Brendon Woodford

Brendon Woodford is a University of Otago computing researcher and teacher whose interests include machine learning, knowledge engineering, health informatics and information-systems development. His doctoral work, completed in 2008, examined intelligent decision-support systems for New Zealand horticulture. His research has included neural networks, fuzzy systems, image recognition and data visualisation, followed by applications in health data analytics.

Michael Joy's 2003 doctoral research at Massey University used GIS and neural-network predictive modelling for river biological assessment, while Brendon Woodford's SIRC work in 2005 and 2008 examined machine learning and rule extraction from spatial data.