Rao Muhammad Anwer

Prior to joining MBZUAI, Anwer was at Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates working as a research scientist. Before joining IIAI, he was a postdoctoral research fellow with Aalto University, Finland from 2014 to 2018.

• Ph.D. in computer vision from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
• Master’s degree in intelligent systems design from the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

• Workshop organizer at ACCV 2022. I am co-organizing a workshop titled " Vision Transformers: Theory and Applications" at ACCV 2022.
• Program Committee Member for top-tier conferences like CVPR, ICCV, and ECCV. I am also serving as a co-PI for two external research project with Weizmann Institute of Science

Anwer has authored or co-authored more than 45 academic publications in the International Journal of Biological and Medical Sciences, the Proceedings of IEEE, and others, and has been cited more than 1500 times.

• “Spatio-temporal Relation Modeling for Few-shot Action Recognition”: Anirudh Thatipelli, Sanath Narayan, Salman Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Bernard Ghanem, CVPR 2022.
• “PSTR: End-to-End One-Step Person Search with Transformers”: Jiale Cao, Yanwei Pang, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Hisham Cholakkal, Jin Xie, Mubarak Shah, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, CVPR 2022.
• “Energy-based Latent Aligner for Incremental Learning”: Joseph K J, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, CVPR 2022.
• “Handwriting Transformer”: Ankan Kumar Bhunia, Salman Khan, Hisham Cholakkal, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Mubarak Shah, ICCV 2021.
• “Sipmask: Spatial information preservation for fast image video instance segmentation”: Jiale Cao, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Hisham Cholakkal, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Yanwei Pang, Ling Shao, ECCV 2020.
• “Deep contextual attention for human-object interaction detections”: Tiancai Wang, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Muhammad Haris Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Yanwei Pang, Ling Shao, Jorma Laaksonen, ICCV 2019.