Andrew ChenAndrew Chen

Andrew Chen is a born-and- bred Aucklander with Taiwanese heritage. He has interests in evidence-informed policy, science and technology communication, civics education and immigration. With the rest of his time, he is a PhD candidate in Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Auckland, investigating embedded vision with surveillance and robotics applications.

Covid-19: The tough questions on a digital contact-tracing app

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It’s a crucial factor in keeping the spread of the virus under control, but there’s a whole lot more the government needs to consider than what is technically possible, writes Andrew Chen. Now we’ve exited level four, how do we keep the Covid-19 cases down? A critical part of the puzzle is contact tracing. In … Read more

Please don’t say ‘real Kiwi’: How to talk about immigration without being a dick

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As the immigration debate takes centre-stage in election year, politicians, the media and everyone else need to take serious stock of the language being used, writes Andrew Chen in this edited extract from his book Fair Borders? Migration Policy in the Twenty-First Century. The number of people arriving in New Zealand has become a constant … Read more