DrThommen George Karimpanal

Lecturer, Information Technology (AI)

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

  • Lecturer, Information Technology (AI)
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology
  • +61 3 522 73637 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING EXPERTISE

I teach a range of topics in artificial intelligence, including reinforcement learning, deep learning and machine learning. I am passionate about developing intuitive and engaging teaching and assessment approaches that minimise unnecessary cognitive load and help students focus on the key concepts being learned, while maintaining sufficient depth of knowledge. I also develop and incorporate custom-built generative AI tools to provide students with more personalised, interactive and effective learning experiences.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT CHAIR
    SIT796 (Reinforcement Learning)
  • UNIT CHAIR
    SIT319/744 Deep Learning
  • UNIT CHAIR
    SIG720 Machine Learning
  • COURSE DIRECTOR
    Bachelor of Artificial Intelligence
    10 Feb 2025
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    SIT788 (Engineering AI Solutions)
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Empathetic Reinforcement Learning Agents
    Manisha Senadeera - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Efficient Co-Design Approaches for Robotic Agents
    Kishan Reddy Nagiredla - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Towards Adapting Reinforcement Learning Agents
    Ajsal Shereef Palattuparambil - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Representation-Level Understanding and Control of Large Language Models.
    Omer Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Sim-to-Real Transfer for Robotic Deep Reinforcement Learning
    David Azimi - School of Information Technology
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Steering Affect in Large Language Model Agents
    Vignesh Senthilnathan - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Safer AI via agent recognition of out-of-distributions states in reinforcement learning
    Emil Mittag - School of Information Technology
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Advancing Spatiotemporal Precipitation Prediction and Monitoring using Multi-Satellite Data Integration with Deep Learning Approaches
    Kartikey Mehar - School of Information Technology
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Robust and Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Physics Tasks
    Buddhika Semage - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Human Feedback for Skill Discovery in Reinforcement Learning
    Maxence Pierre Henri Hussonnois - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2026