About

I’m a Lecturer in Computing Science in the School of Natural and Computing Sciences at University of Aberdeen, and Honorary Fellow (Research) in the Faculty of Medicine at University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.

Research Interests

• Applications of ML in Healthcare
• Multi-omics Data Integration
• Dimensionality Reduction and Feature Selection
• 2D/3D Multimodal Imaging & Fusion.

Experience

University of Dundee
Honorary Fellow (Research)

September 2026 - Present

University of Aberdeen
Lecturer

August 2026 - Present

University of Dundee [Health Informatics Centre (HIC)]
Senior Research Software Engineer

July 2023 - August 2026

• EU H2020 Project Title: HT-Advance: Improving treatment efficacy in hypertension by biomarker-guided personalised decision support. Working on the development of a clinically-relevant machine learning tool for the diagnosis of hypertension from clinical multi-omics data.

University of Dundee [Health Informatics Centre (HIC)]
Postdoctoral Researcher

2016 - June 2023

• EU H2020 Project Title: Application of omics-based strategies for improved diagnosis and treatment of endocrine hypertension - ENS@T-HT(633983). Working on data-driven bioinformatics modelling approaches for biomarker identification and discovery.
• MRC & EPSRC Project Title: InterdisciPlInary Collaboration for efficienT and effective Use of clinical images in big health care RESearch (PICTURES). Working on prediction of individual risk of dementia using routinely collected MRI T1 scans.

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Visiting Researcher

2012 - 2014

• Investigated the Impact of Different Neighbourhood Region Schemes in Mutual Information based Similarity Measures for Medical Image Registration.

Education

Open University
PhD in Computing & Communications
Supervisors: Prof. L.S. Dooley, Dr. P. Wong & Dr. Ing. A. Börner (DLR)

Milton Keynes, U.K.
Awarded March 2016

• Thesis Title: A Hybrid Similarity Measure Framework for Multimodal Medical Image Registration

University of Essex
MS in Telecommunication & Information Systems
Supervisor: Prof. Mohammed Ghanbari, Fellow IEEE

Colchester, U.K.
Awarded April 2004

• Thesis Title: Watermark Insertion in Digital Videos

Barkatullah University
BEng in Electronics & Communication Engineering
Supervisor: Prof. Agya Mishra

Bhopal, India.
Awarded June 2002

• Thesis Title: Watermark Insertion in Digital Videos
• Won Indian National Award for Year 2002

Awards

IET Postgraduate Engineering Award
The Institution of Engineering Technology & ABB Group, U.K.

March 2014

NII International Internship Program
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.

March - June 2013

DLR-OU Chartered PhD Studentship
Open University, U.K.

2011 - 2014

Golden Jubilee Project National Award
Defence Research & Development Organisation, Government of India.

2009

British Chevening Scholarship
British Council & Foreign Commonwealth Office, U.K.

2003

National Award for Best B.Tech Project
Indian Society for Technical Education, India.

2002