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 (2025 ARC Industry Laureate Fellow), Prof. Jun Zhou, and Prof. Piotr Koniusz (UNSW & Data61/CSIRO)
- One paper has been accepted for publication in Pattern Recognition
- Received the 2025 IEEE Access Exceptional Reviewer Award, signed by Managing Editor Dr. Jenny Mahoney and Editor-in-Chief Prof. Mehrdad Saif
- I am serving as a Guest Editor for MDPI Electronics special issue on ‘Fine-Grained Visual Understanding with Vision Language Models’
- Two papers have been accepted to ICML 2026: one Spotlight paper and one Regular paper
- I am serving as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026
- I am serving as an Area Chair for ACM Multimedia 2026
- Recipient of ICLR 2026 Financial Assistance Award (travel grant)
- Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Best Paper Runner-Up at WWW 2026 Workshops
- Received the 2025 TPAMI Peer Reviewer Certificate, signed by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Kyoung Mu Lee
- One paper has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access 2026 (Master’s student first author)
- One paper has been accepted at ICLR 2026
- I served as a session chair for the AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Talk session and the ML: Graph-Based Machine Learning 4 session at AAAI 2026, held at the Singapore EXPO
- Seven papers (six orals and one poster) have been accepted to the WWW Companion 2026
- National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS 2026): I am a Lead Chief Investigator (Lead CI) on 'LiteMotion: Learning Efficient and Scalable Video Motion Representations'
- One paper has been accepted for the AAAI-26 Journal Track
- One workshop proposal entitled "TIME 2026: 2nd International Workshop on Transformative Insights in Multi-faceted Evaluation" has been accepted at WWW 2026 as a full-day workshop
- One paper has been accepted at AAAI 2026
- Invited talk: "Beyond Pixels: Toward Understanding" at the End-of-Project Showcase, ARC Research Hub for Driving Farming Productivity and Disease Prevention
- One paper has been accepted for publication in International Journal of Information Technology (Master’s student first author)
- Two papers have been accepted at NeurIPS 2025
- I lead the TIME³ vision at ARC Hub&Griffith, transforming the original TIME Lab into a pioneering initiative for Green, responsible, and cross-disciplinary AI
- 52.4% of my publications are among the top 10% most cited, ranking 19th in the Griffith Sciences Group; my Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) of 6.04 (2020–2025) ranks 5th across the Group (source: SciVal, Scopus data, Griffith Sciences Research Report, Aug 2025)
- One paper has been accepted for an oral presentation at ACM-MM 2025 (Brave New Ideas Track)
- One paper has been accepted at BMVC 2025
- One paper has been accepted to the ICCV 2025 Workshop on "Vision Foundation Models and Generative AI for Accessibility: Challenges and Opportunities"
- One paper has been accepted at ACM-MM 2025
- Primarily supervised 1 Honours and 2 Master’s students (TIME@ARC Hub&Griffith), resulting in 2 HD theses; co-supervised 3 ANU Master’s students, with 2 receiving D grades
- One paper has been accepted for publication in IJCV
- I am serving as a Guest Editor for MDPI Electronics special issue on ‘Trustworthy AI for Video, Web, and Social Applications’
- Recipient of the Best Paper Award at TheWebConf 2025 Workshop
- 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 (01/08/2023-01/03/2024)
- 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]
I would like to express my deepest appreciation to Assoc. Prof. Du Huynh (UWA), Mr. Graeme Woods (now at FinClear), Dr. Moussa Reda Mansour (now at Alcoa), Prof. Piotr Koniusz (UNSW & Data61/CSIRO), Assoc. Prof. Liang Zheng (ANU), Prof. Tom Gedeon (Curtin University), Prof. Yongsheng Gao (2025 ARC Industry Laureate Fellow, Griffith University), and Prof. Jun Zhou (Griffith University). Last updated: 23/03/2026.