Syed Muhammad Raza

Syed Muhammad Raza

Research Assistant @ CViSS Lab, University of Waterloo
3D/4D Perception (3D Reconstruction, 3DGS) | MLLMs, VLMs, VLA for 3D Perception | Edge AI
iamraza1998(at)gmail.com
About Me
I am an AI researcher and engineer working in computer vision, robotics, autonomous systems, efficient AI, and multimodal learning. As a Research Assistant at the CViSS Lab, I am working on 3D/4D perception (3D reconstruction, 3D Gaussian Splatting), MLLMs, VLMs and VLA for 3D perception, and edge AI.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
  • University of Waterloo
    University of Waterloo
    PhD
    Starting Sep 2026
  • Kumoh National Institute of Technology
    Kumoh National Institute of Technology
    Masters in IT Convergence Engineering
    Feb 2023 - Feb 2025
  • Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology (PAF-KIET)
    Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology (PAF-KIET)
    Bachelors in Computer Science
    Aug 2018 - Sep 2022
Honors & Awards
  • Neurocomputing paper accepted
    2025
  • IEEE Access paper accepted
    2025
  • ICUFN paper accepted
    2024
Selected Publications (view all )
EdgeDAM: Bounding-Box Distractor-Aware Memory for Real-Time Object Tracking
EdgeDAM: Bounding-Box Distractor-Aware Memory for Real-Time Object Tracking
Syed Muhammad Raza, Syed Murtaza Hussain Abidi, Omer Tariq
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing — Submitted — 1st Author
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Anti-Shortcut Distillation via Temporal Negative Knowledge Transfer
Anti-Shortcut Distillation via Temporal Negative Knowledge Transfer
Syed Muhammad Raza, Omer Tariq, Jeongbae Son
BMVC 2026 — Accepted — 1st Author
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SAD-LoRA: Spectral Alignment for Low-Rank Knowledge Distillation
SAD-LoRA: Spectral Alignment for Low-Rank Knowledge Distillation
Omer Tariq, Syed Muhammad Raza, Jeongbae Son
ICML 2026 ColorAI Workshop — Accepted — 2nd Author
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