Rita Chhikara

Rita Chhikara is currently working as the Head and Professor with the Department of CSE. A target driven, dedicated professional with more than 22 years of experience in teaching, administration and research. She holds a B.E Degree from Pune University, M.Tech from Punjab Technical University and Ph.D. Degree from The NorthCap University in the area of Machine Learning and Information Security. She is EICT and IIT Roorkee Certified Data Science Professional. She has completed two DST sponsored projects in the area of Steganalysis and Dementia. Her dedication and commitment has contributed towards successful implementation of Specializations in emerging areas in the Department. Her current areas of research include Data Mining, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Image Processing, and Deep Learning. She has been instrumental in imparting training in latest programming language for Data Science to Government officials. She has published around 65 papers in peer-reviewed International Journals with good indexing and reputed national/international conference proceedings and published a book on Intelligent Healthcare: Applications of AI in eHealth in Springer. Her belief of sharing knowledge led her to deliver talks on emerging topics of Machine Learning in various reputed conferences, FDPs and Ted-Ed events. Her administrative responsibilities as NIRF nodal officer and NAAC coordinator has contributed in improving visibility of the University. Recipient of Teaching and Research Excellence National Award, certificate of appreciation for Judge Toyacathon 2021 organized by Ministry of Education and Star performer award at NCU. She has chaired various sessions in Springer, IEEE and Elsevier conferences in India, Malaysia and Singapore. She has guided around 35 B. Tech projects, 15 M.Tech theses, 3 Ph.D Scholars and currently supervising 6 Ph.D. Scholars. She is a professional member of ISTE, ACM, IEEE, and IET.

Publications

Hybrid Feature Selection Model for Detection of Android Malware and Family Classification
Hybrid Feature Selection Model for Detection of Android Malware and Family Classification
Sandeep Sharma, Prachi, Rita Chhikara, Kavita Khanna. © 2023. 24 pages.
Android OS based applications offer services in various aspects of our daily lives such as banking, personal, professional, social, etc. Increased usage of Android applications...
Comparative Analysis of Artificial Neural Networks and Deep Neural Networks for Detection of Dementia
Comparative Analysis of Artificial Neural Networks and Deep Neural Networks for Detection of Dementia
Deepika Bansal, Kavita Khanna, Rita Chhikara, Rakesh Kumar Dua, Rajeev Malhotra. © 2022. 18 pages.
Dementia is a neurocognitive brain disease that emerged as a worldwide health challenge. Machine learning and deep learning have been effectively applied for the detection of...
Towards Detecting Dementia via Deep Learning
Towards Detecting Dementia via Deep Learning
Deepika Bansal, *Kavita Khanna, Rita Chhikara, Rakesh Kumar Dua, Rajeev Malini. © 2021. 17 pages.
Dementia is a brain disorder that causes loss of memory leading to disruption in the normal course of life of an individual. It is emerging as a global health problem in adults...