Salman Khan
Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Australian National University
Dr. Salman Khan is an Associate Professor at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), where he leads large-scale initiatives at the intersection of artificial intelligence, climate resilience, and Earth observation. His work focuses on building robust, generalizable, and scalable AI systems that operate reliably in open-world settings. He works on vision–language models, lifelong and continual learning, and geospatial AI, translating advances in machine learning into real-world applications in climate science, sustainable agriculture, and environmental monitoring.
He has authored over 200 publications in leading venues such as CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, TPAMI, and IJCV, and regularly serves as Area Chair and senior program committee member at major AI conferences. His research has received multiple recognitions, including a CVPR Best Paper nomination, ACCV Best Student Paper Honorable Mention, and the ICML TerraBytes Best Paper Award.
Before joining MBZUAI, he served as a Senior Scientist at the Inception Institute and as a Research Scientist at Data61/CSIRO. He received his PhD in Computer Vision from The University of Western Australia and is committed to advancing AI systems that are scientifically rigorous and societally impactful.