Received a research grant of AED 100,000 in 2026 and secured high-performance GPU workstations and servers to support advanced AI research
Kajal Kansal
Kajal Kansal is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at BITS Pilani Dubai Campus, UAE. Previously, she was a Post Doctoral researcher in the School of Computing (SoC), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore from 2021-2024. NUS is one of the top-most university in Asia and one of the World's top universities. During her time there, she collaborated with Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli (Provost Chair, SoC) at the N-CRiPT Lab and NEC Laboratories.
Research Area
She specializes in Artificial Intelligence, focusing on areas such as Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Natural Language Processing. Her research interests encompass Multimedia Content Analysis, Person Re-identification, Privacy and Risk Management, and Adversarial Machine Learning.
Education
She completed her doctoral study from IIIT-Delhi in 2020. From 2019 to 2020, she served as a Research Intern with the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.Additionally, she earned her M.Tech. from IIIT-Delhi in 2018.
Research Achievements
She has authored numerous scientific articles and also serving as a reviewer for various journals, including IEEE Transactions, international conferences and journal. Kajal was awarded the Visvesvaraya Research Fellowship and is a member of IEEE. In 2020, she received the InSc Young Researcher Award and has also won several travel grants to present her research at international events. In 2024, she was honored with the Professional Women Achiever Award at the Women of Substance Conference.
International Collaborators
Mohan Kankanhalli, Dean, Professor, IEEE Fellow, National University of Singapore Yongkang Wong, Assistant Director, N-CriPT, SOC, National University of Singapore Shinchi Satoh, Professor, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan Zheng Wang, Professor, Wuhan University, China Dilip K. Prasad, Associate Professor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromso
Community Services
Guest Editor, Applied Sciences Special Issue Recent Advances in Image Processing (since 2022) Reviewer of Scientific journals
IEEE-TCSVT (Transaction on Circuits and Systems on video technology)
IEEE-TIP (Transaction on Image Processing)
IEEE-TII (Transaction on Industrial Informatics)
IEEE-TOI (Transaction on Medical Imaging)
ACM-TOMM (Transaction on Multimedia)
ETRI Journal
IEEE-ACCESS
Reviewer of International Conferences
IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
IEEE/CVF International Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME)
International Conference on Database Systems for Advance Applications (Demo Track)
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (ACM-WSDM)