Prof. Shikha Mehta

Biography

Currently working as Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida. I attained my doctorate in the domain of Artificial Intelligence from University of Delhi, Delhi.  I have over 18 years of teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in JIIT and 4 years of experience before joining JIIT. I am an active researcher in the field of Machine Learning, Nature Inspired computing and social networks. I have guided various M tech thesis, more than 100 B.Tech projects and presently guiding three PhD scholars and two have been already awarded PhD under my guidance. I have addressed diverse audience as a keynote speaker in UGC, ATAL and TEQIP sponsored FDPs and workshops. With many national and international research publications to my credit, I am also the chief editor of two books published by reputed international publishers. I have organized many special sessions in conferences and is in the program committee of various conferences of repute. I am actively involved as reviewer for many International Journals and Conference Proceedings. I have been actively involved in organizing International Conference on Contemporary Computing in year 2008 to 2022 and Chaired Workshop in International Conference on Informatics in 2022.

Interest Area's

• Nature Inspired Algorithms
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Soft computing
• Social Network Analysis
• Big Data Analytics

Work Experience: 18+ Years in Academics.

• June 2004 to till date JIIT Noida
• January -2001 to April 2004: G. J University, Hisar
• August -2000 to December-2001: S.D M Mahavidyalya, Hansi, Dist. Hisar

Publications

International Journals

• Mehta, S. Improved shuffled Frog leaping algorithm with unsupervised population partitioning strategies for complex optimization problems. J Comb Optim 47, 6 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-023-01102-w
• Mehta, S., Kaur, P. & Agarwal, P. Improved whale optimization variants for SLA-compliant placement of virtual machines in cloud data centers. Multimed Tools Appl 83, 149–171 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-15528-1[IF: 3.6]
• S. Mehta, P. Agarwal, P. Shrivastava, J. Barlawala, “Differential Bond Energy Algorithm for Optimal Vertical Fragmentation of Distributed Databases”, Journal of King Saud University Computer and Information Sciences, Volume 34, Issue 1,2022, Pages 1466-1471, ISSN 1319-1578, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jksuci.2018.09.020.[IF: 8.839]
• Agarwal, S., Mehta, S. GNPA: a hybrid model for social influence maximization in dynamic networks. Multimed Tools Appl (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-11606-4[IF:2.577]
• Agarwal, P., Mehta, S.& Abraham, A. A meta-heuristic density-based subspace clustering algorithm for high-dimensional data. Soft Comput 25, 10237–10256 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-021-05973-1[IF:3.642]
• Agarwal, S. and Mehta, S. "Effective influence estimation in twitter using temporal, profile, structural and interaction characteristics." Information Processing & Management 57, no. 6 (2020): 102321. [IF: 7.4664]
• Agarwal P., Mehta S., “ABC_DE_FP: a novel hybrid algorithm for complex continuous optimisation problems,” International Journal Bio-Inspired Computations, Inderscience, 14(1):46–61., 2019[IF:3.295]
• P. Agarwal and S. Mehta, “Empirical Analysis of Five Nature Inspired Algorithms on Real Parameter Optimization Problems" Artificial Intelligence Review, Artificial Intelligence Review, pp. 1-57, Oct 2018 [IF-9.58]
• P. Kaur, S. Mehta, “Resource Provisioning and Workflow Scheduling in Clouds using Augmented Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm”, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Elsevier, Volume 101, 2017, Pages 41-50, ISSN 0743-7315,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpdc.2016.11.003.[ IF 4.54,ranking is 18 out of 109 in Computer Science, Theory & Methods]
• Mehta, S. and Banati, H., “Context aware Filtering Using Social Behaviour of Frogs”, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Volume 17, August 2014, Pages 25–36, Elsevier [Impact Factor 10.267, ranking is 7 out of 109 in Computer Science, Theory & Methods]

• Mehta S., Agglomerative Clustering enhanced GA for optimal seed selection in Online Social Networks, International Journal of Web Information Systems, Vol. 18 No. 5/6, pp. 342-355. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWIS-02-2022-0042, Emerald Publishing Limited 2022.[SCOPUS]
• Agarwal P,Anirban D., Agrawal T., Nikhil Mehra andMehta S, Hybrid Nature Inspired Algorithm for Feature Selection in Alzheimer Detection using Brain MRI Image, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 21, No. 03, 2250016 (2022)Accepted], [SCOPUS]
• Mehta S., Goyal M., Efficient Bitcoin Mining Using Genetic Algorithm-Based Proof of Work, International Journal of Fuzzy System Applications (IJFSA) 11(2), 1-17, 2022.[SCOPUS]
• Agarwal S ,Mehta S, Online Behavior Balancing Model for Influence Maximization in Twitter, Recent Advances in Computer Science and Communications 2022; 15(8) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/2666255813666201208122616. [SCOPUS]
• S Mehta, P Kaur,”Efficient Computation Offloading in Mobile Cloud Computing with Nature-Inspired Algorithms”, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications, Vol. 18, No. 04, 1950023 (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10.1142/S1469026819500238[SCOPUS]
• S. Agarwal and S. Mehta, “Approximate Shortest Distance Computing Using k-Medoids Clustering”,  Ann. Data. Sci. (2017), Volume 4, Issue 4, pp 547–564 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s40745-017-0119-y[SCOPUS]
• Janardan, S. Mehta, " Concept drift in Streaming Data Classification: Algorithms, Platforms and Issues", Information Technology and Quantitative Management (ITQM 2017), Procedia Computer Science, Volume 122, 2017, Pages 804–811, Elsevier
• S. Agarwal, L. Yadav, S. Mehta, "Cricket Team Prediction with Hadoop: Statistical Modeling Approach", Information Technology and Quantitative Management (ITQM 2017), Procedia Computer Science, Volume 122, 2017, Pages 525–532, Elsevier[SCOPUS]
• M. Singh, S. Mehta, Navrattan Kaur, “Evaluation of Metaheuristic Algorithms in Optimising Association Rule Mining”, International Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering, Science and Technology 2016, 1 June 2016, Hyderabad, India, Elsevier Energy Procedia[SCOPUS]
• P. Agarwal and S. Mehta, "Enhanced Flower Pollination Algorithm on Data Clustering ", International Journal of Computers and Applications ,38:2-3, 144-155, Taylor and Francis, 2016, DOI: 10.1080/1206212X.2016.1224401[SCOPUS]
• Mehta, S., Memetic Algorithm with Constrained Local search for Large Scale Global Optimization, Journal of Intelligent Systems. ISSN (Online) 2191-026X, ISSN (Print) 0334-1860, DOI: 10.1515/jisys-2015-0103, April 2016, De Gruyter.[SCOPUS]
• Agarwal, P. and Mehta, S., “Nature-Inspired Algorithms: State-of-Art, Problems and Prospects” International Journal of Computer Applications, Volume 100 - Number 14, Year of Publication: 2014[GOOGLE SCHOLAR]
• Mehta, S. and Banati, H., “Context aware Filtering Using Social Behaviour of Frogs”, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Volume 17, August 2014, Pages 25–36, Elsevier [Impact Factor 10.267, ranking iS 7 out of 109 in Computer Science, Theory & Methods]
• Mehta, S. and Banati, H., “Improved shuffled frog leaping algorithm for continuous optimisation adapted SEVO toolbox”, International. J. of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms 2013 - Vol. 5, No.1/2 pp. 31 – 44.Inderscience Publishers, UK.[SCOPUS]
• Mehta, S. and Banati, H., “Social Behaviour based Metrics to enhance Collaborative Filtering”, International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications. ISSN 2150-7988 Volume 6 (2014) pp. 217 – 226, MIR Labs, USA[SCOPUS]

• S. Mehta, S. Sharma, S.Anand, S. Sharma, A. Goel, “Random Forest Algorithm for Enhanced Prediction of Drug Target Interactions,International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE)” , 9(4), ISSN: 2278-3075, February 2020[GOOGLE SCHOLAR]
• Banati, H., Mehta, S.,”A Multi-perspective evaluation of MA and GA for collaborative filtering recommender system”, International journal of computer science & information Technology (IJCSIT) Vol.2, No.5, pp103-122 October 2010. DOI: 10.5121/ijcsit.2010.2508 [Indexed in SCIRUS, Inspec, EBSCO etc].

International Conferences:

• A. Surolia and S. Mehta, "Optimal Feature Selection for Retweet Prediction in Indian Election," 2023 Second International Conference on Informatics (ICI), Noida, India, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICI60088.2023.10421159.
• Singh, A.K., Mehta, S. (2023). Performance Evaluation of Smart Flower Optimization Algorithm Over Industrial Non-convex Constrained Optimization Problems. In: Jabbar, M.A., Ortiz-Rodríguez, F., Tiwari, S., Siarry, P. (eds) Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics. AMLDA 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1818. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34222-6_20
• Gupta, S., Mehta, S. (2023). Policy Driven Epidemiological (PDE) Model for Prediction of COVID-19 in India. In: Sachdeva, S., Watanobe, Y., Bhalla, S. (eds) Big Data Analytics in Astronomy, Science, and Engineering. BDA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13830. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28350-5_18
• Mehta, S., Gupta, S., Agarwal, R., Trivedi, S., Dubey, P. (2022). String Matching Based Framework for Online Hindi Question Answering System. In: Villazón-Terrazas, B., Ortiz-Rodriguez, F., Tiwari, S., Sicilia, MA., Martín-Moncunill, D. (eds) Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web . KGSWC 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1686. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21422-6_23
• Mehta, S., Jain, T., Aggarwal, N. (2021). Multilingual Short Text Analysis of Twitter Using Random Forest Approach. In: Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web. KGSWC 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1459. Springer, Cham.pp. 84-92.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91305-2_7
• A. Gupta and S. Mehta, "Automatic Stance Detection for Twitter Data," 2022 1st International Conference on Informatics (ICI), 2022, pp. 223-225, doi: 10.1109/ICI53355.2022.9786920.IEEE
• P. Agarwal, N. Farooqi, A. Gupta, S. Mehta, and S. Khandelwal, “A New Harris Hawk Whale Optimization Algorithm for Enhancing Neural Networks,” in International Conference on Contemporary Computing, 2021, pp. 179–186.
• S. Mehta, M. Singh, N. Kaur,”Firefly Algorithm For Optimization of Association Rules”,2020 6th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSC), pp 143-148, IEEE.
• Agarwal, S. and Mehta, S., "GA with k-medoid approach for optimal seed selection to maximize social influence."International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications, pp. 97-106. Springer, Singapore, 2020. (Scopus)
• P Kaur, S Mehta, “Efficient computation offloading using grey wolf optimisation algorithm” - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2061, 020011 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5086633
• S Mehta, P Rana, S Singh, A Sharma, P Agarwal ,”Ensemble Learning Approach for Enhanced Stock Prediction”, 2019 Twelfth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), 1-5, IEEE.
• O. Mishra, P. Lodhi and S Mehta, Document Oriented NoSQL Databases: An Empirical Study, The 4th International Conference on Recent Developments in Science, Engineering and Technology (REDSET 2017).
• E. Annapurna, M. Ramzan, S. Mehta, Are Tweets the real estimators of elections results, IC3 2017.
• A Verma, S Mehta, A Comparative Study of Ensemble Learning Methods for Classification in Bioinformatics, 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science &Engineering  CONFLUENCE 2017, pp. 155-158.
• Agarwal, P. and Mehta S., Comparative Analysis of Nature Inspired Algorithms on Data Clustering, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN ), pp. 119-124, 2015
• Mehta S. and Banati H., “Trust aware social context filtering using Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm, International conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2012), pp. 342-347.
• Banati, H. and Mehta, S., “SEVO: Bio-inspired Analytical Tool for Uni-modal and Multimodal Optimization”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2011) Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Springer 130, pp. 557-566
• Banati, H. and Mehta, S., “Memetic Collaborative filtering based Recommender System”, The 2nd Vaagdevi International Conference on Information Technology for Real World Problems, (VCON'10), IEEE, pp. 102-107
• Mehta, S., Sachdeva, B., Bhargava, R. and Banati, H., “An Evolutionary Approach to Intelligent Planning”, International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic Computing (SEMCCO 2010), LNCS 6466, pp. 305–313.
• Banati, H. and Mehta, S., “Evolution of Contextual queries using Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm”, 2010 International Conference on Advances in Communication, Network, and Computing, IEEE, pp. 360-365
• Banati, H. and Mehta, S., “VibrantSearch: A BDI Model of Contextual Search Engine”, International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP 2010), pp. 623-629.
• Mehta, S., Banati, H. and Bedi, P., “BDI Planning Approach to Distributed MultiAgent Based Semantic Search Engine”, International conference on distributed computing and artificial Intelligence, IWANN 2009, Part II, LNCS 5518, pp. 25–28
• S Mehta, A Gulati, A Kalra, “A Hybrid Model for a Search Engine “, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'08:July 14-17, 2008 ), Las Vegas.[Indexed in SCOPUS] [Indexed in DBLP]
• S Mehta and K. Anusha, ”An Expert System for Health Care Specialists: A Fuzzy Data Mining Approach” , International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'08: July 14-17, 2008 ), Las Vegas, .[Indexed in SCOPUS] [Indexed in DBLP]
• S Mehta, V Kumar, Dr. Dharmendra ,”Knowledge discovery through Fuzzy Logic for Improving the efficiency of Immunization Programme in Indian State”, International Conference on Information Technology and management, Dubai, March 6-8, ICISTM, 08.

National Conferences

• Shikha Mehta Kakkar, Varun Kumar,” Decisions Through Knowledge Mining-A Dynamic Approach to Decision Making”. National Seminar on Managerial issues in Seamless Economy”, Department of Business Management, G.J.U.Hisar , March 27-28, 2004.
• Shikha Mehta Kakkar , “IT and its enabled Services-Problems and Prospects” National Seminar on “Problems and Prospects of Small Scale Industries in North –Western India” , Department of Business Economics, G.J.U.Hisar , March 8-9, 2003.

Conferences/ Workshops Attended

• Attended 3 days International Conference on Translation Across Cultures: Dissolving Boundaries- Creating Harmony, organized by department of Humanities and Social Sciences, held from Oct 4-6, 2018.
• Attended three days National Workshop on Data Science and Visualization Tools organized by Dept of CSE, JIIT, Sec 128, Noida from Nov 15-17, 2018.
• Attended two days workshop on Current Aspects of Research Evaluation and Plagiarism organized by department of Mathematics of JIIT, Noida from Nov 30-Dec 1, 2018.
• Attended two days workshop on “Outcome base Education” ,organized by Dept of Comp. Science Engineering, JIIT, Noida from 18-19 September, 2018.
• Attended two days workshop on “Soft Computing and Language Processing” ,organized by Dept of Comp. Science Engineering, JIIT, Sec 128, Noida from 27^th April-28^th April, 2018
• Attended National Level Workshop on- A Trend towards Machine Learning: Techniques and Applications, organized by Department of Computer Science, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (University of Delhi), December 26, 2017- January 1, 2018
• Attended PhD Symposium by Prof. Rao Vemuri, UC Davis, on Nov 16, 2017 at JIIT 62, Noida.
• Attended One Day workshop on “ Recent Trends in Machine Learning”, by Prof. Rao Vemuri, UC Davis, on Nov 16, 2017 at JIIT 62, Noida.
• Attended FDP on "Performance Assessment in Computing Systems" at JIIT, Noida, July(10-15),2017
• Attended 25th Convergence India 2017 international ICT exhibition and Conference”, 8-10 February 2017,            Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
• Attended, Talk on “Interactive Teaching” by Prof Sanjay Goel, 14th Jan 2017       CSE/IT, JIIT, Sector-62, Noida.
• Attended talk on “Machine Learning: Current, state of the art and Futuristic Role in Big Data,  Prof. Madan Gopal, Director, Shiv Nadar University, on April 25, 2017 at JIIT 62, Noida.
• Attended workshop on “International Research Workshop on Cloud Computing" organized by School of Computer and Systems Sciences,  22-23 December, 2016,  JNU New Campus, New Delhi - 110067
• Attended talk on “Use of modern Nature-Inspired Optimization Techniques to solve real-life problems” Prof. Kusum Deep, Professor of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee on September 20, 2016 at JIIT 62, Noida.
• Attended faculty development program on “Research, Innovation, and Engineering in Computer Science: Issues and Approaches' organised by CS&IT Department, July 18-23 2016.
• Attended international workshop on “Big Data Analytics” (WBDA-2016) , March 30, 2016, organized by School of Computer and System Sciences, JNU, Delhi
• Attended a national seminar on “A Step towards Soft Computing: Techniques and applications”, organized by Dept. of Comp. Sc., University of Delhi, Delhi, March 18-19, 2016.
• Attended Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference, New Delhi, India Dec 1-4, 2015.
• Attended FDP on Recent Trends in Computing Education , JIIT, Noida, 6th to 11th July 2015
• Attended and presented a paper in the “International Conference on Swarm, Evolutionary and Memetic computing”, SEMCCO 2010, LNCS 6466, pp. 305–313, 2010.
• Attended and presented a paper “The 2nd Vaagdevi International Conference on Information Technology for Real World Problems” (VCON'10), pp-102-107, 2010 IEEE.
• Attended and presented a paper in “2010 International Conference on Advances in Communication, Network, and Computing”.pp-360-365, 2010 IEEE
• Attended workshop on “Conducting Design Science Research in IT”, Oct. 19, 2010, JIIT,Noida
• Attended workshop on “Advances in Computer and Information Sciences: Opportunities and challenges” Oct. 27, 2010, JIIT, Noida.
• Attended workshop on “Research Methodology”, Nov 11, 2010, JIIT, Noida.
• Attended workshop on “Challenges and Evolving approaches for Teaching AI and related courses” Nov 12, 2010, JIIT, Noida.
• Attended workshop on “Differential Evolution and its engineering applications” Dec 16, 2010, SRM University, Chennai.
• Attended IUCEE (Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education) workshop on Artificial Neural Network, conducted by Prof R. Vemuri (University of California, Davis) from 5-9 July 2010 at Vijayawada, AP.
• Attended workshop on “Introduction to Formal Languages, Automata Theory and Computation” Feb 18, 2010, organized by Pearson Education, JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida.

Professional Projects / Professional Achievements

• Talks Delivered/Lectures Delivered:
• Delivered 5 days workshop on “ Introduction to Python for Meta-analysis of data” in a five-day (hybrid mode) national workshop on Introduction to Python for Meta-analysis of Data from Nov 1-5, 2022, organized by Zakir Husain Delhi College (University of Delhi) (under the aegis of DBT Star College Scheme) in association with Internal Quality Assurance Cell.
•  Delivered a practical session on “ Big Data processing using Hadoop” on Oct 4, 2022, in Faculty Development Programme on Information Systems Frontiers (ISF-2022), from 26th September, 2022 – 7th October, 2022 organized by department of computer science engineering, NIT, Delhi.
• Delivered 4 days session on Introduction to Machine Learning and Linear Algebra, Neural Networks and Deep learning applications using Python in One Week Quality Improvement Program (QIP) on "Problem solving and Programming using Python" from 29 June 2022 to 5 July 2022 organized by School of Sciences, CHRIST, Deemed to be University, Delhi.
• Delivered an expert lecture on “Deep Learning architectures for Industrial applications' ' on Feb 10, 2022  in the webinar  organized by Department of Computer Science, Deen Dayal Upadhaya College, University of Delhi.
• Delivered an expert lecture on “ Linear algebra Applications in Machine Learning“ on June 22, 2021 in the “Two Weeks short term Training Program(STTP) on advances in Linear algebra: technology based Innovations” from June 14-26, 2021, organized by department of Mathematics, JIIT, Noida.
• Delivered 2 days session on “Predictive Modelling Algorithms and Data Visualization” in Quality Improvement Program(QIP) on “Data analytics using Python” from June 7-13, 2021, organized by School of Sciences, CHRIST, Deemed to be University, Delhi.
• Delivered an Expert Lecture on “Nature Inspired Algorithms : Analytical Tools and Techniques”, on 7th Nov, 2020 in Workshop on Scientific Research Tools for Enriching Skills in Science and Technology (6th – 7th Nov, 2020) organised by Dept of Mathematics, JIIT, sec 62, Noida.
• Expert Lecture  on “Deep Learning  Architectures”, in AICTE sponsored one week online STTP on Data Science from 12th October to 17th October 2020, organised by IT department of NIET, Greater Noida. 
• Expert Lecture  on “Deep Learning  Demystified”, in AICTE sponsored one week online STTP on Data Science from from 24th August to 29th August 2020, , organised by IT department of NIET, Greater Noida. 
• Expert Lecture  on “Machine Learning to deep Learning : A Walkthrough, on 20th July, 2020, One Week Online Faculty Development Programme (20th – 25th July, 2020) on “Emerging Trends in Information Technology”, INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT New Delhi
• Expert Lecture on “Machine Learning to deep Learning : A Walkthrough, in faculty development program on Soft Computing Techniques and their Applications (SCTA-2020) from July 13-18, 2020, organised by Dept of Mathematics, JIIT, Noida
• Expert Lecture on “Journey from Machine Learning to deep Learning , in two weeks faculty development program on Ambient technologies, State of Art, challenges and future directions, organized department of CSE&IT, by JUIT, Waknaghat, HP,  from July 27-August 8, 2020.
• Delivered a session on “Introduction to Machine Learning with Python“ in one  day workshop on Machine learning  on 21^st October 2019 in Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi.
• Delivered a session on “From Machine Learning to Deep Learning: A Walkthrough“ in UGC sponsored National Conference on Emerging Trends in Information Technology (NCETIT-2019)  held on 1st and 2nd August 2019 in Kalindi College, University of Delhi.
• TPC, International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies, Inderscience 2019.
• Delivered a four day module on “Web Development for Online retailing using PHP programming and Wordpress for Online Store” in the Add-on Course on “On-line Retailing: An industry Orientation for Undergraduate Students” organized by Dept. of Comp. Sc., Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College,  University of Delhi, Delhi, June 1-15, 2019.
• Delivered a session on “A Step from Machine Learning o Deep Learning“ in Five Days Faculty Development Program on “Current Research Trends in Artificial Neural Networks”, organized by Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India  from 8 -12 July 2019  sponsored by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (TEQIP-III), Lucknow.
• Delivered a session on “Machine Learning(Decision tree, K-means clustering and Reinforcement Learning with Python“ in five day faculty development program organized by IT department , NIET sponsored by AKTU Lucknow at NIET Greater Noida under TEQIP-III program from May27-May 31, 2019.
• Delivered a session on “Natural Language Processing “ in workshop on  “Two Day workshop on Natural Language Processing”, organized by Dept. of Comp. Sc., Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College University of Delhi, Delhi, From February 13-14, 2019.
• Delivered a talk on “Social Network analysis using Nature Inspired Algorithms”, at 3 days National Symposium on Intelligent Systems Techniques and its Research Applications from December 20-22, 2018 at JIIT, Noida.
• Delivered a talk on “ Social media Analytics”, at Annual IT Fest “TechMelange” 2018 in Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied Science for Women on 12th October , 2018.
• Delivered a four day module on “Designing Web Interface using PHP programming and Wordpress for Online Store” in the Add-on Course on “On-line Retailing: An industry Orientation for Undergraduate Students” organized by Dept. of Comp. Sc., Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College,  University of Delhi, Delhi, June 1-30, 2018.
• Delivered a talk on “Nature Inspired Algorithms”, at faculty development program titled " Data Structure Algorithms and Digital Image Processing" organized by Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Dewan V.S. Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut under the ages of TEQIP-III & Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam  Technical University, Lucknow, May 18-13, ,2018.
• TPC member, International Conference on Applications of Computing and Communication Technologies (ICACCT-2018), organized by Shyama Prasad Mukherji College, University of Delhi, Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi.
• Track Chair, Track Chair, The Fifth International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management (ITQM 2017) is one of the conference series organized by International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management (IAITQM) (www.iaitqm.org), JBS, Noida
• Program Committee member, 7th The World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2017) held in Delhi, India, from December 14 - 16, 2017.
• TPC, 4th International Conference on Recent Developments in Science, Engineering and Technology (REDSET 2017), organized by G.D. Goenka University (GDGU) 13 - 14 October 2017
• Delivered a talk on “Machine Learning For Streaming Data: Problems and Prospects” in  National Level Workshop on- A Trend towards Machine Learning: Techniques and Applications, organized by Department of Computer Science, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College (University of Delhi), December 26, 2017- January 1, 2018
• Delivered a talk on “Performance Evaluation of Big Data Systems”, at faculty development program FDP on "Performance Assessment in Computing Systems" at JIIT, Noida, July(10-15),2017
• Organized Special Session on "Soft Computing for Wireless Networks” at International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communication (ICICC-2018) organized by Guru Nanak Institute of Management 5th-6th May,2018
• Organized Special Session on "Intelligent techniques for Social Media Analytics" at 7th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies South Asian University, Delhi, India.  December 14-16, 2017
• Organized Special Session on "Social Media Analytics for Business Applications" at Fifth International Conference on Information Technology and Quantitative Management (ITQM 2017), New Delhi, India.  December 8-10, 2017
• Delivered a talk on “Performance Evaluation of Big Data Systems”, at faculty development program FDP on "Performance Assessment in Computing Systems" at JIIT, Noida, July(10-15),2017
• Delivered a talk on “Streaming Data Analytics”, at faculty development program on “Information Systems Frontiers” organized by CS&IT Department, June 5-10 2017.
• Program Committee member, The 2017 International Conference on Advanced Technologies Enhancing Education (ICAT2E 2017), Qingdao, China, from March 18 to March 20, 2017
• TPC member, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (IJAISC), Inderscience, 2016.
• TPC member Confluence-2017:7th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Data Science & Engineering, 12-13 January, 2017, Amity University, Sec-125 campus, Noida, UP.
• Delivered a talk on “Big data technologies-NOSQL Demystified”, at National Workshop on Big Data Analytics and Visualization” September 5- 7, 2016, JIIT, Sec-128,NoidaCore Team Member of Center for Performance Analysis and Computing Systems(CoPACS)
• Technical session Chair, International Conference on Contemporary Computing, 2014 and 2015.
• TPC member, 8th International Conference on Contemporary Computing, 20-22 Aug 2015, JIIT, Noida.
• TPC member, 7th International Conference on Contemporary Computing, 7-9 Aug 2014, JIIT, Noida.
• Publication Committee Member of International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3) 2015.
• Organizing Special Special Session on Computational Intelligence paradigms for Data mining and Knowledge discovery (CIDK 2016) conducted in Conjunction with 2016 Second IEEE International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN 2016) September 23 - 25, 2016, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
• Delivered a talk on “ Practical Demonstration Soft Computing techniques using Matlab”, in UGC sponsored National seminar on “ A step towards Soft Computing”, organized by Dept. of Comp. Sc., University of Delhi, Delhi, March 18-19, 2016.
• Organized 2-day workshop on “DATA ANALYTICS AND ITS SECURITY ISSUES” 4th- 5th December- 2015, JIIT, Sector-62, Noida
• Organized special session on Recent Trends in Data Intensive Computing and Applications (DICA) conducted in Conjunction with 3rd International Conference on Information System Design and Intelligent Applications (INDIA 2016) on 8-9th, Jan 2016.
• Organized Special Session on Trends in Soft Computing Techniques (TSCT) conducted in Conjunction with 2015 IEEE International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN 2015) November 20-22, 2015, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
• Delivered a talk on “ Research and Innovation trends in Web technologies courses”, at FDP, July 2015, organized by JIIT, Noida
• Organized one day talk on “Evaluating Career Options in the IT Economy” Nov 18, 2010, JIIT, Noida.
• Organized short course on “Genetic Algorithms” by Prof. R. Vemuri, University of California, Davis, Nov 7-9, 2010, JIIT and Noida.

 

THESES/PROJECT SUPERVISION

No. of PhD scholars awarded: -01

• Dr. Parul Agarwal-novel variants of nature inspired algorithms for clustering high dimensional data

No. of PhD scholars at pursuing:- 03

• Sakshi Agarwal-Influence Maximization in Social Networks
• Anuradha Gupta- Machine Learning approach to Privacy and security in Social Media
• Akhilesh Kumar Singh-Bioinformatics