Dr Kuda Dube PhD

Contact details

• Ph: Mobile: +64 21 237 6613 or Office: +64 6 951 7145
  Location: 3.74, AHA
  Campus: Turitea

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy - Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland (2004)
• Bachelor of Science Honours (Computer Science) - University of Zimbabwe (1996)
• Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Computer Science) - University of Zimbabwe (1991)

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
Bioinformatics Software (080301): Computer Software (080300): Computer System Security (080303): Data Format (080400): Data Structures (080403): Decision Support and Group Support Systems (080605): Distributed Computing (080500): Information And Computing Sciences (080000): Information Systems (080600): Markup Languages (080404): Mobile Technologies (080502): Web Technologies (excl. Web Search) (080505)

Languages

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

Courses Coordinated

• 158.258 Web Development
• 158.335 The Internet of Things and Cloud Computing
• 158.345 Social and Professional Issues in Information Technology
• 159.702 Knowledge Engineering

Current Doctoral Supervision

Supervisor of:

• Arun Babu - PhD
  IOT and Cloud Computing Aided Embedded Sensing Platform to Track an Inhabitant in A Smart Home

Completed Doctoral Supervision

CoSupervisor of:

• 2014 - Stephen Richard Lean - PhD
  A Computational Approach to Health Information Quality Indicators