
Somayeh graduated from QUT in 2020 with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Mechatronics, achieving First Class Honours. During her undergraduate studies, she worked for three years as a software engineering intern at Deswik. Her Honours project, which focused on deep learning temporal features for vision-based aircraft detection, was published at ACRA 2020 and earned her the IEEE Best Final Year Thesis Award across all fields of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology.
In 2021, Somayeh began her PhD, researching biologically-inspired spiking neural networks for scalable visual place recognition under the supervision of Dr. Tobias Fischer and Professor Michael Milford. Her PhD is currently under external examination. She has published her research in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL) journal and the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), presenting her work at ICRA in 2022 and 2023.
In 2024, she transitioned into a postdoctoral research fellow role within the same group at the QUT Centre for Robotics, where she is continuing to explore visual place recognition. Her research interests span robotics, computer vision, and neuromorphic computing.