Asra Aslam

Dr. Asra Aslam is an incoming Assistant Professor of Data Science and AI at the University of Sheffield, UK, and currently serves as a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, a Principal Investigator at the Alan Turing Institute, and a Visiting Researcher at Newcastle University. Her interdisciplinary work bridges artificial intelligence, computer vision, and healthcare data science.

• Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, University of Galway, Ireland (2021)
• M.Tech and B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, India
• Former Assistant Professor at AMU, India
• Machine Learning Research Scientist at mindtrace.ai, Manchester, UK

Her research focuses on Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Graph Neural Networks, and Health Data Sciences, with applications in multimorbidity, medical imaging, and smart cities. She develops AI tools for clinical decision support, including the DynAIRx project for medicines optimization in patients with multiple long-term conditions.

Dr. Aslam's recent publications highlight trends in automated clinical codelist development, temporal graph neural networks for patient clustering, GAN-based medical data augmentation, and efficient fire detection models. Her work is published in top venues including CVPR, IEEE Access, Springer, and Elsevier journals.

• Women of the Future Award (Highly Commended), 2023
• Education/Academic Leader of the Year, 2024
• Rising Star of the Year, Women in Tech Excellence Awards, 2024
• Hildegard Franke Early Career Award, 2024
• Global Talent Award (Exceptional) by UKRI, 2023
• IEEE/CVF, ICML, AISTATS Travel Awards

She leads and co-leads major research grants including the NIHR Team Science Grant (£2.8M), Alan Turing DSG (£80K), and Horizon One: Global Academy Crucible. She supervises PhD and Master's students and mentors early-career researchers. Dr. Aslam is a strong advocate for diversity, serving as General Chair of Women in Computer Vision (WiCV), AI Lead for Women in AI UK, and Early Career Researcher Representative across multiple institutions.

She is actively involved in organizing workshops at CVPR, NeurIPS, and AIM-RSF, and serves on editorial boards of Discover Data (Springer Nature) and MDPI Journal of Imaging.