Biography

[Lei's CV] [ANU Researcher] [D61/CSIRO Profile]

Lei Wang serves as a Research Fellow at the School of Computing, within the ANU College of Engineering, Computing, and Cybernetics. He is under the guidance of Dr. Liang Zheng (ANU) and Prof. Tom Gedeon (Curtin University).

Currently, he also holds the position of Computer Scientist at Active Intelligence Australia Pty Ltd in Perth. In this role, he leads research and development efforts in the field of commercial anomaly detection solutions. His project has successfully raised 1.2 million US dollars, and as a result, he was awarded the Incentive Unit Award.

In addition to his academic and research responsibilities, Lei Wang also contributes to the field as a Visiting Scientist in the Machine Learning Research Group (MLRG) at Data61 (formerly NICTA), a division of The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

Since 2018, Lei has been dedicated to his work as a full-time Computer Vision Researcher with iCetana Pty Ltd in Perth. During this time, he also acted as a Visiting Researcher in MLRG at Data61/CSIRO and contributed as a Visiting Researcher with the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Western Australia (UWA).

Prior to commencing his PhD at ANU and Data61/CSIRO, Lei received several competitive full PhD scholarships, including the ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre Scholarship, UWA International Fee Scholarship, University Postgraduate Award, Data61 PhD Scholarship, Data61 Top-up Scholarship, and ANU HDR Fee Remission Merit Scholarship.

Throughout his PhD candidature, Lei authored a significant number of first-author papers published in esteemed venues, such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACM MM, TPAMI, and TIP. His research, conducted under the guidance of Dr. Piotr Koniusz (Data61/CSIRO & ANU), earned him the Sang Uk Lee Best Student Paper Award from ACCV'22.

Lei's research interests encompass a wide range of topics, including action recognition in videos, anomaly detection, video image processing, one- and few-shot learning, deep learning, tensor learning, and domain adaptation.

He is an active member of both IEEE and ACM as a Student Member.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, The Australian National University (22 July 2019 - 12 Dec 2023)
• Master of Professional Engineering - MPE, Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia (29 Feb 2016 - 16 March 2018)

Experience

Industry Research

• Active Intelligence Australia PTY Limited, Perth, Western Australia (WA)
  • Computer Scientist (contract), 5 July 2021 - present
  • Francis and I established the Active Intelligence Research Challenge Award (01/08/2023-present)
  • Granted the Incentive Unit Award (09/09/2022-08/09/2032)
  • Raised 1.2 million US dollars (~1.79 million Australian dollars)
  • Filed a patent [US provisional patent, SN 63/326,525]
• Ebenezer Technologies, Barranquilla, Colombia
  • Machine Learning Researcher, 28 Sep 2020 - 28 Jan 2021
  • Researched & delivered an anomaly detection system (Alice Guardian smart video surveillance)
• iCetana Pty Ltd, Perth, WA
  • Machine Learning / Computer Vision Researcher (Casual Appointment, 20%), R&D, 22 July 2019 - 28 Sep 2020
  • Filed a provisional patent [AU Patent AU 2,019,903,775]
  • Computer Vision Research Intern (full-time), Research & Development (R&D), 2 July 2018 - 19 July 2019
  • Filed a provisional patent [AU Patent AU 2,019,900,316]

Academic Research

• The Australian National University (ANU)
  • Research Fellow (full-time), School of Computing, ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics, 20 Feb 2023 - present
  • The NCI National AI Flagship Merit Allocation Scheme: I am a Lead Chief Investigator (Lead CI) on 'Robust anomaly detection in human-centric videos'
  • I am serving as an Area Chair for ACM Multimedia 2024
  • Grant: I am a Co-Investigator (Co-I) on 'Review of Xailient’s technical pipeline of facial recognition'
  • I am serving as an Area Chair for ICPR 2024
  • NCI Adaptater Scheme Q4 2023 (HPC funding scheme): I am a Chief Investigator (CI) on 'Towards building general-purpose multimodal foundation models'
  • Grant / Project Award from Oracle (AU$48,000) for Research on 'Automatic, large-scale screening of failure cases in autonomous driving' 
  • Invited talk on 'Action Recognition: Past, Present and Future' hosted by Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China
  • Grant: I am a Co-Investigator (Co-I) on 'Sharing early insights for more resilient communities'
• The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
  • Visiting Scientist, MLRG, Data61/CSIRO (Black Mountain ACT), 30 June 2023 - present
  • Postgraduate Research Student, MLRG, Data61/CSIRO (Acton & Black Mountain ACT), 22 July 2019 - 12 Dec 2023
  • Granted the research award of Doctor of Philosophy (01/11/2023)
  • Received the Sang Uk Lee Best Student Paper Award from ACCV’22
  • One paper each published at CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACM-MM, TPAMI & TIP
  • Visiting Researcher, Machine Learning Research Group (MLRG), Data61/CSIRO (Floreat WA), 21 Sep 2018 - 19 July 2019
• The University of Western Australia (UWA)
  • Visiting Researcher, CSSE/UWA, 10 Oct 2018 - 09 Oct 2019

Related Links

• Google Scholar
• ORCID
• ResearchGate
• LinkedIn

I would like to express my deepest appreciation to A/Prof. Du Huynh (UWA), Mr. Graeme Woods (now at FinClear), Dr. Moussa Reda Mansour (now at Alcoa), Dr. Piotr Koniusz (Data61/CSIRO & ANU) and Dr. Liang Zheng (ANU).