Dr Tirunagari has more than a decade of professional experience as a Software Developer as well as a Data Scientist. His research interests include probabilistic machine learning and statistical signal processing with applications to computer vision and natural language processing. He has obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Surrey in 2017. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed research publications and has won awards including the best research potential and the best presentation awards at various top-tier conferences. He is also a recipient of the 2018 CogX Award for ‘Outstanding contribution in Artificial Intelligence – Post Doc Research’.

Dr Tirunagari is also an Honorary Assistant Professor at Middlesex University, London. Previously he has worked with Medecode solutions, Rofous software, Aalto University, University of Surrey, and Synoptic Technologies Ltd.

Prior to his doctorate, Dr Tirunagari has obtained B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India and MSc.(Tech.) by Research from Aalto University, School of Science and Technology, Finland.