Associate ProfessorSunil Aryal

(He/his/him)

Associate Professor

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology

  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology
  • +61 3 924 45615 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Data Mining and Machine Learning -- Practical and Robust Data Mining, Similarity Measures, Classification, Clustering, Anomaly Detection, Ensemble-based and Random Methods, Learning from small subsamples of data, Learning from mixed (numeric and categorical) data, Bias and Fairness in Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Autonomous Systems, and Health Informatics

Application Domains: Defence, National Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Advanced Manufacture, Agriculture, Healthcare, Sports

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    APR Internship - Multimodal Self-Distillation for Low-Label Precise Event Spotting in Sports Videos
    11 May 2026 - 11 Sep 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    APR Intern - $21,000.00
  • INTERNAL GRANT
    Adversarial Machine Learning and Intrusion Detection System
    Deakin University1 May 2026 - 1 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    • Al-Hawawreh M,
    • Bouadjenek MR,
    • Aryal S
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Adversarial Machine Learning and Intrusion Detection System
    Deakin University1 May 2026 - 1 Dec 2026
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Research Internship Agreement: 3AI Platform - AI Training Bootcamps
    24 Jun 2024 - 12 Mar 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    Intersect Australia Limited - $12,600.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    SummerTech Live Program 2024
    30 Nov 2023 - 30 Apr 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry - $127,000.00
  • GRANT
    Intelligent Table Tennis Match Analysis: Automated Insights Extraction through Machine Learning and Computer Vision.
    16 Oct 2023 - 16 Apr 2027
    People funded by this grant:
    Table Tennis Australia Ltd - $62,500.00
  • GRANT
    Empowering Agents with Human Feedback: Integrating Implicit and Explicit Signals in Deep Reinforcement Learning
    30 Sep 2023 - 29 Sep 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development - 23IOA087 - $529,864.20
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Design and delivery of a Graduate Certificate of Secondary Digital Technologies.
    15 Feb 2023 - 28 Mar 2026
    People funded by this grant:
    DETVic Grant - Research - Department of Education and Training Victoria - $1,112,571.00
  • GRANT
    Machine Learning in Heterogeneous Data from Multiple Sources
    17 Dec 2022 - 16 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    Air Force Office of Scientific Research United States of America - 22IOA048 - $327,782.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Contributions to Edge and Multimodal Machine Learning.
    10 Nov 2022 - 31 Dec 2025
    People funded by this grant:
    Technology Innovation Institute - Sole Proprietorship LLC - $532,186.20
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Application of Generic Actual Argument Model to represent complex decisions and generate narratives.
    2 May 2022 - 30 Nov 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    Department of Defence - 11416 - $30,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Utilizing Extractive - Abstractive Summarization for Understanding the Narrative of Social Media Users from Multimodal Data.
    12 Oct 2021 - 12 Feb 2022
    People funded by this grant:
    The Office of National Intelligence - $20,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    A competency-aware multi-agent framework for human-machine teams in adversarial environments.
    5 Feb 2021 - 31 Jan 2024
    People funded by this grant:
    DSTO Grant - Research - Defence Science & Technology Organisation - ID10135 - $151,242.56
  • COLLABORATIVE GRANT
    Modeling Adversary Intent Using Multiobjective Reinforcement Learning.
    15 Dec 2020 - 16 Jun 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    DSTO Grant - Research - Defence Science & Technology Organisation - MyIP10078 - $53,728.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Developing robust framework for practical data mining.
    24 Sep 2020 - 23 Dec 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Sunil Aryal
    Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development - $150,000.00
  • CONTRACT RESEARCH
    Ensemble Learning for Outlier Detection.
    24 Sep 2020 - 24 Mar 2021
    People funded by this grant:
    • Sunil Aryal
    DSTO contract - $20,000.00