PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian biomedical engineering graduate has made history by winning the prestigious Global Undergraduate Awards for the second consecutive year, according to a statement from Queen Mary University of London.
Balvinder Dhillon is the only recipient to achieve the rare double win in the engineering category.
The Global Undergraduate Awards, often referred to as the “Junior Nobel Prize”, is regarded as the world’s leading recognition programme for undergraduate research. It enables winners to showcase their work globally and build connections in academia and industry.
For her winning entry, Balvinder authored a paper titled “Developing a Multimodal Deep Learning Pipeline for Automated Glioma Subregion Segmentation and 3D Reconstruction with Integrated Spatial Analysis for Clinical Insight”.
Her fourth-year project in London combined artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and healthcare, and was supervised by Professor Zion Tse and Dr Hadi Sadati.
Out of 3,567 entries submitted from 352 universities across 99 countries, Balvinder’s work ranked among the top 1% of submissions worldwide.
Now pursuing studies in Human and Biological Robotics in London, Balvinder was praised by her supervisor Professor Tse as a highly motivated and dedicated student.
“She sets ambitious goals and approaches them with real determination and focus,” he said in the statement.
Tse added that Balvinder also demonstrated strong organisational and leadership skills in managing her final-year design project, working effectively with a team through clear communication.
