What's new with me?
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[Nov 2024]
Winner of "Education/Academic Leader of the Year Award", 2024, UK
- ​"Education/Academic Leader of the Year Award" Winner
​- “We are Novi, Forward Ladies”
- Sponsored by The Open University, BASF, GKN Aerospace.. Link Finalists 2024 and Winners 2024​​
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[Nov 2024]
Winner of "Rising of the Year Award", 2024, London, UK
- ​Winner of “Rising Star of the Year” among more than 6000s of entries in UK by Computing's 2024
Women in Tech Excellence Awards (Nov 2024), London, UK
- Link Finalists Women In Tech Excellence Awards - 2024 shortlist
- Link Winner Women In Tech Excellence Awards - 2024 winners
- Sponsored by HSBC, Lenovo, Capgemini, and few more industries
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Hildegard Franke Early Career Award
[Oct 2024]
Issued by 43rd Annual Conference PHCSG AGM 2024 | BCS · Oct 2024​
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Prestigious “Hildegard Franke Early Career Award” part of the 43rd Annual Conference PHCSG AGM 2024 | BCS . Since last 43 years in the UK only 2 people every year get shortlisted among nominations for this award. It is given to Clinicians/GPs/Doctors/Medical researchers for their contributions in health domain in the UK. As we all know Computer Science with AI/ML is responsible for overshadowing lots of areas of research now, that’s why this time a Computer Science person is also among top-2 finalists for such prestigious GPs/Clinician/Primary Care Awards.
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Speaker Invitation from REWIRED Conference 2025
[Oct 2024]
​​Link of Conference: Home - Digital Health Rewired
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One of the UK’s biggest and #1 best digital health conferences
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Organized Workshop for Early Career Researchers on AI and MLTC at The University of Edinburgh
[Oct 2024]
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Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop with 30 Attendees around the topic of Interdisciplinarity including AI, Machine Learning, Multiple Long Term Conditions, Academics/Industry etc.
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Using received funding of £10K from AIM-RSF NIHR.
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Shortlisted for Education/Academic Leader of the Year 2024
[Oct 2024]
Link of shortlisting: Finalists 2024
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Invitation for Talk at Alan Turing Institute
[Oct 2024]
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From AIM-RSF (part of £23 million investment by the NIHR) at The Alan Turing Institute
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In Newsletter: AIM Newsletter - October 2024​
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AI for Multiple Long-term Conditions Research Support Facility​​
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Directed the Challenge at Data Study Group, at Alan Turing Institute in collaboration with Industry Transport for London (TfL)
[Sept 2024]
It was an honour for me to Direct and Lead the Data Study Group Challenge (9-13th Sept week) as Principal Investigator on "Identifying Physical Assets on the London Underground Railways" in collaboration with TfL Transport for London at The Alan Turing Institute.
My team proposed improved versions of SAM-2 and U-Net image segmentation models while incorporating depth information, achieving over 95% precision and ~100% instance-level recall in identifying various assets of Underground Railways.
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[Aug 2024]
Included among Top-30 Rising Stars in the UK
- Showcasing the UK's most talented young tech professionals 2024
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- Computing showcase top-30 individuals in UK yearly from all awards & events consisting of >6000 tech talents.
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- Link: Announcing the top IT Rising Stars 2024 (computing.co.uk)
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- Link for my profile page Computing created: Asra Aslam (computing.co.uk)
New!
Aug 2024
NIHR Team Science Grant Accepted
Role: Co-PI Duration: 1 year Grant worth: 100K
Topic: Artificial Intelligence for EquiTech-MLTC
Collaborators: Imperial College, King's College, University of Edinburgh, & others, UK
Got Accepted by Horizons Institute Global Academy Crucible Programme
[July 2024]
Got Shortlisted for 25 researchers Horizon's Cohort to collaborate with multiple universities including University of Hamburg, KIT, University of Witwatersrand, University of Pretoria (UK, Germany, South Africa)
- Receive funding for One Project
- Funding to visit any University among collaborators for 10 days
- Mentorship for 1 year
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Finalist of Women in Tech Excellence Awards
[July 2024]
Got Shortlisted for two categories "Rising Star of the Year" and "Role Model of the Year"
Link of Awards: Women In Tech Excellence Awards - Home Page
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Got invited to present Work Package-3 at University of Liverpool, UK
[June 2024]
Discussed how we are using Machine Learning at University of Leeds for the Optimization of Medicines for patients
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Joined "Alan Turing Institute, UK as "Principal Investigator (PI)"
in Collaboration with Industry and "Transport for London"
[June 2024]
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Organized 13th Women in COmputer Vision Workshop
at IEEE/CVF CVPR 2024 @Seattle, US
[June 2024]
Got Invited to represent AIM-RSF at AI-UK 2024 Conference 2024 (by Alan Turing Institute, London)
Most Awaited Public and Patient Involvement Engagement (PPIE) event @University of Liverpool
"Highly Commended" Women of the Future Awards UK 2023, Sponsored by Aviva
- Women of the Future Awards founded 17 years ago in Asia and UK
Link of Women of the Futurw Awards Programme
- Got shortlisted first among top-5 nominees in Science Domain in UK.
- On Awards ceremony in London, got announced as "Highly Commended" winner for the Women of the Future Awards
Presented our Project DynAIRx at Alan Turing Institute
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Shorlisted for "Women of the Future Awards" UK 2023
I got shortlisted among finalists for the “Women of the Future Awards 2023” in Science domain (under 35 years old), Sponsored by Aviva Link of Women of the Futurw Awards Programme
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[Oct 2023]
Covered by AIM-RSF The Alan Turing Institute for featuring me at Spotlight in the Newsletter link
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[Oct 2023]
Conducted Workshop
Public Engagement for Patient Medication
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[Sept 2023]
Got Shortlisted by NIHR Team Science for Conducting Research
on Multiple Long Term Condtions
Duration: 3 days, Venue: De Vere Cranage Estate
[June 2023]
Invited Talk
Title: Key Fundamentals of AI/ML including challenges and Opportunities for Health Data Community with a use case of DynAIRx for Optimising Prescriptions)
Venue: N8 CIR Digital Health Day on 22nd June @Nexus University of Leeds
[June 2023]
Organised Workshop WiCV at IEEE/CV CVPR 2023 Vancouver, Canada
Women in Computer Vision Workshop
Finance Chair and Organizer
18 Jun 2023 – 22 Jun 2023
[May 2023]
Invited Talk
Title: DynAIRx: Multimorbidity Clustering
Venue: University of Liverpool, UK
[April 2023]
Invited Talk on IoT Day
(among 24 Women across the Globe)
Title: Object Detection in Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT) at IoT day
Venue: Online on 9April 2023 (Talk + Panel Session)
[April 2023]
Invited Talk
Title: DynAIRx: Dynamic AI for Optimising Prescriptions)
Venue: AIM RSF Conference (26-27th April 2023) by Alan Turing Institute at Birmingham Link of Conference
[Jan 2023]
Organising Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) workshop @CVPR 2023 Vancouver, Canada
[Nov 2022]
Presented paper at the 37th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 2022)
[Aug 2022]
Mentor for ML4H symposium at NeurIPS 2022
[Aug 2022]
Area Chair for Women in Machine Learning (WiML) at NeurIPS (Thirty-sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems) 2022
[Aug 2022]
Industrial Partner Talk at University of Toronto and the Vector Institute
[July 2022]
Presenting Poster at ICML 2022
[July 2022]
Leading Breakout Session at Women in Machine Learning at ICML 2022
[June 2022]
Joined as Mentor for Women in Data Science, DS4A @Correlation One
[June 2022]
Presenting Paper (Oral) at IEEE/CVF CVPR 2022 (Conference Rank A*)
[March 2021]
Joined mindtrace(dot)ai as Machine Learning Researcher (Computer Vision)
[March 2021]
Finished PhD Thesis
(University of Galway, Ireland)
Title: Detecting Seen/Unseen Objects with Reducing Response Time
for Multimedia Event Processing
Ph.D. Thesis (NUI Galway Ireland)
Link of Thesis: https://aran.library.nuigalway.ie/handle/10379/16903