Over 24 years of teaching and academic experience, including 13 years as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at JIIT, Noida.
Ph.D. from MANIT Bhopal (2011), with expertise in designing and teaching advanced courses.
Currently serving as Head of the Department (Computer Applications).
Played a key role in curriculum development and academic reforms.
Initiated new PG/UG programs and industry-aligned courses.
Led the department's transition to NEP 2020 framework and outcome-based education (OBE).
Actively involved in NAAC and NBA processes
Led a vertical of the University and School Synergy Program under the STEM initiative, aimed at fostering early interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics among school students.
Core member of the content mapping team for the university’s MoU with Iowa State University.
Successfully guided three PhD scholars, with ongoing supervision of four more scholars.
Research areas include Information Retrieval, Data Mining, NLP, Text Analytics, Software Performance Engineering, and Mobile Security.
Received funding of approx. 3 lac rupees from IIT, Bombay for developing Remote Center and A-VIEW room under the NMEICT program initiated by the Ministry of HRD.
Received funding of approx. 1 lac rupees from AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy, for conducting Online Faculty Development Programme.
Received funding of approx. 12 lac rupees for coordinating workshops for IIT Bombay under the NMEICT program initiated by the Ministry of HRD.
Published extensively in SCOPUS and SCI-indexed journals.
Reviewer and TPC member for reputed IEEE, ACM, and SCOPUS-indexed conferences and journals.
Editor/Associate Editor for reputed international journals.
Organized and led special sessions at conferences
Reviewed Ph.D. theses of several students including international students.
SPOC for Wipro’s TalentNext and FutureSkills programs.
Research Highlights
One patent granted by Govt. of India
3 Ph.D. guidance completed and 4 ongoing.
Published SMS Phishing Dataset for Machine Learning a Pattern Recognition, in mendeley data in June 2022, Version 1, DOI:10.17632/f45bkkt8pr.1.
Areas Of Interest
Information Retrieval and Data Mining
NLP
Text Analytics
Software Performance Engineering
and Mobile Security
Publications
Sandhya Mishra and Devpriya Soni, “Smishing Detector: A security model to detect smishing through SMS content analysis and URL behavior analysis”, Future Generation Computer Systems (ELSEVIER Journal), Vol. 108, Pp. 803-815, ISBN/ISSN No. 0167-739X, March 2020, Impact Factor: 7.5, H-index:151, Q1, DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2020.03.021 . [Indexed: SCIE, SCOPUS]
Sandhya Mishra, Devpriya Soni, “Implementation of ‘Smishing Detector’: An Efficient Model for Smishing Detection Using Neural Network”, SN Computer Science (Springer Nature Journal), 3(3), 189 (2022), Impact Factor: 1.29. H-index:25, Q2 DOI: 10.1007/s42979-022-01078-0 [Indexed: SCOPUS]
Sandhya Mishra, Devpriya Soni, “DSmishSMS: A System to Detect Smishing SMS”,Neural Computing and Applications (Springer Journal), July 2021, 35(7), pp. 4975– 4992, Impact Factor: 4.774, H-index: 111, Q1. DOI : 10.1007/s00521-021-06305-y [Indexed: SCIE, SCOPUS]
Pulkit Mehndiratta, Devpriya Soni. “Identification of Sarcasm in Textual Data: A Comparative Study”. Journal of Data and Information Science (Walter De Gruyter) Vol. 4, No. 4, Pp. 56-83, Online ISSN: 2543-683X, 2019, Impact Factor: 2.167, H-index: 16, Q2, DOI: 10.2478/jdis-2019-0021 . [indexed: SCOPUS, ESCI]
Pulkit Mehndiratta, Devpriya Soni. “Identification of Sarcasm in Textual Data using Word Embeddings and Hyperparameters Tuning”. Journal of Discrete Mathematical Science and Cryptography (Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 465-489, ISSN: 09720529, 2019, H-index: 22, Q3, DOI: 10.1080/09720529.2019.1637152 . [Scopus and ESCI Indexed]
