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Tony Savarimuthu imageB.E (Hons)(BITS, Pilani, India), M.E (Software Systems)(BITS, Pilani, India), PhD (Otago, NZ)
Professor

Room 3.42, Otago Business School
Tel +64 3 479 5143
Email tony.savarimuthu@otago.ac.nz
Web https://bastintonyroy.github.io/

Background and interests

I studied Engineering at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India where I obtained B.E. (Hons) in Chemical Engineering and M.E in Software Systems. I worked as a Software Engineer and Lecturer in India before joining the former Information Science department at the University of Otago. I completed my PhD in the area of artificial intelligence and my thesis was placed in the Dean's exceptional thesis list.

My research interests are in the areas of Multi-Agent Systems (a branch of AI ), Software Engineering, Information Systems, and Computing Education. In many of my research work, I employ data science and analytics techniques. I am passionate about teaching and have taught in many of the areas of my research interests.

I am the current director of the Software Engineering programme at Otago. I am also the director of Business Analytics minor offered at the Otago Business School.

If you like to know more about my personal and academic journeys, watch my Inaugural Professorial lecture.

Professor Tony Savarimuthu's Inaugural Professorial lecture

More information about my research interests

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy  (Information Science)
    2003–2011, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Master of Engineering (Software Systems)
    2000–2002, BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan, India
  • Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Chemical
    1996–2000, BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan, India

Papers

Experience

  • Professor (Feb 2023–present)
    Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Associate Professor  (Feb 2017–Feb 2023)
    Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Senior Lecturer  (Feb 2013–Feb 2017)
    Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Lecturer  (Mar 2006–Jan 2013)
    Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Teaching Fellow (Feb 2004–Feb 2006)
    Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Teaching Assistant  (Dec 2003–Feb 2004)
    Department of Information Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Software Engineer (Jul 2002–Aug 2003)
    Coralgrid Software Ltd (now a part of Triple Point Technology, Inc.), Chennai, India
  • Assistant Lecturer (part time, Jul 2002–Aug 2003)
    Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Off Campus centre at Chennai, India
  • Teaching Assistant (Jul 2000–Jun 2002)
    Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

Research

  • Multi-agent Systems (particularly normative multi-agent systems)
  • Software engineering
  • Information systems
  • Computing Education

Tony is a part of the research group:

Autonomous Systems

Supervision

Please contact me if you are interested in working on a PhD.

While amounts may differ, the fee payment mechanism is essentially the same for international students as for domestic students. The University's International Office maintains information on the payment of fees for international students.

The University of Otago offers a number of scholarships.

Currently supervising

  • Marzieh Jahanbazi
  • Yaseen Hezam (joint primary supervisor)

Currently co-supervising

  • Amritha Menon Anavankot

Completed PhDs

  • Jithin Cheriyan (primary supervisor)
  • Saurabh Malgaonkar (co-supervisor)
  • Amir Hossein Afshar Sedigh (joint primary supervisor)
  • Pankajeshwara Sharma (primary supervisor)
  • Mostafa Alwash (primary supervisor)
  • Mohammad Mehdi Farhangian (co-supervisor)
  • Muhammad Yasir (co-supervisor)
  • Christopher Frantz (co-supervisor)
  • Amala Arul Sharmila Savarimuthu (co-supervisor)

Completed Masters and Honours students

  • Suravi Patnaik (co-supervisor)
  • Tarik Al-ani (joint primary supervisor)
  • Jack Kanimea (joint primary supervisor)
  • Natalie Grattan (primary supervisor)
  • Mihir Jha (primary supervisor)
  • Georgia Greenheld (primary supervisor)
  • Sarah Meldrum (co-supervisor)
  • Swetha Keertipati (primary supervisor)
  • Smitha Keertipati (primary supervisor)
  • Chan Won Lee (co-supervisor)
  • Tavita Sua (primary supervisor)
  • Jinhong Xie (joint primary supervisor)
  • Danica Milic (joint primary supervisor)
  • Alya Alaali (joint primary supervisor)
  • Anh Le Thu (joint primary supervisor)

Publications

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., & Corbett, J. (2024). Tackling energy poverty with artificial intelligence: Challenges and opportunities. Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). 8, 1718. Retrieved from https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2024/sig_green/sig_green/8/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Anavankot, A. M., Cranefield, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2024). NEMAS: Norm entrepreneurship in multi-agent systems. Systems, 12, 187. doi: 10.3390/systems12060187 Journal - Research Article

Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Corbett, J., Yasir, M., & Lakshmi, V. (2023). Improving information systems sustainability by applying machine learning to detect and reduce data waste. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 53, 189-213. doi: 10.17705/1CAIS.05308 Journal - Research Article

Freitas dos Santos, T., Cranefield, S., Savarimuthu, B. T. R., Osman, N., & Schorlemmer, M. (2023). Cross-community Adapter Learning (CAL) to understand the evolving meanings of norm violation. In E. Elkind (Ed.), Proceedings of the 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI ). (pp. 109-117). International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. doi: 10.24963/ijcai.2023/13 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

Anavankot, A., Cranefield, S., & Savarimuthu, B. T. R. (2023). Towards norm entrepreneurship in agent societies. In P. Mathieu, F. Dignum, P. Novais & F. De la Prieta (Eds.), Advances in practical applications of agents, multi-agent systems, and cognitive mimetics, 21st International Conference, PAAMS 2023: Lecture notes in artificial intelligence (Vol. 13955). (pp. 188-199). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-37616-0_16 Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

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