Funding

Research Funding:

Doctoral Training

MRC Doctoral Landscape Award, University of Aberdeen | Role: Co-I | Funder: Medical Research Council (UKRI) | 15 PhD studentships; first cohort begins October 2027.

Global Leadership & Capacity Building

• 2026 – 2027: Second Edition of Swiss–South Asia Symposium on Secure Health AI | Role: Chair | Funder: SERI (State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation) | Grant: CHF 15,000.

• 2025 – 2026: First Edition of Swiss–South Asia Symposium on Secure Health AI | Role: Chair | Funder: SERI (State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation) | Grant: CHF 15,000.

Research Grants & International Consortia

• 2025 –  2029: Enhancing Reliability of Deep Learning-based Algorithms | Role: PI |  Funder: PTDF |  Amount: £99K

• 2026 - 2027:   Enhancing Reliability of VLM for GI Endoscopy | Role: PI | Funder: MICCAI Society| Amount: 1.2K USD

• 2026 –  2027: Foundational World Models for Safety-Critical Environments | Role: PI | Funder: Redev.AI Ltd. UK | Amount : £100K

• 2024 – 2027: Non-contrast CT Head Image Analysis | Role: Co-PI | Funder: The Ronald Sutton Academic Trust (UK) | Amount: £30,800.

• 2026 – 2027: Inclusive AI for cancer care| Role: International Partner | Funder: SERI (Switzerland) | Amount: CHF 25,000.

• 2024 – 2025: Cor-AI (Cardiac AI) | Role: Co-PI | Funder: SERI (Switzerland) | Amount: CHF 35,000.

• 2023 – 2024: Frontiers Seed Funding | Role: PI | Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) | Amount: £20,000.

• 2024 – 2025: SimUP | Role: Co-PI | Funder: SULSA Pooling Network | Amount: £4,000.

High-Performance Computing & Infrastructure

• 2026 – 2027:  NepaliLM: Continual Pretraining of LLMs on a Large-Scale Nepali Corpus as a Blueprint for Low-Resource Language Adaptation| Role: PI |  Funder:  Swiss AI Initiative (Alps Supercomputer) | Award: 11,000 H200 GPU Hours (Est. Value $30,000 USD).

• 2025 – 2026: Multimodal Federated Learning Benchmark in Healthcare| Role: PI | Funder: Swiss AI Initiative (Alps Supercomputer)  | Award: 15,000 H200 GPU Hours (Est. Value $45,000 USD).

• 2023: Google Cloud Research Innovators | Role: PI | Award: $10,000 USD Research Credits.

Fellowships & Recognition

• 2020: DAAD Postdoc-Net-AI Fellow | Selected as top 22 AI researchers globally (out of 192).