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Recognition, conference leadership, and public engagement from the lab and its Director.
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Recent highlights
2026
This year
- General Chair: 2nd ICICET 2026 and 2nd AHTBE 26, co-hosted at University Canada West, Vancouver — August 21–22, 2026
- General Chair: FTHCB 26 — Global Conference on Future Trends in Health, Cities & Business, University of Washington, Seattle — November 13–14, 2026
- Wellness Hub research presented and demonstrated to BC Minister of State for AI and New Technologies, Rick Glumac, and delegation
- Appointed Lead, AI for Health and Healing — TRU HorAIzon Presidential Initiative
- Elected Secretary, IEEE Thompson Okanagan Section
- UN SDG Open Pedagogy Faculty Fellowship received
- Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award and Author Service Award (second consecutive year)
- Invited speaker, Commonwealth of Learning member countries: "Redefining Online Learning using AI & LLMs" · Speaker, IEEE TOK Annual General Meeting, Kelowna
2025
Last year
- Elevated to IEEE Senior Member; elected Chair, IEEE Young Professionals Affinity Group (TOK)
- General Chair, AHTBE 25, Annacis Research & Event Centre, Vancouver
- "We'll Care" co-supervised team: 1st place ($10,000) + Audience Choice ($2,500), Wolves' DEN Innovation Competition
- Invited speaker for BC Government MLAs' TRU visit (Peter Milobar & Ward Stamer) on AI in medical diagnostics and assistive technologies
- Talks at TRU AI Summit & AI Showcase; Generative-AI roundtable for Indigenous student success; CELT workshop on LLMs for accessibility
- Guest editorships: Diagnostics (Q1), Electronics, and Algorithms special issues
Honours archive
Awards timeline
2024
Gold Medal with Honor — 49th Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions
Among 1,035 inventions presented · Named World's Top 2% Scientists (also 2025).
2023
BlindLine — 1st place, NEOM OXAGON Hackathon
First of 800 applications · PMU Research Productivity Award 2022-23.
2022
National Academy of Inventors — honorary membership
Joining an organization of leading US and international universities.
2021
Best PhD Award, Gold Medal & Shield — UNIMAS
For machine learning in medical diagnostics · PMU Research Productivity Award 2020-21.
2019
Best Research Paper — CRIMSTIC 2019, Malaysia
2018
Best Research Paper — ICCSET 2018, Bangkok · Bronze — InTEX 2018
Bronze for the "Automated Brain Tumor Detection, Analysis & Visualization" poster.
2010
A national sweep for "Brain Inspector"
1st, ITEC Software & Hardware Competition (NED Karachi) · 1st, ACM Software Project Competition · 1st software / 2nd overall, NUTEC Peshawar · Microsoft Imagine Cup Pakistan top-4 · P@SHA ICT Award (team, number-plate recognition).
Editorial leadership
Journals & special issues
- Editor-in-Chief, Inspire Intelligence Journal (ISSN 3110-942X)
- Editorial Board, Discover Artificial Intelligence (Springer Nature)
- Guest Editor, Diagnostics (Q1) — three special-issue editions of "AI/ML-Based Medical Image Processing & Analysis"
- Guest Editor, Algorithms — smart health & smart systems special issues (×2)
- Guest Editor, Electronics — low-power IoT & embedded systems
- Edited book: ICICET 25 Proceedings, Springer Signals & Communication Technology
Conference leadership
Chairing & organizing
- General Chair: ICICET 2026, AHTBE 25 & 26, FTHCB 26
- Publication Committee Chair, IEEE CICN 2024
- Technical Program Chair & Session Chair, IEEE CICN 2022
- Co-organizer of three IEEE international conferences (2020, 2022, 2024)
- Presenter/participant at 22 international conferences across 14 countries