Dr Peyman Moghadam
Embodied AI Cluster Lead I Adjunct Professor at QUT
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Biography
Peyman Moghadam is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Data61 as well as Professor (Adjunct) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He leads the Embodied AI Research Cluster at CSIRO Data61, working at the intersection of Robotics and Machine learning. Most Recently, he was the Group Leader (Acting) of Robotic Perception and Autonomy at Data61. From 2019-2024, he was the Spatiotemporal AI portfolio Leader at the CSIRO's Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLAI) Future Science Platform, oversees research and development of MLAI methods for scientific discovery in spatiotemporal data streams. In 2022, he served as a Visiting Professor at ETH Zürich. In 2019, he held a Visiting Scientist appointment at the University of Bonn.
Peyman has led several large-scale multidisciplinary projects and won numerous awards, including CSIRO's Julius Career Award, National, and Queensland state iAward for Research and Development, CSIRO’s Collaboration Medal and the Lord Mayor’s Budding Entrepreneurs Award. His current research interests include self-supervised learning for robotics, embodied AI, 3D multi-modal perception (3D++), robotics, and computer vision.
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
Fields of Research
Current Roles
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Cluster Leader - Embodied AI
DATA61, CSIRO, Australia -
Professor (Adjunct)
School of EER, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia -
Associate Professor (Adjunct)
School of EECS, University of Queensland (UQ), Australia
Academic Qualifications
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2012
PhD
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Professional Experiences
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2023-2024
Group Leader (Acting)
CSIRO's Data61 -
2022-2023
Visiting Professor
ETH Zurich, Switzerland -
2019-2024
AI Portfolio (Activity) Leader - Spatiotemporal Learning
CSIRO Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLAI) Future Science Platform -
2021-2023
Portfolio Leader - Reimagine Farming
Reinvent Science, Science Digital Transformation, CSIRO -
2020-2022
Embodied AI Team Leader
CSIRO Data61 Cyber-Physical 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) -
2016-2020
Senior Project Leader
CSIRO Data61 Cyber-Physical Systems -
2019-2019
Visiting Scientist
The University of Bonn -
2016-2019
Associate Professor (Adjunct)
School of EECS, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia -
2014-2016
Research Scientist / Project Leader
CSIRO, ICT Centre, Autonomous Systems Lab -
2011-2014
Postdoctoral Fellow / Chief Investigator
CSIRO, ICT Centre, Autonomous Systems Lab
Achievements and Awards
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2022--
CSIRO Collaboration Medal - Reef Intelligence
This Medal honors exceptional cross-Business Unit engagement (Data61, Env, in partnership with Google) in resolving significant national challenge of protecting the Australia’s Great Barrier Reef using advancements in machine learning and robotics. -
2019-2023
CSIRO Julius Career Award
Recipient of the prestigious and competitive CSIRO Julius Career Award. The award provides 4-years in recognition of his exceptional scientific leadership in advancing machine learning for robotics research. -
2022--
Hilti 3D SLAM Challenge Award (lidar track), Hilti Group
IEEE ICRA 2022 Future of Construction Workshop. (CSIRO-Wildcat team) Milad Ramezani, Gavin Catt, Kasra Khosoussi, Fred Pauling, and Peyman Moghadam -
2022--
Merit Award - The General Place Retrieval Challenge, CMU
General Place Retrieval Challenge, IEEE ICRA 2022. City-scale Unmanned Ground Vehicle Localization Challenge organised by CMU at IEEE ICRA 2022. Kavisha Vidanapathirana, and Peyman Moghadam -
2020-present
IEEE Senior Member
Elected as IEEE Senior Member -
2017-2017
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 State iAward for Research and Development of HeatWave
Australian Information Industry Association
Other highlights
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2022--
Co-Chair ACCV2022 Tutorial on “Higher-Order Visual Representation Learning”
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2022--
International committee for the Moonshot Program, PFR, New Zealand
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2022--
Senior Program Committee (SPC) Member for the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-22)
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2022--
Digital Advisory Panel for CSIRO’s Env BU, Digital Water and Landscapes Program
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2019-2022
Expert Advisory to the Australian Government
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2021--
Co-Chair ICCV2021 Tutorial on “Uncertainty Estimation for Dense Prediction Tasks”
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2020-2021
Local Chair, the 4th edition of the Summer School on Cognitive Robotics
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2020--
Workshop Co-chair 2nd edition of the Australian Robotics Roadmap – Agriculture Robotics
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2016-2020
Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA)
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2018-2020
Data61 Scholarship Committee - Queensland Chapter
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2019--
Symposium Chair "Future Horticulture Production Systems” at the TropAg 2019 Conference
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2014-2015
Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (ACHI)
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2013-2016
Associate Editor, IFAC Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles Symposium
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2012--
Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
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List of Invited Keynotes and Talks
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2023--
Keynote Speaker at the International IEEE ICME 2023 Workshop (BIG-Surv)
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2023--
Invited Speaker at Simon Fraser University, Canada
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2023--
Invited Speaker at Oxford Robotics Institute, UK
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2022--
Invited Speaker at ETH Zu ̈rich, Switzerland
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2022--
Invited Speaker at Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
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2022--
Invited Speaker at Microsoft Research, Switzerland
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2022--
Invited Speaker at ABB Research, Switzerland
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2021--
Invited Panel at the General Assembly, Australia
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2021--
Invited Panel at “Looking Forward: Future Digital Landscapes” at the Digiscape FSP
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2019--
Invited Speaker at Bosch AI Centre, Germany
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2019--
Invited Speaker at LAAS-CNRS, France
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2019--
Invited Panel at Australian British Chamber of Commerce (ABCC), Australia
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2019--
Invited Speaker at the Australian Trade and Investment Commission, Germany
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2019--
Invited Speaker at the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center workshop, USA
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2018--
Invited Keynote at the Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture, Australia
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2018--
Invited Speaker at Hort Connections, Australia
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2018--
Invited Speaker at AgTech Summit, Australia
Grants
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2023-2026
CSIRO Research Office (Office of the Chief Executive). In collaboration with A&F and Data61, Funding for a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship
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2023-2026
CSIRO Research Office (Office of the Chief Executive). Funding for a Postgraduate scholarship
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2022-2026
QUT-CSIRO Collaborative Research Project. (Joint Chief Investigator)
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2022-2026
QUT-CSIRO Collaborative Research Project. (Joint Chief Investigator)
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2022-2025
Data61 PhD Scholarship (Top-up) Fund
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2022-2025
QUT-CSIRO Digital Agriculture PhD Scholarship Fund
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2020-2023
CSIRO Research Office (Office of the Chief Executive). Funding for a Postgraduate scholarship
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2019-2023
UQ-CSIRO Collaborative Research Project. (Joint Chief Investigator)
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2019-2023
CSIRO Julius Career Award
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2020-2022
QUT-CSIRO Collaborative Research Project. (Joint Chief Investigator)
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2016-2021
Rural R&D for Profit program by the Wine Australia. (Joint Chief Investigator)
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2019-2020
The Australian Government’s Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII), In collaboration with SME
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2018-2020
Data61 PhD Scholarship Fund (Top-up)
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2016-2020
Hort Innovation Fund. (CSIRO Chief Investigator)
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2016-2017
Innovation Acceleration Fund
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2016-2017
QUT-CSIRO PhD Scholarships Fund
Community and Corporate Citizenship
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2020-now
IEEE Senior Member
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