Dr. Yuankai Qi joined the School of Computing at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in December 2023 as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Artificial Intelligence (AI). He is also an Adjunct Lecturer with the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) of The University of Adelaide. He received his PhD from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, during which he focused on the topic of visual object tracking. He was the winner of the international challenge on video segmentation and tracking DAVIS 2017, the Runner-up of the drone’s view object tracking challenge VisDrone 2018. In 2020, he received the CAAI Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations Award (10 winners each year across China).

Before joining Macquarie University, he was a Research Fellow at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, University of Adelaide, working on vision-and-language navigation for robots. He has published over 60 papers on top-tier venues in computer vision and artificial intelligence, such as CVPR, NeurIPS, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, IJCAI, IEEE TPAMI and TIP.  He received ACM Multimedia Best Paper Award in 2024, the Australian Pattern Recognition Society (APRS) ECR Award Honourable Mention in 2023. He serves as SPC for IJCAI 2021 and Area Chair for ICLR 2025 and BMVC 2023/2024. He is also a regular reviewer for several prestigious conferences and journals, including CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, IJCAI, ICML, ACL, TPAMI, TIP, and PR.

Research topics: Vision-and-Language for Robot Action, Video Captioning, Medical Image Processing, Crowd Counting, Video Anomaly Detection, Movie Dubbing, and Visual Object Tracking.

He has been recognised among the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists globally in 2024.

He is looking for self-motivated HDR students.

COMP 3420 AI for Text and Vision