Dr. Harmeet Kaur

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science, Hans Raj College, University of Delhi, Delhi – 110007, India

hkaur@hrc.du.ac.in

 


Educational Qualification

PhD in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, June 2007

            Thesis Title: Trust Based Decentralized Recommender Systems

Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1997

B.Sc.(G) ‘A’ with Computer Science, Hans Raj College, University of Delhi, 1994

 

Working Experience

At Department of Computer Science, Hans Raj College, University of Delhi on permanent-basis

Associate Professor: Since 1st July 2010

Assistant Professor: From 30th June 2007 to 30th June 2010

Senior Lecturer: From 15th March 2004 to 30th June 2007

Lecturer: From 22nd September 1999 to 15th March 2004

 

At Department of Computer Science, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi on permanent-basis

Lecturer: From 9th September 1998 to 21st September 1999

 

At Department of Computer Science, Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi on temporary-basis

Lecturer: From 22nd January 1998 to 15th July 1998

 

At Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi

Visiting faculty: From July 2007 to December 2011

 

Research Area

Recommender Systems, Crowdsourcing

 

Papers Taught

Undergraduate Level

1.      Programming Fundamentals

2.      Data Structures

3.      Algorithms

4.      Operating Systems

5.      Database Management Systems

6.      Computer System Architecture

7.      Computer Graphics

8.      Artificial Intelligence

9.      Computer Networks

 

Postgraduate Level

1.      Programming Fundamentals

2.      Operating Systems

3.      Database Management Systems

4.      Computer System Architecture

 

List of Research Scholars

Ph.D.

1.            Bhavna Gupta, Trust-Based Multiagent Service Recommender System, PhD awarded in February 2014. Co-supervised with Dr. Punam Bedi. Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi

2.            Deepali Jain, Optimization of Trust Based Recommender Systems, PhD awarded in December 2015. Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi

3.            Jaya Gera, Broad Area of Research - Trust Based Systems, Registered since October 2013. Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi

4.            Mansi Sood, Broad Area of Research – Crowdfunding, Registered since August 2016. Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi

 

M.Phil.

1.             Jyoti Verma, Semantic Web Enabled Recommender Systems, 2008. Madurai Kamraj University

2.             Ajit Kumar, Dynamic Channel Aware Bandwidth Management in IEEE – 802.11 Networks, 2009. Vinayaka Missions University, Salem – 636308, Tamil Nadu, India

3.             Narender Singh, Matrix Reload Based on Remote Access Through Advance Smart Devices, 2010. Vinayaka Missions University, Salem – 636308, Tamil Nadu, India

 

M.Sc. (Computer Science) Research Projects

1.              Jyotsna Tutreja and Mansi Sood, Use of Web Mining Techniques to Generate Recommendations, 2008. Co-supervised with Dr. Punam Bedi. Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi

 

Advisory Committee Member

1.             Preeti Marwaha, Supervisor: Dr. Hema Banati. Title: Temporal Enhancement of Web Services. PhD awarded in June 2013. Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi.

2.             Monika Bajaj, Supervisor: Dr. Hema Banati. Title: Targeted Product Promotion using Firefly Algorithm on Social Networks. PhD awarded in June 2013. Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi.

3.             Shikha Agarwal nee Gupta, Supervisor: Dr. Archana Singhal. Title: Semantically Enhanced Proactive News Recommender System. PhD awarded in September 2015. Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi.

4.             Nidhi Arora, Broad Area – Social Networks, Supervisor: Dr. Hema Banati. Registered since October 2013. Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi.

5.             Sangeeta Goyal, Broad Area – Big Data Analysis, Supervisor: Dr. Hema Banati. Registered since October 2014. Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi.

 

Publications

Journal Publications

1.            Jaya Gera, Harmeet Kaur. (2017). Dynamics of Pledge Behavior of Crowdfunded Projects. Accepted for publication in the International Journal of Information Technology Project Management (IJITPM), IGI Global, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 72 – 86, ISSN: 1938-0232, EISSN: 1938-0240, DOI: 10.4018/IJITPM, January 2017.

2.            Mansi Sood, Harmeet Kaur. (2014). Preference based Personalized News Recommender System, in International Journal of Advanced Computer Research (IJACR), Vol. 4, No. 2, Issue 15, pp. 575 – 581, ISSN (online): 2277-7970, ISSN (print): 2249-7277, June 2014

3.            Mansi Sood, Harmeet Kaur. (2014). Personalized Collaborative News Recommendation, in International Journal of Computer Science & Engineering Technology (IJCSET), Vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 668 – 676, ISSN: 2229-3345, June 2014

4.            Mansi Sood, Harmeet Kaur. (2014). Survey on News Recommendation, in International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (IJAREEIE), Vol. 3, Issue 6, pp. 9972 – 9977, ISSN (online): 2278-8875, ISSN (print): 2320-3765, June 2014

5.            Harmeet Kaur, Deepali Jain. (2013). Generating Trust Based Recommendations for Multiple Independent Domains, in International Journal of Advanced Computer Research (IJACR), Vol. 3, No. 4, Issue 13, pp. 88 – 97, ISSN (online): 2277-7970, ISSN (print): 2249-7277, Dec 2013

6.            Harmeet Kaur, Deepali Jain. (2013). Optimizing the Number of Neighbors in Trust Based Recommender Systems, in International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI), Vol. 10, Issue 4, No 2, pp. 230 – 238, ISSN (online): 1694-0784, ISSN (print): 1694-0814, July 2013

7.            Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur, Bhavna Gupta. (2013). A Reputation based Service Provider Selection System for Delegation of Job by Farmers. Special Issue on "Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture", Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics (JISAS), Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 23 – 32, 2013

8.            Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur, Bhavna Gupta. (2013). Trust based Access Control for Collaborative System, Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI), Taylor and Francis, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 109-126, DOI: 10.1080/0952813X.2013.813973, July 2013.

(Impact Factor: 1.703 ©2016 Thomson Reuters, 2016 Journal Citation Reports).

9.            Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur, Bhavna Gupta. (2013). An Agent based Reputation System for Unreliable Grid Environment, International Journal of Modeling and Optimization (IJMO), Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 74 – 79, DOI: 10.7763/IJMO.2013.V3.238, February 2013

10.        Harmeet Kaur, Deepali Jain. (2010). Modulating Friendship Trust into Context Level Trust in Trust Based Recommender Systems, in International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering (IJRTE), ACEEE, USA (a division of IDES), Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 58 – 63, ISSN (online): 2158-5563, ISSN (print): 2158-5555, DOI: 01.IJRTET.03.02.205, 2010

11.        Bhavna Gupta, Harmeet Kaur, Punam Bedi. (2010). A Reputation Based Service Provider Selection System for Farmers, in Journal of Information Assurance and Security (JIAS), Vol. 5, pp. 508 – 515, ISSN: 1554-1010, 2010

12.        Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur, Bhavna Gupta, Jyotsna Talreja, Mansi Sood. (2009). A Website Recommender System based on Analysis of Users Access log, in Journal of Intelligent Systems(JIS), Special Issue on Recent Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 18, No.4, pp. 333-352, ISSN: 0334-1860, 2009

13.        Punam Bedi, Ravish Sharma, Harmeet Kaur. (2009). Recommender System based on Collaborative Behavior of Ants, in Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Asian Network for Scientific Information, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 40 – 55, ISSN: 1994-5450, 2009

14.        Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur. (2006). Trust based Personalized Recommender System, INFOCOM Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 19 – 26, 2006.

 

Conference Publications

1.            Purnima Yadav, Sathenapally Shrutika, Harmeet Kaur (2017). Comparative Study of Sentiment Analysis Techniques and its Application on Twitter, in proceedings of the  National Conference of Information Technology and Business Analytics (NCITBA '2017), to be held in Jammu, India, January 7-8, 2017.

2.            Jaya Gera, Harmeet Kaur (2016). Recommending Investors using Association Rule Mining for Crowd Funding Projects, in proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Advances in Communication, Network, and Computing (CNC '2016), De GRUYTER, 2016, March 12, Bangluru, India.

3.            Jaya Gera, Harmeet Kaur (2015). Identifying Significant Features to Improve Crowd Funded Projects’ Success, in proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Innovations in Computer Science and Engineering (ICICSE '15),  Hyderabad, India, August 7-8, 2015, Springer, Innovations in Computer Science and Engineering, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC), vol. 413, pp. 211 – 218, ISBN  978-981-10-0419-3, DOI : 10.1007/978-981-10-0419-3_25

4.            Harmeet Kaur, Deepali Jain. (2014). Controlled Expansion of Neighborhood in Trust Based Recommender Systems, in proceedings of International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT '14), Procedia Computer Science (2015), pp. 68-77, DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2015.01.057 2014

5.            Punam Bedi, Bhavna Gupta, Harmeet Kaur. (2012). Predicting Attribute based User Trustworthiness for Access Control of Resources, in proceedings of 12th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS '12), Pune, India, pp. 294 – 299, December 04-07, 2012, USA: IEEE Xplore

6.            Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur, Bhavna Gupta. (2012). Trustworthy Service Provider Selection in Cloud Computing Environment, in proceedings of International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT '12), Rajkot, India, pp. 714 – 719, DOI 10.1109/CSNT.2012.158, 10-14 May, 2012, USA: IEEE Xplore

7.            Punam Bedi, Bhavna Gupta, Harmeet Kaur. (2012). Access Control on Grid Resources Using Radial Basis Function Neural Network, in proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Computer, Communication, Control and Information Technology (C3IT '12), Procedia Technology 4 (2012), Elsevier, pp. 336 – 341, DOI: 10.1016/j.protcy.2012.05.051, 2012

8.            Bhavna Gupta, Harmeet Kaur, Punam Bedi. (2011). Predicting Grid User Trustworthiness using Neural Networks, in proceedings of International Conference of World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT '11), Bombay, India, pp. 731 – 736, December 11-14, 2011

9.            Bhavna Gupta, Harmeet Kaur, Namita, Punam Bedi. (2011). Trust based Access Control for Grid Resources, in proceedings of International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT '11), Jammu, India, pp. 678 – 682, DOI: 10.1109/CSNT.2011.146, June 3-5, 2011, USA: IEEE Xplore

10.        Bhavna Gupta, Harmeet Kaur, Punam Bedi. (2009). Trust based Personalized Ecommerce System for Farmers, in proceedings of 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI '09), Tumkur (near Bangalore), India, pp. 1085 – 1093, December 16-18, 2009

11.        Jyotsna Talreja, Mansi Sood, Harmeet Kaur, Punam Bedi, Bhavna Gupta. (2009). Using Web Mining to Generate Recommendations: A Website Recommender, in proceedings of 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI '09), Tumkur (near Bangalore), India, pp. 333 – 349, December 16-18, 2009

12.        Harmeet Kaur, Deepali Jain. (2009). Employing Experience for Updating Trust in Trust Based Recommender Systems, in proceedings of 4th Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI '09), Tumkur (near Bangalore), India, pp. 1581 – 1597, December 16-18, 2009

13.        Ravish Sharma, Maulein Singh, Ramneet Makkar, Harmeet Kaur, Punam Bedi. (2007). Ant Recommender: Recommender System Inspired By Ant Colony, in proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Computer Vision and Information Technology (ACVIT '07), Aurangabad, India, pp. 361 – 369, November 28-30,2007

14.        Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur, Sudeep Marwaha. (2007). Trust based Recommender System for the Semantic Web, in proceedings of 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '07), Hyderabad, India, pp. 2677 – 2682, January 9-12, 2007

15.        Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur. (2005). Using Fuzzy Clustering to Determine Trust based Recommendations, in proceedings of Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI '05), Pune, India, pp. 2120 – 2136, December 20-22, 2005

16.        Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur. (2005). Trust Based Recommender System, in proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI '05), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,  pp. 798 – 801, June 27-30, 2005

17.        Harmeet Kaur, Punam Bedi. (2005). Using Fuzzy Clustering to Determine Agent Reputation, in proceedings of International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN '05), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 79 – 85, June 20-23, 2005

18.        Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur. (2005). Clustering Recommendations to Compute Agent Reputation, in proceedings of Conference on Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications III, part of the SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, Florida, U.S.A., pp. 131 – 137, March 28 - April 1, 2005

19.        Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur. (2004). Modeling Agent Reputation in Uncertain Environment, in proceedings of International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS '04), Allahabad, India, pp. 258 – 263, December 16-18, 2004

20.        Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur. (2004). Fuzzy Quantification of Trust, in proceedings of International Conference on Cognitive Systems (ICCS '04), New Delhi, India, December 14-15, 2004

21.        Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur, Ankit Malhotra. (2002). Fuzzy Dimension To Databases, in proceedings of 37th Annual Convention of Computer Society of India, 2002

 

Book Chapters

1.            Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur, Bhavna Gupta. (2013). A Multiagent Framework for Selection of Trustworthy Service Providers. Chapter 15 in Managing Trust in Cyberspace, pp. 339 – 359, ISBN (ebook): 978-1-4665-6845-7, ISBN (print): 978-1-4665-6844-0, DOI: 10.1201/b16318-16, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis  Group, 2013

 

Paper Presentations

1.            Presented “Trust based Recommender System for the Semantic Web” at the 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hyderabad, 2007

2.            Presented “Modeling Agent Reputation in Uncertain Environment” at International Conference on Cognitive Science, Allahabad, 2004

3.             Presented “Fuzzy Quantification of Trust” at International Conference on Cognitive Systems, New Delhi, 2004

 

Research Project

One of the Project Investigators of the innovation project HRC 307 (titled: DUA - Device for Uniquely Abled) for which the University of Delhi sanctioned a grant of Rs. 7.5 lakhs. The two other Project Investigators were Dr. Baljeet Kaur (Department of Computer Science) and Mr. Dibyajyoti Das (Department of Physics). There were 10 student members: 8 students of the Department of Computer Science and one student each of Department of Hindi and History. Duration: October 2015 - September 2016.

Some of the innovation projects were selected by the Research Council, University of Delhi, for display during the Convocation Ceremony of the University of Delhi on 19th November 2016 and DUA was one of them. It was also awarded the Best Poster Award in the same.

An article highlighting the project has been published by Electronics for You, a magazine with leading publications in the field of electronics and technology across the globe, titled "DUA: A Wish for Your Safety" in the July 15, 2016 issue. It is also available at the link  http://electronicsforu.com/india-corner/innovations-innovators/dua-wish-safety .

 

Seminars/Workshops/Lectures Organized

·               Organized series of talks on “Future Prospects” for the students of the Department of Computer Science:

Career Counseling on 1st October 2015 and 20th October 2016 by Dr. Ritukar Chaddha, Founder and CEO of “MeriPadhai.com” and UKS technologies

Future of Web Science in India from a Student's Perspective by Dr. Aastha Madaan, held at Hansraj College on 5th October 2015. She is a PhD in Databases from the Database Systems Laboratory at University of Aizu, Fukushima, Japan; presently is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the area of “Trusted Data Exchange” at the Center for Data Sciences in the institute and Alumnus HRC

Careers in MCA on 2nd November 2015 by our Alumni

             Saurabh Garg, MCA, DU. Presently working at MTU, Adobe systems

             Himanshu Mehta, MCA 3rd year, DU

             Palak Ahuja, MCA 3rd year, DU

             Mansi Gera, MCA 3rd year, DU

Aim MBA by Mr. Chiranjeev Singh, MBA from IIM-A, Academician and Alumnus HRC, on 21st January 2016

Life and its turns by Ms. Nishi Aggarwal, Manager, ICT Practice at Evalueserve and Alumnus HRC, on 21st January 2016

·               Organized a speaker session by Prof. Manohar Lal, Alumnus, Hansraj College, on the topic Problem Solving Using Computers, Some Lesser Known Aspects, on 4th April 2016.

·               Organized a speaker session by Dr. Krishan Anand, Alumnus, Hansraj College, on the topic Australian Experience in Cloud Computing and Digital Systems Performance Enhancement on 1st April 2016.

·               Organized a speaker session by Dr. S.K. Muttoo, Head, Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi, on the topic Information Security on 21st January 2016.

·               Talks on “Cyber Security” and “Careers in IT” on 29th September 2001 by Mr. Arvind Gupta, CEO and Mr. Amarjeet Singh, Senior Consultant, e-enable Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

     

Lectures Delivered

1.            Delivered a one hour lecture on “Fuzzy Inferencing and Its Applications” on 21st January 2010. Held as a part of the Technical Session in one day seminar on “An Innovative Approach Towards Cutting Edge Technologies”, Technophilia – 2010. Conducted by Department of Information Technology and Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Northern India Engineering College (Affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University), Shastri Park, New Delhi – 110053

2.            Delivered a two and half an hour lecture on “Recommender Systems” on 20th December 2010 held as a part of Winter School on “Development of Expert Systems in Agriculture” (2 - 22 December 2010) at Division Of Computer Applications, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Library Avenue, Pusa, New Delhi – 110012. Winter school is similar to the refresher course held in University of Delhi.

 

Refresher/Orientation Courses Attended

1.            Attended a 3-week Refresher Course in Computer Science and Applications, conducted by Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education (CPDHE), University of Delhi from 31st December 2001 to 19th January 2002

2.            Attended a 4-week Orientation Course conducted by Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education (CPDHE), University of Delhi from 22nd February 2005 to 22nd March  2005

3.            Attended a 3-week Refresher Course in Computer Applications, conducted by Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education (CPDHE), University of Delhi from 20th September 2007 to 11th October 2007

4.            Attended a 3-week Refresher Course in Computer Science, conducted by Centre for Professional Development in Higher Education (CPDHE), University of Delhi from 19th November 2009 to 30th November 2009 and 29th December 2009 to 7th January 2010

 

Workshops/Seminars/Training Programmes Attended

1.            PHP and MySQL workshop organized by the Delhi University Computer Centre (DUCC) from December 19 – 23, 2016

2.            Faculty Development Program on Algorithms (FDPA ' 16) organized by Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi in collaboration with ACM India Education and ACM Delhi NCR Chapter from July 7 – 13, 2016

3.            Capacity Building Workshop organized by Institute of Life Long Learning (ILLL), University of Delhi on February 4, 2016

4.            Workshop on Embedded Systems sponsored by Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and  Technology, Government of India held on January 15 – 16, 2016 at Department of Physics and Electronics, Hansraj College

5.            Workshop on Network Analytics and Support Vector Machines and Applications on 10th April 2015 held in the Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi

6.            Supported Blended Learning Workshop organized by the University of Delhi from May 28 – 30, 2007

7.            Symposium on Information Security organized by the Department of Computer Science on 27th April 2007

8.            Autonomic Computing Workshop organized by and held at the IBM Research Labs, New Delhi on 28th March 2007

9.            Elements of Statistics in Data Mining Workshop organized by Department of Computer Science from December 28 – 30, 2004

10.        Windows Programming workshop conducted by River Run Software group at Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi from July to 12 – 14, 1999

 

 

Administrative Responsibilities in the College

1.            Time-table Committee Convener (Arts and Commerce) for the session 2003 – 2004

2.            Superintendent of Annual Examinations for the year 2008

3.            Science Admissions Convener for the year 2013

4.            Portal Comittee member 2013 – 2014, 2014 – 2015, 2015 – 2016

5.            Election Committee member for the session 2015 – 2016

6.            NAAC Committee member for the session 2015 – 2016

7.            Computer Science Department Admission-in-charge for the admissions done in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015

8.            Teacher-in-Charge for the sessions 2001 – 2002 ,  2002 – 2003,  2007 – 2008,  2010 – 2011, 2012 – 2013,  2015 – 2016

9.            Suprintendent of Practical Examinations of the Computer Science Department for the sessions 2001 – 2002 ,  2002 – 2003,  2007 – 2008,  2010 – 2011, 2012 – 2013,  2015 – 2016

10.        Hostel Committee member for the sessions 2001 – 2002 ,  2002 – 2003,  2007 – 2008,  2010 – 2011,  2012 – 2013

11.        Library Committe member for the sessions 2001 – 2002 ,  2002 – 2003,  2007 – 2008, 2010 – 2011,  2012 – 2013

12.        Sports Committee member for the sessions 2001 – 2002 ,  2002 – 2003,  2007 – 2008,  2010 – 2011,  2012 – 2013, 2015 – 2016

13.        Discipline Committee member for the session 2012 – 2013, 2015 – 2016

14.        Monitoring Committee member for the session 2015 – 2016

15.        Workload Committee member for the sessions 2012 – 2013, 2015 – 2016

16.        Central Purchase Committee member for the session 2015 – 2016

17.        ECA Committee member for the session 2015 – 2016

18.        Students' Advisory Committee for the session 2015 – 2016

19.        Garden Committee member for the session 2016 – 2017

20.        Staff Association President for the session 2013 – 2014

 

Other Activities

·               Reviewer, 6th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI '17), to be held from September 13 – 16, 2017, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal University, Manipal, India.

·               Reviewer, National Conference On Advances in Computer And Information Technology (NCACIT '16), December 19 – 20, 2016, Shyama Prasad Mukherji College, University Of Delhi, India

·               Reviewer, Engineering, Journal, Elsevier, 2016

·               Reviewer, 5th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI '16), September 21 – 24, 2016, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

·               Reviewer, 4th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI '15), August 10 – 13, 2015, Kochi, Kerala, India

·               Organizing Committee member, International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA '12), organized by Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi and University of Aizu, Japan, December 24 – 26, 2012, Delhi, India