Annika Hinze

Annike Marie Hinze is a New Zealand computer scientist, and is a full professor at the University of Waikato, specialising in algorithms to detect complex patterns in data. , she is the head of the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences.

Academic career

Hinze studied technical mathematics, electrical engineering and computer sciences at Technische Universität Berlin, gaining a Master of Science degree. She then completed a PhD titled A-MEDIAS: Concept and Design of an Adaptive Integrating Event Notification Service at the Free University of Berlin, under the supervision of Heinz Schweppe. , she is head of Mathematical and Computer Sciences.

Hinze's research focuses on "location and event-based system and digital libraries". She is interested in algorithms to detect complex patterns in data, and in digital library systems. She works in cross-disciplinary teams, with partners in research and industry, and from areas including science, geography, education, and Māori and indigenous studies.

Selected works