An Interdisciplinary Major Research Project, “Leveraging deep learning to improve the performance of oral cancer classification”, has been funded by Nirma University for three years. Dr Ankit Thakkar, Professor, CSE Department, Institute of Technology, is the Principal Investigator (PI); Dr Parita Oza, Assistant Professor, CSE Department, Institute of Technology as Co-Investigator (Co-PI); Dr Rupal Kapdi, Assistant Professor, CSE Department, Institute of Technology as Co-Investigator (Co-PI); Dr Dhiren Pandit, Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Institute of Technology as Co-Investigator (Co-PI); Dr Kunal Pathak, Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Institute of Technology as Co-Investigator (Co-PI); and Dr Heena Dave, Assistant Professor, Institute of Science, Nirma University as Co-Investigator (Co-PI) for the project.