Veenu Mangat received her Masters of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Punjab Engineering College (PEC) in 2004 and Ph.D. in Engineering and Technology (Computer Science) in 2016 from Panjab University, India. She is currently working as Associate Professor in Information Technology at UIET, Panjab University. She has a teaching experience of more than 15 years. Her areas of research include data mining, machine learning, privacy and security.

She is co-Principal Investigator in research project on ‘Monitoring of Active Fire Locations and Precision in Allied Agricultural Activities using Communication Technologies’ funded by Ministry of Electronics & IT of Government of India worth Rs. 75.75 lakhs from 2020-2022. She has also worked on research project entitled ‘Pedestrian Detection from Thermal Imaging’ funded by Design Innovation Centre of Ministry of HRD and consultancy project in the area of machine learning. She has successfully guided 21 Masters of Engineering dissertations and is currently guiding 7 Ph.D. scholars.