October 15, 2025: Published a survey paper on Compositional Zero-Shot Learning, in collaboration with ITU and MBZUAI
June 25, 2025: Published a paper titled 'AdVision: An efficient and effective deep learning based advertisement detector for printed media', accepted to appear in Elsevier’s Machine Learning with Applications journal
June 17, 2025: Student Shima Rezasoltani successfully defended her doctoral thesis on 'Hyperspectral Image Compression using Implicit Neural Networks' and was nominated for best thesis award
June 16, 2025: Student Adam Lycksam successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 'From Concepts to Conditions: Bridging the Gap in AI-Based Maintenance Systems'
May 29, 2025: Received the Lifetime Achievement (Service) Award from the Canadian Information Processing and Pattern Recognition Society
May 21, 2025: Student Kiran Mantripragada successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 'Latent Dirichlet Variational Autoencoder: A Novel Approach for Hyperspectral Image Analysis and Pixel Unmixing Exploring Deep Learning Architectures' and was nominated for best thesis award
April 20, 2025: Published a paper titled 'TLAC: Two-stage LMM Augmented CLIP for Zero-Shot Classification', accepted to appear in Multimodel Learning and Applications Workshop, co-located with CVPR 2025
April 17, 2025: Honours thesis students Srivathsan Sivakumar, David Houle-Tymeczko, Aaveg Shangari, Daniel Zajac successfully completed their theses. David’s thesis received the Best CS Undergraduate Honours Thesis Award 2025, Data Science Track
January 2, 2025: Published two papers 'Hyperspectral Image Compression Using Implicit Neural Representation and Meta-Learned Based Network' and 'Single Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution utilizing Implicit Neural Representations', both accepted to appear in ICPRAM 2025
December 18, 2024: Student Muhammad Salik Nadeem successfully defended his thesis on skeleton-based human action recognition and was nominated for best thesis award
November 25, 2024: Published a paper titled 'Hyperspectral Image Compression Using Sampling and Implicit Neural Representations', accepted to appear in IEEE TGRS
October 24, 2024: Published a paper titled '20 years of the Bio-Analytic Resource for Plant Biology', published in Nucleic Acids Research, in collaboration with the Cell and Systems Biology department, University of Toronto
September 23, 2024: Published a paper titled 'Attention Based Simple Primitives for Open-World Compositional Zero-Shot Learning', accepted to appear in DICTA 2024, in collaboration with A. Munir, M. Ali from ITU, Lahore, and M.H. Khan from MBZUAI, UAE
Research Experience
Current Professor at Ontario Tech University in Computer Science, focusing on areas such as computer vision and deep learning
Background
Professor in Computer Science, Visual Computing Lab, Faculty of Science, Ontario Tech University (formerly UOIT)
Miscellany
Personal interests include family-related content (such as Aittios and Elena), and his father's books