Funding

Doctoral training

MRC Doctoral Landscape Award, University of Aberdeen
Medical Research Council (UKRI) · Co-investigator
The award supports 15 PhD studentships; the first cohort begins in October 2027.

My funding portfolio supports a research programme in reliable multimodal learning, clinical AI and resource-constrained deployment, alongside doctoral training and international research capacity. Roles and award types are identified below; computing allocations are reported separately from cash grants.

Principal investigator — research grants

Enhancing Reliability of Deep Learning-based Algorithms
2025–2029 · PTDF · PI · £99,000

Foundational World Models for Safety-Critical Environments
2026–2027 · Redev.AI Ltd, UK · PI · £100,000

Enhancing Reliability of VLM for GI Endoscopy
2026–2027 · MICCAI Society · PI · US$1,200

Frontiers Seed Funding
2023–2024 · Royal Academy of Engineering, UK · PI · £20,000

Collaborative research grants

Non-contrast CT Head Image Analysis
2024–2027 · Ronald Sutton Academic Trust, UK · Co-PI · £30,800

Inclusive AI for cancer care
2026–2027 · SERI, Switzerland · International Partner · CHF 25,000

Cor-AI (Cardiac AI)
2024–2025 · SERI, Switzerland · Co-PI · CHF 35,000

SimUP
2024–2025 · SULSA Pooling Network · Co-PI · £4,000

International leadership and capacity building

Swiss–South Asia Symposium on Secure Health AI
Second edition, 2026–2027 · Chair · SERI · CHF 15,000
First edition, 2025–2026 · Chair · SERI · CHF 15,000

Computing and infrastructure awards

NepaliLM: Continual Pretraining of LLMs on a Large-Scale Nepali Corpus as a Blueprint for Low-Resource Language Adaptation
2026–2027 · Swiss AI Initiative, Alps Supercomputer · PI
11,000 H200 GPU hours · estimated value US$30,000

Multimodal Federated Learning Benchmark in Healthcare
2025–2026 · Swiss AI Initiative, Alps Supercomputer · PI
15,000 H200 GPU hours · estimated value US$45,000

Google Cloud Research Innovators
2023 · PI · US$10,000 research credits

Fellowships and recognition

DAAD Postdoc-Net-AI Fellow, 2020
Selected among 22 AI researchers from 192 applicants.