He has received several awards including the West Australian Early Career Scientist of the Year Award, the Vice-chancellors Mid-career Research Award, the Aspire Professional Development Award, the Outstanding Young Investigator Award, EH Thompson Award for best paper in photogrammetry and the IAPR Best Paper Award. He has received two prestigious fellowships and seven major grants from the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council with a total funding of over $3.0 Million. He has published 150 scientific papers and edited special issues in three journals. His major research interests are in computer vision, machine learning, 3D face analysis, human action recognition and hyperspectral image analysis. He has also published multidisciplinary research in marine science, neurodevelopmental disorders, agriculture, medicine and sleep science.