Dr Varun Ojha is an Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the School of Computing, Newcastle University. Dr Ojha is Head of the Intelligent Systems Research Group at the School of Computing, Newcastle University. He is Artificial Intelligence Theme Lead and Co-Lead of EPSRC-funded National Edge AI Hub. Dr Ojha sits on the scientific advisory board of the International Neurodegenerative Disorders Research Center. 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 core research focuses on Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Data Science. His research works are available in Publications, Google Scholar, and ORCID.