Complexity is at our heart
Te Pūnaha Matatini is Aotearoa New Zealand's Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems.
How machine learning can perpetuate racism
Emma Vitz wrote an algorithm to classify people by gender, but one of the biggest things she learned was how machine learning can reinforce racism and perform poorly on ethnic minorities.
Sally Davenport MNZM
Professor Sally Davenport, a Principal Investigator with Te Pūnaha Matatini, was recently appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to science.
Te Pūnaha Matatini scholar in the news
Te Pūnaha Matatini Whānau PhD student Caleb Gemmell from the University of Auckland was recently interviewed by the NZ Herald about his ground-breaking research using social network analysis to examine ancient artefact movement in pre-European New Zealand.
Foundations of complex systems
Studying complex systems gives us a more nuanced way of understanding the world.
