The Machine Intelligence Lab is one to the largest and most diverse in the School of IT, with members at both, Melbourne Burwood and Waurn Ponds Campuses. Our interests span from machine learning, pattern recognition, combinatorics and operations research to the more applied areas of computer vision, natural language processing, multimedia, and robotics.

Professors and Associate Professors

Prof. Antonio Robles-Kelly Professor of AI and Machine Learning Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus Interests: Machine learning, AI, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Imaging Spectroscopy

A/Prof. Richard Dazeley Associate Professor in Computer Science Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Explainable AI, Deep Learning, Knowledge Based Systems, Prudence Analysis

Senior Lecturers

Dr Wei Luo Senior Lecturer in Data Science Melbourne Burwood Campus Interests: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science

Dr Musa Mammadov Senior Lecturer in Data Science Melbourne Burwood Campus Interests: Optimisation, Optimal Control, Data Mining

Dr Asef Nazari Senior Lecturer in Data Science Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus Interests: Optimisation, Operations Research, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Dr Bahadorreza Ofoghi Senior Lecturer in Information Technology Melbourne Burwood Campus Interests: Natural language processing, machine learning, information retrieval

Dr Imran Razzak Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus Interests: Deep Learning, Image Analysis, Natural Language Processing and Health Informatics

Dr David Tay Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus Interests: Signal and Information Processing over Networks, Machine Learning, Wavelets and Filter banks

Dr Dhananjay Thiruvady Senior Lecturer on IT, Industry Projects and Capstone Academic Director Melbourne Burwood Campus Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Optimisation, Operations Research, Scheduling, Matheuristics

Dr Nayyar Zaidi Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Melbourne Burwood Campus Interests: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Science Applications

Lecturers

Dr Daniel Ma Lecturer in Information Technology Melbourne Burwood Campus Interests: Adversarial machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, medical AI

Dr Somaiyeh MahmoudZadeh Lecturer in Data Science Melbourne Burwood Campus Interests: Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Mission Planning, Situational Awareness

Dr Duc Thanh Nguyen Lecturer in Computer Science Melbourne Burwood Campus Interests: Computer vision, pattern recognition‬, image processing‬

Dr Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek Lecturer in Applied Artificial Intelligence Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus Interests: Information Retrieval, NLP, Social Network Analysis, Recommender Systems

Research Fellows

Dr Francisco Cruz Research Fellow, Reinforcement Learning Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus Interests: Human-robot interaction, developmental robotics, neural networks, reinforcement learning, explainable artificial intelligence

Dr Tariq Khan Research Fellow, Machine Learning Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus Interests: Machine Learning, pattern recognition, computer vision

Higher Degree by Research Students

Mr Rasoul Amirzadeh PhD Candidate Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus Topic: Efficient training of spiking neural networks

Ms Tanya Boone-Sifuentes PhD Candidate Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus Topic: Efficient training of Deep Neural Networks using second order optimisation techniques

Ms Salma Gonzalez-Sabbagh PhD Candidate Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus Topic: AI-enhanced Instrumentation

Mr Akib Mashrur PhD Candidate Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus Topic: Efficient training of Deep Neural Networks using second order optimisation techniques

Mr Mahmudur Rahman PhD Candidate Melbourne Burwood Campus Topic: Stock market prediction