Pakistan’s Dr. Waqas Sultani wins Highly Competitive Google Research Scholar Award – 2023
Islamabad, The Gulf Observer: Dr. Waqas Sultani from Information Technology University of Punjab has received the highly competitive Google Research Scholar Award – 2023.
In developing countries, millions of people die every year due to unavailability of expensive medical instruments and lack of doctors who can spend sufficient time to analyze the outcome of those instruments. Dr. Waqas Sultani and the research team at ITU are working hard to apply AI to design low-cost and efficient devices which can help save human lives.
He is the only academic from Pakistan to have won the Google Research Scholar award this year. Other awardees are from top-ranked universities around the world
Previously, he has also received the Facebook-CV4GC (Computer Vision for Global Challenges) research award.
The latest development makes ITU the only university in Pakistan to secure two Google Research Scholar Awards indicating a strong research environment at the university
Dr. Waqas has experience working on projects from different companies and organizations including the US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), US Data Transport Solution (DTS), US National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Xerox (USA), Samsung (South Korea), and Hazen.ai (Saudi Arabia). His recent research projects related to human action recognition, anomaly detection, small object detection, and geolocalization got published in the top venues including CVPR, ICRA, AAAI, WACV, CVIU, MICCAI, etc.
