Andrew Lensen
Programme Director, Artificial Intelligence at LensenMcGavin AI
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Lensen is a Programme Director and Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at Victoria University of Wellington with 12 years of experience bridging research, teaching, and applied AI. He specialises in explainable and interdisciplinary AI, applying rigorous methods to social and ethical questions across domains such as ecology and legal decision-making. A PhD-trained computer scientist with a strong academic record, he has led projects from genetic programming for environmental monitoring to curriculum and programme development. An experienced science communicator, he regularly contributes op-eds and expert commentary and is available for speaking engagements. Less obvious: he combines deep technical grounding with practical engineering experience dating back to plugin development for Atlassian tools, giving him a rare mix of research insight and real-world software delivery.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Victoria University of WellingtonHutt International Boys' School
English, French
Github Skills (61)
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forge10
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jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
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responsive9
conda9
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github-pages9
hearthstone9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AndLen/tom
Aug 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 years 8 months
LensenMcGavin-AI/LensenMcGavin-AI.github.io
Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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