Balvinder Dhillon, who graduated with an MEng in Biomedical Engineering this year, has again won the Global Undergraduate Award for Engineering, having won the same award last year.

The Global Undergraduate Awards, also known as the 'Junior Nobel Prize', is the worlds-leading recognition programme of undergraduate work. Winners can see their work reach a wider audience and make new connections in academia and industry.

Balvinder won this year for her paper ‘Developing a Multimodal Deep Learning Pipeline for Automated Glioma Subregion Segmentation and 3D Reconstruction with Integrated Spatial Analysis for Clinical Insight’ - which sits at the intersection of AI, robotics and healthcare. Her project, which she undertook during her fourth year at Queen Mary, was supervised by Professor Zion Tse and Dr Hadi Sadati.

This year’s awards received 3567 submissions from 352 universities in 99 countries, making Balvinder’s project in the top 1%.

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.

She was excited to report that at the awards ceremony in Dublin, Ireland on Tuesday 11th November, former Deputy Prime Minister of Ireland, Simon Coveney told her that he is “very excited to see what I get up to in the future and was very impressed by the double wins.”

Balvinder is currently studying Human and Biological Robotics at Imperial College London.