Piotr Koniusz

Dr. Piotr Koniusz serves as a Principal Research Scientist in Machine Learning at Data61/CSIRO, an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in the School of Engineering, and an Honorary Associate Professor at the Australian National University (ANU).

He earned his BSc in Telecommunications and Software Engineering in 2004 from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, followed by a PhD in Computer Vision in 2013 from CVSSP, University of Surrey, UK. Prior to his current roles, he conducted postdoctoral research with the LEAR team at INRIA, France (2013-2015).

Dr. Koniusz's research spans computer vision and machine learning with expertise in representation learning (contrastive & self-supervised learning, vision-language models, graph neural networks), deep learning architectures, image classification, action recognition, and specialized learning paradigms including zero-shot, one-shot, and few-shot learning. His work also addresses domain adaptation, incremental learning, object segmentation and detection, generative networks, adversarial robustness, and mathematical approaches like spectral learning, tensor methods, and optimal transportation.

• Sang Uk Lee Best Student Paper Award from ACCV'22
• Runner-up APRS/IAPR Best Student Paper Award from DICTA'22

Dr. Koniusz has been recognized as an outstanding Area Chair by ICLR (2021-2023), served as Workshop Program Chair for NeurIPS'23 and The Web Conf. 2025, and held Senior Area Chair positions for NeurIPS'23-24, ICLR'24-25, AAAI'24-25, and ICML'24-25.