Dr Varun Ojha is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Artificial Intelligence at the School of Computing, Newcastle University. He is Artificial Intelligence Theme Leader and Co-I on EPSRC-funded National Edge AI Hub. His core research focuses on Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Data Science. In the past, Dr Ojha served as a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Reading, UK and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Zurich, Switzerland. Before this, Dr Ojha was a Marie-Curie Fellow (funded by the European Commission) at the Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. He received a PhD in computer science from the Technical University of Ostrava, the Czech Republic. In his early career, Dr Ojha received a research fellowship position funded by the Govt of India’s Dept of Science and Technology at the Visva-Bharati University, India. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Member of ACM. His research works are available in Publications, Google Scholar, and ORCID.