The IEEE New Zealand Central Section hosted the 2025 Annual General Meeting at the Wellesley Boutique Hotel at 6:00 pm on Thursday, 27 November 2025. 15 section committees attended the meeting. At the meeting, Bach reviewed the achievements of 2025, including holding the largest ever ...

Kia ora, The New Zealand Central Section will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the Wellesley Boutique Hotel at 6:00 pm on Thursday, 27 November 2025. Alongside the AGM, we’ll host a community talk, followed by a buffet dinner for NZCS members and their partners. The AGM is free to attend. The buffet dinner is $20 ...

The IEEE NZ Central Section Workshop, Next-Generation Programming with LLMs: A Hands-On Workshop, was successfully held on 30 October 2025 at Victoria University of Wellington. Over 50 participants attended the event, exploring how large language models (LLMs) are transforming the way we code and write. The workshop began with ...

On Wednesday 15 October, the Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (CDSAI) is hosting its first research showcase at Kelburn campus. Presented by CDSAI, the work includes a broad range of research projects and commercial work for clients across various application domains, as well as postgraduate ...

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society New Zealand Chapter is hosting the Workshop on Sensing, Measurement and Instrumentation on 10–11 November 2025 at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch. This workshop provides a forum for researchers, scientists, engineers, industry professionals, and students from across New Zealand to ...

The eighth Women in Data Science New Zealand conference was successfully held in Wellington on 18 August 2025 at Victoria University of Wellington – Kelburn Campus. More than 40 people from different domains attend the conference.   ...

The IEEE New Zealand Central Section is proud to have hosted the 2025 Postgraduate Student Symposium at Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka, with 58 attendees, more than 40 PhDs, and 35 presentations. Congratulations to Bisma Ayaz for winning the Best Presentation Award, and ...

Engineering New Zealand (ENZ) recently admitted Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), Professor Mengjie Zhang, as a Fellow at their recent Fellow’s Dinner. This distinction recognises Prof. Zhang’s decades-long experience as a leading Computer Science scholar, Fellow of IEEE and the Royal Society of New Zealand, ...

The New Zealand Central Section (NZCS) has won the 2022 Outstanding Small Section Award for Region 10 (Asia Pacific). The NZCS will soon receive a plaque and a monetary prize. We would like to thank our membership for actively participating in our range of events, and ...

Please join us in congratulating Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) Professor and Section Committee member, Bing Xue. She recently received the 2023 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Early Career Award “for contributions to the development and application of evolutionary machine learning”. This is a very ...

Former Victoria University of Wellington PhD student, Dr. Fangfang Zhang, recently received an honourable mention by the 2022 ACM Special Interest Group in Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO) for the Best PhD Dissertation Award. The award is given to only one winner and one or two honourable ...

Victoria University of Wellington PhD student Shaolin Wang, alongside co-authors Dr. Yi Mei, and Prof. Mengjie Zhang, recently won the Best Paper Award (Combinatorial Optimization Track) at the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (EC) Conference (GECCO) 2022, a top conference in EC. Please join us ...

Victoria University of Wellington Professor, Bastiaan Kleijn, was recently awarded a 2021 Fellowship by the Academy of the Royal Society of New Zealand for the advances he has made, and continues to make, in his field. Please join us in congratulating Prof. Kleijn on his ...

Zhixing Huang, a Victoria University of Wellington PhD student, alongside his co-authors Fangfang Zhang, Yi Mei, and Mengjie Zhang, has recently been awarded the European Conference on Genetic Programming Best Paper Award at the EvoStar 2022 conference. Please join us in congratulating Zhixing and his ...

IEEE recently awarded the New Zealand Central Section the 2021 IEEE Region 10 Best Membership Retention Award. This award reflects efforts by committee leadership to engage existing members, particularly by Membership Coordinator, Qi Chen. Please see our Awards page to see the success of other IEEE ...