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 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 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.

[3] Hinze co-led, with Judy Bowen and Rangi Mātāmua, a research project to develop a hi-tech vest for forestry workers, aimed at detecting signs of fatigue and thus reducing injury.