Co-Principle Investigator

Dr. Alok Aggarwal received his bachelors’ and masters’ degrees in Computer Science & Engineering in 1995 and 2001 respectively and his Ph.D degree in Engineering from IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India in 2010. He has academic experience of 18 years, industry experience of 4 years and research experience of 5 years. He has contributed more than 150 research contributions in different journals and conference proceedings. Currently he is working with University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, India as Professor in CSE department. His main research interests are wired/wireless networks, security, and coding theory.

Co-Principle Investigator

Dr. Neelu Jyothi Ahuja is a Professor and Head-Department of Systemics, at School of Computer Science at University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun. Her PhD awarded in 2010, was on development of a prototype rule based expert system for seismic data interpretation. Apart from academic teaching at university level (both at post-graduate and under-graduate levels), she is an active researcher. From period of 2010 to 2017, she has been head of Research Centre-Computing Research Institute, spearheading intra-disciplinary research and coordinating research activities.

She is currently executing 03 Government Sponsored R&D Projects. These are from DST (Department of Science and Technology). She has successfully completed one R&D project funded by Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology (UCOST, Dehradun). Out of the three R&D projects, currently being executed two are from SEED (Science for Equity, Empowerment and Development) Division of DST, and one is from CSRI (Cognitive Science Research Initiative) Division of DST. She also holds successful conduction of DST funded consultancy to her credit. Under her supervision, 03 students have completed their PhD work. Currently, 06 research scholars are undergoing their PhD work under her supervision.

She has been an invited speaker on various technical and research-oriented topics at widely acclaimed forums, both national and international. She is on panel of various committees, including WHO-Promotion of Assistive Products and Technologies, ‘DST-Expert Committee for inspection and On-the-spot review of CORE (long-term) projects’. She has also been a chair at various conference sessions and different internal and external meetings/forums. Her areas of interest include Machine Learning, Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Expert Systems, Artificial Intelligence, ICT, Object oriented development, Programming Languages. She holds 19+ years of experience in teaching, research and project proposal development and has published papers in journals and conferences at international and national level.