Dr. Hema N

Education

• Ph.D. (Computer Science & Engineering), Jan. 2011- June 2018, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.
• M.Tech in Software Engineering (Computer Science & Engineering), June 2001 – Aug. 2003, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, Karnataka, India.
• B.E. (Computer Science and Engineering), July 1996 – Nov. 2000 from Kuvempu Univerisity, at Adichunchanagiri Institute of Technology, Chikkamagaluru, Karnataka, India.

Biography

She has been actively involved in various academic, technical hub and administrative activities during her teaching career. She has guided 8 M.Tech thesis and 100+ Major projects to UG students. She is also faculty advisor for “Microcontroller Based System and Robotics” technical hub.

Highlighted projects developed under her guidance mainly includes autonomous system and smart systems like puzzle solving robots, quad-copters, smart homes, sign language interpreter, robotic arm, android mobile phone controlled robotic arm, traffic light simulation, weather data analysis and estimation, Driver Sleep Detection and Warning System, automatic garbage collector and classifier, Robo-Gardner, gesture and voice controlled robots, automated 3-D printer and automated irrigation using various climatic sensors.

She has been actively participated and coordinated in procuring hardware for Microprocessor and controllers Lab setup. Since 2008, she is the part of local arrangement committee and organizer of special event Robo-track of an annual international conference, IC3 (International Conference on Contemporary Computing, http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/IC3).

She has taught many courses to computer science students which include Computer Organization and Architecture, Operating System and System Programming, Microprocessor & Microcontroller, Embedded System, Software Engineering, Mobile Robotics, Unix Programming, Software Construction and Documentation and Distributed Computing.

Interest Area's

• Automated Systems
• Smart Systems
• Wireless Sensor Networks Applications
• Climatic Data interpolation
• Smart Irrigation Systems
• Computer Organization and Architecture
• Microprocessor and Microcontrollers
• Embedded systems
• Robotics

Work Experience: 17+ Years in Academics.

• July 2018- : Assistant Professor (Senior Grade), Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, UP.
• July 2011-June 2018: Assistant Professor (Grade-II), Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, UP.
• July 2007- June 2011: Sr. Lecturer, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, UP.
• June 2005-  June 2007:Lecturer, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, UP.
• May 2003 - Feb 2005: Lecturer,  R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, Karnataka.
• July  2002 –April 2003: Lecturer, Sree Belimat Mahasamsthana Institue of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka.
• June 2001 - June 2002: Visiting Faculty, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore, Karnataka.
• Nov 2000 - May 2001: Lecturer, Sree Belimat Mahasamsthana Institue of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka.

Publications

• Hema N, Krishna Kant, “Real-Time Rainfall Estimation for Improved Smart Irrigation System Using Nearby Automated Weather Station” , British Journal of Applied Science & Technology, 18(5), 1-13, 2016; ISSN: 2231-0843, NLM ID: 101664541
• Hema N., Krishna Kant, “Reconstructing missing hourly real-time precipitation data using a novel intermittent sliding window period algorithm for automatic weather station data”, Journal of Meteorological Research (Springer), 31(4), 774－790, 2017, SCIE, Impact factor 0.95 , doi: 10.1007/s13351-017- 6084-8.
• Hema N., Krishna Kant, “Cost-Effective Smart Irrigation Controllers using Automatic Weather Station”, Int. J. of Hydrology Science and Technology (Inderscience), 2018, SJR=0.285, Impact Factor 1.77 (in forthcoming issue).
• Hema N., Krishna Kant, K. Rajalakshmi, “Reconstruction of Missing Hourly Precipitation Data to Increase Training Data Set for ANN”, International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems (IGI Global), 9(1), 62-84, 2018, ESCI, SJR=0.138, impact factor = 0.86.
• Hema N., Reema Aswani, Monisha Malik, “Plant Watering Autonomous Mobile Robot”, IAES International Journal of Robotics and Automation, Vol 1, No 3: September 2012,  ISSN: 2089-4856 , DOI: 10.11591/ijra.v1i3.1305.
• Hema N., Krishna Kant and Hima Bindu Maringanti, “Automation of Indian Agriculture to Increase Crop Productivity and Decrease Crop cost: A Review” in Asia Specific Conference of South East Asia Regional Computer Confederation, Mumbai, India, December 12-13, 2011.
• Hema N.,Krishna Kant and Hima Bindu Maringanti “Automatic Light Control for White Marker Board in Conference/Seminar Hall Using Ultrasound Sensor via RF Wireless Communication” in Information Systems, Technology and Management, 6th International Conference, ICISTM 2012,Grenoble, France, March 28-30, 2012 published in LNCS, Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2012, Volume 285, Part 8, 408-413, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29166-1_37 (DBLP and SCOPUS indexed)
• Hema N.,Krishna Kant and Hima Bindu Maringanti, “Site Specific Automated Drip Irrigation for Palm Trees Using Wireless Sensor Network” International Conference of Agricultural Engineering CIGR-AgEng2012 , Valencia, Spain on July 8-12, 2012
• Reema Aswani, Hema N., “RoboGardner: A Low-Cost System with Automatic Plant Identification using Markers”, 9th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, QShine 2013, LNICST 115, pp. 309--324. Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (2013), January 11–12, 2013 Greater Noida, India. (DBLP and SCOPUS indexed)
• Hema N., Krishna Kant, "Optimization of sensor deployment in WSN for precision irrigation using spatial arrangement of permanent crop," Contemporary Computing (IC3), 2013 Sixth International Conference on , pp. 455-460, 8-10 Aug. 2013 doi:10.1109/IC3.2013.6612239. (DBLP and SCOPUS indexed).
• Hema N.,  Krishna Kant, "Local weather interpolation using remote AWS data with error corrections using sparse WSN for automated irrigation for Indian farming," Contemporary Computing (IC3), 2014 Seventh International Conference on , pp.478-483, 7-9 Aug. 2014 .doi:10.1109/IC3.2014. (DBLP and SCOPUS indexed)
• Hema N, Krishna Kant, “Robotics and Automation in Indian Agriculture”, IRISS conferences 2015: 9th Inter-Research-Institute Student Seminar in Computer Science, BITS Pilani, Feb 4-5, 2015, Goa.
• S. Goel, Hema N., et al., "Collaborative teaching in large classes of computer science courses," Contemporary Computing (IC3), 2015 Eighth International Conference on, Noida, 2015, pp. 397-403. doi: 10.1109/IC3.2015.7346714. (DBLP and SCOPUS indexed).
• Anmol Taneja, Gagan Bansal, Rohil Setia, Hema N., "Moedor Cleaning Robot", Contemporary Computing (IC3), pp. 93-97 2018 Eleventh International Conference on, Noida, 2018, 2-4 Aug, IEEE PUBLICATION(conference record no.44547). (DBLP and SCOPUS indexed)
• Hardik Rewari, Vishal Dixit, Dhroov Batra, Hema N., "Automated Sign Language Interpreter", Contemporary Computing (IC3), pp 98-102,  2018 Eleventh International Conference on, Noida, 2018, 2-4 Aug, IEEE PUBLICATION(conference record no.44547). (DBLP and SCOPUS indexed)

Conferences/ Workshops Attended

• Attended ARM Technical Symposium conducted by ARM Embedded Technologies Pvt Ltd. on 2^nd Nov 2007.
• Organizing committee for workshop on “Towards Academic Excellence in Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology” held during December 28-29, 2007 at JIIT, Noida.
• Attended IUCEE “Microprocessors Workshop“ delivered by Dr. M. Raffiquzzaman of California StatePoly University, Pomona at Infosys Mysore during June 11, 2009 to June 26, 2009.
• Attended IUCEE “Hands-on workshop on Mobile Robotics“ deliveredby Prof. Fred Martin of University of Massachusetts Lowell on Jan 3 -7, 2011 at Chitkara University in Chandigarh.
• Attended IUCEE workshop on “WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS” delivered by Prof. Shubalaxmi Kher of Arkansas State University during July 5 to 9, 2011 at Jaypee University for Information Technology, Waknaghat, HP.
• Attended IUCEE Workshop on ‘Embedded System” delivered by Dr. Vijaykrishnan Narayanan , Professor at Pennsylvania State University, USA on 1st -5th July 2013 at ECE Department, JIIT, Sec-62, Noida,
• Organized faculty developed program on Embedded System at JIIT, Noida on 28^th July to 2^nd Aug 2014. Around 45 participants had enrolled for this program and FDP had invited talk on “Clock and Power supply considerations in embedded system applications and Physical Interfacing for embedded applications” by Prof. Dhananjay Gadre, Director, TI Centre for Embedded Systems, NSIT, Delhi.
• Delivered expert lecture on “On-Chip Peripherals Study, Programming, and Application”, on day-4(1^st Aug 2014) in Embedded System FDP, JIIT, Noida.
• Organized STMicroelectronics Workshop on 3rd Sep 2015, T&P, CSE/IT, Department, JIIT, Sec 62, Noida.
• Attended Workshop on “Research Method in Education Technology”, Conducted by IIT Bombay, sponsored by MHRD, Govt. of India, held at  Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Sec-128, Greater Noida, 2 - 9 Feb 2013
• Delivered expert lecture on “Automated versus Smart System Development”, on 2^nd July 2018 in Re-Imagining Computing FDP held at dept. of CSE/IT, JIIT, Noida.

Professional Projects / Professional Achievements

• Hardware Lab setup for Microprocessor and Microcontroller course, at JIIT-62, Noida
• Technical review of text book “Microprocessor and Microcontrollers, Architecture, Programming and System Design 8085, 8086, 805, 8096”, Fifth Edition, authored by Prof. Krishna Kant, PHI publication.
• Conveyer and Co-ordinator, Faculty Development Program on Embedded system, at JIIT-62, Noida from 28^th  July, to 2^nd Aug , 2014.
• Session Chair, 11th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), organized by JIIT, Noida, Aug, 2018.
• Reviewer, 6th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), organized by JIIT, Noida, Aug, 2014.
• Reviewer, 7th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), organized by JIIT, Noida, Aug, 2015.
• Reviewer, 8th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3), organized by JIIT, Noida, Aug, 2016.
• Reviewer, ISSPIT 2014 (IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology), organized by JIIT, Noida, Aug, 2014.
• Reviewer, ICRCICN 2015 (International Conference On Research In Computational Intelligence And Communication Networks)
• Reviewer, UPCON-2018: 5th IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering