Funding

Below is a summary of my research funding and awards.

2025 | PI of The Open University STEM-CC Pump-Priming Research Project on "Safe and socially aware UAV navigation in co-located human spaces using reinforcement learning". Amount: £ 6,443.45
2024 | Co-PI of the UKRI Responsible AI (EP/Y009800/1) Coordinating Keystone integrator project on "Embodied AI in Social Spaces: Responsible and Adaptive Robots in Complex Settings". Amount: £ 84,330.00
2023 | Lead Researcher on the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub (EP/V00784X/1) Resolution project (IEEE RO-MAN 2023) and the Verification project (HRI 2024 LBR). Co-led the FAST-PI research project. Salary funded by the Research Grant.
2023 | Lead Researcher on the EPSRC Autonomy Project (EP/W004364/1). Led the research on "dynamic leader election in AI-enabled cellular-connected UAV swarms." Salary funded by the Research Grant.
2023 | Co-PI on University of Southampton FEPS Pump-Priming on "IoT and ML-based ocean pollutant detection" project. Amount: £ 3,000.00
2022 | PI of the Modibbo Adama University TETFUND IBR project on developing vision-based machine learning algorithms for counting vehicle traffic in road cross-section design. (N 1,160,000.00).