Ajmal Mian is a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Western Australia. He is the recipient of three esteemed national fellowships from the Australian Research Council and several awards, including the West Australian Early Career Scientist of the Year 2012, HBF Mid-Career Scientist of the year 2022, Excellence in Research Supervision, EH Thompson Award, ASPIRE Professional Development Award, Vice-chancellors Mid-career Award, Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the Australasian Distinguished Dissertation Award, and various best paper awards. He served as a Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, and the Pattern Recognition journal. He served as the General Chair for DICTA 2019 and ACCV 2018. His research interests are computer vision, deep learning, remote sensing, shape analysis, face recognition, human action recognition, and video analysis.