Experience

In academia, I focus on hypothesizing, conducting research, publishing papers, and teaching to advance the field of knowledge.

In industry, I concentrate on developing new products and technologies, applying science to solve marketplace problems, and collaborating with team members to create innovative solutions that will benefit the company financially.

I am also working to bridge the gap between academic research and industry research needs.

Academic Research

• 17/02/2025-present: Research Fellow (Grade 2)
  • ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub (School of Engineering and Built Environment—Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Griffith University)
  • Postdoc advisor: Prof. Yongsheng Gao (Griffith University) and Prof. Piotr Koniusz (Data61/CSIRO & ANU & UNSW)
  • I am serving as an Area Chair for ACM Multimedia 2025
• 05/03/2025-present: Visiting Scientist
  • Machine Learning Research Group (MLRG), Data61/CSIRO (Black Mountain ACT)
• 20/02/2023-19/02/2025: Research Fellow (Level B)
  • School of Computing, ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics
  • Postdoc advisor: Assoc. Prof. Liang Zheng (ANU) and Prof. Tom Gedeon (Curtin University)
  • Three papers (two orals and one poster) have been accepted to the WWW Companion 2025
  • One paper has been accepted at ICLR 2025
  • National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS 2025): I am a Chief Investigator (CI) / Delegated lead CI on 'MotionNetLite: Video Dynamics Distillation for Scalable Models'
  • ANU Merit Allocation Scheme (ANUMAS 2025): I am a Lead Chief Investigator (Lead CI) on 'Efficient Video Models through Compression and Data Optimization'
  • One paper has been accepted at ICASSP 2025
  • My Student Experience of Learning and Teaching (SELT) teacher survey results for ANU TechLauncher, Second Semester 2024: $4.11\pm0.80$ (on a 5-point scale, 413 enrollments)
  • Primarily supervised 3 Honours and 3 Master’s students in their final-year research projects, resulting in 3 HD and 3 D theses
  • One workshop proposal entitled "TIME 2025: 1st International Workshop on Transformative Insights in Multi-faceted Evaluation" has been accepted at TheWebConf 2025 as a half-day workshop
  • I am an Outstanding Area Chair for ACM Multimedia 2024
  • I am serving as an Area Chair for ICASSP 2025
  • One paper has been accepted at NeurIPS D&B Track (25.3% acceptance rate)
  • As the ANU TechLauncher community, we are proud to be a finalist in the inaugural Australian AI Awards 2024
  • One paper has been accepted at ACML 2024 as a long presentation (26% overall acceptance rate, 5.67% for long presentations)
  • I lead a dynamic research team of ANU master's and honours students at the Temporal Intelligence and Motion Extraction (TIME) Lab
  • One paper has been accepted at ACM-MM 2024
  • One paper has been accepted at ECCV 2024
  • As the ANU TechLauncher community, we are an ACT Merit recipient in the Student & Education category for the iAwards 2024
  • As the ANU TechLauncher community, we are a finalist in the Business & Industry category for the iAwards 2024
  • My Student Experience of Learning and Teaching (SELT) teacher survey results for ANU TechLauncher, First Semester 2024: $4.60\pm0.80$ (on a 5-point scale, 313 enrollments)
  • One paper has been accepted at ICML 2024
  • I am serving as a Guest Editor for the MDPI open-access journal Electronics special issue on ‘Motion-centric Video Processing’
  • National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS 2024): I am a Chief Investigator (CI) / Delegated lead CI on 'MotionNetLite: Video Dynamics Distillation for Scalable Models'
  • The NCI National AI Flagship Merit Allocation Scheme: I am a Lead Chief Investigator (Lead CI) on 'Robust anomaly detection in human-centric videos'
  • I am serving as an Area Chair for ACM Multimedia 2024
  • Grant: I am a Co-Investigator (Co-I) on 'Review of Xailient’s technical pipeline of facial recognition'
  • I am serving as an Area Chair for ICPR 2024
  • NCI Adaptater Scheme Q4 2023 (HPC funding scheme): I am a Chief Investigator (CI) on 'Towards building general-purpose multimodal foundation models'
  • Grant / Project Award from Oracle (AU$48,000) for Research on 'Automatic, large-scale screening of failure cases in autonomous driving'
  • Invited talk on 'Action Recognition: Past, Present and Future' hosted by Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
  • Grant: I am a Co-Investigator (Co-I) on 'Sharing early insights for more resilient communities'
• 30/06/2023-30/06/2024: Visiting Scientist
  • Machine Learning Research Group (MLRG), Data61/CSIRO (Black Mountain ACT)
• 22/07/2019-12/12/2023: Postgraduate Research Student (PhD student, full-time)
  • [1] School of Computing, ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics & [2] Machine Learning Research Group (MLRG), Data61/CSIRO (Acton & Black Mountain ACT)
  • Supervisory panel:
    • Chair of panel: Prof. Stephen Gould (ANU)
    • Primary supervisor: Dr. Piotr Koniusz (Data61/CSIRO & ANU)
    • Associate supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Liang Zheng (ANU)
  • One paper has been accepted for the IJCV special issue
  • 2 papers (one oral) have been accepted for ICASSP 2024
  • Granted the research award of Doctor of Philosophy (01/11/2023)
  • Received the Sang Uk Lee Best Student Paper Award from ACCV’22
  • One paper each published at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACM-MM, TPAMI & TIP
• 10/10/2018-09/10/2019: Visiting Researcher
  • Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE), The University of Western Australia (UWA)
  • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Du Huynh (UWA)
• 21/09/2018-19/07/2019: Visiting Researcher
  • MLRG, Data61/CSIRO (Floreat WA)
  • Supervisor: Dr. Piotr Koniusz (Data61/CSIRO & ANU)

Industry Research

• 05/07/2021-01/03/2024: Computer Scientist (contract)
  • Active Intelligence Australia Pty Ltd, Perth, Western Australia (WA)
  • Country manager: Mr. Francis Williams
  • Francis and I established the Active Intelligence Research Challenge Award (01/08/2023-present)
  • Granted the Incentive Unit Award (09/09/2022-08/09/2032)
  • Raised 1.2 million US dollars (~1.79 million Australian dollars)
  • Filed a patent [US provisional patent, SN 63/326,525]
• 28/09/2020-28/01/2021: Machine Learning Researcher (contract)
  • Ebenezer Technologies, Barranquilla, Colombia
  • Researched & delivered an anomaly detection system (Alice Guardian smart video surveillance)
• 22/07/2019-28/09/2020: Machine Learning / Computer Vision Researcher (Casual Appointment, 20%)
  • iCetana Pty Ltd, Perth, WA
  • Manager: Mr. Graeme Woods (iCetana’s former Head of Product)
  • Filed a provisional patent [AU Patent AU 2,019,903,775]
• 02/07/2018-19/07/2019: Computer Vision Research Intern (full-time)
  • iCetana Pty Ltd, Perth, WA
  • Supervisor: Dr. Moussa Reda Mansour (iCetana’s former Research & Development Lead)
  • Manager: Mr. Graeme Woods (iCetana’s former Head of Product)
  • Filed a provisional patent [AU Patent AU 2,019,900,316]