Michael Witbrock
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolMichael Witbrock is a seasoned AI researcher and technology leader whose career spans academia, industry R&D, and AI entrepreneurship. As a Professor at The University of Auckland and Chair of New Zealand’s AI Expert Advisory Panel, he helps shape responsible AI strategy at scale for public service. He directs the NAOInstitute for Natural, Artificial and Organisational Intelligence and its Strong AI Lab (SAIL), uniting learning, reasoning and human-computer interaction. His track record includes leadership roles at IBM Research AI and Cycorp, founding Curious Cat Company and NZ.COM, and steering AI research and applied systems across ventures and startups. He currently serves as an advisor to NovuMind on AI hardware acceleration and has a prolific publication record across neural networks, computational linguistics and automated reasoning, with six US patents. Based in Auckland, he is open to research collaboration, AI strategy consulting and startup mentoring, but not employment offers.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. (Hons) Psychology, B.Sc. (Hons) Psychology at University of OtagoPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Chinese
Stackoverflow
502reputation
47kreached
3answers
7questions
Github Skills (9)
ranking9
science9
react8
computer-science8
gcc6
json6
big-data6
text-files6
java6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
witbrock/ollamination
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
witbrock/JacksonStream
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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