April 2026
I was invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for the Notes and Briefs track of ISWC/UbiComp 2026.
Abdelwahed Khamis
Research Scientist, Data61, CSIRO
Adjunct Fellow, QUT
abdelwahed.khamis [at] data61.csiro.au
1 Technology Ct, Pullenvale QLD 4069
I am a Research Scientist at CSIRO's Data61 in the Distributed Sensing Systems group. In my research, I am broadly interested in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Prior to the current position, I was a postdoc in CSIRO's Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Future Science Platform. I obtained my PhD in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales in Sydney under the main supervision of Prof. Wen Hu. My PhD background is in Radio-based Sensing.
My main interest is in sensing, a field that refuses to stay inside one discipline. I enjoy moving between physics, signal processing, machine learning, hardware, and data. I am drawn to signals with a physical story behind them (e.g. radar returns and solar-cell responses) but also to data-driven methods when first-principles models are incomplete. Below is my current research agenda, with the usual academic disclaimer that it may mutate.
My main interest is in sensing, a field that refuses to stay inside one discipline. I enjoy moving between physics, signal processing, machine learning, hardware, and data. I am drawn to signals with a physical story behind them (e.g. radar returns and solar-cell responses) but also to data-driven methods when first-principles models are incomplete. Below is my current research agenda, with the usual academic disclaimer that it may mutate.
Active Research Agenda
Robotic Foundation Models for Navigation at CSIRO, working across Vision Language Action models and robotic platforms (e.g. Boston Dynamics' Spot), with a focus on multimodal reasoning for navigation.
Solar-based Sensing: exploiting solar signals for complex sensing tasks, as in our SolarTrack paper (PerCom 2026).
Radar Research, including radar-based place recognition, radar object segmentation, and related perception tasks (see our HyperEcho paper).
Multimodal Large Language Models reasoning: combining vision, language, and sensing to build agents that can perceive, reason, and act in the physical world.
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March 2026
I presented (online) my work HyperEcho: Structured Higher Order Representation for Automotive Radar Semantic Segmentation at IEEE PerCom's Pervasive Radars workshop.
January 2026
Our paper SolarTrack was accepted in PerCom 2026. Acceptance rate 15.6%.
January 2026
Our work HyperEcho was accepted in PerCom's Pervasive Radars workshop.
December 2025
I have been invited to serve as TPC for EWSN 2026.
October 2025
I have been invited to serve as TPC for the research paper track on Systems and Infrastructure for Web, Mobile, and Web of Things in The Web Conference 2026.
August 2025
I have been invited to serve as TPC for PerCom WIP track.
June 2025
I have been named an Outstanding Reviewer for CVPR 2025!
March 2025
I was invited to serve as a TPC in UbiComp/ISWC 2025
March 2025
Our paper on mmWave-based Hand Hygiene Monitoring through Beam Steering was accepted by SenSys 2025
March 2025
I presented 3 papers (one full and two workshops) in PerCom 2025 in Washington, DC
January 2025
Our paper on Zero-shot Sensory Data Imputation was accepted by PerCom 2025
September 2024
I was invited to serve as a Session Chair (mmWave Sensing) in International Conference in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 24)
April 2024
A demo on Object Multimodal Sensing was accepted in International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 24)
March 2024
I was invited to serve as a TPC in UbiComp/ISWC 2024
March 2024
Our paper on Scalable Optimal Transport was accepted by IEEE TPAMI
February 2024
I was invited to serve as a TPC in International Workshop on Foundation Models for Cyber-Physical Systems & Internet of Things (FMSys 24)
November 2023
I was invited to serve as a TPC in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 24)
October 2023
I was invited to serve as a TPC in ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 24)
Publications
My research focuses on Cyber-Physical Systems, including Radio-based Sensing, Machine Learning for IoT, and Optimal Transport methods. I have published in top-tier venues such as SenSys, PerCom, ICCV, IJCAI, IEEE TPAMI, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and Artificial Intelligence Review. See all publications →
Students & Team
Ahmed Akl · PhD student, Griffith University (April 2024 - Sept 2026) Joint supervision with Sara Khalifa (QUT), Kewen Wang and Zhe Wang (Griffith University)
Shang Gao · PhD student, Macquarie University (April 2024 - Oct 2027) Joint supervision with Tao Gu (Macquarie University)
Vi Nguyen · Masters student, University of Queensland (Dec 2025 - Jun 2026) Joint supervision with Moid Sandhu (CSIRO) and Volkan Dedeoglu (CSIRO)
Emily Good · Masters student, University of Queensland (Dec 2025 - Jun 2026) Joint supervision with Moid Sandhu (CSIRO) and Volkan Dedeoglu (CSIRO)
Sam Harding · Masters student, University of Queensland (Dec 2025 - Jun 2026) Joint supervision with Saimun Rahman (CSIRO) and Peyman Moghadam (CSIRO)
Theodore Al-Shami · Intern student (Nov 2025 - Feb 2026) Joint supervision with Volkan Dedeoglu (CSIRO)
Renuka Sharma · Postdoc, CSIRO (Aug 2023 - May 2025) AI Intelligent Multimodal Sensor Platform. Now at QCIF
Dan Bretheron · Intern student (Nov 2023 - Feb 2024) Joint supervision with Sara Khalifa (QUT)