Research Grants
- Gates Foundation, USD 272,000, Agha Ali Raza (LUMS PI), Mustafa Naseem (PI, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Arman Rezaee (Co-PI, University of California, Davis) Leveraging Polio Helpline for Creating RI+MNCH awareness, Dec 2021 - Sep 2022.
- Facebook Research, USD 90,000, Agha Ali Raza (Co-PI), Ayesha Ali (PI, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan), Ihsan Ayyub Qazi (Co-PI, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan), Countering deepfake misinformation among low digital-literacy populations, Sep 2020 - Sep 2021.
- National Institutes of Health (NIH), USD250,000, Agha Ali Raza (LUMS PI), Arman Rezaee (PI, University of California, Davis), Mustafa Naseem (Co-PI, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Impact evaluation of Super Abbu: A speech based MNCH platform in Pakistan, Sep 2018 - Sep 2020.
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Keck Futures Initiative, USD500,000, Agha Ali Raza (LUMS PI), Kentaro Tayoma (PI, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Melissa Densmore (Co-PI, University of Cape Town), Mustafa Naseem (Co-PI, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Maryam Mustafa (Co-PI, ITU), Digital Street Theater for Global Maternal and Child Health Education, Oct 2018 - Oct 2021.
- National Center in Big Data and Cloud Computing, Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, PKR 120 Million, Agha Ali Raza (LUMS PI), Faisal Kamiran (ITU), Saeed Ul Hassan (ITU), Mudassir Shabbir (ITU), Speech Forensics, 2018 - 20.
- National Research Program for Universities (NRPU) - Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, PKR 4,500,000, Agha Ali Raza (PI), Saeed Ul Hassan (ITU, CoPI), An AI-based automatic Urdu plagiarism detection tool for academia using deep learning and big data, 2019 - 21.
- Google Inc., USD20,000, Agha Ali Raza (Co-PI), Nithya Sambasivan (PI, Google), Nova Ahmad (Co-PI, North South University), Technology and Gender Disparity, Aug 01, 2017 - Oct 15, 2017.
- Innovation Fund, UNICEF, USD100,000, Agha Ali Raza (PI), Rah e Maa: IVR services to disseminate birth preparedness awareness to expecting fathers, Nov 11, 2016 - Nov 10 2017.
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), 1 Million Euros, Agha Ali Raza (Technical Lead), Roni Rosenfeld (PI, CMU), Umar Saif (Co-PI), Hello Rozgar: Improving Access To Skills Training And Employment Opportunities For Marginalized People, Jan 01, 2014 - Dec 31, 2015.
Consultancy
- IVR consultant for the Elearn project.
- Education consultant for the Elearn project.
- HCI consultant for the Weather Project (Center for Language Engineering and Pakistan Meteorological Department).