Professor Mohammed Bennamoun is a globally recognized authority in the fields of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence. He is currently a Professor at The University of Western Australia (UWA). He received his M.Sc. in Control Theory from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and was awarded a PhD in Computer Vision through a joint program between Queen’s University and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. In 1993, he joined QUT as an Associate Lecturer, was promoted to Lecturer in 1996 and to Senior Lecturer in 1998. From 1998 to 2002, he also served as the Director of a research centre.

In 2003, he joined the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at UWA as an Associate Professor and was promoted to Full Professor in 2007. From February 2007 to March 2012, he served as the Head of the School.Professor Bennamoun has long been dedicated to cutting-edge research in 3D computer vision, deep learning, robotic grasping and obstacle avoidance, signal/image processing, and control theory. His team has made significant contributions in 3D digital modeling and pattern recognition, earning wide international recognition.

He has published extensively, with over 240 journal articles and more than 300 conference papers, and is the author of four authoritative books. He currently serves as a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and as an Associate Editor for both the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. He has also served as a Guest Editor for several special issues in leading journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI).Professor Bennamoun has delivered tutorials at major international conferences such as ECCV, CVPR, and ICASSP, and served on the program committees of numerous conferences, including ICCV and 3DIM. He has organized several special sessions, such as for IEEE ICIP, and has contributed to the organization of both local and international conferences. He is frequently invited to deliver keynote speeches at major international events.In recognition of his outstanding academic leadership and mentorship, he was awarded the UWA Vice-Chancellor’s Research Mentorship Award in 2016—the only recipient in that category university-wide for that year. He also received the UWA Award for Teaching Excellence in Research Supervision in 2016, where he was praised for his “outstanding contributions and for going above and beyond to inspire, support, and educate.” Earlier in his career, he was named “Best Supervisor of the Year” at QUT and received a research supervision award at UWA in 2008.