Senior Lecturer
Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Eng., Monash University 

G09, 18 Alliance lane, Clayton
Melbourne, VIC
Australia

e-mail
mehrtash (döt) harandi (ät) monash (döt) edu


About me

I am a senior lecturer in the department of Electrical and Computer Systems Eng. (ECSE) at Monash University. I am also a contributing research scientist at the Machine Learning Research Group (MLRG)-Data61-CSIRO.

Before joining Monash University, I spent 5 wonderful years at Canberra Research Laboratory-NICTA, working with prof. Richard Hartley and prof. Fatih Porikli. Prior to that, I worked at Queensland Research Laboratory-NICTA with Prof. Brian Lovell.

I am interested in various aspects of learning, especially with a flavor of visual data (see my google scholar page).

I always look for motivated and hard-working students who are interested in doing research with me. You can read some of my papers (click here) to get a feel for the type of work that I do. I encourage students to contact me but 

You must have good mathematical and computational skills, preferably with prior experience in machine learning and/or computer vision. Strong programming skills in Matlab and Python are also necessary. When contacting me, include a copy of your academic transcripts.

Team

    Current Students

 Mr. Samitha Herath PhD 2016↝  

 Mr. Soumava Kumar Roy PhD 2016↝  

 Mr. Yao Lu PhD 2017↝  

 Mr. Tong Zhang PhD 2017↝  

 Mr. Chritian Simon PhD 2018↝  

 Mr. Nicholas Kuo PhD 2017↝  Cosupervised with Dr. Hanna Suominen and Dr. Christian Walder

 Mr. Pengfei Fang PhD 2018↝  Cosupervised with Dr. Lars Petersson

 Ms. Yan Han PhD 2018↝  Cosupervised with Dr. Lars Petersson

    Former Students

  Dr. Masoud Faraki PhD 2014↝2017  Now at Monash University

Teaching
  1. Engineering Data Analytics -  Australian National University (ANU) 2016, 2017, 2018 
  2. Individual Project -  Australian National University (ANU) 2015
  3. Signal & Image Processing II - University of Queensland (2010-2012)

News

  • Our new work on domain adaptation is accepted to ECCV'18. Check the paper on arXiv
  • Serving as an area chair for ACCV'18
  • Two papers accepted to CVPR'18, congratulations to Soumava, Jing and Tong.
  • Two papers accepted to TNNLS, congratulations to Masoud.
  • One paper accepted to NIPS'17, congratulations to Wenbing.
  • Our paper "Joint Dimensionality Reduction and Metric Learning: A Geometric Take" is accepted to ICML'17.