Muzammal Naseer

Asst. Professor, Khalifa University

Biography

I received my Ph.D. degree from the Australian National University, Australia in 2020. I am an assistant professor in the computer science department of the College of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Khalifa University.

I am interested in building Robust Intelligent Systems. My research focuses on visual-spatial and temporal perception, understanding and explaining AI behavior through adversarial machine learning, representation learning through self-learning ( self-supervision, self-distillation, self-critique, self-reflection), and configuring the role of large language models (LLMs) in understanding the physical world around us.

News

  • [May 2025] I welcome postdoctoral fellow Naufal Suryanto to our Robust Intelligence Systems Lab (RISys-Lab).

  • [January 2025] I welcome Sicheng Zhang and Pengfei Li as my first two Ph.D. students joining our Robust Intelligence Systems Lab (RISys-Lab).

⚡ Top-Venue

  • Four CVPR 2025 papers accepted (Two as Highlight, Top 13.5%).
  • One AAAI 2025 paper accepted
  • One TPAMI 2025 paper accepted.
  • Four CVPR 2024 papers accepted.
  • One ICLR 2024 paper accepted.
  • One AAAI 2024 paper accepted (OralTop 9.0%).
  • One NeurIPS 2023 paper accepted.
  • Three ICCV 2023 papers accepted.
  • Three CVPR 2023 papers accepted.
  • One ICLR 2023 paper accepted.
  • One TPAMI 2022 paper accepted.
  • One CVPR 2022 paper accepted (OralTop 5.0%).
  • One ICLR 2022 paper accepted (SpotlightTop 5.0%).
  • One NeurIPS 2021 paper accepted (SpotlightTop 3.0%).
  • Two ICCV 2021 papers accepted.
  • One CVPR 2020 paper accepted (OralTop 5.7%).
  • One NeurIPS 2019 paper accepted.

🔥 Notable

  • One ACCV 2024 paper accepted (OralTop 5.6%Best Student Paper Runner-up).
  • Four MICCAI 2024 papers accepted.
  • One MICCAI 2023 paper accepted (Early AcceptTop 14.0%).
  • One BMVC 2022 paper accepted (OralTop 9.5%).
  • One ACCV 2022 paper accepted (OralTop 14.6%).

Robust Intelligence Systems Lab at KU

Postdoc Fellows

Naufal Suryanto

Postdoc Fellow

PhD Students

Sicheng Zhang

PhD Student

Pengfei Li

PhD Student

Co-supervised MBZUAI Students

PhD Students

Master’s Students

Research Associates

Hasindri Sankalpana Watawana

Research Associate

Mohamed Afham

Research Associate

Ahmad Mahmood

Research Associate

Amaya Dharmasiri

Research Associate

Kanchana Ranasinghe

Research Associate

Kartik Kuckreja

Research Associate

Koushik Srivatsan

Research Associate

Syed Talal Wasim

Research Associate

Recent Selected Publications

For the full list of publications, click HERE.

For the full list of code repos, click HERE.

Video-Panda: Parameter-efficient Alignment for Encoder-free Video-Language Models

CVPR 2025

Novel architecture for encoder-free video-language understanding.

Jinhui Yi, Syed Talal Wasim, Yanan Luo, Muzammal Naseer, Juergen Gall

STEREO: A Two-Stage Framework for Adversarially Robust Concept Erasing from Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

CVPR 2025 (Highlight)

Erase harmful/biased concepts from text-to-image models

Koushik Srivatsan, Fahad Shamshad, Muzammal Naseer, Vishal M. Patel, Karthik Nandakumar,
Jameel Hassan Hanan Gani Noor Hussein Muhammad Uzair Khattak admin Salman Khan Fahad Shahbaz Khan

STING-BEE: Towards Vision-Language Model for Real-World X-ray Baggage Security Inspection

CVPR 2025 (Highlight)

The first multimodal X-ray dataset with domain-aware AI assistant

Divya Velayudhan, Abdelfatah Ahmed, Mohamad Alansari, Neha Gour, Abderaouf Behouch, Taimur Hassan, Syed Talal Wasim, Nabil Maalej, Muzammal Naseer, Juergen Gall, Mohammed Bennamoun, Ernesto Damiani, Naoufel Werghi
DyCON: Dynamic Uncertainty-aware Consistency and Contrastive Learning for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation

CVPR 2025

3D medical image segmentation

Maregu Assefa, Muzammal Naseer, Iyyakutti Iyappan Ganapathi, Syed Sadaf Ali, Mohamed L Seghier, Naoufel Werghi
Kartik Kuckreja, Muhammad Sohail Danish,, Muzammal Naseer, Abhijit Das, Salman Khan, Fahad Shahbaz Khan.

Awards

Postgraduate Research Scholarship
 
Fee Remission Merit Scholarship
 
Master of Science Scholarship
 
Gold Medal
 
University Merit Scholarship
 
University of the Punjab (PU)Jan 2007 – Jan 2009