His main research interest is in deep learning. He leads a deep learning research group at La Trobe university. The group is focused on working on three different data types: video, image and text. For video the group is working with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) on action recognition in a number of different sports. For image the group is working with the Alfred hospital on cancer diagnosis from CT scans of lungs. For text the group is working with Zendesk on converting text from support tickets into powerful latent representations that can be used for a number of different tasks.