Awards
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Winner of "Education / Academic Leader of the Year" Award, UK 2024 "We are Novi, Forward Ladies" (Nov 2024), Sponsored by The Open University, BASF, GKN Aerospace.., Link Finalists 2024, Winners 2024, Asra Aslam Winner
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Winner of "Rising of the Year" Award (among 6000 candidates), London, UK 2024 "Women in Tech Excellence Awards, Computing Co. UK" (Nov 2024), Sponsored by HSBC, Lenovo, Capgemini, and few more industries, Link Finalists 2024, Winners 2024, Asra Aslam Winner
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“Hildegard Franke Early Career Award” (Nov 2024) part of 43rd Conference Annual PHCSG AGM 2024, Every year only 2 people get shortlisted for this award in UK for their contributions in Medical Science, Link: PHCSG AGM and annual conference 2024 | BCS
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"Top-30 Rising Star" (August 2024) Dedicated webpage by computing for me
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"Top Machine Learning Voice" by LinkedIn (Aug 2024)
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Women in Tech Excellence Awards Finalist (July 2024):
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"Women of the Future Award, Highly Commended Winner" UK Nov 2023 in Science Category, Sponsored by Aviva, Link 2023 - Women of the Future Awards
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Global Talent Award (with Exceptional) by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Feb 2023
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Travel Award, IEEE/CVF CVPR, ICML, AISTATS, 2021-2023
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Hackathon Winner, UCD, Ireland, 2016
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Rank 3 in Master's Batch, 2015
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Winner for Poster Presentation, 2014
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Best Programmer Award in B.Tech Batch, 2013 (Hobby :-) Coding)
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Best Poetry Writing (1st Place), April 2013 (Hobby :-) Poetry)
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Winner for Coding Competition, 2013 (Hobby :-) Coding)
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Winner of College Chess Championship (1st Place), 2011 (Hobby :-) Chess)
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Winner of College Chess Championship (1st Place), 2010 (Hobby :-) Chess)
Grants
Dec 2025
Funding: UKRI BBSRC (Status: In-Review)
Role: Principal Investigator (PI) Duration: 6 months Grant worth: ~£35K
Topic: Explainable AI with Multimodalities in Biosciences
Collaborators: Team of 8, Team Members from University of Nottingham, University of Loughborough, Industry (CPI), Teesside University, University of Liverpool and few more
Dec 2025
Funding: NIHR PASF Award (Status: Accepted)
Role: Principal Investigator (PI) Duration: 1 year Grant worth: ~£25K
Topic: Skin Cancer Diagnosis without Biopsy using Generative AI
Collaborators: Team of 3, Team Members: Prof. Micheal J. Cork (Professor of Dermatology , Co-Director of Sheffield Dermatology Research) and Dr Simon G. Danby (Senior Research Fellow, Co-Director of Sheffield Dermatology Research) at School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield, UK
Oct 2025
Funding: Prime Funding, Research Stimulation Fund (RSF) (Status: Accepted)
Role: Principal Investigator (PI) Duration: 6 months Grant worth: ~£5K
Topic: Digital Health for Chronic Conditions
Collaborators: Team of 4, Team Members from CIRCLE, Digital Care and Innovation research strand at Centre for Care and School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
Jan 2025
Funding: NIHR Team Science Award (Status: Accepted)
Role: Co-PI Duration: 1.5 year Grant worth: ~£100K
Topic: Artificial Intelligence for EquiTech-MLTC
Collaborators: Team of 8, Team Members from Imperial College, King's College, University of Edinburgh, & others, UK
June 2024
Funding: Alan Turing Institute DSG (Status: Accepted)
Role: Principal Investigator (PI) Duration: 8 months Grant worth: ~£80K
Topic: Computer Vision (Asset Inspection) for London Underground Railways (>70% of London Metro data)
Collaborators: Team of 12, Team Members from Industry "Transport for London (TfL)" and Alan Turing Institute UK
June 2024
Funding: Horizon One: Global Academy Crucible (Status: Accepted)
Role: Co-PI Duration: 1 year Grant worth: ~£10K
Topic: Imaging-EHR in Health Care
Collaborators: University of Hamburg, KIT, University of Witwatersrand, University of Pretoria (UK, Germany, South Africa)
March 2024
Funding: UKRI CDT (Status: Accepted)
Role: Co-Applicant Duration: 3 years Grant worth: ~£100K
Topic: Image Segmentation in Knee Replacement
Collaborators: Team of 4, Team Members from University of Leeds (Dr Samuel Relton, & Prof Philip Conaghan), UK
June 2023 & June 2024
Funding: Apple, Meta, Google, Amazon & Others Sponsors (Status: Accepted)
Role: Principal Investigator (PI) Duration: 2 years Grant worth: ~£200K
Collaborators: Team of 9, Team Members from Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) Community (US, Europe, &UK)
March 2024
Funding: AIM Research Support Facility (RSF) Alan Turing (Status: Accepted)
Role: Co-PI Duration: 2 days event Grant worth: ~£10K
Topic: AI-MLTC for ECRs
Collaborators: Team of 4, Team Members from University of Leeds and Liverpool (Erin McCloskey, & Emma Lo), UK
Moved to Industry after PhD, Returned back in 2023
March 2018
Funding: NVIDIA GPU Grant (Status: Accepted)
Role: PI Grant worth: ~£6K
Topic: Object Detection in Smart Cities
Collaborators: Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway, Ireland
2016-2021
Funding: Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (Status: Accepted)
Role: Chief Investigator (PhD Candidate) Duration: 4 years Grant worth: ~£200K
Topic: Unseen Objects in Smart Cities
Collaborators: Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway, Ireland
10+ Conference Grants
Funding: IEEE & Computer Vision Foundation (CVF) (Status: Accepted)
Role: Main Applicant Grant worth: ~£3K each
Topic: AI-MLTC for ECRs
Conferences: CVPR (3 times), ICML, ECCV, AISTATS, AI-UK etc.
Included: Travelling, Accom, Registration & Other expenses)