2021

Grand Challenege Fund, HEC: Creating Technological Foundations of Data-Driven Policy Making for Sustainable Urban Development – Vertical Lead and PI for (1) End-user Interactive Machine Learning, (2) Human-centered data crowdsourcing platforms, (3) Stakeholder Engagement using Design Thinking – 5 proposals were accepted out of 500+ national submissions

2021

Sub-National Governance (SNG) programme Punjab : Dynamic Financial Data Analytics for Policy and Governance.

2020

Shirkat Gah & European Commission: Humqadam Digtal Platform: Designing an interactive Platform to respond to cases of Violence Against Women and Girls.

2020

IGNITE Pakistan: Funding for establishing an Extended Reality Lab at LUMS + for a research project – DIVERT: Dynamic and Immersive Virtual Emergency Response Training.

2020

LUMS – Faculty Initiative Fund: Kahaniaan: Designing an interactive storytelling application using localized narratives to target depression and anxiety in university students.

2020

BAF Pakistan: Understanding the reading and writing issues of children with learning disabilities in Urdu.

2020

LUMS – Faculty Initiative Fund – In collaboration with School of Law at LUMS: Improving inclusion by addressing PWDs inclusion and sexual harassment in educational institutions in Pakistan.

2019

UNICEF Pakistan: Child Protection Information Management System for 5 Provinces in Pakistan.

2019

Mitsubishi Corporation: Designing Digital Aids to support Children with Special Needs in living independently.

2019

LUMS –  Faculty Initiative Fund- In collaboration with Dept. of History –  Walking in the City: Mapping Everyday Life in Lahore (Lahori Khoji App).

2019

LUMS –  Faculty Initiative Fund: Persuasive prompting as a coping mechanism for Depression: Towards Designing digital aids to support people with depression.

2019

HEC Pakistan –  National center of Cloud Computing and Big Data: Open Data Portal for Pakistan.

2018

HEC Pakistan –  National center of Cloud Computing and Big Data: Energy Informatics Lab (Vertical Lead: Energy Data Visualization for Decision Making).

2018

 Swansea University – CHERISH Grant.

2018

LUMS – Saeeda Waheed Gender Initiative Grant by MGHSS: Understanding Women’s use of ride hailing apps and their perception of Privacy and Security during a ride.

2018

LUMS –  Faculty Initiative Fund : Tarteeb: Towards Designing Assistive Technologies for Improving the Communication Skills of People with Dementia/Aphasia in Pakistan.

2018

LUMS –  Faculty Initiative Fund:  In collaboration with Dept. of Economics – Smart Urbanism in Lahore: Developing Real Time Optimal Solutions and Estimating Economic Cost of Congestion.

2018

UNESCO Pakistan: Experience Design for the Kalasha Museum (With TPI Lab).

2017

Faculty Initiative Fund: Designing Digital Aids to improve the Urdu reading skills of Dyslexic children in Pakistan.

2017

 UNESCO: Experience Design for the Taxila Museum.

2017

Faculty Initiative Fund: Supporting Diabetic and Pre-diabetic Patients in Pakistan Using a Digital Support System.

2016

ICTR&D Fund –  Co-PI Dr. Asim Karim- ALAP: Accessible Latex Based Mathematical Document Authoring and Presentation for people with visual impairments.

2016

USIP, USA – PeaceTech Grant.

2016

Faculty Initiative Fund: Designing Digital Aids for Children with Autism in Pakistan.

2016

CERP, Pakistan: Data Portal for decision making using the open public data.

2016

USIP, USA: Moodistaan/Staatistaan – Intelligent Data Portal for Exploring Public Datasets.

2015

LUMS – Startup Research Grant.

2013

Tilburg University –Grant to co-supervise a PhD Student–Co-PI: Prof. dr. M Swerts.