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Dr Maryam Haghighat
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering & Robotics
Biography
Maryam Haghighat is a senior lecturer at the QUT School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics. She actively researches across machine learning and computer vision with applications in robotics, healthcare, and remote sensing.Maryam received her PhD from the UNSW School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, Australia. Her doctoral research in image processing at the Interactive Visual Media Processing lab was recognised by the 2020 UNSW Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis.
Following her PhD, Maryam joined the Big Data Institute (BDI), Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK, as a postdoctoral researcher from 2020 to 2022. During her time at Oxford, she contributed to the PathLAKE project funded by InnovateUK, leading the development of machine learning algorithms for medical image analysis.
In 2022, she conducted research jointly across the CSIRO Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Future Science Platform, the Mineral Resources and Data61 Research Units in robotic vision and hyperspectral learning.
Maryam is currently a Chief Investigator on several AI projects, including two ARC Discovery Projects, an ARC Research Hub, and an ARC Training Centre, with total funding of over $10 million.
We are seeking highly motivated PhD students and Postdoctoral Researchers with strong Python programming skills and a strong track record in deep learning and/or computer vision.
A selection of available PhD projects can be found here: PhD Topics
We are seeking postdoctoral researchers with expertise in time-series machine learning and a strong track record of publications in leading venues (e.g., ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS).
For further information and other opportunities, please contact me directly.
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering & Robotics
Keywords
Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Signal Processing, Image Processing
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (University of New South Wales)
Teaching
- EGH444, Digital Signals and Image Processing, Lecturer and Unit Coordinator
- ENN585, Advanced Machine Learning, Lecturer
- ENN595-1/2, Master of Robotics and AI Research Project , Lecturer and Unit Coordinator
Publications
- Moghadam, P., Mohamed, S., Koniusz, P. & Haghighat, M. (2024). Pre-training with Random Orthogonal Projection Image Modeling. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/246732
- Griffiths, E., Haghighat, M., Denman, S., Fookes, C. & Ramezani, M. (2025). HOTFormerLoc: Hierarchical Octree Transformer for Versatile Lidar Place Recognition Across Ground and Aerial Views. Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 6648–6658. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/256040
- Griffiths, E., Haghighat, M., Denman, S., Fookes, C. & Ramezani, M. (2026). HOTFLoc++: End-to-End Hierarchical LiDAR Place Recognition, Re-Ranking, and 6-DoF Metric Localisation in Forests. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 11(7), 7860–7867. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/265549
- Haghighat, M., Browning, L., Sirinukunwattana, K., Malacrino, S., Khalid Alham, N., Colling, R., Cui, Y., Rakha, E., Hamdy, F., Verrill, C. & Rittscher, J. (2022). Automated quality assessment of large digitised histology cohorts by artificial intelligence. Scientific Reports, 12(1). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/237203
- Mohamed, S., Haghighat, M., Fernando, T., Sridharan, S., Fookes, C. & Moghadam, P. (2024). FactoFormer: Factorized Hyperspectral Transformers with Self-Supervised Pre-Training. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 62. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/245518
- Lin, Z., Haghighat, M., Browne, W. & Miller, D. (2026). Intra-Class Probabilistic Embeddings for Uncertainty Estimation in Vision-Language Models. Proceedings - 2026 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2327–2337. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/266238
- Dhar, J., Zaidi, N. & Haghighat, M. (2026). Effective and Robust Multimodal Medical Image Analysis. KDD '26: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 188–199. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/265358
- Dhar, J., Zaidi, N., Haghighat, M., Roy, S., Goyal, P., Alavi, A. & Kumar, V. (2025). Multimodal Fusion Learning with Dual Attention for Medical Imaging. Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 4362–4371. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/254517
- Dhar, J., Xia, S., Pandey, M., Haghighat, M., Alavi, A., Sohel, F., Zhang, W. & Zaidi, N. (2026). Certified vs. empirical adversarial robustness via hybrid convolutions with attention stochasticity. Proceedings - 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/266930
- Haghighat, M., Mathew, R. & Taubman, D. (2020). Rate-distortion driven decomposition of multiview imagery to diffuse and specular components. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 29, 5469–5480. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/237402
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Maryam, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/maryam.haghighat
Supervision
Looking for a postgraduate research supervisor?
I am currently accepting research students for Honours, Masters and PhD study.
- Machine learning for power quality analysis in low-voltage distribution Networks
- Learning complex dynamics from multimodal time-series data
- SLAM inside the human body: camera tracking and 3D reconstruction for medical procedures
- Enhancing 3D visual understanding through multimodal data fusion
- Re-localisation in natural environments
You can browse existing student topics offered by QUT or propose your own topic.
Current supervisions
- PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Clinton Fookes, Associate Professor Simon Denman - Deep Spatial-Spectral Representation Learning for Hyperspectral Data
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Emeritus Professor Sridha Sridharan, Adjunct Professor Peyman Moghadam, Professor Clinton Fookes, Dr Tharindu Fernando Warnakulasuriya
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.