Honors and Awards
Grant/Funding Support Acknowledgement
PI in The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Research Grant, Standard Research -( NR1 EP/W000652/1) Future blood testing for inclusive monitoring and personalised analytics Network+ grant on "FERRIQ: Ai-driven Mapping Of Disease Trajectories Of Patients With Genetic Iron Overload To Inform Development Of Clinical Decision Support Systems" 01 May 2023 to 30 April 202, duration 1 year, (Funded: £50,000).
Warwick Co-I in NIHR AAC AI award AI_AWARD02688 on "COBIx: Multi-site validation of automated AI tool for screening of large bowel endoscopic biopsy slides" 01/2023-01 to 12/2026 (3 years) (Total funding amount £ 2,599,963, Warwick allocation: £1,169,014.46)
PI in EPSRC New Investigator Award (EP/W02909X/1) on Causal Modelling with Graph Neural Networks for Personalised Medicine in Computational Pathology, 01 July 2022 to 30 June 2025, Total Allocation: £376,202.
PI for the project grant "Vibrational spectroscopy based prediction of spatial analysis" under EPSRC "Integrating Clinical Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy with digital pathology and AI: CLIRPath-AI" (Ref: EP/W00058X/1 R126428 Start date: 26 Sep 2022, duration 09 Months) (Funded: £ 50,000)
PI for the project grant "Breast Cancer Receptor Status Prediction through Vibrational Spectroscopy" under EPSRC "Integrating Clinical Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy with digital pathology and AI: CLIRPath-AI" (Ref: EP/W00058X/1 R126428 Start date: 26 Sep 2022, duration 09 Months) (Funded: £ 50,000)
Warwick PI for "Machine Learning approaches to detect pre-neoplastic changes in mesothelial cells for early detection of mesothelioma using pleural fluid data" under the "Mesothelioma early diagnosis project grant" scheme by Asthma + Lung UK (A+LUK) (Sep 2022 to 2025) (Total Allocation: £377,054).
Warwick PI in Cancer Research UK Early Detection Committee -Innovation Award titled "PRISM: Identification of Pre-neoplastic Signatures in Mesothelioma" (Ref: C68800/A30731 dated 01/06/2020 to 31/3/2023), Total Allocation: £97K (Warwick Allocation: £50K)
Collaborator on Cancer Research UK Early Detection Committee -Innovation Award titled Haem-AI "Advanced early detection of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) using digital image analysis, computational pathology and machine learning" (Ref: C68644/A30721 dated April 1 2020, duration 1 year). Role: Listed Co-Investigator/Collaborator (total allocation: £100K).
Co-I and Collaborator on Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund Multi-modal Data Integration grant on "Coupling Spatial Transcriptomics, Histology and Proteomics to deconvolve multicellular spatial spots" Led by University of Manchester (June ‘22 to Dec ‘22, Total allocation: £24K)
PhD Studentship from GlaxoSmithKline for a PhD student under my supervision (2019-2023).
Pathology image data Lake for Education, Analytics, and Discovery (PathLAKE and PathLAKE Plus Follow-up) 01 Jan 2019 (duration: 51 months): PathLAKE Overall grant: £50 Million (Warwick grant amount £2,275,277) and PathLAKE+ Warwick Grant Amount £313,917. Funder: Innovate UK, Role: Researcher Assistant Professor and Co-I in PathLAKE+ .
Principal Investigator for Grant of PKR 2.0M for establishment of PIEAS Data Science Lab under HEC Institutional Strengthening Program, 2017.
Principal Investigator of Grant of PKR 4.7M for In Silico Prediction and Experimental Validation of Host-Pathogen Protein Interactions by Higher Education Commission, 2017.
International Society for Computational Biology fellowship for presenting research work at European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) 2012, Basel, Switzerland.
Teacher travel grant by Higher Education Commission of the Government of Pakistan for presenting research in the 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE-2009), Beijing, PR of China, June 11-13, 2009.
Teacher travel grant by Higher Education Commission of the Government of Pakistan for presenting research in the 2nd International Conference on Bioinformatics & Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE-2008), Shanghai, PR of China, May 16-18, 2008.
Awards and Honors
HEC Best Young Research Scholar Award 2019 by Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (In the field of Computer Science)
PIEAS Performance Gold Medal 2019 by Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences
International Presidential Fellowship at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colroado, USA. (October, 2012)
Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) international honor society for the computing and information disciplines, Colorado State University, Fort Collins chapter, 2011.
President, Pakistan Rams Society (PakRams) - A Colorado State University student organization aimed at spreading awareness about Pakistan through in the USA through programs at CSU, 2011.
J. William Fulbright doctoral scholarship at Colorado State University (August, 2010) by US State department and Higher Education Commission of the Government of Pakistan.
Faculty advisor for PIEAS Debating Society – a student organization aimed at promoting free speech and debates at PIEAS, 2010.
National Youth Award by Ministry of Youth Affairs, Government of Pakistan in the field of Science and Technology, 2009.
Merit certificate by Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences (PIEAS) for excellence in academics during MS (System Engineering), 2007.
Fellowship by Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) for MS (System Engineering) studies, 2005.
PIEAS gold medal for best research thesis in BS(Computer & Information Sciences), 2005.
PIEAS gold medal for excellence in academics in BS(Computer & Information Sciences), 2005.
Certificates for winning soccer and athletics (long-jump) competition in PIEAS sports gala 2003, 2004.
Fauji Foundation Merit Scholarship for excellence in HSSC examination, 2001.
Certificates for winning Pakistan Air Force Colleges and Schools Quiz competitions 1999, 2001 as part of the quiz teams from PAF Intermediate College, Kallar-Kahar, Pakistan.
Merit Scholarship by Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Pakistan for excellence in higher secondary school examination at PAF Intermediate College, Kallar-Kahar, Pakistan, 2001.
Merit Scholarship by Rawalpindi Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Pakistan for excellence in secondary school examination at District Public School, Chakwal, Pakistan, 1999.