Mehrtash Harandi

Mehrtash Harandi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University. He joined Monash in 2018 after five years at Canberra Research Laboratory-NICTA working with Prof. Richard Hartley and Prof. Fatih Porikli, and earlier at Queensland Research Laboratory-NICTA with Prof. Brian Lovell. His research focuses on machine learning, computer vision, and geometric learning with applications in medical imaging and diffusion models.

• Recent Research Trends (2025): 3D Gaussian splatting compression, diffusion transformers for visual correspondence, hyperbolic geometry in hierarchical structures, and robust learning from noisy labels.
• Scientific Awards:
  • Outstanding Reviewer, CVPR'21
• Advising Highlights: Mentored students contributing to papers at ICCV'24, CVPR'25, ICLR'25, and Nature Machine Intelligence.
• Labs & Teams: Collaborates with Data61-CSIRO, ARC, and US Air Force Research Laboratory.