Awards and Grants

📘 AWARDS and GRANTS

• Selected Speaker and workshop leader, Sunbelt Conference, Daytona Beach, USA (June 2026)
• Finalist, STEM for Britain Poster Competition & Exhibition, UK Parliament (March 2026)
• Selected Speaker, Women in Network Science (WiNS) Seminar Series (Feb 2026)
• Selected Speaker, 14th Early Career Talks , IEEE Women in Engineering UK & Ireland (March 2025)
• Invited Panelist, AESIN Conference – IEEE ITSS UK & Ireland Chapter (June 2025)
• Finalist, British Data Awards 2025 – Data Team of the Year (>20 members) , as part of a multi institutional Data Science team - The Data Lab / Smart Manufacturing Data Hub (SMDH) (May 2025)
• Scholarship awardee for Events on Complex Systems (SECS) (780€) to attend the Complex Networks 2024 Conference in Istanbul, Turkey (December 10-12, 2024) May 2024
• Selected for the Alan Turing Institute (ATI) Data Study Group (September 9-13, 2024), a week-long data hackathon with academic and industry ties. Working on a Transport for London project. All expenses covered by ATI
• 2nd time Winner of Poster competition “Green IT - Invest in our Planet” from the British Computer Society (BCS) July 2024
• OpenBright Grant awardee for Women in Computing (£2,430 for research equipment) December 2023
• Finalist of “Transport Research Arena (TRA) Visions” competition Young Researchers category April 2024
• OpenBright Grant awardee for Women in Computing (£1,900 for participation in “Network Science: Data Science” research summer school at Utrecht University, Netherlands) May 2023
• Winner of Poster competition “Green IT - How Computing can address the Energy Crisis” from the British Computer Society (BCS) July 2023
• A full match-funded PhD scholarship awardee from Bournemouth University and Bournemouth Cristchurch Poole (BCP) Council (tuition+housing+everyday expenses) June 2019
• A full Governmental (Kazakhstan) “Bolashak” Scholarship awardee to study MSc degree (tuition+housing+visa, travel and everyday expenses) August 2012