Finalist, IEEE Research and Technologies for Society and Industry NextGen Startup for Impact Competition
Winner, AI Cybersecurity Deep Hack 2025 (Multimodal AI solution for identifying deception patterns to protect autonomous systems)
Winner, Tampere City Challenge Hackathon 2024
Honorable mention at PIERS 2023 for co-authored paper 'Improved Active Fire Detection using Operational U-Nets'
Honorable mention from City of Tampere for Technical Creativity of the Year 2022 for early heart attack detection framework using multi-view echocardiography
PoDoCo 2023 grant recipient (funded by Foundation for Economic Education)
Award recipient from Finnish Foundation for Technology Promotion (2022, theme: Disruptive technologies and technologies for smarter everyday life)
Nokia Foundation 2020 award/grant recipient
Fully funded MS scholarship; selected by Sabanci University for Erasmus exchange to Delft University of Technology
Cum laude graduate from FAST NUCES with GPA > 3.5/4; three silver medals (2nd place in first three semesters); six Dean’s Honor List certificates
Selected by Pakistan Ministry of Science & Technology as inaugural national delegate to 54th London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) 2012; participated in workshops at Imperial College London, Oxford, and Cambridge
Miscellany
Coordinator, Summer School on Trustworthy AI 2023 at Tampere University
Participant, Winter School 2023 'Advanced Methods for Mathematical Image Analysis' at University of Bologna, Italy
Invited talk at University of Florida (Nov 2022): 'Subspace Learning for One-Class Classification'
Student Ambassador, Signal and System Track, Delft University of Technology (Aug 2014 – Aug 2015)
General Secretary, 'NUTEC 10' national tech competition at FAST NUCES (Aug 2011–Aug 2012)
Founder and Vice President, Young Pakistan Social Welfare Society (Aug 2008–present)
IEEE Finland Section Member (Mar 2019–present)
IEEE Biometrics Council Member (Mar 2019–present)
IEEE Young Professionals (Mar 2019–present)
IEEE Signal Processing Society Member (Jan 2019–Dec 2022)