Ruqayya Awan
PhD Candidate
Coventry, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRuqayya Awan is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Warwick with eight years of experience spanning medical image analysis research and software quality engineering. Her doctoral work applies deep learning and CNN-based registration to histopathology problems, including urine cytology classification and prediction of MMR marker patterns in colorectal tissue, resulting in multiple journal and conference publications. She previously served as a research assistant at Qatar University and has practical QA and black-box testing experience in educational Android games, even developing a Unity 3D module. Based in Coventry, she blends rigorous academic research with hands-on software testing skills, making her adept at translating complex ML models into reproducible, validated systems. An often-overlooked strength is her cross-domain fluency—moving between clinical imaging research and applied software quality practices.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of WarwickBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Arid Agriculture University
Github Skills (65)
python10
toolbox10
deep-learning10
medical-image-analysis10
digital-pathology10
image-analysis10
histopathology10
machine-learning10
pdfium9
openexr9
zooming8
image-viewer8
high-resolution8
image-processing8
imagemagick8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ruqayya/Risk-Stratification-of-Urine-Cytology-Images
Dec 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
ruqayya/pix2pixHD
Jan 2024 - Feb 2024
Synthesizing and manipulating 2048x1024 images with conditional GANs
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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