Interests

• artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern recognition
• AI ethics, responsible AI
• high performance numerical computing
• commercialisation of research outcomes

Professional Activities

• 100+ publications with 9000+ citations as of 2021   [see list of papers]


• Architect and lead developer of the Armadillo library for linear algebra & scientific computing
  • 600,000+ downloads as of 2021
  • bridges the gap between research and development
  • used by Facebook, NASA, Boeing, Siemens, Deutsche Bank, MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc.


• Co-developer of the ensmallen library for non-linear numerical optimisation


• Co-developer of the PyArmadillo linear algebra library for Python


• Service for various scientific and engineering communities:
  • Program Chair for IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV): 2017
  • Workshops Chair for IEEE Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS): 2016
  • Area Chair for IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV): 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018
  • Reviewer for IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2014, 2015, 2016
  • Reviewer for International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2016
  • Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2015
  • Reviewer for Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2014, 2016, 2018
  • Reviewer for IEEE Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures, 2015
  • Reviewer for European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2014, 2016, 2018

Education

• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• University of Queensland Business School,
  ranked #1 in Asia Pacific region and #10 world-wide according to The Economist (2016)
  
• Admitted to Dean's Honour Roll for outstanding academic excellence
  (achieved GPA of 6 on a 7 point scale)

• Doctorate (PhD)
  • School of Engineering, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
  • Research areas: biometrics, signal processing, pattern recognition, machine learning, computer science
  • Obtained "most cited paper" award for article based on thesis chapter

• Bachelor of Engineering (Microelectronics)
  • First Class Honours
  • School of Engineering, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Colleagues & Students

I have been fortunate to work with these talented people:

• Ryan Curtin, Marcus Edel, Jason Rumengan, Mehrtash Harandi, Arnold Wiliem, Chris McCool, Brian Lovell, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Majid Namazi, Hakim Newton, Abdul Sattar, ZongYuan Ge, Johanna Carvajal, Azadeh Alavi, Sandra Mau, Andres Sanin, Vikas Reddy, Yong Kang Wong, Abbas Bigdeli, Suyu Kong, Fabien Cardinaux, Ronan Collobert, Johnny Mariéthoz, Sébastien Marcel, Kuldip Paliwal, Samy Bengio

Papers (Journals & Conferences)

• see full list here