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Michael Witbrock

New Zealand artificial intelligence researcher
Person Human Q6835415

Facts

16 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[11]
Date of birth
1962
Place of birth
Christchurch
Country of citizenship
New Zealand[5]
Occupation
artificial intelligence researcher, university teacher
Employer
University of Auckland, IBM Research, Cycorp[7][8]
Position held
full professor[6]
Educated at
Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Otago[9]
Doctoral advisor
Scott E. Fahlman[10]
Doctoral student
Gaël Gendron, Yonghua Zhu, Neset Ozkan Tan, Aaron Keesing, Qiming Bao, Stefan Martin Fuchs, Kieran Collienne[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Family name
Witbrock[20]
Given name
Michael, John[21][22]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics[24]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
NZThesisProject[23]
Residence
Austin[19]
🏷️ Also known as
en Michael John Witbrock en Michael J. Witbrock en Michael Witbrock ja マイケル・ウィットブロック
🔖 Identifiers · 16
ISNI
0000000045599513
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7554-0971
VIAF cluster ID
16864761
Library of Congress Authorities ID
no99081621
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Michael Witbrock 2024 (cropped).jpg ↗
ACM Digital Library author ID
81100208880
DBLP author ID
w/MichaelJWitbrock
Dimensions author ID
012540464401.94
Freebase ID
/m/02gztj
Google Scholar author ID
ruQ7SNYAAAAJ
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
50254
Scopus author ID
6602830183
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Springer Nature person ID
012540464401.94
Web of Science ResearcherID
A-5716-2018
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJdx9F4d8mJgQtVKPB3hHC
ZbMATH author ID
witbrock.michael-j

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Author of 16
AbductionRules: Training Transformers to Explain Unexpected Inputs, Acoustic Features and Neural Representations for Categorical Emotion Recognition from Speech, Answering Science Exam Questions Using Query Reformulation with Background Knowledge, A Proposal for a Language Model Based Cognitive Architecture, Curious cat conversational crowd based and context aware knowledge acquisition chat bot, Curious Cat--Mobile, Context-Aware Conversational Crowdsourcing Knowledge Acquisition, Data and model bias in artificial intelligence for healthcare applications in New Zealand, Dilated Recurrent Neural Networks +8 more
← Authored by 16
AbductionRules: Training Transformers to Explain Unexpected Inputs, Acoustic Features and Neural Representations for Categorical Emotion Recognition from Speech, Answering Science Exam Questions Using Query Reformulation with Background Knowledge, A Proposal for a Language Model Based Cognitive Architecture, Curious cat conversational crowd based and context aware knowledge acquisition chat bot, Curious Cat--Mobile, Context-Aware Conversational Crowdsourcing Knowledge Acquisition, Data and model bias in artificial intelligence for healthcare applications in New Zealand, Dilated Recurrent Neural Networks +8 more
Affiliated with 4
IBM, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Auckland, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
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Summary

Michael Witbrock was born on January 1, 1962[1], in Christchurch[2]. He has worked as an artificial intelligence researcher[3] and university teacher[4].

FAQs

Where was Michael Witbrock born?

Michael Witbrock was born in Christchurch[2].

What did Michael Witbrock do for work?

Michael Witbrock worked as an artificial intelligence researcher[3] and university teacher[4].

Where did Michael Witbrock go to school?

Michael Witbrock was educated at Carnegie Mellon University[9].

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . auckland.ac.nz. auckland.ac.nz. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [7] ↑ . ORCID Public Data File 2020. Retrieved . pub.orcid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . hdl.handle.net. hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 23d ago · DrThneed · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Doctoral student → Gaël Gendron, Yonghua Zhu, Neset Ozkan Tan +1
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #60586: matched doctoral"
  2. 23d ago · DrThneed · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Freebase ID → /m/02gztj
    Given name → Michael, John
    Residence → Austin
    Wikidata description → New Zealand artificial intelligence researcher
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #60556: thesis committee UOA"
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