sustainable tourism. Thanks for highlighting the awesome work happening in the School of Computing 🙌

Reimagining the tourism experience using innovative technology is the vision for a project as a recipient of MBIE Endeavour Fund Research Programme funding last year.

20/02/2024

Our MAppSci student, Wenbo Wu (co-supervised by Senior Lecturer L**h Szymanski and Professor Zhiyi Huang), has trained our robot dog ‘Scary Maclary’ to detect emotions from people’s faces using deep learning. Check out this video of Wenbo’s awesome project!

16/02/2024

A sunny day to mark the last day of Summer School classes ☀️🥰 Best of luck to everyone with exams - kia kaha!

13/02/2024

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07/02/2024

Senior Lecturer Veronica Liesaputra and Professor Zhiyi Huang showed the ODT how a mind-controlled drone works and talked about how it could be used to improve mental health. Thanks for representing us so well 👏

When it comes to operating the University of Otago’s new drones, it truly is a case of mind over matter. School of Computing lecturer Dr Veronica...

05/02/2024

Ngā mihi mō tēnei rā o Waitangi!

The University is closed today in observation of Waitangi Day.

AskOtago is closed on public holidays and will reopen as usual tomorrow, 7 February. For library hours, visit https://www.otago.ac.nz/library/hours

01/02/2024

Congratulations to Veronica Liesaputra for being promoted to Senior Lecturer 👏👏👏 Veronica’s research focuses on human-oriented AI. We are all very proud to have you as a colleague!

29/01/2024

Last week, we hosted high school students for the Otago University Advanced School Sciences Academy programme. A big thank you to Professor Zhiyi and (our recent graduate) Ruth for your mahi organising fun and educational projects 🙌

24/01/2024

Here's our honours student Rosie showing how mind-controlled drones work. Soaring to new heights!