Awards/Honours:
2nd Place at DexGraspMotion Challenge 2026 - ECCV 2026 HANDS Workshop
First and Second Runner in 2/3 sub-challenges of SAGE Challenge -- a lighthouse challenge at MICCAI 2025
Best Paper Award Finalist, MIUA 2025
Runner-up, ARCADE Challenge, MICCAI 2023
Google Cloud Research Innovator, 2022
Outstanding Reviewer Award, BMVC, 2021
Outstanding Reviewer Award, BMVC, 2019
Best Student Paper Award of Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing, ICASSP, 2016
Best Paper Award Runner up, ACM ICVGIP, 2016
Professional Activities :
Area Chair, MICCAI 2026
Chair, International Symposium on Federated Learning, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2025
Program Chair, MIUA 2025
Lead organizer, Workshop on "Data Engineering in Medical Imaging (DEMI)" at MICCAI 2024
Lead organizer, Workshop on "Data Engineering in Medical Imaging (DEMI)" at MICCAI 2023
Program Co-chair Fourth Nepal Winter School in AI, 2021
General Co-chair Third Nepal Winter School in AI, 2021
General Co-chair Second Nepal Winter School in AI, 2019
Program Chair First Nepal Winter School in AI, 2018
Paper Selection Chair: BMVC (2023)
Senior Program Committee: AAAI (2023, 2024)
Reviewer: IJCV (2016, 2018) , T-PAMI (2020)
CVPR (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) , NeurIPS (2020, 2021), ICML (2021, 2022 ,2023)
ICCV (2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) , ECCV (2016, 2018, 2020), ICLR (2021, 2022, 2023)
AAAI (2020, 2021, 2022), BMVC (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021,2022) , ACCV (2018, 2020)
MVA (2016), CVIU (2019), ICPR (2020), WACV (2021, 2022)
External PhD Thesis Examination:
Arvapalli Sai Susmitha, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, October 2026
Sophie Haynes, Robert Gordon University, UK, February 2026
Meng Wei, King's College London, UK, November 2025
Bibek Upadhayay, University of New Haven, USA, June 2025