Dr Peyman Moghadam

AI Portfolio Leader-Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLAI) Future Science Platform I Adjunct Professor at QUT

https://people.csiro.au/m/p/peyman-moghadam

Biography

Dr. Peyman Moghadam is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Data61, Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Queensland (UQ). He is leading the Embodied AI research cluster at the CSIRO Robotics and Autonomous Systems group working at Intersection of Robotics and Machine learning. As the leader of Spatiotemporal portfolio at CSIRO's Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLAI) Future Science Platform, Dr Moghadam also oversees research and development of MLAI methods for scientific discovery in spatiotemporal data streams. Before joining CSIRO, Peyman worked in a number of world leading organisations such as the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (Germany) and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (Singapore).

Dr Moghadam has led several large-scale multidisciplinary projects and won numerous awards for his innovations, including CSIRO Julius Career award, National, and Queensland iAward for Research and Development, and the Lord Mayor’s Budding Entrepreneurs Award. In 2019, he held a Visiting Scientist appointment at the Agricultural Robotics and Engineering group at the University of Bonn, as part of the CSIRO Julius Career Award. His current research interests include self-supervised learning for robotics, embodied AI, 3D multi-modal perception (3D++), robotics, computer vision, deep learning, and 3D thermal/hyperspectral imaging.

Other Interests

I am currently seeking outstanding candidates to undertake Postdoc Research Fellows and PhD students study in the field of Deep Learning for Robotics, Self-Supervised Learning, Lifelong learning and Embodied AI. Please email me your CV and latest transcripts in a single PDF document.

Professional Areas

Current Roles

Spatiotemporal MLAI Activity Leader-CSIRO Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLAI) Future Science Platform
Lead a portfolio of 6 projects across 4 CSIRO Business Units and external partners: 18 FTE and $10M
Adjunct Professor at QUT, the Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Vision Technologies (SAIVT) research program
Co-supervise Postgraduate students
Principal Research Scientist/Senior Project Leader
Lead teams of researchers and engineering staff to achieve scientific excellence and customer first

Academic Qualifications

2012

PhD
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore

Professional Experiences

2022-present

Embodied AI Cluster Leader
CSIRO, DATA61
2019-present

AI Portfolio Leader - Spatiotemporal
CSIRO Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLAI) Future Science Platform
2020-present

Principal Research Scientist
CSIRO Data61 Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2020-2022

Embodied AI Team Leader
CSIRO Data61 Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2020-2020

Interim Champion for CSIRO Future Science and Technology
Co-lead the development of the Robotics, IoT and Sensing (RIS) Cross-Cutting Capability (CCC)
2017-2020

Agtech Portfolio Lead for Robotics and Autonomous Systems
CSIRO Data61 Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2019-2019

Visiting Scientist
The University of Bonn
2014-2016

Research Scientist
CSIRO, DATA61, Autonomous Systems Lab
2011-2014

Postdoctoral Fellow
CSIRO, ICT Centre, Autonomous Systems Lab

Achievements and Awards

2019-2023

CSIRO Julius Career Award
CSIRO
2017-2017

Winner of the Lord Mayor's Budding Entrepreneurs Award
Digital Brisbane
2014-2014

Winner of Australian National iAward for Research and Development of HeatWave
Australian Information Industry Association
2014-2014

Winner of Queensland iAward for Research and Development of HeatWave
Australian Information Industry Association

Other highlights

2020-2021

Local Chair, the 4th edition of the Summer School on Cognitive Robotics
2016-2020

Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA)
2020-2020

Workshop Co-chair 2nd edition of the Australian Robotics Roadmap – Agriculture Robotics
2021-2022

Senior Program Committee (SPC) Member for the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22)
2019--

Symposium Chair "Future Horticulture Production Systems” at the TropAg 2019 Conference
2016-2020

Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA)
2019--

Invited Speaker, Bosch Research, Renningen, Germany
2018--

Invited Speaker, the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture Conference
2018--

Invited Speaker, Hort Connections Conference
2018--

Invited Speaker, AgTech Summit Conference
2012--

Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
2014-2015

Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI)
2013-2016

Associate Editor, IFAC Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles Symposium

Grants

2019-2023

CSIRO Julius Career Award-3 years funding $150K
2016-2020

Wine Australia CSA1601: New technologies for dynamic canopy and disease management (Joint Chief Investigator-Robotics)
2016-2018

Hort Innovation VG15024: Vision systems, sensing and sensor networks to manage risks and increase productivity in vegetable production systems (CSIRO Chief Investigator)
2016-2017

QUT-CSIRO PhD Scholarships Grant $100K
2016-2017

Innovation Acceleration Fund for HeatWave technology in Sports Performance Management

Community and Corporate Citizenship

2020-now

IEEE Senior Member