Tayyaba Azim

Tayyaba Azim was born in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan, in 1986. She received the master’s degree in computer science from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Southampton, U.K., in 2014. She was a Data Scientist with the Horizon Research Institute, University of Nottingham, and a Research Associate with Cortexica Vision Systems based at Imperial College London, U.K. Since 2015, she has been an Assistant Professor on Tenure track with the Institute of Management Sciences. She is the author of a book and has several conference and journal publications in the area of computer vision and machine learning. Her research interests include deep learning, topic models, kernel methods, and real time systems. She was a recipient of Startup Research Grant, National Grassroots ICT Research Initiative Fund, IGNITE Research and Development Fund, and Overseas Ph.D. Scholarship, and has received the Best Paper Award at ICPRAM, in 2017.