On the afternoon of April 1, 2025, the seminar titled “AI4Industry – Advance Industry with Visual AI Technology” took place at Room 505, Building E3 – Information Technology Institute (ITI), Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU). The event is part of a series of scientific and technological collaboration activities between ITI and prestigious academic partners worldwide.
Attending the seminar was VNU Vice President Pham Bao Son. The seminar was chaired and opened by Prof. Dr. Tran Xuan Tu – Director of the Information Technology Institute, with the participation of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Hoang Son and Dr. Le Quang Minh – Vice Directors of the Institute.
The seminar attracted more than 50 scientists, technology experts, PhD candidates, and students from various institutions.
The keynote speaker was Prof. Alireza Bab-Hadiashar from RMIT University, Australia, who is currently conducting a long-term (three-month) research visit at the Information Technology Institute, VNU.
In his presentation, Prof. Bab-Hadiashar shared ongoing projects by the Intelligent Automation Group at RMIT, many of which are funded by industry partners. These projects focus on the application of AI-based computer vision in inspection and monitoring tasks, especially within the automotive and food industries.
He emphasized the group’s ambition to expand global collaborations with academic institutions and enterprises, aiming to generate real-world value for industrial partners through AI-driven solutions.
About speaker:
Prof. Alireza Bab-Hadiashar is a multidisciplinary engineering scholar with extensive industrial research experience. His expertise includes computer vision, intelligent automation, and mechatronic design. He began his academic career as a postdoctoral researcher at Monash University, then held teaching and research roles at Swinburne University of Technology, where he was appointed Associate Professor in 2004.
In 2009, he conducted biomedical imaging research during a one-year tenure at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Since 2011, he has been a Professor of Mechatronics at RMIT University, where he leads the Intelligent Automation Research Group and serves as Director of the Master’s Program in Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering.
