Stefan Podgorski

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As the Principal Engineer of the Industry Solutions Team within the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML), I bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to my research focus of perception and scene understanding for autonomous vehicles. My expertise includes vision-based object tracking, monocular and stereo camera calibration, camera to LiDAR registration, satellite imagery segmentation, pixel to control based reinforcement learning, and perspective-to-birds-eye-view fusion, which are essential to advancing the capabilities of autonomous vehicles.My expertise is not limited to autonomous vehicles, I have also applied my knowledge to other cutting-edge fields such as working on submarines as an engineer in defence and designing and building electronics to track electron beam positions in linear accelerators as a physicist. I am also committed to using my skills to aid in conservation efforts through the use of artificial intelligence, audio processing and computer vision to identify animal species.I have a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions and have a passion for my work and am committed to staying at the forefront of technology.

Date Position Institution name
2025 - ongoing Principal Engineer Adelaide University
2023 - 2025 Senior Research Engineer University of Adelaide
2020 - 2023 Research Engineer University of Adelaide
2018 - 2020 Detector Physicist Chrysos Corporation
2017 - 2018 Engineer ASC
2003 - 2012 Electrician Wilks Communication and Electrical

Date Institution name Country Title
2012 - 2016 Flinders University Australia Honours Degree of Engineering, Electrical
2012 - 2015 Flinders University Australia Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics (extended major)

Date Title Institution name Country
2020 Industrial Radiation Safety Officer Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Australia

Year Citation
2022 Howe, M., Bockman, J., Orenstein, A., Podgorski, S., Bahrami, S., & Reid, I. (2022). The Edge of Disaster: A Battle Between Autonomous Racing and Safety. 1st ICML Workshop on Safe Learning for Autonomous Driving (SL4AD),
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Year Citation
2025 Podgorski, S., Garg, S., Hosseinzadeh, M., Mares, L., Dayoub, F., & Reid, I. (2025). TANGO: Traversability-Aware Navigation with Local Metric Control for Topological Goals. In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 2399-2406). Atlanta, GA, USA: IEEE.
DOI
2022 Mares, L., Podgorski, S., & Reid, I. (2022). Learn 2 Rage: Experiencing The Emotional Roller Coaster That Is Reinforcement Learning. In IJCAI 2021 Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving (AI4AD) Workshop. Vienna, Austria.
2022 Mares, L., Podgorski, S., & Reid, I. (2022). Learn 2 Rage: Experiencing The Emotional Roller Coaster That Is Reinforcement Learning. In IJCAI 2021 Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving (AI4AD) Workshop. Vienna, Austria.

Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
2025 - ongoing Co-Supervisor Application of transformers for ultrasonic classification of similar echolocation calls of Australian bats The University of Adelaide - Honours - Meagan Anne Underdown
2023 - 2023 Co-Supervisor What cat is that? A re-id model for feral cats Australian Institute for Machine Learning - Master Full Time Victor Caquilpan Parra
2023 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Synthesis of a deep neural network to automatically classify a community of microhylid frogs in New Guinea University of Adelaide - Honours Full Time Joseph Jantke
2022 - 2022 Other Reidentification of cats using artificial intelligence University of Adelaide - Honours - Lewis D'Antonio

Date Role Membership Country
2022 - ongoing Member Force Forty 2022 Australia

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