DR. AKSHI KUMAR is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Delhi Technological University (formerly Delhi College of Engineering). She has been with the university for the past 10 years. She has received her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Faculty of Technology, University of Delhi in 2011. She completed her Master of Technology with honours in Computer Science & Engineering from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi in 2005. She received her Bachelor of Engineering degree with distinction in Computer Science & Engineering from Maharishi Dayanand University, India in 2003. She has presented several papers in international conferences and published work in peer-reviewed and science cited journals. Dr. Kumar has also authored a book ‘Web Technology: Theory and Practice’ published by CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group. She is active reviewer of many top journals of IEEE, IET, Springer, Emerald and Elsevier. In addition, she is currently serving as a Guest Editor of Springer Energy Systems and Recent Patents on Computer Science, Bentham Science Publisher. Her research interests are in the area of intelligent systems, user-generated big-data, social media analytics and soft computing.