Zaigham Zaheer

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow affiliated with SPriNT-AI lab at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), United Arab Emirates.

Work Experience

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• Research Fellow Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE. (Aug 2022 - now)
• Postdoctoral Researcher Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Uslan Lab, South Korea. (Feb 2022 - Jul 2022)
• Visiting Researcher ETH Zurich, Switzerland. (Oct 2021 - Dec 2021)
• Internee MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi. Remote (Aug 2021 - Jan 2022)
• Student Researcher ETRI, Daejeon, South Korea. (Mar 2018 - Jan 2022)

Education

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• PhD ICT/Computer Software with specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision from the University of Science and Technology (UST), South Korea, in 2022, advised by Prof. Seung-Ik Lee.
• Masters Electronics and Computer Engineering with specialization in Artificial Intelligence from Chonnam National University (CNU), South Korea, in 2017, advised by Prof. Kim Jin Young.
• Undergraduate Computer and Information Sciences from Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), in 2012.

Other Experiences

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During my Masters, I also worked at Waseda University as an internee. During my PhD, I worked on several interesting industrial projects in close collaboration with teams from LG Electronics, Korea Institute of Robotics & Technology Convergence (KIRO), and Seoul National University (SNU)

Research Interests

I have been working on projects covering some of the advanced topics of machine learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and robotics. The following diagram represents some of the major areas I have focused on over the last few years:

News

• [Oct. 2024] Organizing FAME Challenge in ACM Multimedia Conference’24. [Link]
• [Sep. 2024] Paper accepted for publication at ICDM 2024.
• [Feb. 2024] Two papers accepted for publication at CVPR 2024. [Paper 1], [Paper 2]
• [Oct. 2023] Paper accepted for publication at WACV 2024. [Link]
• [May. 2023] Paper accepted for publication at Neurocomputing Journal (IF: 5.5). [Link]
• [May. 2023] Paper accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (IF: 14.255). [Link]
• [Sep. 2022] Paper accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (IF: 10.8). [Link].
• [Aug. 2022] Joined MBZUAI. as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
• [Feb. 2022] Paper accepted for publication at CVPR 2022. [Link].
• [Jan. 2022] Joined ETRI as a Postdoctoral Researcher.
• [Jan. 2022] Obtained PhD from the University of Science and Technology (UST), South Korea.
• [Jan. 2022] Received the Outstanding Research Award from UST.
• [Oct. 2021] Moved to Zurich to join CVL in ETH Zurich as a Visiting Researcher.
• [Dec. 2020] Proposal accepted for a grant of 10 Million KRW by YSRP Program.
• [2020] Five Papers accepted in CVPR, ECCV, and SPL. [Link]

Students

• Anas Emad Addeen Diab Al-lahham
• Irzam Liaqat
• Khawar Islam
• Sahan Hemachandra
• Mubarak Gwaza Abdu-Aguye
• Salem Saqer Majid Almarri
• Nurbek Tastan
• Muhammad Saad Saeed
• Tu Vu Ngoc
• Jinha Lee