¶Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation. And I aspire to make these innovations to mould this world into a better place to live ¶ - Unknown

As an engineer and researcher, my interests lie in Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a focus on Computer Vision & Deep Learning. Over the years, I have worked on AI applications in different domains, including Space Exploration, Robotics, Edge Systems and Human-Computer Interaction. Currently, I'm a Research Fellow in 'AI & Autonomous Systems' with the RAMI Group at City University of London. Before that, I was a Research Associate at the University of Luxembourg with the CVI2 Research Group, working on 'AI for Space Applications'.

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News

  • Feb 2024: Starting as a Research Fellow in AI & Autonomous Systems with the RAMI Group, City University of London
  • Oct 2023: Read more about the construction and development of the 'SnT ZeroG Lab' facility at University of Luxembourg [Paper I] [Paper II]
  • Aug 2023: Our review-article published in Acta Astronautica (Impact Factor=3.5) [Paper]
  • July 2023: My blog-post on 'Generative AI: Return of the GANs' [Blog]
  • July 2023: Delivered a talk on 'Generative AI: Return of the GANs' [Slides]
  • July 2023: Our industrial partner LMO successfully completed the orbital test deployment of the on-board spacecraft detection algorithm (for which we provided consultation) during the AUDACITY mission [Post]
  • June 2023: Our paper accepted for publication at IROS'23 [Preprint]
  • June 2023: Our project AI4SPACE launched into orbit successfully [News] [Post] [Press]
  • May 2023: Read our latest survey on 'Monocular Spacecraft Pose Estimation' [Preprint]
  • April 2023: Poster presented on our latest research direction 'Multimodal Fusion for Space Applications' at the Space Resources Week 2023 [Poster] [Post]
  • March 2023: Read our latest work on '3D-Aware Spacecraft Object Localization' [Preprint]
  • Sept 2022: Work on 'Texture-Less Spacecraft Pose Estimation' presented at IAC'22 [Paper]
  • June 2022: Demonstrated our space projects at the ICT Spring 2022 [Images]
  • May 2022: Our latest ESA project 'DIOSSA' officially announced [Press] [Press]
  • April 2022: Demonstrated our space projects at the Space Resources Week 2022 [Post]
  • Mar 2022: Our team competed in the 2022 SPEED+ Challenge by Stanford University [Leaderboard]
  • Feb 2022: FNR Women's Day video featuring our Zero-G Lab demo released [me at 2:02]
  • Jan 2022: Delivered Smart Schoul'25 Workshop on 'Space Simulator', LESC, Luxembourg
  • Dec 2021: New video featuring SnT Zero-G Lab released (find me at 0:17 & 0:47) [Video]
  • Nov 2021: Seminar on 'Intro to Deep Learning' at the Geotechnics Institute, RWTH, Germany
  • Nov 2021: Presented our projects at SnT Partnership Day'21 [Post]
  • Sept 2021: Starting as Research Associate in Space AI at CVI2 Lab, University of Luxembourg
  • Aug 2021: Our work published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Impact Factor=3.4) [Paper]
  • June 2021: Passed my PhD viva with minor corrections [Thesis]
  • June 2021: Started as AROP Research Fellow at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • May 2021: Awarded AROP scholarship from RWTH Aachen University, Germany
  • May 2021: Talk on 'An introduction to Visual Transformers' at University of Leeds, UK [Slides]
  • Mar 2021: Participated in the Alan Turing Institute – SENSE CDT Hackathon [Slides][Code]
  • Jan 2021: Started as Research Fellow (part-time) at Leeds University Business School, UK
  • Nov 2020: Presented my work at the CV Journal Club meeting, University of Leeds [Slides]
  • Sept 2020: Presented my work at the weekly robotics seminar at School of Computing, University of Leeds
  • July 2020: Talk on 'Visual AI for Space Applications' at the Space@Leeds meeting [Slides]
  • Sept 2019: Presented my work at the AI Workshop 2019, University of Leeds
  • April 2019: Presented my work at The 3rd UK Robot Manipulation Workshop [Slides] [Poster]
  • Dec 2018: Presented my work at the weekly robotics seminar at School of Computing, University of Leeds
  • Oct 2018: Presented poster at ESMRDOM, 2018 IEEE/RSJ IROS Workshop
  • Dec 2017: Passed first-year PhD transfer
  • Oct 2017: Completed Coursera Machine Learning course by Andrew Ng
  • June 2017: Our work demonstrated at Resilient Infrastructure Challenge [Video]
  • June 2017: Delivered a talk on 'Introduction to Deep learning' [Slides]
  • June 2017: Our work featured in BBC
  • April 2017: Selected to attend DLSS and RLSS 2017 (summer schools) at University of Montreal, Canada
  • Mar 2017: One paper accepted to ISARC 2017
  • Dec 2017: Presented my work at the PGR conference in School of Civil Eng., University of Leeds
  • Oct 2016: Started PhD at University of Leeds