Lakshmi Babu-Saheer

Lakshmi is an Assistant Professor in AI and the director of the Computing, Informatics and Applications Research Group at the Anglia Ruskin University, with expertise in applications of artificial intelligence in the domains of climate change, net zero, air quality, vegetation/terrain identification, audio, speech, NLP, IoT and healthcare. Coming from an industrial background, she has more than 22+ years of applied and academic research experience working at different prestigious international organizations. She has 50+ peer-reviewed publications in reputed journals and international conferences and prestigious awards to her credit including Google's Anita Borg award, and funding from several UKRI and EU (FP7, Eureka and Hasler Innovation start-up) funds. She is currently leading multiple climate action projects with Local Authorities in the UK.