My Awards & Grants

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1.) Visit to PET/CT (Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography)  & PET/MR (Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance) Imaging units, Cyclotron Unit, Ultrasound, CT and MRI units at the Department of Radiology, Haukeland University Hospital - Bergen, coordinated by Prof . Renate Grüner, UiB - Bergen.

1) 'Norwegian language A2/B1'  for Norwegian workplace at Lingu As, Bergen. 

2.) Norwegian B1 training at Caritas Norge, Bergen.

3.) 'Medical Physics in Radiotherapy' course by Prof Kristian Smeland Ytre-Hauge at University of Bergen (UiB), Bergen.  

4.) Visit to  Proton therapy system at Proton center-Bergen and Varian Linear accelerator (LINAC) and training of Eclipse IMRT Treatment Planning System at  Haukeland University Hospital - Bergen, coordinated by Associate Prof. Liv Bolstad Hysing UiB, Bergen. 

5.) 'Global Health Norway Conference 2025' arranged by Center of International Health (UiB), Haukeland University Hospital - Bergen, CHR. Michelsen institute (CMI)-Bergen, and VID Specialized University.

6.) Digital Integrated Circuits' course by Prof. Johan Alme at University of Bergen,Bergen.

7.) Analog and Digital Integrated Circuits design projects  using Cadence Virtuoso 

at Microelectronics Lab, University of Bergen, Bergen. (Design & analysis of Miller Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) for signal amplification and Design of  Static CMOS/Pseudo-nMOS/Domino CMOS/Dynamic CMOS  based multi-stage logic gates for fast digital circuits using logical effort) 

1.) 'Mini MBA' workshop conducted by Digital Life Norway Research School, Norway at Scandic HolmenKollen Park Hotel, Oslo (April 2024).

https://www.digitallifenorway.org/news/first-mini-mba-2024.html

Winner of Demo Pitch Project (PETdegrade)

2.) Norwegian language training for work at Ifront Karriere As, Bergen.

1.) 'The CellFit Project Workshop' given by Hanne Haslene-Hox (Research Scientist, SINTEF), Else Marit Inderberg (Head of Immunomonitoring, Dept of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital), Anna Pasetto (Director of the Center for Advanced Cell therapy - ACT, Cancer Clinic, Oslo University Hospital), Lucia Gabriele (Head of Immuno-Oncology, Dept of Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanita - ISS, Rome), arranged by Oslo University Hospital in collaboration with Oslo Cancer Cluster, SINTEF and Thermo Fisher Scientific, funded by The Research Council of Norway (NORCE) at Adolf Øien-bygget, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

2.) 'Life Science - Research Data Management (RDM)' arranged by ELIXIR-Norway and Digital Life Norway (Trondheim) with host institutions of University of Bergen and University of Oslo.

3.) Software Carpentry Workshop at University of Bergen Library Digital Lab (Bergen), organized by Centre for Digital Life Norway, ELIXIR-Norway, and Norwegian Research Infrastructure Services (NRIS).

4.) Innovation – “A crash course in making a business case” workshop at Digital Life Norway conference (2023), arranged by Digital Life Norway Research School at Hotel Solstrand, Os.

5.)'Regulatory requirements & Quality standards for life science' conducted by SurViva As (Fornebu, Norway) with collaboration of Digital Life Norway Research School and Centre for Digital Life Norway.

6.) 'Writing up a thesis' by Dr. Daniel Soule (Professional Writing Academy, UK) with arrangement of Digital Life Norway Research School and Norwegian Research School in Neuroscience (Trondheim, Norway).

7.) 'Conversation Skills for Engineers' by Roger Grannis (Principal, Grannis Group, USA), arranged by IEEE Computer Society.

8.) 'Customized and High Volume Production with DLP 3D printing' by  Madeleine Prior (Content Specialist, 3Dnatives), Manuel Delgado (Head of Polymer, EMEA,  ETEC) and Alan Guyan (Founder & CEO, Made+), organized by 3Dnatives.

9.) 'Quality Management Systems' by  SurViva As (Fornebu, Norway), organized by Digital Life Norway Research school and Centre for Digital Life Norway.

1.) 'Writing For Popular Audience Workshop' by Dr. Daniel Soule (Professional Writing Academy, UK) collaborated with Digital Life Norway Research School and Norwegian Research School in Neuroscience (Trondheim, Norway).

2.) 'Project Management Workshop ' by Dr. Daniel Soule (Professional Writing Academy, UK) associated with Digital Life Norway Research School and Norwegian Research School in Neuroscience (Trondheim, Norway).

1.) 'Research Trends in Applied Machine Learning' by Professor  Reza Arghandeh  at Dept of Computer Science, Western Norway University, Bergen.

2.) 'Engineering Computing' by Professor Talal Rahman at Dept of Computing, Western Norway University, Bergen.

1.) The Second Interreg (EU-financed cooperation program) & Seventh TERMIS (Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine Society)  winter school training on "Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration: From Mechanobiology to In-Vitro / In-Vivo Models and Advanced Imaging" arranged by Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Traumatology (Vienna, Austria) , the Technical University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna at Zum Jungen Roemer, Radstadt, Austria.

2.) 'Ensuring new antibiotics for the future' workshop given by Prof. Andriy Luzhetskyy (Univ. of Saarbrücken, Germany), Prof. Marnix Medema (Univ. of Wageningen, Netherlands), Dr. David Mead (Varigen Biosciences Corp., USA), Dr. Bert Klebl (Lead Discovery Centre, Germany)  at Scandic Lerkendal (Trondheim, Norway) arranged by Digital Life Norway Research School in collaboration with The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board, The Norwegian Cancer Society,  Ung Kreft, The Norwegian Institute of Public Health and The Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Norway.

3.) 'Scientific Writing Workshop' by Dr. Daniel Soule (Professional Writing Academy, UK) at Clarion Hotel Admiral, Bergen (Norway) arranged by Digital Life Norway Research School and the Norwegian Research School in Neuroscience (NRSN).

4.)  'Computational Medicine and Biomedical Engineering' by  Assc. Prof.  Alexander Lundervold  (Dept of Computing, Western Norway University) and Prof. Arvid Lundervold (Dept of Biomedicine, University of Bergen) organised by University of Bergen (UiB) at Haukeland Hospital, Bergen (Norway).

5.) 'Introduction to Programming' at Summer School, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Oslo.

6.) 'Research Methodology, Research Ethics and Scientific Work Practice' by Professor Pål Ellingsen at Western Norway University, Bergen.

1.) 'Modelling living systems - From foundational problems to applications' worskhop organised by Digital  Life Norway and  NORBIS (National Research school in Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Systems Biology) at  St.Olavs Hospital, Øya Campus, NTNU, Trondheim (Norway).

2.)  'Lean Innovation Workshop' training by Professor Jerome Engel (University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business) collaborated with The Life Science Cluster (Oslo), Catapult Life Science (Oslo), Share Lab (Oslo), Digital Life Norway Research School (Trondheim) at Oslo Science Park (Forskningsparken i Oslo), Oslo University, Oslo (Norway).

3.) 'Getting your hands-on data management' workshop about the data management tools SEEK and NeLS platforms arranged at Oslo University, Oslo (Norway) by Digital Life Norway (Trondheim) collaborated with the University of Manchester and Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), University of Rostock (Germany) and University of Bergen (Norway) .

4.)  'Academic Writing course' by Associate Professor Zoltan Varga at the department of language, literature, mathematics and interpreting, Western Norway University, Bergen. 

1.) 'Diploma in Computer Hardware & Networking' at St. Michael Training Institute, Tuticorin (India).

2.) 'Diploma in Mechanical CAD' at Computer Software College, Tuticorin (India).

1.) 'Arterial Spin Labelling in Dementia' training by Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona and Unita' Operativa Complessa (UOC) -Neuroradiologia collaborated with European Cooperation in Science and Technology  (COST) : Action BM1103 - ASL Initiative in Dementia (AID) at Centro Medico-Culturale G. Marani, Verona University Hospital, Verona (Italy).

2.) The 6th Kuopio Stroke Symposium at Technopolis - Microkatu, Kuopio (Finland) organized by NeuroCenter - Kuopio University Hospital, the Finnish Brain Research and Rehabilitation Center Neuron, and Institute of Clinical Medicine - Neurology, Eastern Finland University.

1.) 'Scientific Presentation Skills' training by  Jean-Luc Lebrun  at Metria Building, Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Joensuu (Finland).

2.) 'The 14th Kuopio BIO-NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) Workshop & PredictAD Workshop' at Mediteknia Auditorium, Kuopio (Finland), organised by Kuopio University Hospital (Finland).

3.) 'National High-Content Analysis Workshop' jointly organized by Biocenter Finland's Biological Imaging and Bioinformatics networks held at BioTeknia, Kuopio (Finland).

1.) 'Small Animal Magnetic Resonance (MR) Imaging & Spectroscopy'  training by European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine & Biology (ESMRMB, Austria) at Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Tu/e, Netherlands).

2.)  'Competence Certification for Scientists Using Animals in Research  (FELASA-C) ' at  The Lab Animal Centre, Itä-Suomen yliopisto, Kuopio (Finland) with training curriculum following guidelines established for C-category competence for Scientists in laboratory Animal Science by the European Union, the Council of Europe, and Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA).

3.) 'BioCenter Oulu Symposium', organized by Biocenter Oulu (BCO), Oulu (Finland) collaborated with Biocenter Kuopio (BCK), Kuopio (Finland), held at  Oulun Yliopisto, Oulu.

4.) 'Imaging Intracellular Signalling in Theory & Practice' organized by AI Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences (Kuopio), held at Microkatu, Kuopio (Finland).

'Biomedical Signal & Image Processing' training at SSN Engineering College, Chennai (India).

1.) 'Biomedical Applications Using National Instruments (NI) LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench)' by TechLabs at Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, SSN College Engineering, Chennai (India).

2.) 'Digitial Signal Processing (DSP-Texas Instruments), Embedded & Very-Large-Scale-Integration (VLSI) ' training at Signals & Systems (India) Private Limited (SANDS), Chennai (India).

 3.) 'Virtual Instrumentation (VI) & Data Acquisition (DAQ) using LabVIEW' by National Instruments (USA) at Tifac-Core (Technology Information Forecasting and assessment Council) in Automotive Infotronics, VIT University, Vellore (India). 

4.) 'Recent  Advances in Bioengineering' held at SRM University, Kattankulathur (India), organized by School of Bioengineering and Faculty of Engineering & Technology - SRM University.

1.) 'Biomechanics National Workshop' held at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal (India), organized by Dept. of Biomedical Engineering - MIT (Manipal) and Biomedical Engineering Society of India (BMESI).

 1.)  '4008 Hemo-Dialysis Systems - Maintenance & Technical Training' given by Chris Leung, Technical Manager, Fresenius Medical Care (Central  Asia Pacific)  held at Trivitron Medical Systems, Chennai (India).

2.) 'Heated Humidifier for Respiratory Care' workshop at Sundaram Medical Foundation, Chennai (India) by Fisher & Paykel HealthCare Corporation Limited (New Zealand). 

1.)  Biomedical equipment maintenance and troubleshoot Training at the department of Biomedical Engineering, Kovai Medical Center And Hospital Limited (KMCH), Coimbatore (India). 

2.) 'In-Vivo Dose rate meter' project was done in Telecobalt and Selectron Low-Dose-Rate (LDR) units,  Valavadi Narayanaswamy Centre of Oncology (V.N. Cancer Centre), G Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital (GKNM), Pappanaicken Palayam, Coimbatore (India).

3.) Industrial visits to Christian Medical College  Hospital - Vellore (India), Adyar Cancer Institute (WIA) - Chennai (India), Larsen Toubro Medical Equipment & Systems Limited - Mysore (India) and  Wipro GE Healthcare Private Limited - Bangalore (India).

1.) 'Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) based control panel for Chrome Neutralization Process' project at ION EXCHANGE (India) Limited, SIPCOT Industrial Complex, Hosur (India).

2.)  'Diploma in e-Commerce' at Computer Software College (CSC) Computer Education private Limited, Hosur (India).

1.) ' Messung, Omran & Mitsubishi Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) training' established under Canada - India Institutional Co-operation Project (CIICP) & Directorate of Technical Education (Chennai), conducted at Central Polytechnic, Chennai (India). 

2.) In-plant training at the department of Instrumentation Engineering, TUTICORIN ALKALI CHEMICALS AND FERTILISERS LIMITED (TFL), Tuticorin (India).

3.) 'Object Oriented Programming with C++' by Computer Society of India, Directorate of Education, Taramani, Chennai (India).

'Diploma in Computer Programming' at Ezhimatics Computer Centre, Tuticorin (India).