Service

My academic service spans conference leadership, grant and innovation prize review, external doctoral examination, scholarly peer review and international AI research community building.

Conference and programme leadership

Area Chair · MICCAI 2026
Programme Chair · MIUA 2025
Chair · International Symposium on Federated Learning, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2025
Paper Selection Chair · BMVC 2023
Senior Programme Committee · AAAI 2023, 2024

Grant and innovation prize review

Royal Academy of Engineering · Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation · Reviewer, 2026
Royal Academy of Engineering · Frontiers Seed Funding · Reviewer, 2025
British Council · International Science Partnerships Fund · Reviewer, 2024

Research community and capacity building

Lead organiser · Data Engineering in Medical Imaging (DEMI) workshop, MICCAI 2023 and 2024

Nepal Winter School in AI
Programme Co-chair · Fourth edition, 2021
General Co-chair · Third edition, 2021
General Co-chair · Second edition, 2019
Programme Chair · First edition, 2018

External doctoral 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

Journal and conference peer review

Journals
IJCV (2016, 2018) · IEEE TPAMI (2020) · CVIU (2019)

Conferences
CVPR (2016–2023) · ICCV (2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) · ECCV (2016, 2018, 2020)
NeurIPS (2020, 2021) · ICML (2021–2023) · ICLR (2021–2023)
AAAI (2020–2022) · BMVC (2018–2022) · ACCV (2018, 2020)
MVA (2016) · ICPR (2020) · WACV (2021, 2022)

Selected awards and recognition

2026 · Second place, DexGraspMotion Challenge, ECCV HANDS Workshop
2025 · First and second runner-up in two of three SAGE Challenge sub-challenges, MICCAI
2025 · Best Paper Award finalist, MIUA
2023 · Runner-up, ARCADE Challenge, MICCAI
2022 · Google Cloud Research Innovator
2021 · Winner, FetReg Endoscopic Vision Challenge, MICCAI
2021 and 2019 · Outstanding Reviewer Award, BMVC
2016 · Best Student Paper Award, Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing, ICASSP
2016 · Best Paper Award runner-up, ACM ICVGIP