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Pooja Vashisth
Pooja Vashisth
Department of Computer Science , Shyama Prasad Mukherji College, University of Delhi, New Delhi
Regular Member
Personal Web Site: http://spm.du.ac.in/viewteacher.aspx?i=33&id=20&iid=33
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Short Biography

Dr. Pooja Vashisth is a dedicated teacher and enthusiastic researcher who not only believes in innovative practices but also works hard in implementing them. She is the Department (Computer Science) Incharge and Assistant Professor at SPM College, University of Delhi. She has a Ph.D. (CS), M.Tech(IT), M.Phil, MCA. She received the Top Colleges CTOs award at the Digital Edge ICT Conclave on Education 2016, supported by Ministry of Electronics and IT , India in 2016. Her biographical profile also got selected for publication in the Marquis Who’s Who in the World 2016 (33rd Edition), which provides concise, accurate biographies of renowned individuals from around the world. Besides teaching, she is actively involved in the e-content development programs, mentors and evaluates students’ projects both at undergraduate and postgraduate level in the university. Her research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Trust, Recommender Systems, Soft computing techniques and Social Networking sites. She has 22 publications in various indexed/peer reviewed international journals and conferences. 

List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years

§  Bedi, Punam, Pooja Vashisth. Deepak Chandoliya and Bipin Kumar Yadav (2015). Argumentation Enabled Interest-Based Personalized Recommender System, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI), 27(2): 199–226, 2015, Taylor and Francis (Impact factor 0.527). Citations: 2.

§  Bedi, Punam and Pooja Vashisth. (2014). Empowering Recommender Systems using Trust and Argumentation, Information Sciences, 279: 569-586, Elsevier (impact factor 3.893, 5-year impact factor 4.221). Citations: 9.

§  Bedi, Punam and Pooja Vashisth. (2013). Integrating Trust in Argumentation Based Recommender Systems, Journal of Information Assurance and Security Volume 8 (2013):177-188.

§  Bedi, P., & Vashisth, P. (2013). Using Trust and Argumentation in Multi-Agent Recommender Systems. In Managing Trust in Cyberspace (pp. 315-338). CRC Press.

§  Punam Bedi, Chhavi Sharma, Pooja Vashisth, Deepika Goel, Muskan Dhanda, Handling cold start problem in Recommender systems by using Interaction based social proximity factor, In proceedings ICACCI 2015 - Fourth International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, Kochi, Kerala, India, August 10 - 13 , 2015: 1987 – 1993. USA: IEEE Xplore.  Print ISBN: 978-1-4799-8791-7, Online ISBN: 978-1-4799-8792-4.

§  Bedi, Punam, Sumit Kr. Agarwal, Pooja Vashisth, Samrath Sharma and Tushar Aggarwal. (2014). Online Tweet Recommendation using Extreme Learning Machine. In proceedings RecSysChallenge '14 - 2014 Recommender Systems Challenge, October 10 2014, Foster City, CA, USA: 62-65. USA: ACM.

§  Bedi, P., & Vashisth, P. A Fuzzy Hybrid Multi-Agent Recommender System, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press (accepted research paper available online ) (Impact Factor (2015)      1.788). ISSN 1875-8967 (E)

List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years

§  In-House Software Development Program: I have supervised the department’s first in-house software development for Time Table Management Application. It was implemented and put to real use for managing the college timetable.  

§  Internship Projects: I have launched an internship project (in its second phase): W2TM for Website Testing, Training and Maintenance.

§  NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCE IN COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY(NCACIT-2016) : A UGC and DRDO sponsored National Conference was organised on 19-20th December , 2016. Proceedings were also published with a valid ISBN number. Convenor: Dr. Pooja Vashisth, Co-convener: Dr. Baljeet Kaur, Organising Secretary: Dr. Shweta Tyagi, Treasurer: Ms. Mansi Sood, Organising committee member: Ms. Seema Rani. Speakers included eminent Academicians and Industrialists.

§  I was Speaker in the seminar: Topic was Philosophy: A Therapy, Not Just A Theory, at The department of Philosophy, SPM College, State/University level conducted on 05 Sept, 2016

§  THE NEWS BYTE: The first edition of the annual newsletter of the computer science department THE NEWS BYTE was released during the national conference. Editors are: Dr. Pooja Vashisth and Tanya Jain (student, B.Tech CS).

§  An SPM App: made by department’s collaboration with the firm I-Made on Kryptsosis platform is live on Google play store from  16th Feb 2017. This programme is under department of telecomm, under digital India initiative taken by the Govt. of India. The app. was launched in college premises on 16th Feb 2017. It’s a part of driving cashless campus initiative. Coordinators: Dr. Pooja Vashisth and Ms. Anuradha Singhal

§  Online Software Training Workshops: were organised by department throughout 2015-16 and onwards, coordinated by Dr. Pooja Vashisth. This work was done in association with the Spoken Tutorial Project of IIT Bombay and the National Mission on Education through ICT, funded by MHRD, Govt. of India.

§  National Seminar 2016: On “Emerging Trends and Technologies” on 22nd Feb 2016. Speakers: Dr. Naveen Garg (Prof, IITD); Dr Biplav Srivastava (Sr. Scientist, IBM); Dr Sushila Madan (Associate Professor, LSR)

§  Organized a ten days PHP Summer Workshop in College 2016 from 1-10 June 2016 for the students of college and outside. Coordinator: Dr. Pooja Vashisth , Ms. Anuradha Singhal, Ms. Pratibha. Besides this, in recent five years I have organised workshops on Python, Robotics, Cloud Computing and Personality Development.

  • For the first time, the department organised a free for all Computer Literacy Program, wherein students were imparted knowledge about basic IT skills by two Trainers (as Student Interns for the summer program). The program was carried out in the first three weeks of July 2016. Coordinator: Dr. Pooja Vashisth
  • The department hosted a state level Robotics Workshop in collaboration with RAIF, a Chennai based organization  on 23th August 2016. Coordinator: Dr. Pooja Vashisth
  • For the first time, the department hosted a state level Robot Football Championship called Robotic Premier League (RPL 2016) in collaboration with RAIF, a Chennai based organization  on 24th August 2016. Coordinator: Dr. Pooja Vashisth, Student Coordinators: Varsha and Yamini
  • Organized a talk on Cloud Computing by Mr. Danny Gupta (A Design architect working in Cloud Innovation Lab for IBM Canada) at SPM College on 11th April 2016. Coordinator: Dr. Pooja Vashisth
  • Organised a Seminar in association with IEEE Student Branch. This seminar was held on 14th September at 11:30 A.M attended by 100 students. Coordinator: Dr. Pooja Vashisth, Ms. Priyanka Rathee.