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Dr Varun Ojha

Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence

  • Email: varun.ojha@ncl.ac.uk
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  • Address: Room 3.033A, School of Computing, Urban Sciences Building
Background

Dr Varun Ojha is a Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at the School of Computing at 缅北禁地. He is the Artificial Intelligence Theme Leader and Co-I on the EPSRC-funded National Edge AI Hub. In the past, Dr Ojha served as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science at the University of Reading, UK. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Zurich, Switzerland. Before this, Dr Ojha was a Marie-Curie Fellow (funded by the European Commission) at the Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the Technical University of Ostrava, the Czech Republic. In his early career, Dr Ojha received a research fellowship position funded by the Government of India’s Department of Science and Technology at the Visva-Bharati University, India. Dr Ojha has major research in the field of deep learning, machine learning, and data science. He has contributed to the development of novel machine learning algorithms and applied his research to a diverse range of engineering and science domains, such as climate, engineering, medical, biology, and sensors and signal processing.

Research

I work on Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and the Application of AI to Engineering and Scientific Problems, such as in the areas of Sensors and Signal Processing, Medical Sciences, Systems Biology, Medicine, Hydrology, and Climate Sciences. I have published over 85 articles and papers in top-tier international journals and conferences. I have been successful in obtaining several awards in lead and co-lead roles:

  • EPSRC | National Edge AI Hub (AI Theme Lead). ~12 million GBP.
  • EPSRC | Federated Edge–HPC Architectures for AI Workflows £200,000
  • EU Horizon Europe | 6G Path- RESCUE project £60,000
  • Industry-funded projects | with multiple companies ~£178,000
  • Innovate UK | AI for forecasting EV Charging £116,007
  • Innovate UK | AI for Energy Usage Optimization £113,740
  • EPSRC PhD | Adversarial Attacks on Deep Leanring ~ £70,000
  • EPSRC PhD | AI for Climate/Dynamical Systems~ £70,000
  • ETH Zurich Post Doctoral Fellowship - Swiss National Science Foundation
  • Mari Curie Fellowship - European Commission
  • DST Research Fellowship - DST Govt. India


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Teaching

Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence (Lead)

Engineering of Artificial Intelligence (Lead)

Safe and Trustworthy AI (Lead)

Publications

  • Articles

    • Liu Z, Liang H, Ojha V. . Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 2026, 40, 34.
    • Kong L, Suganthan PN, Snášel V, Ojha V, Pan JS. . Pattern Recognition 2026, 176, 113169.
    • Ge M, Wang Z, Zhang J, Song H, Duan H, Ojha V, Long Y. . IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 2026. In Press.
    • Deng P, Yao J, Li C, Wang S, Li X, Ojha V, He X. . Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering 2026, 45, 100019.
    • Alqattan D, Ojha V, Habiba F, Noord A, Morgana G, Ranjan R. . High-Confidence Computing 2025, 5(1), 100230.
    • Suganthan PN, Kong L, Snášel V, Ojha V, Aly HAH. . Information Fusion 2025, 115, 102746.
    • Qiu X, Miao X, Wan F, Duan H, Shah T, Ojha V, Long Y, Ranjan R. . Information Fusion 2025, 120, 103087.
    • Alqattan DS, Snasel V, Ranjan R, Ojha V. . High-Confidence Computing 2025, 5(4), 100321.
    • Duan H, Wang S, Ojha V, Wang S, Huang Y, Long Y, Ranjan R, Zheng Y. . Information Sciences 2024, 665, 120393.
    • Snasel V, Stepnicka M, Ojha V, Suganthan PN, Gao R, Kong L. . Information Fusion 2024, 102067.
    • Pravin C, Martino I, Nicosia G, Ojha V. . Artificial Intelligence 2024, 327, 104060.
    • Vandaele R, Dance S, Ojha V. . Journal of Hydroinformatics 2024, 26(4), 889-903.
    • Ayers D, Lau J, Amezcua J, Carrassi A, Ojha V. . Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 2023, 149(753), 1236-1262.
    • Konga L, Ojha V, Gao R, Suganthand PN, Snášel V. . Information Sciences 2023, 642, 119108.
    • Vandaele R, Dance S, Ojha V. . Environmental Data Science 2023, 2, e11.
    • Ojha V, Panto B, Nicosia G. . Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2023, 117(Part B), 105593.
    • Amaradio MN, Ojha V, Jansen G, Gulisano M, Costanza J, Nicosia G. . Biotechnology and Bioengineering 2022, 119(7), 1890-1902.
    • Ojha V, Jansen G, Patane A, La Magna A, Romano V, Nicosia G. . Energy Systems 2022, 13(2), 355-382.
    • Ojha V, Nicosia G. . Neural Networks 2022, 149, 66-83.
    • Ojha V, Timmis J, Nicosia G. . Swarm and Evolutionary Computation 2022, 74, 101130.
    • Vandaele R, Dance SL, Ojha V. . Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 2021, 25(8), 4435-4453.
    • Ojha VK, Griego D, Kuliga S, Bielik M, Bus P, Schaeben C, Treyer L, Standfest M, Schneider S, Konig R, Donath D, Schmitt G. . Information Sciences 2019, 474, 154–169.
    • Ojha V, Abraham A, Snasel V. . Engineering Applications in Artificial Intelligence 2019, 85, 845–864.
    • Bielik M, Kuliga S, Schneider S, Griego D, Ojha VK, Konig R, Donath D, Schmitt G. Examining trade-offs between social, psychological and energy potential of urban form. International Journal of Geo-Information 2019, 8, 1–52.
    • Ojha VK, Schiano S, Wu C, Abraham A, Snasel V. . Neural Computing Application 2018, 29 (7), 467–481.
    • Ojha VK, Snasel V, Abraham A. . IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems 2018, 26(2), 915–936.
    • Ojha VK, Snasel V, Abraham A. . Engineering Applications in Artificial Intelligence 2017, 60, 97-116.
    • Ojha VK, Abraham A, Snasel V. . Applied Soft Computing 2017, 52, 909-924.
    • Ojha VK, Dutta P, Chaudhuri A. . Neural Computing Application 2016, 28, 1343–1354.
    • Ojha VK, Jackowski K, Abraham A, Snasel V. Dimensionality reduction and function approximation of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) micro-and nano-particle dissolution rate. International Journal of Nanomedicine 2015, 10, 1119–1129.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

    • Zheng Z, Liang H, Snasel V, Latora V, Pardalos P, Nicosia G, Ojha V. . In: IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2026 (IEEE CAI 2026). 2026, Granada, Spain: IEEE.
    • Qiu S, Li X, Long Y, Xue X, Ojha V, Pu J. Learning Global Representation from Queries for Vectorized HD Map Construction. In: Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning. (ICML 2026). 2026. In Press.
    • Li R, Li X, Xie M, Shan H, Qiu S, Chang X, Fan Y, Jiang H, Ren Y, Yu H, Xu M, Long Y, Ojha V, Cui Z. AMap: Distilling Future Priors for Ahead-Aware Online HD Map Construction. In: IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2026). 2026. In Press.
    • Liu Z, Li X, Liang H, Snasel V, Ojha V. . In: 8th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision (PRCV 2025). 2025, Shanghai, China: Springer.
    • Sun R, Duan H, Dong J, Ojha V, Shah T, Ranjan R. . In: 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2025). 2025, Glasgow: IEEE.
    • Liu Z, Ojha V. . In: 24th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2025). 2025, Guiyang China: IEEE.
    • Zheng Z, Liang H, Snasel V, Latora V, Pardalos P, Nicosia G, Ojha V. . In: 38th International Conference on Neural Information Processing. 2025, Vancouver Convention Center: Springer, Singapore.
    • Liu Z, Duan H, Liang H, Long Y, Snasel V, Nicosia G, Ranjan R, Ojha V. . In: 38th International Conference on Neural Information Processing. 2025, Vancouver, Canada: Springer, Singapore.
    • Bhardwaj M, Liang H, Sivaharan A, Nandhra S, Snasel V, El-Sayed T, Ojha V. . In: Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications: Proceedings of the 9th Euro-China Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis and Applications. 2026, Ostrava, Czech Republic: Springer, Cham.
    • Liu Z, Liang H, Ranjan R, Zhu Z, Snasel V, Ojha V. . In: The 34th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks ICANN 2025. 2025, Kaunas, Lithuania: Springer, Cham.
    • Alqattan D, Sun R, Liang H, Nicosia G, Snasel V, Ranjan R, Ojha V. . In: 33rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2024). 2024, Lugano-Viganello, Switzerland: European Neural Network Society.
    • Duan H, Rui S, Ojha V, Shah T, Huang Z, Ouyang Z, Huang Y, Long Y, Ranjan R. . In: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2024). 2024, Yokohama, Japan: IEEE.
    • Vandaele R, Dance SL, Williams HTP, Ojha V. . In: The 35th British Machine Vision Conference. 2024, Glasgow, UK: BMVC.
    • Vandaele R, Dance SL, Williams HTP, Ojha V. . In: 35th British Machine Vision Conference Workshop Proceedings (BMVC 2024). 2024, Glasgow, UK: British Machine Vision Association (BMVA).
    • Kong L, Kumar A, Snasel V, Das S, Kromer P, Ojha V. . In: 10th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and Their Applications (BIOMA 2022). 2022, Maribor, Slovenia: Springer.
    • Taylor R, Ojha V, Martino I, Nicosia G. . In: 33rd International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2021). 2021, Washington DC, USA: IEEE.
    • Vandaele R, Dance SL, Ojha V. . In: 42nd DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition (DAGM GCPR 2020). 2021, Tübingen, Germany: Springer.
    • Pravin C, Martino I, Nicosia G, Ojha V. . In: Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning: 30th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2021). 2021, Bratislava, Slovakia: Springer.
    • Shergill JS, Pravin C, Ojha V. . In: 20th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2020). 2021, Virtual event: Springer.

  • Edited Books

    • Nicosia G, Ojha V, Malfa EL, Malfa GL, Jansen G, Pardalos P, Giuffrida G, Umeton R, ed. . Cham: Springer, 2022.
    • Nicosia G, Ojha V, Malfa EL, Malfa GL, Jansen G, Pardalos P, Giuffrida G, Umeton R, ed. . Cham: Springer, 2022.