- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Project: “UTraP: Universal Transferable Perturbations for Machine Vision Disruption”, 2020 – 2021, US$1,000,000
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Hub: “Transforming Energy Infrastructure Through Digital Engineering”, 2020 – 2024, $5,000,000 + $20,000,000 Industry funding
- NHMRC Equipment Grant: “Topcon OCT System with OCTA and Anterior Segment Options”, 2020, $50,000
- Fremantle Football Club Project: “Wearable Tech and Machine Learning: Disrupting Sports Analytics”, 2019 – 2021, $105,000
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project: “Defense against adversarial attacks on deep learning in computer vision”, 2019-2021, $426,000 ARC + $105,000 UWA
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Research Hub: “Driving farming productivity and disease prevention”, 2018 – 2023, $5,000,000 ARC + $3,828,000 Industry funding
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project: “View and shape invariant modeling of human actions for smart surveillance”, DP160
Research Experience
- Leader of the Machine Intelligence Group, The University of Western Australia
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, 2021
- Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
- ACM Distinguished Speaker
- Former President of the Australian Pattern Recognition Society
- Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks & Learning Systems
- Associate Editor for IEEE Trans on Image Processing and Pattern Recognition
- General Co-Chair of DICTA 2024, ACCV 2018, and DICTA 2019
- Courtesy Faculty member in the CRCV lab at the University of Central Florida, USA
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, The University of Western Australia, 2006
- MS in Information Security, 2003
- BE in Avionics, 1993
Background
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning. Currently leading the Machine Intelligence Group at The University of Western Australia.