Dr Shikha Agrawal is an Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering at University Institute of Technology, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal (MP) India. She obtained B.E., M.Tech. and Ph.D in Computer Science & Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidalaya Bhopal. She has more than Fifteen years of teaching experience. She is working on Swarm Intelligence for Multimodal function optimization in Bioinformatics. Her area of interest is Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing and Particle Swarm Optimization and Database. She has published more than 30 research papers in different reputed international journals and 9 chapters. For her outstanding research work in Information Technology, she has been awarded as “Young Scientist” by Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal. Her other extraordinary achievements include “ICT Rising Star of the Year Award 2015” in International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD - 2015), Ahmedabad, India and Young ICON Award 2015 in Educational category by Dainik National News Paper Patrika, Bhopal, India. Recently She got recognition of IEEE as a Senior member. She is also member of various academic societies such as IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Indian Society of Technical Education (ISTE), Computer Society of India (CSI), ACM, Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs). She has participated in numerous (more than 15) conference presentations (including invited and peer-reviewed oral presentations and panel discussions) and chaired technical sessions in various international conferences and also served as a member of reviewer committee of International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, USA and many international conferences of IEEE, Springer etc.

1.      Shikha Agrawal and Sanjay Silakari, “FRPSO: Fletcher-Reeves based particle swarm optimization for multimodal function optimization”, Springer, Soft Computing (A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications), SCI, Impact Factor: 2.472, Volume 18, Issue 11, Page 2227-2243, 2014.

2.      Shikha Agrawal and Sanjay Silakari, “Fletcher Reeves based Particle Swarm Optimization for Prediction of Molecular Structure”,Elsevier, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, SCI, Impact Factor: 1.813, Volume 49C, Page 11-17, 2014.

3.      Shikha Agrawal and Sanjay Silakari, “A Review on Application of Particle Swarm Optimization in Bioinformatics”, Current Bioinformatics, SCIE, Impact Factor: 0.777, Volume 10, Issue 4, Page 401-413, 2014.

4.      Shikha Agrawal, Sanjay Silakari and Jitendra Agrawal, “Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimizer With Varying Acceleration Coefficients for Finding the Most Stable Conformer of Small Molecules”, Molecular Informatics, Wiley, SCI, Impact Factor: 1.647, ISSN: 1868-1751, Volume 34, Issue 11-12, Page 725-735, 2015.

5.      Jitendra Agrawal, Shikha Agrawal, Ankita Singhai and Sanjeev Sharma, “SET-PSO-based approach for mining positive and negative association rules”, Springer, Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems, SCI, Impact Factor: 2.004, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 453-471, 2015.

6.  Shikha Agrawal, Jitendra Agrawal, Shilpy Kaur and Sanjeev Sharma, “A Comparative Study of fuzzy PSO and fuzzy SVD based RBF Neural Network for Multi-Label Classification”, Springer, Neural Computing and Applications, SCIE, Impact Factor: 2.505, ISSN: 1433-3058, Volume. 27, Page 1-12, 2016.

1.      Published a book:  Advanced Database Management System by Dr Sanjeev Sharma, Dr Jitendra Agrawal and Dr Shikha Agrawal published by Dreamtech(Wiley) Press, New Delhi and nine chapters in LNAI series of Springer.

2.      Presented Research papers in many international conferences in India as well as in ICSEng 2014, Las Vegas, USA and in KES-2015, Singapore.

3.      Chaired a session in IC-RAC - 2017, Bhopal, ICMIT 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and  CSNT -2015,Gwalior.

4.      Organized a  special session in FICTA-2016, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, ICACNI 2015, Orissa and  CSNT -2015,Gwalior.Delivered invited talk in Springer International Conference on Recent Advancement in Computer and Communication (IC-RAC - 2017), 26^th – 27^th May 2017,  Bhopal, India

5.      Delivered invited talk in Springer International Conference IC-RAC - 2017,Bhopal and ICT4SD - 2015, Ahmedabad, India