I am an Associate Professor within the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington and an Associate Investigator at Te Pūnaha Matatini—New Zealand's centre for research excellence (CoRE) on complex systems. I am leading the Complexity & Connection Science Lab that brings together students and researchers to work on theories and methods to understand the structures and dynamics of complex systems, and to develop computational tools that securely and meaningfully augment human intelligence.
Experience
2019–present
Associate professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
2016–2018
Senior lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
2013–2016
Senior research fellow, University of Southampton
Education
2014
Free University of Berlin, PhD / Computer Science
2007
Free University of Berlin, MSc / Computer Science
Publications
2019
Reading Dickens through Data Science, The Dickensian
2018
What an entangled Web we weave: An information-centric approach to time-evolving socio-technical systems, Minds & Machines
2018
Deconstructing the data life-cycle in digital humanitarianism, Information, Communication & Society
2018
Not-so-distant reading: A dynamic network approach to literature, it-Information Technology
2018
An extended study of content and crowdsourcing-related performance factors in named entity annotation, Semantic Web
2017
An investigation of player motivations in Eyewire, a gamified citizen science project, Computers in Human Behavior
2017
The social in the platform trap: Why a microscopic system focus limits the prospect of social machines, Discover Society
2014
Collaborative ontology engineering: a survey, The Knowledge Engineering Review
2014
The role of ontology engineering in linked data publishing and management: An empirical study, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems
2007
Argumentation-based ontology engineering, IEEE Intelligent Systems
Grants and Contracts
2018
Citizen Scientists in the Classroom: Investigating the Role of Online Citizen Science in Primary School Science Education