Ehsan Abbasnejad

Dr Ehsan Abbasnejad

Senior Lecturer

Australian Institute for Machine Learning

Division of Research and Innovation


Dr. Ehsan Abbasnejad is a senior lecturer and Future Making Fellow at the University of Adelaide. His research interests include computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning. He has published several papers in these fields and has proposed new methods for density estimation, active learning, and overcoming the simplicity bias. You can find more information about his research on his website: https://ehsanabb.github.io/

Some of his notable papers are:

  • “GADE: A Generative Adversarial Approach to Density Estimation and its Applications” : This paper proposes a new generative adversarial approach to density estimation that can be used for various applications such as image synthesis, anomaly detection, and data augmentation. The proposed method is evaluated on several datasets and compared with other state-of-the-art methods.

  • “Active Learning by Feature Mixing” : This paper proposes a new active learning method that can select the most valuable samples to be labeled in the training process iteratively. The proposed method is evaluated on several datasets and compared with other state-of-the-art methods.

  • “Evading the Simplicity Bias: Training a Diverse Set of Models Discovers …” : This paper proposes a new method to overcome the simplicity bias by learning a collection of diverse predictors. The proposed method is evaluated on several datasets and compared with other state-of-the-art methods.

He is an area chair for the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern (CVPR) and Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). 

  • Learning to Reason in Reinforcement Learning, Discovery Project, Australian Research Council, 2024-2027--$544K
  • Learning to Model Human Trust, AmpX–$200K, 2023-2027
  • Learning in Open-ended Tasks, Naval Group–$175K, 2023-2027
  • Unlocking wheat grain heterogeneity using machine vision, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences (BBSRC), UK–£2.4M 2022-2026
  • Detecting objects left behind, CERTIS Group–$100K, 2022-2023
  • Future Making Fellowship, University of Adelaide–$500K, 2022-2025
  • Bushfire resilience, fuelled by artificial intelligence, Citizen Science Grant $498K, 2021-2023
  • Talos: Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning Models, DSTG Fund–$1M, 2021-2023
  • Learning to Learn and Adapt with Less Labels, DARPA–$US2.2M, 2019-2023
  • Intelligent Decision Superiority through Vision and Language Technology, DSTG Fund–$US500K, 2020-2022
  • Extracting Value from Crop/soil Variability Mapping, Grains Research and Development Corporation–$1M, 2020-2021
  • Machine Learning for Irrigation and Soil Management, Grains Research and Development Corporation–$1M, 2020-2021
  • Learning from Demonstrations using GANs, IMT Atlantique & UofA–€48K & $40K, 2020-2023
  • Citrus Irrigation Scheduling using Hyperspectral Imagery and Machine Learning–$265K, 2020
  • AI for Farm Management, Wine Australia and Riverland Wine– $2.195M ($588,190 for ML), 2020-2022
  • Modelling Team Sport Strategies using Generative Adversarial Networks, Australian Institute of Sport (AIS)–$120K, 2019-2020
  • Player Performance Analysis, South Australian Sports Institute–$55K, 2019-2020
  • Object Detection with Less Data, Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation–$100K, 2019-2020
  • Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning, The University of Adelaide, 2022, 2023
  • Foundations of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, 2021
  • Deep Learning Fundamentals, The University of Adelaide, 2021
  • Applications of AI and Machine Learning, The University of Adelaide, 2021
  • Distributed Systems and Data Mining, The University of Adelaide, 2020
  • Mining Big Data, The University of Adelaide, 2020
  • Introduction to Computer Vision, The University of Adelaide, 2019
  • Scientific Computing, The University of Adelaide, 2018
  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 Principal Supervisor Improving Machine Learning Models on the Out-Of-Distribution Generalization Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Seyedeh Mahdieh Mirmahdi
    2024 Co-Supervisor Robust Machine Learning Techniques for RF Signal Classification on Sparse and Noisy Digitally Sampled Radar Data Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr Sebastian Luke McCormack Cocks
    2024 Co-Supervisor Fine-Grained Explainable Classification and Recognition for Ship Identification Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ignacio Alejandro Meza De La Jara
    2023 Co-Supervisor Learning to Reason and Generalise Using Multimodal Approaches Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Luke Thomas Heffernan
    2023 Principal Supervisor Robot Action Planning with Affordances and Large Language model Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Mr Gaelic Jean Edouard Bechu
    2023 Co-Supervisor Distributed learning on connected devices with limited resources Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Mr Lucas Fentanes Machado
    2022 Co-Supervisor Causality and Deep Reinforcement Learning on Financial Trading. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Haiyao Cao
    2020 Co-Supervisor Development and validation of an integrated gait recognition system with a deep-learning architecture. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Kayne Andrew Duncanson
    2020 Co-Supervisor Symbolic and Subsymbolic Information Processing in Machine Learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Boris Repasky
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2019 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in Stock Prediction Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jinan Zou
    2019 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Towards Robust Deep Neural Networks: Query Efficient Black-Box Adversarial
    Attacks and Defences
    Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Quoc Viet Vo
    2019 - 2021 Co-Supervisor A Novel Approach to Reservoir Simulation Using Supervised Learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Shahdad Ghassemzadeh
    2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Interactive Vision and Language Learning Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Amin Parvaneh
    2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Towards Robust Deep Neural Networks Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Gia Bao Doan
  • Position: Senior Lecturer
  • Phone: 83139161
  • Email: ehsan.abbasnejad@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83134366
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Australian Institute for Machine Learning, floor G
  • Org Unit: Computer Science

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