Bernhard Pfahringer


I'm a professor with the Computer Science Department at the University of Waikato,
and also a co-director for our new AI Institute: here is my full CV.
Please NOTE, I have too many research students. Only contact me for potential PhD supervision if you already have secured a scholarship.

New(ish)

Feb 2024:
Chen has successfully defended his PhD. Congratulations!

Jan 2024:
Hingyu has submitted his PhD thesis. Well done!

Nov 2023:
Nuwan has successfully defended his PhD. Congratulations!


Research
I am an experimental Machine Learning researcher.
I enjoy building ML systems, and to measure and
evaluate them on both artificial and real world data.
The goal is to gain a better understanding of
and insights into their inner workings.
This in turn supports improvements for existing algorithms,
as well as the development of genuinely novel algorithms.
For more details see my publications, software, students below.


Publications

The Moa book (“Machine Learning for Data Streams with Practical Examples in MOA”).


Open source software

Teaching 2024
Teaching 2023
Teaching 2022

Research students 2024
Name Degree Topic
Max Mi Li PhD GPU algorithms for geometry-aware big data clustering
Hongyu Wang PhD User-friendly deep learning
Yibin Sun PhD Regression for Data Streams
Matthew Skiffington PhD Normalising Flows for Environmental Applications
Muhammad Zain Ali PhD Fake news and misinformation detection in short Urdu messages
Zijing Zhang PhD NLP for cybersecurity thread notes
Nilesh Verma PhD Online AutoML
Justin Liu PhD Online anomaly detection
Lea Casse PhD Quantum Machine Learning
Zane Neave MSc in AI Trustworthy AI for Semantic Image Retrieval

Pronounciaton guide
Pfahringer is reasonably close to Wharinga in Te Reo Maori, or to Fariga in Samoan.

bernhard@waikato.ac.nz

Last updated: 7 Mar 2024