Awards, Grants and Scholarships
Major Grants and Fellowships
Stanford HAI Hoffman-Yee Research Grant
Stanford University
Jan 2023 – Dec 2025
Collaborative project "NexGenRehab: Robotic Stroke Rehabilitation System with Virtual Reality and BCI Paradigm." (250,000 USD for 2-year project)
National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Program
NSF I-Corps™ West Fall 2022
Oct 2022 – Dec 2022
07 weeks program with "Soof Solutions" startup company, highlighting entrepreneurial spirit
Research Scholar Fellowships at Stanford Bio-X
Novo Nordisk Foundation
Jan 2022 – Dec 2025
04 years of research funding (750,000 USD)
Marie Curie Postdoc Fellowship
Technical University of Denmark-DTU
Dec 2019 – Dec 2021
Postdoctoral research fellowship
Academic Recognition
Expert Group Member
DTU Skylab
Jan 2020 – Dec 2021
Providing hands-on hardware-related supervision to PhD, master's and bachelor's students in their research projects
Travel Grant
Otto Mønsteds Fond, Denmark
March 2020
Research travel support
PhD Scholarship
University of Brescia, European project "Health & Wealth"
Nov 2015 – Feb 2019
PhD funding within European research project
Research Traineeship Grant
Erasmus Plus, Fraunhofer Institute, Dresden, Germany
March 2018 – Oct 2018
PhD mobility grant for research at Fraunhofer Institute
Young Scientist Award
Baltic Conference for Healthcare Systems, Stockholm, Sweden
2017
Project: "Development of FES Based Muscle Stimulator for Foot Drop Patients"
Education Scholarships
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
Joint master's program in "Bio-Embedded Systems" – Germany and Romania
Sept 2012 – Sept 2014
Funding for international master's program
Robotics Competition Selection
Lucian Blaga University Sibiu, Romania
2013
Selected for RobotX Competition (won the competition)
Gold Medal and Academic Merit Scholarship
NED University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan
Jan 2007 – Dec 2011
1st Position in bachelor's in biomedical engineering
Memberships, Reviewer, and Editorial Activities
Professional Memberships
Electrical & Electronic Measurement Group
GMEE
Professional membership
Brain-Computer Interface Society
BCI Society
Professional membership
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE
Professional membership
International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society
IFESS
Professional membership
North American Neuromodulation Society
NANS
Professional membership
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
IEEE EMBC
Professional membership
Editorial Activities
Review Editor
Frontiers in Electronics
Journal editorial role
Guest Editor
MDPI Electronics
Journal editorial role
Guest Editor
MDPI Bioengineering
Journal editorial role
Review Activities
Journal Manuscript Reviewer
IEEE Access, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, MDPI Electronics, MDPI Journal of Clinical Medicine, MDPI Sensors, Journal of Neural Engineering, Frontiers in Electronics, Frontiers in Neurology
Peer review activities for multiple journals
Conference Reviewer
IEEE Sensors 2020
Oct 2020
Conference paper review activities
Research Grant Reviewer
The Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
Project grant evaluation
Organizing Committee Member for Conferences and Research Events
With excellent communication and management skills, served as an organizing committee member for the following conferences and academic events:
Stanford Splash Event
Stanford University
May 2023 and May 2024
Educational outreach program for middle and high school students (Scientific Public Event)
IEEE Sensors Conference
Online
October 2020
Scientific Conference
European Researcher's Night
Bolzano, Italy
Sept 2019
Scientific Public Event
52nd Annual Conference of the German Society for Biomedical Engg.
Aachen, Germany
Sept 2018
Scientific Conference
Eurosensors Conference
Paris, France
Sept 2017
Scientific Conference
IEEE Int. Instrumentation & Measurement Tech. Conf.
Italy
May 2017
Scientific Conference
UNIBS (University of Brescia) Day
Brescia, Italy
May 2017
Scientific Public Event