Saeed Anwar is a Senior Lecturer of Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AI, and Data Science at the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering at the University of Western Australia. He also holds honorary affiliations at the Australian National University and CSIRO. Dr. Anwar has won the best paper awards in ICPR'24 and RS'22 and has been nominated for best papers in CVPR'20 and PR'19. He is currently an associate editor at the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (JOE) and previously was an associate editor with Neurocomputing. His editorial contributions include guest editorials for the IEEE's JOE and MDPI's Sensors and Frontiers in Robotics and AI. He has serve/d as an area chair for WACV'26,ICCV'25, IJCAI'25, and ACCV'24. He regularly reviews submissions to the top venues of his field, e.g., TPAMI, TIP, CVPR, ICCV,  ECCV, ACM MM, and many more. He worked on many commercial projects as a team lead. He has also supervise/d PhD and Master's students to completion.

Potential PhD students with strong track records and research publications are encouraged to contact me for scholarship opportunities. 

Roles and responsibilities

Besides teaching Computer Science units, I also supervise Post-docs, PhD candidates, and Masters students in my field of research. My students regularly publish in esteemed scientific sources of Computer Science. 

Research

1. Deep Learning
2. Low-Level Vision
3. Computer Vision
4. Explainable Artificial Intelligence
5. 3D Vision
6. Task-Specific Dataset Creation

Teaching overview

1. Computer Vision