🎉 Congratulations Nodira Tillayeva!

Nodira, one of our senior STEM mentors at the Freshman Research Institute, has been recognized as a finalist in the Women In Tech Awards, which is active across 65 countries, under the Global Leadership category. Placing her among the top 5 in the Caucasus and Central Asian region!

She recently completed her master's degree in electrical engineering at Nagoya University and now works as a researcher at the Ubiquitous Computing lab. At Nagoya, she developed a BIES, which is a satellite foundation model that fuses remote sensing imagery with human mobility data.

As a researcher, she has published as a first author in Infectious Disease Modelling on mobility datasets for population health modelling, in ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems on urban embeddings, and with Uzbek colleagues in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics on long-term meteorological statistics at the Maidanak Astronomical Observatory.

Nodira’s work spans across space technologies, where she worked at the Space Agency of Uzbekistan and the Research Institute of Astronomy.

Outside of research, she is involved in community projects such as UNISAT, Technovation, and Google Developer groups, where she brings the same energy of leadership to our students at Freshman!

🌟 We are inspired by Nodira’s progress and can’t wait to see the impact she’ll continue to make in the global tech industry!

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