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New!
[Mar 2026]
Nominated by Univeristy of Sheffield for
NIHR Rising Research Leaders Prizes
Funding: NIHR20 Research Leaders Prizes (Status: Nominated by University, Now in Review)
Role: Principal Investigator (PI) Duration: NA Prize: ~£10K + benefits
Benefits for winners:
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£10,000 professional development prize, paid to your NIHR contracting organisation
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Bespoke leadership and development support to strengthen skills and experience in key areas such as impact, knowledge mobilisation, research inclusion and commercial partnerships
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Formal Recognition with an invitation to a prize presentation at the 2026 NIHR Academy Conference
Guidance: For this Award, each contracting organisation may support up to a maximum of 3 applicants for this competition. Where a contracting organisation supports more than one nominee, it must demonstrate a spread of applicants across profession, gender and ethnicity.
New!
[April 2026]
Research Grant Awarded
Funding: UKRI BBSRC Pilot Project Funding (Status: Accepted)
Role: Principal Investigator (PI) Duration: 6 months Grant worth: ~£10K
Topic: SExplainable AI with Multimodalities in Biosciences
Collaborators: Team of 7, Collaboration of University of Nottingham, University of Loughborough, Industry (CPI), Teesside University, University of Liverpool and few more, UK
This is Pilot Project to apply for next UKRI Grant.
New!
[April 2026]
Invited Speaker @ White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP) programme (UKRI ESRC)
🚀 I was delighted to be invited as a speaker by the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP) to co-deliver a training session on Computer Vision for Social Scientists alongside Andreu Casas (Associate Professor, UKRI Future Leader Fellow)
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The session was dedicated to WRDTP-funded doctoral researchers, bringing together 30 PhD students travelling from multiple institutions including the University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York,University of Hull, and others to take part.
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⭐The White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership (WRDTP) https://wrdtp.ac.uk/ is an ESRC-funded collaboration supporting doctoral training across leading UK universities fostering interdisciplinary research.
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⭐ Spent the day equipping researchers with core skills in:
🔍 The foundations of computer vision and deep learning
🖼️ Image classification and Object Detection
📦 Understanding visual data for social science research
💡 How AI methods can open new directions for interdisciplinary work
New!
[Feb 2026]
Invited Speaker for Training on Computer Vision @Univeristy of Southampton
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I was delighted to be invited by the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP) and Prof Melanie Nind (Professor in Education) to deliver a training at the University of Southampton.
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Spent the day equipping 30 doctoral researchers with core skills in:
🔍 The core ideas behind computer vision
🖼️ Image classification
📦 Object detection
💡 How visual AI methods can unlock new possibilities for interdisciplinary research
New!
[Dec 2025]
Research Grant Awarded
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
New!
[March 2026]
Speaker and Panel Member
🎤 Glad to be part of this session as a Speaker and Panel Member.
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It’s always inspiring to talk to students at the early stages of their careers (undergraduate and master’s) and see their enthusiasm for AI 🤖 and Data Science 📊 careers.
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Many thanks to the University of Sheffield Data Science Society for the invitation, it was a wonderful experience.
New!
[Nov 2025]
Organiser at 36th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2025)
- Honoured to be part of the organising committee for one of the most prestigious international conferences in computer vision: 36th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2025), held from 24–27 November!
- Serve as Organiser, Sponsorship Chair and Oral Session Chair for the conference.
🔗Link: BMVC 2025
New!
[Nov 2025]
Got Invited among Top-25 Reserachers UKRI-BBSRC
- I’m delighted to share that I was invited among one of the top 25 scientists to join the UK Research and Innovation BBSRC AIBIO-UK interdisciplinary event on AI and Biosciences. It was an inspiring sandpit last week bringing together researchers from across the UK (University of Nottingham, University of Oxford, Teesside University, Lancaster University, Loughborough University, CPI, Prifysgol Aberystwyth University, King's College London, University of Bath and many more) to build new ideas at the intersection of AI and biological sciences.
🔍 Presented our project on Explainable AI for Multimodalities: an exciting direction exploring how transparent AI can support complex data for Bio applications.
New!
[Oct 2025]
Research Grant Awarded
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
[June 2025]
Project Compilation as PI with TfL & AlanTuring Institute
- Project: “Identifying Physical Assets on the London Underground Railways”
🔗Link: Publicly available Porject Report here
- Role: Principal Investigator
- Collaboration: The Alan Turing Institute and Transport for London (TfL), is now
- Designed the challenge with TfL, directing and guiding an exceptional team of researchers and engineers through its implementation, and finally publishing the results with insightful feedback from reviewers at universities across the UK.
New!
[May 2025]
Presented Paper and Organised Workshop
- Presented my paper on clustering Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to uncover patient trajectories, to better understand patient patterns and MLTC evolution, work of NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) DynAIRx project (Collaboration of University of Leeds, University of Liverpool, The University of Manchester, University of Glasgow, and others)
- Co-organised a workshop on multidisciplinary approaches to health data, with a special focus on the MLTC AIM-RSF projects (NIHR 2.3 million investment, The Alan Turing Institute) — encouraging collaboration across clinical, data science, and policy domains.
“Empowering Health: Technologies, Trust, and Transformation,” brings together a fantastic community of researchers and practitioners in health informatics.
New!
[May 2025]
Invited Speaker UKRI-MRC AIM-SPF 2025
- Organised by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Medical Research Council (MRC), and NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) at BCEC Birmingham, UK.
New!
[Mar 2025]
Invited Speaker REWIRED 2025
- Read more about my talk here:
🎙️ Speaker Profile: https://lnkd.in/gvbNYUZs
📅 Session Details: https://lnkd.in/gv4jMq_C
[Feb 2025]
Article/Journal Accepted
- Link of Paper
- Journal: BMC Medical Research Methodology
- Paper: Title "An automation framework for clinical codelist development validated with UK data from patients with multiple long-term conditions"
[Jan 2025]
Research Grant Awarded
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
[Oct 2024/Jan 2025]
Offered "Assistant Professor of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence" position at University of Sheffield, UK.
- University of Sheffield (World ranking under 100 QS Ranking)
- My HomePage link
[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
[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
Hildegard Franke Early Career Award
[Oct 2024]
Issued by 43rd Annual Conference PHCSG AGM 2024 | BCS · Oct 2024
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.
Speaker Invitation from REWIRED Conference 2025
[Oct 2024]
Link of Conference: Home - Digital Health Rewired
One of the UK’s biggest and #1 best digital health conferences
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.
Shortlisted for Education/Academic Leader of the Year 2024
[Oct 2024]
Link of shortlisting: Finalists 2024
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
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.
[Aug 2024]
Included among Top-30 Rising Stars in the UK
- Showcasing the UK's most talented young tech professionals 2024
- Computing showcase top-30 individuals in UK yearly from all awards & events consisting of >6000 tech talents.
- Link: Announcing the top IT Rising Stars 2024 (computing.co.uk)
- Link for my profile page Computing created: Asra Aslam (computing.co.uk)
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
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
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
Joined "Alan Turing Institute, UK as "Principal Investigator (PI)"
in Collaboration with Industry and "Transport for London"
[June 2024]
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
New!
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
New!
[Oct 2023]
Covered by AIM-RSF The Alan Turing Institute for featuring me at Spotlight in the Newsletter link
New!
[Oct 2023]
Conducted Workshop
Public Engagement for Patient Medication
New!
[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