Research

Research interest

• Machine/Deep learning
  • Robust, flexible and interpretable machine learning
  • Learning from heterogenous, noisy, and small data
  • Similarity/Kernel-based Learning
  • Light-weight and distributed machine learningAnomaly detection
  • Random and Ensemble-based methods
  • Anomaly Detection, Clustering, Information Retrieval
  • Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing
  • Time series data analysis
  • Machine Condition Monitoring
  • Reinforcement learning
• Application Domains
  • Defence
  • Healthcare
  • Engineering
  • Advanced Manufacturing
  • Cybersecurity and IoT
  • Education
  • Remote Sensing
  • Critical minerals and mining

Ongoing projects

• Efficient and robust anomaly detection and explanation
• Data mining methods robust to units/scales of data measurement
• Learning from multimodal/heterogenous data
• Effective intrusion detection system
• Biomedical signal processing
• Explainable and trusted AI
• Visual question answering
• Machine fault detection
• Missing data/modalities imputation
• Video quality enhancement
• Deep reinforcement learning

Research team

• Mr Brandon Smith - Research Assistant (Associate Supervisor, Deakin University, 2023-now)
• Mr Anil Pudasaini - PhD Student (Associate Supervisor, Deakin University, 2023-now)
• Mr Bao Le - PhD Student (Principal Supervisor, Deakin University, 2023-now)
• Mr Lakpa Tamang - PhD Student (Associate Supervisor, Deakin University, 2023-now)
• Mr Sridhatta Jayaram Aithal - PhD Student (Associate Supervisor, Deakin University, 2023-now)
• Dr Ashraf Uddin - Associate Research Fellow (Principal Supervisor, Deakin University, 2023-now)
• Ms Echo Zhou - PhD Student (Principal Supervisor, Deakin University, 2022-now)
• Mr Dhiraj Neupane - PhD Student (Principal Supervisor, Deakin University, 2022-now)
• Mr Jonathan R. Wells - Research Assistant (Principal Supervisor, Deakin University, 2020-now)
• Mr Scott Johnson - Research Assistant and Honours Student (Associate Supervisor, Deakin University, 2021-now)
• Mr Ngoc Dung Huynh - PhD Student (Associate Supervisor, Deakin University, 2022-now)
• Mr Ahmed Mohamed - PhD Student (Associate Supervisor, Deakin University, 2021-now)
• Mr Adrian Ly - PhD Student (Associate Supervisor, Deakin Univeristy, 2021-now [Part-time])
• Mr Arbind Agrahari Baniya - PhD student (Associate Supervisor, Deakin University, 2020-2023) [Thesis Under Examination]
• Mr Durgesh Samariya - PhD student (Co-Supervisor, Federation University, 2018-2023 intermission between 2020-2021 due to COVID restrictions) [Thesis Under Examination]

Graduated research students and previous team members

• Dr Mahdi Kazemi Moghaddam - Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Associate Supervisor, Deakin University, 2022-2023) -> Machine Learning Scientist at Socialtrait
• Dr Zafaryab Rasool - Associate Research Fellow (Deakin university, 2021-2022) -> Associate Research Fellow at A2I2 Deakin University (2022)
• Dr Chiranjibi Sitaula - PhD Student (Deakin University, 2019-2021) -> Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Monash University (2021)
• Mr Arbind Agrahari Baniya (Master 2019, Deakin University) -> PhD, Deakin University (2020)
• Mr Niraj Lama (Master 2019, Deakin University) -> Software Developer, I.E. Company (2020)