Fields of Research (FoR)
Computer vision, Machine learning, Artificial intelligenceBiography
Associate Professor in Machine Learning https://www.koniusz.com
An Associate Professor in Machine Learning at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), an Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University (ANU) and a former Principal (now Visiting) Research Scientist in Machine Learning at Data61/CSIRO, In 2013-2015, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the team LEAR, INRIA, France. He received his BSc in Telecommunications and...view more
Associate Professor in Machine Learning https://www.koniusz.com
An Associate Professor in Machine Learning at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), an Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University (ANU) and a former Principal (now Visiting) Research Scientist in Machine Learning at Data61/CSIRO, In 2013-2015, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the team LEAR, INRIA, France. He received his BSc in Telecommunications and Software Engineering in 2004 from the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, and completed his PhD in Computer Vision in 2013 at CVSSP, University of Surrey, UK.
He works on representation learning (contrastive & self-supervised learning, vision-language models (VLMs), MLLMs, deep & graph neural nets), image classification & action recognition, zero-, one- & few-shot learning, domain adaptation, incremental learning, object segmentation & detection, generative nets, adversarial robustness, spectral, tensor & hyperbolic learning, RKHS, optimal transportation (OT). His latest favorite topic is machine UNlearning.
My Awards
Through work with his PhD students, he has received several awards such as:
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the Sang Uk Lee Best Student Paper Award from ACCV’22
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the Runner-up APRS/IAPR Best Student Paper Award from DICTA’22
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the Best Paper Award for Science-fundamental Research from A&DS/Data61, 2024
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the Merit Award from the Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence Association (PREMIA), Singapore, 2025
My Research Activities
He has been selected as an outstanding Area Chair by ICLR 2021–2023. He serves/served as:
- Workshop Program Chair for NeurIPS’23
- Workshop Program Chair for The Web Conf. 2025
- Senior Area Chair for NeurIPS’23-24, ICLR’24-26, ICML’24-26, AISTATS 2026
- Program (Co)Chair for NeurIPS’25
He will serve as a Senior Workshop Program Chair for NeurIPS’26 (Sydney).