Lakshmi Babu Saheer

Lakshmi Babu Saheer is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Anglia Ruskin University, specializing in Computing and Information Science. She leads the Computing, Informatics and Applications Research Group.

• Research Focus: Applications of AI in Climate Change, NetZero, Healthcare, Air Quality, IoT, and NLP
• Leadership: Director of research group, course leader for MSc AI programs
• Funding: Multiple EU grants including FP7, Hasler Innovation (150,000 CHF), ARU-QR funds

Research Expertise spans:

• Climate Change Mitigation using AI
• Healthcare Innovations with IoT integration
• Computer Vision for environmental monitoring
• Speech & Audio Processing in affective computing
• Sustainable Food Supply Chains
• Deep Learning for public health compliance detection

Scientific Recognition:

• Google Anita Borg Award recipient
• Hasler Innovation start-up funding
• VC-PhD funding at ARU
• Best Student Paper Award nomination

Academic Contributions include:

• Supervision of 5 active PhD students and 1 completed PhD
• Editorial role at MDPI Sustainability Journal
• Reviewer for NIHR, IEEE, and Eurasip
• Teaching leadership in AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning