Yun Sing Koh (born 1978) is a New Zealand computer science academic, and is a full professor at the

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, specialising in

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and

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. She is a co-director of the Centre of Machine Learning for Social Good, and the Advanced Machine Learning and Data Analytics Research (MARS) Lab at Auckland.

Academic career

Koh earned a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a Master of Software Engineering at the

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. She then completed a

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titled ''Generating sporadic association rules'' at the

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in 2007. Koh joined the faculty of the University of Auckland in 2010, rising to full professor. As of 2024, she is director of the Centre of Machine Learning for Social Good at Auckland, alongside

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and Daniel Wilson, and is director of the Master of AI course at the university. Koh also co-directs the Advanced Machine Learning and Data Analytics Research (MARS) Lab. Koh's research covers machine learning and artificial intelligence. She is especially interested in designing machine learning algorithms for data streams, and has led research using AI systems to identify individual stoats for pest population research. In 2018 she was awarded a

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for a research project "An Adaptive Predictive System for Life-long Learning on Data Streams", and has been part of three MBIE projects. Koh was a finalist in the AI in Climate section of the Women in AI Australia and New Zealand Awards in 2022. She was a 2023 Fellow at the United States

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-funded Convergence Research (CORE) Institute. Koh has chaired a number of sessions at international conferences on data mining.

Selected works

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References

External links

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Continual Learning for Adaptive Predictive Systems - Yun Sing Koh
', presentation at the 2022 Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association Conference, via YouTube *
Leading in the age of AI by leaving a legacy
', Thousand Voices podcast episode interviewing Yun Sing Koh, 14 March 2022. {{DEFAULTSORT:Koh, Yun Sing New Zealand academics New Zealand women academics Academic staff of the University of Auckland University of Otago alumni University of Malaya alumni New Zealand computer scientists Machine learning researchers Artificial intelligence researchers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people