Stefan Podgorski
Research Performance and Research Structures
Research & Innovation
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), 2022. |
| 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 |