Lavika Goel is a research scholar in the Department of Computer Engineering at Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi, India. She worked at Oracle India Private Ltd. for six months through campus recruitment and then left it to pursue research in the field of Nature Inspired Intelligence, her interest area. Securing a GATE percentile of 98.7%, she did her M.E. (Master of Engineering with Distinction) in Computer Technology & Applications from Delhi Technological University (formerly Delhi College of Engineering), Delhi and B-Tech (with Honours) in Computer Science & Engineering from JSS Academy of Technical Education, U.P. Technical University and has always been among the top rank-holders of the university in these courses.

International Journals

[1] Lavika Goel, Daya Gupta, V.K. Panchal, "Hybrid bio-inspired techniques for land cover feature extraction: A remote sensing perspective," Applied soft computing, Elsevier publications, 2011. (Impact factor 2.1)

[2] Lavika Goel, Daya Gupta, V.K. Panchal, “Information Sharing In Swarm Intelligence Techniques: A Perspective Application for Natural Terrain Feature Elicitation in Remote Sensing Images”, International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA), Volume 32, 2011.

[3] Lavika Goel, Daya Gupta and V.K. Panchal, “Embedding Expert Knowledge to Hybrid Bio-Inspired Techniques: An Adaptive Strategy towards Focused Land Cover Feature Extraction”, International Journal of Computer Science & Information Security (IJCSIS), 1(2), pp 244-253, 2010.

[4] Lavika Goel, “Land cover Feature Extraction using Hybrid Swarm Intelligence Techniques-A Remote sensing perspective”, ACEEE International Journal on Signal & Image Processing, 1(3), Dec 2010.

International Conferences

[5] Lavika Goel, Daya Gupta, V.K. Panchal, “ Biogeography and Plate Tectonics based Optimization for Water body Extraction in Satellite Images”, International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SocProS), Advances in Soft Computing series of Springer Publications,  Vol. 131, pp. 1-10,  2011.

[6] Lavika Goel, Daya Gupta, V.K. Panchal, “Performance Governing Factors of BBO for Land Cover Feature Extraction: An Analytical Study”, World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT), IEEE Publications, 2011.

[7] Lavika Goel, V.K. Panchal, Daya Gupta, Rajiv Bhola, “Hybrid ACO-BBO Approach for predicting the Deployment Strategies of enemy troops in a military Terrain Application”, in 4th International MultiConference on Intelligent Systems & Nanotechnology (IISN), 2010.

[8] Daya Gupta, Lavika Goel, Sakshi arora, “Biogeography based battlefield Situation Awareness” WORLDCOMP 2011 (accepted).

[9] Ramesh Singh, Lavika Goel, Sakshi Arora, Anuradha, “Advanced Real Time Gaze Tracking Algorithm”, International Conference EISWT-09 (Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies -09) (accepted).

Other Publications

[10] Published an  article entitled “Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Authentication” in the IEEE Student Branch University Magazine “IOTA” , 2009 edition.

[11] Published an article entitled “Advanced Real Time Gaze Tracking Algorithm” in the IEEE Student Branch University Magazine “IOTA”, 2009 edition.

Currently working on a project to develop a novel optimization algorithm based on the natural phenomenon of plate tectonics (2011-till date) at DTRL Lab, DRDO  under the guidance of  Dr. V.K. Panchal, Associate Director & Scientist –‘G’ , DTRL Lab and the Head of Department, Prof. Daya Gupta, Computer Technology & Applications, Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi. Other projects undertaken are:

·         Design of an extended model of the original biogeography based optimization technique proposed by Dan Simon based on dynamic HSI function (August 2011- September 2011).

·         Design of a Two-phase Recommender System for Intelligent Battlefield Preparation (October, 2011-December 2011).

·         Development of “Hybrid Bio-Inspired Techniques for land cover feature extraction: A Remote Sensing Perspective”.

• Project on Network Security & Cryptography i.e.  generating   digital   signature   using   elliptic   curve      cryptography & authentication on the receiver side  in java as a the B.Tech   final year project.
• Project in Visual c++ to develop the Face Recognition Algorithm using the Eigen Spaces Approach.       
• Project in artificial intelligence to develop the space impact game.
• Project to develop a scientific calculator in graphics.