Biography
I am a principal research scientist (CSOF 7) in Machine Learning Research Group at Data61/CSIRO. I am also an honorary associate professor (level D) at Australian National University (ANU). Between 2013-2015, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the team LEAR, INRIA, Grenoble. I received my BSc degree in Telecommunications and Software Engineering in 2004 from the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, and completed my PhD degree in Computer Vision in 2013 at CVSSP, University of Surrey, UK.
Other Interests
My interests include foundation models, contrastive learning and self-supervised learning, graph learning, uncertainty modeling, few-shot learning, incremental learning, classification, action recognition, linear algebra including tensors, and deep learning.
Current Roles
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Principal Research Scientist
Research in Machine Learning (inlcuding Computer Vision)
Academic Qualifications
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2013
PhD
CVSSP, University of Surrey
Other highlights
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2023-2023
Workshop Program Co-Chair for NeurIPS'23
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2023-2023
Senior Area Chair for NeurIPS'23, ICLR'24 and AAAI'24
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2023-2023
1x ICCV'23, 1x TPAMI'23, 1x DAMI'23, 1x AAAI'23 (oral), 1x ACM IoTDI'23 and 4x CVPR'23 papers accepted.
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2023-2023
PK on the outstanding paper awards committee of ICLR'23
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2023-2025
PI on ARC Discovery grant on Exploiting Geometries of Learning for Fast, Adaptive and Robust AI (with Monash Uni)
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2022-2023
Co-organised the 1st and 2nd Workshops on Vision Datasets Understanding in conjunction with CVPR'22. and CVPR'23.
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2022-2025
CI on Next Generation Graduates in AI (NextGenAI) entitled Towards AI on the Edge (1.2M AUD in total)
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2022-2023
PK is listed as an outstanding AC for ICLR'21, 2022, and 2023
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2022-2022
1x TPAMI'22, 1x IJCV'22, 1x KDD'22 (15% acceptance rate), 2x ECCV'22 (one oral, 2.7% acceptance rate), 4x CVPR'22, 1x WWW'22 (~17.7% acceptance rate), 1x TMM'22
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2021-2022
2x WACV'22, 1x NeurIPS'21, 1x ICLR'21, 2x CVPR'21 (one oral), 1x CIKM'21, 1x ACM MM'21, 1xBMVC'21 and 1x Neurocomputing'21 papers accepted.
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2022-2022
PK is serving a Workshop Chair for Asian Conference on Computer Vision (2022).
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2021-2022
PK is serving as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2022, ICML 2022, AAAI 2022 and ICLR 2022.
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2021-2021
PK's talk in an ICCV 2021 workshop Multi-Modal Video Reasoning and Analyzing Competition (MMVRAC).
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2021-2021
PK's talk in CVPR 2021 tutorial Fine-Grained Visual Analysis with Deep Learning (FGVA) entitled High Order Pooling and Fine-grained Classification.
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2021-2021
On the outstanding paper awards committee for ICLR'21. Congratulations to all winners of outstanding paper awards (ICLR'21). PK also selected as an Outstanding Area Chair by ICLR 2021.
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2021-2021
PK is serving as a Workshop Chair (co-chair) for ACM Multimedia 2021.
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2020-2021
PK is serving as an Area Chair for BMVC 2021, CVPR 2021, ICLR 2021, ECCV 2020, BMVC 2020 and our Australian CV conf. DICTA 2020 (SR). I have served so far as an SPC for AAAI 2020 and an AC for ICLR 2020, ICLR 2019, WACV 2019, ICCV 2019 and BMVC 2019.
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2020-2021
PK's mini DST grant on Classification of Subtle Activities gets accepted (CI role).
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2021-2024
PK will also be a PI on Prof. Tom Gedeon and Dr. Liang Zheng's ARC Discovery grant on Measuring Domain Gap.
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2020-2020
Former PhD students from CECS/ANU: Fatima Shiri, Hongguang Zhang and Yusuf Tas pass with flying colours! Congrats.
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2020-2020
PK's talk in ACCV 2020 workshop Webly-Supervised Fine-Grained Recognition Challenge (WebFG) entitled Statistical Representations for Fine-grained Recognition.
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2020-2020
PK's talk in ECCV 2020 workshop Transferring and Adapting Source Knowledge in Computer Vision (TASK-CV) entitled Few-shot Learning: From Domain Adaptation to Action Recognition to Noisy Gradients.
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2020-2020
PK's talk in WACV 2020 workshop Vision Applications & Solutions to Biased or Scarce Data (VASBSD) entitled Statistical Representations for Domain Adaptation and Few-shot Learning.
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2019-2020
2x ECCV'20 (one spotlight ~3.6% acceptance rate), 2x TPAMI'20, CVPR'20, ACCV'20, PAKDD'20, BMVC'20, ICONIP'20, NIPS'19 workshop, BuildSys'19 and SIGSPATIAL'19 papers accepted (plus a first prize for the fast forward presentation for the last paper).
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2019-2019
One ICCV'19, one UAI'19, two CVPR'19, two WACV'19, one IJCV'19 and one TIP'19 papers accepted.
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2019-2019
PK organised an ICCV 2019 tutorial entitled Second- and Higher-order Representations in Computer Vision with my colleagues Mehrtash Harandi, Lei Wang and Ruiping Wang
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2019-2019
PK served as an Area Chair for ICLR 2020 and Senior Program Comitte (equiv. of AC) for AAAI 2020.
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2019-2019
PK served as an Area Chair for ICCV 2019, ICLR 2019, and BMVC 2019.
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2018-2018
Two CVPR'18, two ECCV'18, one BMVC'18 and one WACV'18 papers accepted.
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2018-2018
PK served as an Area Chair for WACV 2019
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2018-2018
PK organised an ACCV 2018 workshop and a challenge entitled Museum Exhibit Identification Challenge (Open MIC) for Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning.
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2017-2017
PK listed as outstanding Reviewer by CVPR 2017 and ICCV 2017
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2017-2017
PK organised a full-day CVPR 2017 workshop entitled Tensor Methods in Computer Vision with my colleagues Anoop Cherian and Fatih Porikli.
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2016-2016
PK listed as outstanding Reviewer at ECCV 2016 Awards Page.
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2015-2015
PK listed as outstanding Reviewer at CVPR 2015 Awards Page.
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2012-2012
PK listed as outstanding Reviewer Award at BMVC 2012.
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2010-2010
Winner of PASCAL VOC2010 Action Classification Teaser Challenge.