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Mr Lei Wang

Visiting Scientist

https://people.csiro.au/W/L/lei-wang

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Biography

Lei Wang is an ARC Hub Research Fellow (Grade 2) in the School of Engineering and Built Environment — Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Griffith University, working under the guidance of Prof. Yongsheng Gao (Griffith University) and Prof. Piotr Koniusz (Data61/CSIRO & ANU & UNSW). He is also a Visiting Scientist at Data61/CSIRO. He originally founded the Temporal Intelligence and Motion Extraction (TIME) Lab at ANU, leading a dynamic team of master’s and honours students in machine learning and computer vision research. The lab has since transitioned to the ARC Research Hub at Griffith University, where it is now an integral part of the Hub and the broader Griffith research community.

Previously, he was a Research Fellow (Level B) in the School of Computing at the ANU College of Engineering, Computing, and Cybernetics, working with Assoc. Prof. Liang Zheng (ANU) and Prof. Tom Gedeon (Curtin University). He also served as a Visiting Scientist in the Machine Learning Research Group (MLRG) at Data61/CSIRO. During this period, he successfully supervised three master’s and three honours students on their final-year research projects at the TIME Lab, mentoring them in high-quality research. Some of their work was published in top-tier machine learning conferences, such as NeurIPS, ICLR, and ICML.

Since 2018, he has worked as a full-time Computer Vision Researcher at iCetana Pty Ltd in Perth. He has also held Visiting Researcher positions at MLRG, Data61/CSIRO, and the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Western Australia (UWA). In 2021, he joined Active Intelligence Australia Pty Ltd as a Computer Scientist, leading research and development in commercial anomaly detection solutions. His project successfully secured $1.2 million USD in funding, earning him the Incentive Unit Award.

Before pursuing his PhD at ANU and Data61/CSIRO, Lei received several prestigious PhD scholarships, including the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre Scholarship, UWA International Fee Scholarship, University Postgraduate Award, Data61 PhD Scholarship, Data61 Top-up Scholarship, and ANU HDR Fee Remission Merit Scholarship. During his PhD, he authored multiple first-author papers published in top-tier venues such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACM MM, TPAMI, IJCV, and TIP. His research, supervised by Prof. Piotr Koniusz (Data61/CSIRO & ANU & UNSW), earned him the Sang Uk Lee Best Student Paper Award at ACCV 2022.

His research interests include action recognition in videos, anomaly detection, video and image processing, one- and few-shot learning, deep learning, tensor learning, and domain adaptation.

Academic Qualifications

  • 2023

    Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Science)
    The Australian National University

  • 2018

    Master of Professional Engineering (Software Engineering)
    The University of Western Australia

Achievements and Awards

  • 2024/10/24-2024/10/24

    Outstanding Area Chair
    ACM Multimedia 2024

  • 2024/09/19-2024/09/19

    Australian AI Awards 2024 (ANU TechLauncher)
    AI Innovator ‑ Information Technology

  • 2024/06/12-2024/06/12

    iAwards 2024 ACT Merit Receipt (ANU TechLauncher)
    Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA)

  • 2024/05/22-2024/05/22

    iAwards 2024 Finalist (ANU TechLauncher)
    Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA)

  • 2022/12/08-2022/12/08

    The Sang Uk Lee Best Student Paper Award
    Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2022)

  • 2022/09/09-2032/09/08

    The Incentive Unit Award
    Active Intelligence Corp

  • 2022/10/19-2022/10/19

    Outstanding Reviewer Award
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022)

  • 2019/07/01-2023/06/30

    Data61 Top-up Scholarship
    Data61/CSIRO and Australian National University

  • 2019/07/01-2023/06/30

    Data61 PhD Scholarship
    Data61/CSIRO and Australian National University

  • 2019/07/01-2023/06/30

    ANU HDR Fee Remission Merit Scholarship
    Australian National University

  • 2015/06-2015/06

    Outstanding Graduate Award
    Yangzhou University

  • 2015/03-2015/03

    Jingwen Zhu Scholarship
    Yangzhou University

  • 2014/12-2014/12

    Principal's Scholarship (First Division)
    Yangzhou University

  • 2014/04-2014/04

    The Second Prize of Lanqiao Cup Competition (C/C++ Program Design)
    National Software and Information Technology Professional Talent Competition

  • 2013/12-2013/12

    Principal's Scholarship (Second Division)
    Yangzhou University

Current Roles

  • ARC Hub Research Fellow (Grade 2) at Griffith University
    (i) Research (advancement of the discipline), (ii) contribution to education, and (iii) service, leadership and public policy

  • Team Lead Supervisor (TIME@ARC Hub & Griffith)
    (i) Research (advancement of the discipline), (ii) contribution to education, and (iii) service, leadership and public policy

  • Visiting Scientist at CSIRO’s Data61
    (i) Research (advancement of the discipline), (ii) contribution to education, and (iii) service, leadership and public policy

Fields of Research

Current

Former

Grants

  • 2025/01/01-2025/12/31

    Chief Investigator (CI) / Delegated lead CI, National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme 2025 (NCMAS 2025), MotionNetLite: Video Dynamics Distillation for Scalable Models

  • 2025/01/01-2025/12/31

    Lead Chief Investigator (Lead CI), ANU Merit Allocation Scheme 2025 (ANUMAS 2025), Efficient Video Models through Compression and Data Optimization

  • 2024/01/01-2024/12/31

    Chief Investigator (CI) / Delegated lead CI, National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme 2024 (NCMAS 2024), MotionNetLite: Video Dynamics Distillation for Scalable Models

  • 2024/01/01-2024/06/30

    Lead Chief Investigator (Lead CI), The NCI National AI Flagship Merit Allocation Scheme, Robust anomaly detection in human-centric videos

  • 2023/10/30-2023/12/22

    Co-Investigator (Co-I), Research grant: Review of Xailient’s technical pipeline of facial recognition

  • 2023/10/01-2023/12/31

    Chief Investigator (CI) / Delegated lead CI, Project Title: Towards building general-purpose multimodal foundation models

  • 2023/07/26-2024/07/25

    Grant / Project Award from Oracle, Research project: Automatic, large-scale screening of failure cases in autonomous driving

  • 2023/04/19-2023/10/31

    Co-Investigator (Co-I), Research grant: Sharing early insights for more resilient communities

  • 2023/07/01-2024/03/01

    Principal Investigator / Project Lead, Research sponsorship (Active Intelligence Corp.): Detecting anomalies in video footage (stage 3)

  • 2022/07/01-2023/06/30

    Principal Investigator / Project Lead, Research sponsorship (Active Intelligence Corp.): Detecting anomalies in video footage (stage 2)

  • 2021/07/01-2022/06/30

    Principal Investigator / Project Lead, Research sponsorship (Active Intelligence Corp.): Detecting anomalies in video footage

Professional Experiences

  • 2025/02/17-present

    ARC Hub Research Fellow (Grade 2)
    Griffith University

  • 2025/03/05-present

    Visiting Scientist
    Decisions & Statistical Learning / Data61 / CSIRO

  • 2025/02/17-present

    Team Lead Supervisor (TIME@ARC Hub & Griffith)
    Temporal Intelligence and Motion Extraction (TIME) Lab

  • 2023/02/20-2025/02/19

    Research Fellow (Level B)
    The Australian National University

  • 2024/02/19-2025/02/19

    Team Lead Supervisor (TIME@ANU)
    Temporal Intelligence and Motion Extraction (TIME) Lab

  • 2023/06/30-2024/06/30

    Visiting Scientist
    Machine Learning Research Group / Data Analytics / Data61 / CSIRO

  • 2021/07/05-2024/03/01

    Computer Scientist
    Active Intelligence Australia Pty Ltd, Perth, WA

  • 2020/09/28-2021/01/28

    Machine Learning Researcher
    Ebenezer Technologies, Barranquilla, Colombia

  • 2019/07/22-2023/12/12

    Postgraduate Research Student
    Machine Learning Research Group / Data Analytics / Data61 / CSIRO

  • 2019/07/22-2020/09/28

    Machine Learning / Computer Vision Researcher
    iCetana Pty Ltd

  • 2018/07/02-2019/07/19

    Computer Vision Researcher
    iCetana Pty Ltd

  • 2018/09/21-2019/09/20

    Visiting Researcher
    Machine Learning Research Group / Data Analytics / Data61 / CSIRO

  • 2018/10/10-2019/10/09

    Visiting Researcher
    The University of Western Australia

  • 2018/03-2018/07

    Teaching Assistant
    The University of Western Australia

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