Mohammed Bennamoun is a Winthrop Professor in the Computer Science and Software Engineering discipline within the School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing at the University of Western Australia. He received his M.Sc. from Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, in the area of Control Theory, and his PhD from Queen's University and Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, in the area of Computer Vision. He lectured Robotics at Queen's University before joining Queensland University of Technology in 1993 as an Associate Lecturer, advancing to Lecturer in 1996, Senior Lecturer in 1998, and Director of a research centre from 1998 to 2002. In January 2003, he joined the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Western Australia as an Associate Professor, promoted to Professor in 2007. He served as Head of the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering from February 2007 to March 2012. Bennamoun has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh as an Erasmus Mundus Scholar in 2006, CNRS and Telecom Lille1 in France in 2009, Helsinki University of Technology in 2006, and the Universities of Bourgogne and Paris 13 in France in 2002-2003.

His research specializations include computer vision, particularly 3D object recognition and biometrics, machine and deep learning, robotics such as obstacle avoidance and grasping, signal and image processing, and control theory. He is the author of four books: Object Recognition: Fundamentals and Case Studies (Springer-Verlag, 2001), A Guide to Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer Vision, 3D Shape Analysis: Fundamentals, Theory, and Applications, and Neural Representations of Natural Language. With over 240 journal publications and 300 conference papers, his contributions have earned him recognition as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2025, ranking in the top 0.1% of scientists worldwide, and inclusion in The Australian's 2026 list of Australia's top 250 researchers. Notable awards include the UWA Vice-Chancellor's Research Mentorship Award and Award for Teaching Excellence for Research Supervision in 2016, two best paper awards in 2024 from the Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, and the Triple E Awards in 2024. He serves as Senior Area Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. Bennamoun has been a member of the ARC College of Experts from 2012-2015 and 2019-2021, and regularly delivers keynote speeches, conference tutorials at events like ECCV and CVPR, and courses at international summer schools on deep learning.

Professional Email: mohammed.bennamoun@uwa.edu.au