Dr Kuda Dube

Contact details

• Ph: +64 6 951 7145 (DDI) or +64 21 237 6613 (M)
  Location: 3.74, AHA
  Campus: Turitea

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy - Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland (2004)

Research Interests

• Knowledge Engineering: modelling domain knowledge (representation, specification and complex querying) and knowledge incorporation into computational paradigms and algorithms. Advanced and innovative applications of emerging database and XML technologies in this area;
• Health, Nutrition & Bio-Informatics: innovative applications of knowledge engineering, process engineering, optimisation and AI techniques, and software engineering paradigms in the domains of health and nutrition. Modelling and computerising clinical practive guidelines. Data and software engineering methods for supporting e-heath records and health information security and privacy. Knowledge incorporation into optimisation algorithms and computational paradigms for solving nutrition problems, e.g., the meal planning problem.
• Computer Security and Information Privacy: Computing security, privacy and confidentiality challenges arising from securing e-health information in an increasingly Internet-enabled and networked world.

Research Opportunities

• Privacy Metaphors for Electronic Health Information  (01/06/2018) Formalisation of security and privacy metaphors and their realisation mechanisms for Electronic Health Information.
• The Realistic Synthetic Electronic Health Record  (01/04/2018) the development of an approach and mechanism to generate synthetic patients and synthetic health record that is realistic enough to be used for training in healthcare and software system testing.
• Statistical and Clinical Guideline-Based Synthetic Health Incident Timeline Modelling  (01/06/2018) Development of a model and algorithm for constructing a realistic synthetic health incident timeline from cradle to current age for the realistic synthetic electronic health record.
• Knowledge/Information Patterns in Food and Nutrition Guidelines  (01/03/2018) An investigation to identify/formalise knowledge & information patterns in food & nutrition guidelines to be used in food and nutrition decision support systems.
• Legal Knowledge Modelling and Reasoning  (01/08/2018) Modeling complex knowledge and reasoning paradigms (e.g. defeasible reasoning) in laws to assist people or organisations, e.g., making decision to grant access to health records.
• DeStress Project  (01/06/2018) Investigating an approach and knowledge and reasoning models for supporting Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for reducing stress in Maori and Pasifika Children using mobile devices.

Thematics

Health and Well-being, Future Food Systems

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing (080100): Bioinformatics Software (080301): Computer Software (080300): Computer System Security (080303): Conceptual Modelling (080603): Data Encryption (080402): Data Format (080400): Decision Support and Group Support Systems (080605): Expert Systems (080105): Information And Computing Sciences (080000): Information Systems (080600)

Languages

• Shona
  Last used: Current
  Spoken ability: Excellent
  Written ability: Excellent
• English
  Last used: Current
  Spoken ability: Excellent
  Written ability: Excellent

Courses Coordinated

• 158.225 Systems Analysis and Modelling
• 158.258 Web Development
• 158.335 The Internet of Things and Cloud Computing

Current Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

• Bill Wilson - Doctor of Philosophy
  Quality improvement in complex adaptive social systems: application and evaluation of contemporary techniques in quality management
• Saman Lawe - Doctor of Philosophy
  Traffic flow control and optimisation

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

• 2014 - Stephen Lean - Doctor of Philosophy
  A Computational Approach to Health Information Quality Indicators