Dr. Ehsan Abbasnejad is a Senior Future Making Fellow at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) and a Principal Researcher at Centre for Augmented Reasoning (CAR) at the University of Adelaide.

He was awarded his PhD degree in 2015 in Computer Science from the Australian National University (ANU). He has extensive experience in deep learning for a range of applications of machine vision and language in agriculture, mining, defense, etc. His past experience in industry includes Microsoft, Xerox and NEC.

He has been a research scientist and founding member of DeepSightX who won the second prize in the global mineral discovery challenge in 2019.