• PhD (Computer Sc) from Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi (Thesis Title: Design and Comparative Analysis of Classification Ensembles)
• MCA from Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi
• B.Sc(H) Mathematics from Miranda House, University of Delhi

• Teaching undergraduate courses in Maitreyi College (Delhi University) as Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science since September, 1996.

PAPERS TAUGHT

Computer Fundamentals , Working with MS-Office, Programming in C, C++, Python, Programming with Visual Basic, HTML/Javascript, Data Structures, Computer Graphics, Algorithms, Computer Networks, Data Mining, Computer System Architecture

• Taught “Programming and Data Structures” to M.Sc (Computer Science) as guest faculty in South Asian University (SAU), Delhi from August to November, 2018.
• Taught papers on Programming in C/C++ and Data Mining under Co-operative teaching (DU) to M.Sc (Applied Operations Research) students in DU South Campus from 1996-97 to 2006-07.

AREAS OF RESEARCH

Machine Learning , SVM, Classification Ensembles, Bioinformatics

• Teaching undergraduate courses in Maitreyi College (Delhi University) as Assistant Professor (Sr. Scale) in Department of Computer Science since September, 1996
• Visiting faculty for M.Sc (Computer Science) in South Asian University from August to December, 2019
• Visiting faculty for M.Sc(Applied OR) in South Campus, University of Delhi from 1996 to 2006
• Taught Diploma Courses in Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Pharmacy and Technology, New Delhi (AICTE approved) from September 1995 to September, 1996.

PAPERS TAUGHT:

· Programming in Python

· Programming in C++

· Programming with Visual Basic

· Computer System Architecture

· Database Systems

· Data Structures

· Computer graphics

· Data Mining

· Computer Fundamentals

Besides teaching, additional responsibilities taken up in College and University:

• Paper Setting and Paper evaluation work in University of Delhi
• Active participant in designing syllabus and planning guidelines for UG courses in Computer Science conducted by University of Delhi:
• Curriculum Development for UGC-LOCF (Learning Outcome based curriculum framework) for UG courses (April 2019)
• BA(Prog):
  • Coordinator –
    • BACS05A: Programming in JAVA
    • BACS12: Multimedia and Web Design
    • BACS10C: Data Visualization using R
  • Working member for BACS06B: Project Work/Dissertation
• BSc (Prog):
  • Coordinator for BSCS10B: PHP programming
  • Team member for BSCS07A: Data Analysis using Python programming
• BSc (H) Comp Sc:
  • Team member for BHCS17B: Data Mining
• Being the founder member of the department, served as Teacher-Incharge of Deptt of Computer Science for nearly 15 academic years (1996-97 to 2007-2008, 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2016-17, 2017-18). Additionally, member of various committees in college from time-to-time:
  • NAAC peer team during NAAC team visit in 2016
  • Purchase committee
  • Admission committee
  • Computerization committee
  • Website committee
  • Time-Table committee
  • Workload committee
  • Placement cell (2018-19)
  • Short Term Courses Grievance committee (2019-20)

Received Travel grant from University Grants commission (UGC), India to present the paper titled “Accurate classification of biological data using ensembles” at pre-PhD workshop of ICDM 2015 conference held in Atlantic city, USA (Nov 2015). Partial support of $250 was also provided by the conference organizers as ICDM student travel award.

Programs Conducted/Resource Person:

• Resource person for two-day TechnoUpdate 1.1 Workshop on Google sheets and Google Drive for Non-teaching staff organized by Department of Computer Science, Maitreyi College from May 11-12, 2020.
• Resource Person in Certificate course of skill development on “Application of ICT tools in teaching & learning Indian Languages”, conducted by Maitreyi College in Jan-Feb, 2020.
• Resource person in National workshop "Applications of ICT tools in Teaching and Learning Indian Languages" organized by Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, held on January 14-20, 2020
• Resource person for Computer Literacy programs within college for faculty members, support staff and students
• Workshop for Non-teaching staff on Google Drive and Google sheets (May 2020)
• “Computer Workshop on spreadsheet handling” for BA(H) Hindi IIIrd Year students from 22-24 May 2019
• “Computer Workshop on Document creation and handling” for BA(H) Hindi IIIrd year students from December 18-21, 2018
• Computer Literacy Program for Non-teaching staff (September 2018)
• Program coordinator with ICT Academy (A Government of India Initiative) for conducting FDPs and training programs in college
• Organized an employability enhancing “Digital Literacy program” for girl students from economically weaker sections, conducted free of cost by ICT Academy in collaboration with Reliance (July-August 2019
• Member of Advisory committee in one-week Interdisciplinary course on “Disabilities Studies: Perspectives and Emerging Trends” organized by Enabling Unit, Maitreyi College in collaboration with TLC, Ramanujan College (under PMMMNMTT scheme) from Dec 17-23, 2018.

Student Research Projects Undertaken:

1. Summer Research Project on “Lexicon Based Sentiment Analysis of Data” in May-July 2019
2. Project supervisor for B.Tech (Computer Science) students (2016-17) for the following projects:
   1. Ensemble Pruning Techniques
   2. Solving NP Problems

Faculty Development Programs (Fdps)/ Workshops/ Webinars:

1. Participated in webinar on “Accelerating Experiential Learning in Engineering” organized by ICT Academy in the series “Season I : Technology for Future” held on April 12, 2010.
2. Participated in webinar on “Introduction to VMWare Cloud” organized by ICT Academy in the series “Season I : Technology for Future” held on April 11, 2010.
3. Participated in webinar on “Robotic Process Automation: Basics and Beyond” organized by ICT Academy in the series “Season I : Technology for Future” held on April 10, 2010.
4. Participated in webinar on “Future of AI inspired by Customer Use Cases for AI-ML” organized by ICT Academy in the series “Season I : Technology for Future” held on April 9, 2010.
5. Participated in a two-week workshop on “Managing Online classes and Co-creating MOOCs” organized by TLC, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi from April 20- May 6, 2020.
6. Participated in a 3-day FDP on “Data Science with Python” organized by IITM, Delhi from December 19-21, 2019.
7. Participated in BRIDGE 2019 conference organized by ICT Academy held in AICTE Auditorium, Delhi on December 11, 2019.
8. Participated in a 3-day FDP on “Personality Development” held in Maitreyi College (Delhi University) from July 23-25, 2019.
9. Participated in a one-day workshop on “AWS Educate Program” held in Guru Nanak Institute of Management, Delhi on June 28, 2019
10. Participated in a two-day FDP on “Big Data Analytics” held in SPM College (Delhi University) from Dec 4-5, 2018.
11. Participated in a one-day workshop on “Design Science Research in Information Technology” organized by Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi on November 12, 2010.
12. Participated in workshop on “Machine Learning Methods in Astronomy” held organized by InterUniversity Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Tiruvalla (Kerala), India from January 19 -23,2009.
13. Participated in Project Planning Workshop held in Conference center, University of Delhi under the UK India Education and Research Initiative from October 31 – November 2, 2007.
14. Participated in a one day “ Workshop on Bioinformatics” organized by Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi on September 28, 2007.
15. Participated in Supported Blended Learning Workshop held in Conference center, University of Delhi, under the UK India Education and Research Initiative from May 28- 30, 2007.
16. Participated in a three-day training Programme on “WINDOWS PROGRAMMING” conducted by River Run Software Group at The Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi from July 12-14, 1999.

Conference/Seminar Participation:

1. Participated and presented a poster in National level Seminar on "Assessment and Accrediation of Best Practices in Higher Education Institution Under NAAC Framework" organized by IQAC, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi held on November 5-6, 2019.
2. Participated in National Conference on Intellectual Property Rights:Challenges and Prospects organized by Department of Botany, Maitreyi College from October 22-23, 2019.
3. Participated and presented a paper in 11th Inter-Research-Institute Student Seminar in Computer Science (IRISS 2018) an ACM India annual event held in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India from February 16-17, 2018.
4. Participated and presented a paper in International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2015) PhD Workshop, held in Atlantic City, USA from November 14-17, 2015.
5. Participated and presented a paper in International Conference on Methods and Models in Computer Science (ICM2CS 2009) held in Delhi, India from December 14-15, 2009.
6. Participated in the Pre-ICM International Conference on Mathematical Sciences (Pre-ICM ICMS-2008) held in Delhi,India from December 18-20, 2008.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1. Manju Bhardwaj, Vasudha Bhatnagar, and Kapil Sharma. ”Cost-effectiveness of classification ensembles.” In Pattern Recognition (Elsevier). Volume 57, Pp. 84-96, May 2016. Print ISSN 0031-3203.
2. Manju Bhardwaj and Vasudha Bhatnagar. “Towards an optimally pruned classifier ensemble”. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (Springer Berlin Heidelberg). Volume 6, Issue 5, Pp. 699-718, Oct 2015.. ISSN 1868-8071.
3. Vasudha Bhatnagar, Manju Bhardwaj, Shivam Sharma and Sufyan Haroon. “Accuracy-Diversity based Pruning of Classifier Ensembles” in Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Springer), Volume 2, Issue 2-3 (pp. 97-111), June 2014. ISSN 2192-6352.
4. Rishi Das Roy, Manju Bhardwaj, Vasudha Bhatnagar, Kausik Chakraborty and Debasis Dash. “How do eubacterial organisms manage aggregation-prone proteome?” in F1000Research, Jan 2014. DOI:10.12688/f1000research.4307.1

Papers Accepted/Presented In Conferences

1. Manju Bhardwaj, Debasis Dash, and Vasudha Bhatnagar. ”Accurate classification of biological data using ensembles.” In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshop (ICDMW), pp. 1486-1493. IEEE, held in Atlantic City, USA on 14-17 November, 2015.Print ISBN 978-1-4673-8492-6.
2. Vasudha Bhatnagar, Manju Bhardwaj and Ashish Mahabal. “Comparing SVM ensembles for imbalanced datasets” in 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA) (IEEE, Pp. 651-657) held in Cairo, Egypt on November 29-December 1, 2010. (IEEE). ISSN 2164-7143. Print ISBN 978-1-4244-8134-7.
3. Vasudha Bhatnagar, Eman Zaman, Yayati Rajpal and Manju Bhardwaj. “VisTree : Generic Decision Tree Inducer and Visualizer” in 6th International Workshop on Databases in Networked Information Systems (DNIS) (LNCS, Volume 5999, 2010, Pp. 225-243) held in Aizu, Japan on March 29-31, 2010. Print ISBN 978-3-642-12037-4.
4. Manju Bhardwaj, Trasha Gupta, Tanu Grover and Vasudha Bhatnagar. “An Efficient Classifier Ensemble using SVM” in Proceedings of International Conference on Methods and Models in Computer Science(ICM2CS 2009) (IEEE sponsored) (Pp. 240-246) held in JNU, Delhi, India on 4-5 December, 2009. Print ISBN 978-1-4244-5051-0.

Paper Reviewer/ Program Committee Member

1. Paper Reviewer for IEEE Access journal (since 2019).
2. Paper Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (since 2019).
3. Member of Program Committee for Big Data Analytics (BDA 2018) conference held from December 18-21, 2018 in Warangal, India.
4. Member of Organizing Committee in International Conference On Big Data Analytics (BDA 2012) held in Delhi, India from December 24-26, 2012.