Media

Awards and honors

My academic work has been recognized with the following awards, scholarships, and honors.

• 2024 Dean’s Honor List, top 5% of class, Information Technology University. Specialization GPA 3.83/4.0; Merit Scholarship holder, 2020–2024.
• 2023 – 24 NGIRI 2023–24 National Research Grant, IGNITE, Federal ICT R&D Fund. Awarded 100,000 PKR for Harnessing Mixed Reality and Drones for Agriculture using Generative AI, selected among outstanding final-year projects across Pakistani universities.
• 2022 4th place, Google Competitive Programming Competition, Google Developer Student Club, ITU. Ranked 4th among more than 150 participants from universities across Pakistan.
• 2020 – 24 HEC Ehsaas fully funded undergraduate scholarship, Higher Education Commission, Pakistan. A nationally competitive scholarship awarded for academic excellence.

Media and press coverage

The following coverage relates to Pakistan’s first VR classroom field experiment, conducted at Information Technology University through Virtuality Labs.

• The research aired live on national TV on ARY News, covering the VR classroom initiative at ITU Lahore.
• Samaa TV also covered it live, with a focus on immersive learning with VR.
• Daily Times featured it as ITU Lahore Launches First Virtual Reality Classes.
• Academia Magazine featured it as ITU Launches VR Classes for Immersive Learning.
• The official ITU YouTube documentary VR Classes at ITU: 1st Time in Pakistan covered the project.
• The project was demonstrated live to the Chief Minister of Punjab during an official visit to ITU.