Kia Ora, Namaste, Welcome,

I am Lecturer in Information & Communications Technology at Universal College of Learning (UCOL) in Palmerston North, where I teach undergraduate Mobile Application Development and postgraduate Advanced Mobile Application Solutions. My teaching spans mobile application development, cybersecurity, and data analytics. Before joining UCOL in July 2026, I was Associate Professor in Computing at the University of Fiji, where I taught computing courses, led curriculum renewal, and supervised postgraduate research.

I completed my PhD in Information Science at the University of Otago in 2021. My research examined decision-making in open-source software communities, including how Python developers discuss proposals, evaluate contributions, and reach decisions. This work led to publications at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) and the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), among other venues. I later examined influence mechanisms in the Bitcoin community.

As a postdoctoral researcher in Geographic Information Science at the University of Auckland, I contributed to research on Indigenous data sovereignty and Māori biodiversity data management in Aotearoa New Zealand. This work, part of the Ngā Rākau Taketake project on Myrtle Rust and Kauri Dieback Research, led to two browser-based tools for protecting sensitive geospatial data. MapSafe supports users to anonymise, encrypt, and notarise data in their browser before sharing it. A second tool, described in this paper, helps Māori groups govern, protect, and share sensitive data about their territories, resources, and cultural practices.

More recently, I developed the open-source MapSafe QGIS Plugin, bringing geoprivacy functions into desktop GIS. The work was published in the Journal of Location Based Services in 2025. My current research interests include geospatial privacy, predictive geomasking, mobile applications, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.