Ba‐Ngu Vo

Timeline

1. 1994–1997

   Mathematics and engineering degrees

   Dual bachelor's degrees in pure mathematics and electrical engineering, with first-class honours, come in 1994, and a PhD follows in 1997.

2. 2000–2010

   Winthrop Professor at UWA

   In 2000, Vo joins the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne. In 2010, a move to the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Australia brings the posts of Winthrop Professor and Chair of Signal Processing.

3. 2010

   A Eureka Prize for tracking

   A team led by Vo, with Ba-Tuong Vo and Antonio Cantoni, wins the 2010 Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in support of Defence or National Security. Their new family of algorithms for tracking multiple targets is already used in international surveillance, including the US Space Fence, and handles thousands of objects on off-the-shelf computers.

4. 2013

   Chair of Signals and Systems

   In January 2013, Curtin University announces that Vo has been appointed Professor and Chair of Signals and Systems in its Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Vo is working with colleagues to establish a research centre on sensors, signals and systems.

5. 2015–2017

   Labeled multi-Bernoulli tracking filters

   In 2015, Hung Gia Hoang, Ba-Tuong Vo and Vo post an implementation of the generalized labeled multi-Bernoulli (GLMB) filter that combines prediction and update into a single step and truncates with Gibbs sampling. In 2017, Daniel S. Bryant, Ba-Tuong Vo, Vo and Brandon A. Jones post a GLMB-based filter that adds object spawning to birth and death and estimates a spawned object's state together with its lineage.

6. 2020

   A multi-camera 3D tracker

   In 2020, Jonah Ong, Ba-Tuong Vo, Vo, Du Yong Kim and Sven Nordholm post a paper on an online multi-camera multi-object tracker that requires only monocular detector training and gives 3D trajectory estimates in the world frame. A 3D occlusion model for Bayesian multi-view multi-object filtering folds track management, state estimation, clutter rejection and occlusion handling into a single recursion.

7. By 2022

   IEEE Fellow and Future Fellow

   By 2022, Vo is an IEEE Fellow and a recipient of the Australian Research Council's inaugural Future Fellowship. In January 2022, the IEEE Signal Processing Society schedules Vo to present a webinar, Bayesian Multi-object Tracking: Probability Hypothesis Density Filter and Beyond, on using labels in the random finite set framework to estimate multi-object trajectories.

8. As of October 2026

   Professor at Curtin University

   Vo is a professor in electrical engineering at Curtin University, with research in target tracking, sensor management, computer vision and situational awareness. In April 2026, Vo and Ba-Tuong Vo post Multi-Object Posterior Computation via Gibbs Sampling, which develops the first multi-scan multi-object smoothing algorithm for superpositional measurements.