A few things I’ve built, led, and been recognised for.
Co-Founder & President · 2024 – 2025
Built an organisation to deliver low-cost assistive technology for visually impaired users in low-income settings. Functional devices shipped. Two university-wide awards from 300+ societies. Presented at the UK Parliament.
President · 2022 – 2024
Led a 140-person interdisciplinary team to design and build a competition hyperloop pod over two years. Raised £65k+ across grants and sponsorship (£47k external). Two international awards for innovation and engineering.
Reinforcement learning for patient-specific simulations of tumour growth and treatment response — interventions tested in silico before the clinic.
Automated biomarker extraction from tumour genomic data with probabilistic estimates for precision oncology stratification.
Automated glioma subregion segmentation and 3D reconstruction. Top 1% globally — Global Undergraduate Awards 2025.
Cardiac signal propagation prediction at Dice 0.96. Personalised atrial fibrillation treatment research at DERI, QMUL.
Bioresorbable stent with organ-on-a-chip validation at William Harvey Research Institute. Top 1% globally; Best Innovator Award.
CNN–Q-learning and Siamese networks for one-shot HD-sEMG gesture classification. Transfer learning pipelines at Advanced Robotics Lab, QMUL.
Led Optisync: low-cost vision assistance for public transport with vision-to-tactile sensory substitution. UK Parliament finalist.
Mobile system for early burnout detection in physicians — validated psychometrics and behavioural signals for workforce sustainability.
1 of 4 researchers from 40 applicants across top London universities (Arcadia Impact). COPD intervention barriers via global burden of disease data.
Patient-informed brain modelling and mechanical analysis
Read paper ↗Transfer learning architecture & experimental validation
MetroXraine ↗PINN architecture optimisation & results interpretation
MICCAI ↗First place from 3,567 first-class papers worldwide for multimodal deep learning in brain tumour analysis. First consecutive Global Winner in Engineering in the award's history.
Selected from 3,941 first-class papers for dissertation research on bioresorbable drug-eluting stents with organ-on-a-chip validation.
One of two university projects from 40+ submissions selected for the British Parliament.
First place among 10+ finalists for bioresorbable stent research.
Cross-university team: biocompatible pressure sensor for post-surgical infection detection.
The engineering team under my leadership was recognised as the most innovative student society in the UK.
For founding and leading Cybathlon; selected from 300+ student societies.
University-wide recognition for Cybathlon's impact.
1st Runner-Up among 9 London teams; gamified burnout detection app in 4 hours.
Top 3 of 72 applicants for Engineering Design Project improvements.
The Star Malaysia
Queen Mary University of London
Times Higher Education
Queen Mary University of London
Guest episode on building an independent path as an international engineer.
Invited panel speaker for an international audience.
Alongside Juan Vicen Balaguer, Founder of Zeleros.
Biomedical engineering applications in Hyperloop systems.
Addressing prospective biomedical engineering students.
SAC-based reinforcement learning to explore treatment options for brain tumours.
Interactive demo for a brain-tumour digital twin with reinforcement learning.
Multimodal glioma segmentation pipeline from the EMS700U research project.
HD-sEMG gesture work developed at ARQ, Queen Mary University of London.
Profile · github.com/BalvinderKaurDhillon
I grew up in Malaysia and have lived in London for the past 5 years. When the models are training overnight, I think about the long tables I grew up around: too much food, everyone's talking, zero small plates.