Kien Thanh
Associate Editor
Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolKien Thanh is a computer vision and machine learning researcher with 11 years of experience applying AI to real-world problems across surveillance, biometrics, agriculture, mining rehabilitation, healthcare, and sports analytics. Currently an Associate Editor and Senior Researcher at QUT, he leads interdisciplinary projects that translate cutting-edge research into government and industry solutions, including an AI-enabled platform for mine site rehabilitation funded by Advance Queensland. His work has attracted multimillion-dollar competitive funding and been published in top venues such as CVPR, T-PAMI and Nature Scientific Reports, reflecting both academic rigor and practical impact. He also contributes editorial leadership to leading journals (Image and Vision Computing, IEEE Access) and teaches machine learning and image processing at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Trained with a PhD focused on long-range face and iris identification, he blends deep technical expertise in multimodal biometrics with applied systems thinking. Less obvious: he complements his technical portfolio with leadership training from Harvard Business School Online, enabling him to bridge research, policy and industry partnerships effectively.
10 years of coding experience
Certificate, Biometrics, Certificate, Biometrics at International Biometrics Summer SchoolCertificate, Leadership Principles, Certificate, Leadership Principles at Harvard Business School OnlineDoctorate, Uncooperative human identification at a distance using face and iris, Doctorate, Uncooperative human identification at a distance using face and iris at Queensland University of TechnologyCertificate, ICT visiting researcher, Certificate, ICT visiting researcher at Ritsumeikan UniversityCertificate, Visiting ICT researcher, Certificate, Visiting ICT researcher at Keio UniversityCertificate, Leadership, Certificate, Leadership at Japan-America Institute of Management ScienceMaster, Information Processing & Communication, Master, Information Processing & Communication at Hanoi University of Technology
Github Skills (8)
pose3
recovery3
deep-learning2
pytorch1
dialog1
complex-networks1
pooling1
multimodal1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
thanhkien84/opensourse-iris-recognition
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
thanhkien84/awesome-ExplainableAI
May 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:40 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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