Awards and recognition
Awards, editorial roles, conference and programme roles, reviewing, invited talks and community service. The home page shows a selection.
Editorial roles
- Associate EditorSN Computer Science (Springer Nature)Current
- Lead guest editorSN Computer Science collection, AI for Agriculture, open for submissions until 31 May 20272026
- Guest editorFrontiers in Remote Sensing Research Topic, Building Resilient Cities with Remote Sensing and AI; editorial published 20262025
Awards
- Silver ReviewerICML 2026, recognised on the basis of area chair ratings of review quality2026
- Best Student Paper AwardAPRS/IEEE award, for weakly supervised pixel-wise classification of hyperspectral images DICTA 20252025
- Runner-up Best Paper AwardFor contrastive-aware ViT for weakly supervised semantic segmentation DICTA 20232023
- Teaching Excellence AwardsWith Best Instructor commendations, COMSATS University2011–13
- Best project awardRobot path identification and map construction2011
Conference and programme roles
- Area chairDICTA 2026 programme committee2026
- Tutorial leadACML 2026 tutorial, Topological Deep Learning for Robust Representation Learning: Foundations, Architectures, and Applications, with Abdelwahed Khamis (CSIRO)2026
- Scientific committee2026 Australian Agronomy Conference2025
- Programme committeeIVCNZ 20252025
- Poster session leadDICTA 2024, Perth2024
Reviewing
- ConferencesCVPR (CVPR 2026 reviewer recognition), ECCV, ICML (ICML 2026 Silver Reviewer), ICLR, AAAI and ACMLOngoing
- JournalsIEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Engineering Applications of Artificial IntelligenceOngoing
Invited talks and contributions
- Sole invited speakerJoint IEEE GRSS, IEEE CS and CDS seminar at ANU on fine-grained AI2025
- Invited contributorWrote the AI in Agriculture section of a report on artificial intelligence to the Australian Senate, through the ANU Integrated AI Network2024
- Invited seminarsCOMSATS University and University of the Punjab2023
Workshops, committees and memberships
- Co-leadCSIRO ML Workshop Series2024
- Workshop hostCSIRO ML/AI Animal Science Workshop2024
- Event hostThree-day programme of workshops and seminars for early-career researchers, CSIRO2024
- Committee nominationsCERC and AgCatalyst committees, CSIRO Agriculture and Food2023
- Topological Deep Learning ChallengeICML 2023, TAG in Machine Learning team2023
- MembershipsIEEE, AAAI, Australian Computer Society, Queensland AI Hub
* Older roles and recognition will be added later.