Haytham


I am on the faculty of the School of Computing Technologies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne, VIC, where I am affiliated with the Evolutionary Computing and Machine Learning (ECML) group, the AI Innovation Lab, and the Centre for Information Discovery and Data Analytics (CIDDA).

My research interests are broadly in artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, and machine perception. I am primarily interested in learning systems that generalize systematically from limited labelled data.

I was a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Facebook Research in Seattle, WA, from August 2018 to January 2020. I received a PhD from RMIT in 2019. My PhD thesis is titled, Continual Deep Learning via Progressive Learning. During my PhD, I was a Research Intern at Facebook with Facebook Reality Labs (Oculus VR Research) and Facebook AI Research (FAIR). I was also a Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer at RMIT. Formerly, I received an MSc (Research) and a BEng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Petronas University in 2014 and 2012 respectively, and worked as an Electrical/Electronics Engineer in the engineering consulting industry for three years.