Hamid Rezatofighi
Chief Scientist
Associate Professor, Department of Data Science & AI
Interested in Computer vision, Robot vision & Deep learning
Our Team
A diverse group of researchers dedicated to advancing autonomous intelligence through vision and language. Ordered by surname alphabet.
Academics
Zhixi Cai
Assistant Professor
Lecturer, Department of Data Science & AI
Interested in multi-agent & neuro-symbolic visual reasoning
Mohammad Goudarzi
Assistant Professor
Lecturer, Department of Software Systems & Cybersecurity
Interested in distributed systems and edge computing for robotics & embodied AI
Jingwen Ye
Assistant Professor
Lecturer, Department of Data Science & AI
Interested in trustful AI, VLM, multmodal learning, efficient foundation models, and embodied AI
Associate Members
Reza Haffari
Professor
Professor, Department of Data Science & AI, Monash University
Interested in natural language processing, multilingual foundation models & neuro-symbolic reasoning
Dana Kulic
Professor
Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University
Interested in robot learning, human-robot interaction & human motion analysis
Peter Stuckey
Professor
Professor, Department of Data Science & AI, Monash University
Interested in logic and constraint programming for automated reasoning & planning
Postdocs
Sukai Huang
Research Fellow
Research Fellow (ANSR & ONR), Monash University, 2025-now
Working on LLMs for planning & LLMs for embodied agents
Fucai Ke
Research Fellow
Research Fellow (ONR), Monash University, 2025-now
Working on compositional grounded visual reasoning for physical-world systems
Chenyuan Zhang
Research Fellow
Research Fellow (ANSR), Monash University, 2024-now
Working on human modelling and belief reasoning
PhD Student
Chris Austin
PhD Student
Primary supervisor: Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
Co-supervisor(s): Dr. Fabbrizio Horta (From UNSW)
Monash University, 2023-now
Working on AI based clinical decision support system for IVF using time-lapse data.
Sandika Biswas
PhD Student
Primary supervisor: Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
Co-supervisor(s): Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri and Prof. Biplab Banerjee
Monash University - IIT Bombay, 2022-now
Working on holistic 3D human & scene reconstruction from monocular video
Cristian Rojas Cardenas
PhD Student
Primary supervisor: Dr. Buser Say
Co-supervisor(s): Dr. Mor Vered and Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
Monash University, 2025-now
Working on Robust neuro-symbolic planning
Zihao Chen
PhD Student
Primary supervisor: Dr. Mohammad Goudarzi
Co-supervisor(s): Dr. Eunus Ali and Prof. Gholamreza Haffari
Monash University, 2026-now
Working on distributed agent coordination and planning
Stavya Datta
PhD Student
Primary supervisor: Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
Co-supervisor(s): Prof. Pamela Carreno and Prof. Dana Kulic
Monash University, 2025-now
Working on robot-human interaction using computer vision techniques and large language models.
Saikat Dutta
PhD Student
Primary supervisor: Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
Co-supervisor(s): Prof. Biplab Banerjee
Monash University - IIT Bombay, 2023-now
Working on self-supervised approaches for dense prediction tasks from images
Chenhui Gou
PhD Student
Primary supervisor: Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
Co-supervisor(s): Prof. Jianfei Cai
Monash University, 2023-now
Working on visual perception and reasoning for AI agent.
Tho Le
PhD Student
Primary supervisor: Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
Co-supervisor(s): Prof. Jianfei Cai
Monash University, 2022-now
Working on multi-modal object detection, tracking, and navigation
Mahyar Jahani Nasab
PhD Student
Primary supervisor: Dr. Buser Say
Co-supervisor(s): Dr. Mor Vered and Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
Monash University, 2025-now
Working on assured neuro-symbolic sequential decision making with physics informed neural networks
Hassan Saadatmand
PhD Student
Primary supervisor: Dr. Mahsa Salehi
Co-supervisor(s): Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi, Prof. Goeff Webb
Monash University, 2025-now
Working on time series analysis with deep learning
Meng Wei
PhD Student
Primary supervisor: Prof. Jianfei Cai
Co-supervisor(s): Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
Monash University, 2024-now
Working on neural rendering & 3D reconstruction
Zhongxing Xu
PhD Student
Primary supervisor: Prof. Zongyuan Ge
Co-supervisor(s): Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
Monash University, 2025-now
Working on trustworthy multimodal reasoning systems for medical AI.
Masters & Honours
Nishant Panchal
Master Student
Primary supervisor: Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
Co-supervisor(s): Dr. Sukai Huang
Master student, Monash University, 2026-now
Working on LLMs for planning & LLMs for embodied agents.
Surabhi Venkatesh
Honours Student
Primary supervisor: Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
Co-supervisor(s): Dr. Sukai Huang
Honours student, Monash University, 2026-now
Working on VLA models.
Kan Xiao
Master Student
Primary supervisor: Dr. Zhixi Cai
Co-supervisor(s): Prof. Hamid Rezatofighi
Master student, Monash University, 2026-now
Working on neuro-symbolic agentic AI reasoning.
Intern
Junyi Hao
Intern
Monash University, 2026-now
Working on visual reasoning.
Bosun Liang
Intern
Master of Artificial Intelligence student, Monash University
Working on reinforcement learning, world models and robotic control.
Ziwang Ye
Intern
Monash University, 2026-now
Working on agentic AI and multi-agent systems.
Alumni (Postdocs)
Alumni (PhD Students)
PhD Student
PhD, Monash University, 2021-2025
Now Research Engineer at FFT (Future Fibre Technology)
PhD Student
PhD, University of Adelaide, 2017-2021
Now a Postdoc at the University of Oxford
PhD Student
PhD, University of Adelaide, 2017-2020
Graduated with Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence
Now Research Engineer at Aerometrex Pty. Ltd
PhD Student
PhD, University of Adelaide, 2016-2020
Graduated with Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence
Now a Lecturer at Curtin University
Alumni (Masters & Honours)
Masters & Honours
Masters student, Monash University, 2024-2025
Now PhD at Monash University
Masters & Honours
Masters student, Monash University, 2023-2024
Now working with EnergyAustralia as Software Engineer
Masters & Honours
Undergrad, Monash University, 2019-2023
Now working with Commonwealth Bank
Masters & Honours
Undergrad & Master, Stanford University, 2018-2023
Now PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Masters & Honours
Master, Stanford University, 2019-2021
Now A Quantitative Researcher at Citadel
Masters & Honours
Master, Stanford University, 2019-2021
Now a data scientist working at Massachusetts General Hospital
Masters & Honours
Master, Monash University, 2019-2021
Now Software Engineer at Versent
Masters & Honours
Master, Technical University of Munich, 2017-2018
Now working at Siemens
Masters & Honours
Undergrad, Stanford University, 2017-2018
Now a PhD student at Yale University