He won the UWA Vice-Chancellor’s Research Mentorship Award in 2016. Only one award is granted per year, in this category, across the whole UWA. He also won the UWA Award for Teaching Excellence for Research Supervision in 2016. He was congratulated for his “outstanding contributions and for going above and beyond, to inspire, support and educate”. He won the “Best Supervisor of the Year” Award at QUT. He also received an award for research supervision at UWA in 2008.
He served as a guest editor for a couple of special issues in International journals, such as a Special Issue in the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (IEEE TPAMI), the International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI). He was selected to give conference tutorials at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) and the International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP), and the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016). He was invited to deliver courses at the International Summer School on Deep Learning (DeepLearn 2017 and DeepLearn 2022).