Balvinder Kaur Dhillon wins the Global Undergraduate Award for Engineering, badged as the ‘Junior Nobel Prize’

BIOMEDICAL engineering student Balvinder Kaur Dhillon won the Global Undergraduate Award for Engineering, taking home for the second consecutive year the award also known as the ‘Junior Nobel Prize’.

Balvinder, who graduated with an MEng in Biomedical Engineering this year at Queen Mary University of London, submitted a paper that sits at the intersection of AI, robotics and healthcare.

The winning paper — ‘Developing a Multimodal Deep Learning Pipeline for Automated Glioma Subregion Segmentation and 3D Reconstruction with Integrated Spatial Analysis for Clinical Insight’ — was undertaken during her fourth year at Queen Mary, supervised by Prof Zion Tse and Dr Hadi Sadati.

The award attracted 3,567 submissions from 352 universities in 99 countries, making Balvinder’s project in the top 1%, according to an entry at the Queen Mary’s website.

It added that Balvinder is one of only two people in the history of the awards to achieve two consecutive wins, and the only person from the engineering category to do so.

In the same news update, Tse said Balvinder ‘sets ambitious goals and approaches them with real determination and focus’.