At the Institute of Artificial Intelligence we have a big focus on connecting experts, closing the research-industry gap and promoting knowledge-sharing and collaboration to leverage AI across disciplines for the benefit of our communities.
BECA
A partner on the Time-Evolving Data Science / Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Open Environmental Science (TAIAO) research project.
BNP Paribas
A collaboration to build a flexible and scalable architecture that speeds up the deployment of online learning models for big data streams and facilitates the operationalization of real-time use cases in the banking sector.
MetService
A partner on the Time-Evolving Data Science / Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Open Environmental Science (TAIAO) research project.
Microsoft
A collaborator on the Time-Evolving Data Science / Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Open Environmental Science (TAIAO) research project, providing several “Microsoft AI for Earth Azure Compute” grants, giving sponsored Microsoft Azure accounts that are used to test new methodologies for Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
NVIDIA
A collaboration in designing new approaches to use GPUs with XGBoost, to compute GPU-based SHAP values for XGBoost, and to develop a new adaptive streaming XGBoost.
Orange
Research collaboration on Machine Learning and time series and data streams developing new dynamic ensembles methodologies for temporal data streams forecasting.
NZ Police
University of Waikato is a primary research partner of NZ Police. We are also collaborating with the New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, to develop and apply new AI methodologies.
Parkable
We are working with parking management company Parkable and WaikatoLink to revolutionise the car parking experience, improving the experience of finding a car park, with the help of machine learning algorithms which monitor the car parks in a smarter way, identifying available parks from video images.
Smart Access
Smart Access provides comprehensive accessibility audits of infrastructure for local and central governments. We are researching machine learning algorithms to automatically complete accessibility audits in the future.
Telefonica
A research collaboration on the open source project SAMOA (Scalable Advanced Massive Online Analysis), an open-source platform for mining big data streams.
Waikato District Health Board
Research collaboration looking at real time surgical instrument recognition/tracking for the Sterile Services Unit (SSU).
Waikato Regional Council
A collaborator on the Time-Evolving Data Science / Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Open Environmental Science (TAIAO) research project.