Short Bio

Sarika Jain graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) in 2001. Her doctorate, awarded in 2011, is in the field of knowledge representation in Artificial Intelligence. She has served in the field of education for over 19 years and is currently in service at the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra (Institute of National Importance), India.

Dr. Jain’s major research interests include Artificial Intelligence, the Semantic Web, Ontological Engineering, and Knowledge Graphs. She has received grants from Defense Research and Development Organization, Department of Science and Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for research, and National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra for research projects; from All India Council for Technical Education (thrice) for FDPs; from DAAD RISE worldwide (thrice) for hosting research interns from Germany; and Ministry of Human Resource and Development (twice) for hosting a reputed international faculty and for FDP. She has published over one hundred peer-reviewed technical papers in books, journals, and conference proceedings. She has served as a General Chair, Workshop Chair, Program Committee Chair at many international conferences and workshops; and Reviewer for journals published by IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer.

 She has held various administrative positions at the department and institute level in her career, like the head of the department; hostel warden; faculty in charge of technical and cultural fests; member of research degree committee and Board of Studies; and Centre In charge Examinations. Among the awards and honors she has received are the Best Paper Awards, Feb 2021 (two), Aug 2020, Aug 2017; and the Best Faculty Award, Sep 2019 from NIT Kurukshetra.

Dr. Jain has visited the United Kingdom and Singapore to present her research work. She works in collaboration with various researchers across the globe, including in Germany, Australia, Malaysia, the United States, and Romania. She is a senior member of the IEEE, member of ACM, and a Life Member of CSI. Dr. Jain is highly interested in worldwide collaborations and is seeking scholars and interns for her research group. 

Honors and Awards

Best Faculty Award

• 2019, Received Best Faculty Award in the category of Teaching from our Honorable Director Padma Shree Dr. Satish Kumar, NIT Kurukshetra, 5th Sep 2019.

Best Paper Awards

• 2021, “NyOn - A Multilingual Modular Legal Ontology for Representing Court Judgments”, International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC 2022) held during May 17-19, 2021, Georgia Southern University (Armstrong Campus), Savannah, United States.

• 2021, “Emocure Utilizing Social Media and Smart Phones to Predict and Cure Depression”, Annual International Conference on Data Science, Machine Learning, and Blockchain Technology held during Feb 15-16 2021 at Mysuru India.

• 2021, “Impact of Covid-19 Outbreak on Performance of Indian Banking Sector”, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol 2786, pp. 368-375. International Semantic Intelligence Conference, Delhi, India. 25-27 Feb 2021. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2786/Paper45.pdf

• 2020, “A Semi-Automatic Approach to Diagnose the Daily Life Queries”, AICTE Sponsored National Conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies and their role in Nation Development (NGCTND 2020), ITS Ghaziabad, 21-22 Aug 2020

• 2017, “Comparison Study of Semantic Search Engines with Conventional Search Engines”, First International Science Conference in Indian Languages, NIT Kurukshetra, 22nd Aug 2017.