ACHIEVEMENTS

FUNDING

2020-23 - Rakuten Mobile, Japan, sponsored Edge Computing Research Hub (PI): CASE - Context Aware, Adaptive and Scalable Edge Management
2020-23 - CHIST-ERA (CoI): DiPET: Distributed Stream Processing on Fog and Edge Systems via Transprecise Computing - £257,022
2017-19 - SFI-DEL (CoI): Meeting the Future Challenges of Heterogeneous and Extreme Scale Parallel Computing - £322,000
2017 - EPSRC and QUB Collaboration Grant - £2,500
2016 - Summer Internship Student for €5,007 (paid to applicant) from Government of Spain
2016-18 - Scottish Crucible Research Grant (collaborator) for £4,800
2014-15 - Impact Acceleration Account Award (joint PI) for £33,323
2014-15 - Microsoft Windows Azure Research Award (PI) equivalent to US $40,000
2013-14 - NVIDIA Research Award (PI) equivalent to £11,000
2013-14 - Amazon Web Service in Education Research Grant Award (PI) equivalent to US $10,000

2020 - Royal Society Short Industry Fellowship to British Telecommunications plc
2018 - Schlumberger Scholarship as PhD supervisor (paid to applicant), USD 150,000
2017 - Frederik and Catherine Eaton Fellowship, CAD 10,000
2017 - Santander Scholarship, £1,000
2017 - Fellowship, Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
2016 - School of EEECS Teaching Fellowship, equivalent to £3,000
2015 - Scottish Crucible, a leadership programme by Royal Society of Edinburgh equivalent to £3,000
2010 - Reading International Scholarship equivalent to £49,000 – covering tuition fees and living expenses
2008 - ACET Postgraduate Scholarship equivalent to £24,500 – covering tuition fees and living expenses
2007 - Felix Scholarship, a highly competitive scholarship equivalent to £27,800 – covering international tuition fees, living expenses, return air fare, and allowance for clothing and books

2021 - IEEE TCI (Technical Committee on the Internet) Rising Star Award for fundamental contributions to Edge computing
2021 - Outstanding Service Award for services as Program Chair for IEEE ICFEC 2021
2019 - Finalist Team, GSMA Mobile World Congress
2015-19 - Member, ESRC Peer Review College
2014 - Best Paper Award Nominee, Symposium on Big Data Computing at the IEEE/ACM UCC, London, UK
2009 - Best Paper Award Nominee, Complex Distributed Systems Conference, Leipzig, Germany
2008 - Best Paper Award, International Journal of Arts and Science, Gottenheim, Germany
2008 - Best Poster Award, Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, Edinburgh, UK

2004 - Entitled ‘Student Champ’ by Microsoft Ltd., with honorary scroll
1999 - Silver Medallist for All India Talent Search Maths Olympiad
1995 - United Nations International Award for topping Annual UN Information Test