ANTON VAN DEN HENGEL
AIML, University of Adelaide
About
Anton van den Hengel is the Chief Scientist at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) and Director of the Centre for Augmented Reasoning. He is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide, a Chief Investigator of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Healthy Housing, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia. The Centre for Augmented Reasoning (CAR), established in 2021, represents a $20m investment by the Australian Government in AI research. Professor van den Hengel was also the founder of AIML, Australia's largest machine learning research group. Professor van den Hengel has been a CI on over $80m in research funding from sources, including Google, Facebook, Canon, BHP Billiton, and the ARC. Anton was a Director of Applied Science within Amazon for four years where he formed the Australian arm of Amazon's International Machine Learning group. Professor van den Hengel has won several awards, including the 2021 Australasian AI Outstanding Service Award, the Pearcey Foundation Entrepreneur Award, the SA Science Excellence Award for Research Collaboration, the CVPR Best Paper prize in 2010 and in 2025 was elected to the CORE Academy to recognise his significant and cumulative contribution to the development of the computing disciplines in Australasia. According to Google Scholar, he has authored over 440 publications, has over 37,000 citations and an h-index of 89. He has had 8 patents commercialised, formed 5 start-ups, and had a medical technology achieve first-in-class FDA approval. Current research interests include vision and language problems, image-based modelling, and semantic reconstruction.