Lakshmi Babu Saheer

Dr Lakshmi Babu Saheer is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications to different domains including climate change, sustainability, air quality, healthcare, image processing, natural language processing, speech, audio and many more. She leads several AI modules at the MSc AI course at Anglia Ruskin University and is the director of the Computing, Informatics and Applications Research group at the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Lakshmi completed her Doctoral studies in AI at the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL) and Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland in 2012. She has been working on applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) research in both Industry and academia for over 20 years. She has worked with several international companies in different locations around the world including Siemens (India), Sony Ericsson (Sweden), V-Enable (USA), Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland) and Audio Analytic (UK). She has several awards including the Google Anitaborg Award and acquired Hasler Innovation funds of over £150,000 to run a start-up, Geneemo in Switzerland. She has worked in several roles including Research Engineer, Project Manager to Scientific Collaborator and CTO.

Currently, she leads applied AI research mainly on sustainability, climate change and healthcare at the School of Computing, Information Sciences at the Anglia Ruskin University and is the director of the research group that applies AI to different domains. She works with several national and international collaborators from different fields and local authorities as stakeholder partners.