Recognition
Honors & Awards
Research awards, honors, scholarships and travel grants received across my academic career, 30 in total.
Highlights
Selected distinctions
2025
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
Recognised among the world’s most highly cited researchers, about 1 in 7,000.
2024
ICPR Best Paper Award
Best paper at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition.
2022
Best Paper Award
Best paper in the journal Remote Sensing.
Research awards
8- Sep 2026
PMC Research Mentor Award
- Sep 2026
PMC Early Career Research Award
Commendation
- Dec 2025
Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
One of about 7,000 researchers worldwide
- Nov 2024
Best Paper Award
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
- May 2024
Best Poster Award
Women in Data Science (WiDS)
- Aug 2022
Best Paper Award
Remote Sensing
- Jul 2022
Best Paper Honorable Mention
Pattern Recognition
- Jun 2020
Best Paper Nomination
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Honors
10- Dec 2025
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
- 2016–present
Overleaf Advisor
Advisor ID 0031M000034GnAM
- Jan 2023
Star Faculty
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
- Mar 2022
Fully funded visit
The University of Western Australia (UWA)
- Jan 2021
Cash Award
CSIRO
- Jun 2019
Non-Cash Award
CSIRO
- Oct 2012
Thesis Award
Toshiba Medical Visualization Systems Europe (TMVSE)
- 2012
Distinction
MSc in Vision and Robotics
- 2008
Gold Medal
BSc in Computer Systems Engineering
- 2008
Distinction
BSc in Computer Systems Engineering
Scholarships
7- 2014–2018
PhD Scholarship
ANU and NICTA
- 2014–2018
Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Scholarship
The Australian National University (ANU)
- 2014–2018
Supplementary Scholarship
NICTA
- Mar 2015
Vision and Robotics Summer School Scholarship
- Jan 2015
AMSI Summer School Scholarship
- 2010
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
European Union
- 2005–2008
Merit Scholarship
UET, awarded eight times in four years
Travel awards
5- Oct 2024
Travel Award
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)
- Jun 2024
Travel Award
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- May 2023
Travel Award
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
- Sep 2017
Student Award
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
- Dec 2015
Student Award
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)