2022

• Publication Manuscript Accepted and Published in IEEE Sensors Journal. Title: “Event Classification and Intensity Discrimination for Forest Fire Inference With IoT”. Link to manuscript. This publication is an output from our GRCF project with IIIT-Lucknow, India.

• Grant: KTP: ‘Melanoma Detection using Advance Computer Vision’, Funding Amount: £180,672.00 , Funder: 67% Innovate UK and 33% Check4Cancer Limited, Role: Academic Lead (i.e. PI)

• Grant: KTP: ‘Examine work practices and embed leading-edge management theory to drive operational efficiency in a financial advice SME’, Funding Amount: £185,972.00 , Funder: 67% Innovate UK and 33% Brightstar Financial Limited, Role: Academic Supervisor

• Grant: KTP: ‘Eastern Region Multi-Agency Intelligence Tool’, Funding Amount: Total £1 Million (University of Essex: £103,279.57), Funder: Ministry for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities via “Local Data Accelerator Fund for Children and Families”, Role: Co-investigator

2021

• Publication Manuscript Accepted and Published at UKCI 2021. Title: “Emojional: Emoji Embeddings”. Link to manuscript

• Publication Manuscript Accepted in Scientific Data, Nature. Title: “A magnetoencephalography dataset for motor and cognitive imagery-based brain-computer interface”. Link to manuscript

• Keynote speaker at “ICCCIS-2021: International Conference on Computing, Communication, and Intelligent Systems (ICCCIS-2021), Greater Noida, India. Topic: Advancing Machine-Learning methods Brain-Computer Interfacing. Dates: 19th -20th Feb 2021.

• Member of Advisory Board “Advances in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology (AASET-2021)”, on May 21-22, 2021.

• Grant: KTP: ‘AI-assisted smart off-site communication in property development’, Funding Amount: £211,843.00 , Funder: 67% Innovate UK and 33% Mersea Homes Limited, Role: Academic Supervisor

2020

• Promotion: I have been granted permanency by the University of Essex in July 2020 and got promotion as well. I will be joining my new role as a Lecturer on 21st November 2020 in the School of Computer Science and Electronics Engineering.

• Webinar: Enjoyed participating in a webinar on 02/Jul/2020 and discussed a title “Lobbying with data - how can data help businesses influence policy?” along with Bonamy Waddell and Peter Bleackley. YouTube link to the recorded webinar.

• Promotion: Got elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior member (SMIEEE).

• Grant Two-Way visiting Fellowship awarded by GCRF, University of Essex and Indian Institute for Information Technology

• Certification: Achieved the status of Fellow of Higher Education Academy

• Publication Two papers accepted at IEEE WCCI-IJCNN 2020.

• Grant: GCRF, Essex Engagement fund – Research Pump Priming: Unravelling the Forest Fires in Lower Himalayan Forests: A Comprehensive Study of Indian Forest Regions of Uttarakhand using IoT technology. Funding Amount: £9335.69

2019

• Publication: Pediatric obesity: ‘Predictors of objectively measured physical activity in 12‐month‐old infants: A study of linked birth cohort data with electronic health records’

• Publication: Neurocomputing: ‘Covariate shift estimation based adaptive ensemble learning for handling non-stationarity in motor imagery related EEG-based brain-computer interface’

• Publication: Journal of neuroscience methods: ‘An EEG-EMG correlation-based brain-computer interface for hand orthosis supported neuro-rehabilitation’

• Publication: IEEE-IJCNN 2020:’Bagging Adversarial Neural Networks for Domain Adaptation in Non-Stationary EEG’

• Grant: KTP: ‘AI-assisted Performance Management System’, Funding Amount: £228,006.00, Funder: (67%) Innovate UK and (33%) TT Education, Role: Supervisor

• Grant: Innovation Voucher: ‘Maji Financial Wellbeing Ltd’, Funding: £5070.00”

• Grant: ESNEFT (NHS Trust): Title: ‘AI based approach to improve cancer pathway’, Funding Amount: £41,172.75 Funder: East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Role: PI.

• Talk: University of Sheffield: ‘Managing Covariate Shift in EEG/MEG-based BCI’

• Talk: Integral University, India: ‘Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Healthcare and Businesses’

• Talk: Integral University, India: ‘Machine Learning and Future’

• Tutorial: IADS Summer School, University of Essex: ‘Learning Under Distribution Shift: Transfer Learning’

• Tutorial: IADS Summer School, University of Essex: ‘Introduction to Deep Learning’

2018

• Publication: Book Chapter, Institution of Engineering and Technology: ‘Covariate shift detection-based nonstationary adaptation in motor-imagery-based brain–computer interface’

• Publication: IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics: ‘Active Physical Practice Followed by Mental Practice Using BCI-Driven Hand Exoskeleton: A Pilot Trial for Clinical Effectiveness and Usability’

• Grant: Economic and Social Research Council: ‘Business and Local Government Data Research Centre (BLG DRC)’ Role: Co-PI.

• Grant: KTP: ‘AI-driven SMART Triage System’, Funding Amount: £289,127.00, Funder: 50% Innovate UK and 50% Provide CIC, Role: Lead Supervisor

• Talk: VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hydrabad, India: ‘Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning’

• Talk: St. Joseph’s College, Bengaluru, India: Artificial Intelligence and it’s application in Industry and Research

• Talk: Taj MG Road, Bengaluru, India: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

• Tutorial: IADS Summer School, University of Essex: ‘Learning Under Distribution Shift: Transfer Learning’

• Tutorial: Data Science Intense (DSI) Training Program 2018: Machine Learning and Data Science, Tutorial, Data Science Intense (DSI) Training Program 2018, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa

• Tutorial: Invited Tutorial Delivered a series of tutorials as a Knowledge Exchange to public bodies in UK such as Essex County Counci, South-End County Council, Suffolk County Council, Essex Police on using Python and R for Data Analytics

2017

• New Job: I Joined the University of Essex.