Dr. B. Chandra Email & Phone Number

B. Chandra served the computer Science Group in the Department of Maths. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi From 1979 to June 2016. During her tenure she has been the Head of the Department for three years and chairperson of the Departmental research committee for five years. Her specialization includes Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Neural Networks for classification and NLP, Feature Selection. Databases. She has been teaching and highly involved in research in these areas and guided a number of PhD students. She has also been a Chief Data Scientist at Sprinklr Solutions. She is a senior member of IEEE Computer society.During summer 2012, she was a visiting scientist at NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland for two months. During 2008-2010, she was a visiting Professor at IIT Kanpur. She was a Visiting Professor for a year with the Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, USA and for a year at Penn State University, USA. She has also been a Visiting Scientist with INRIA, France. She has published more than 80 research papers in reputed International journals in the area of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Mining , Neural Networks , Feature Selection ,Databases Delivered lectures at various universities in the U.S., viz. University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University, Eastern Illinois University, University of Hawaii, University of Texas at Dallas, University of Orleans, Virginia Tech and at the National University of Singapore, Bangor University, U.K. and Ecole de Mines Paris. Invited as the Chairman in sessions on Machine Learning, Data Mining and Neural Networks at various international conferences held at USA., U.K., Canada, Singapore etc. She was the Principal Investigator of many sponsored research projects funded by Defence, MIT ,DBT and DST in the area of classification and chief consultant for consultancy research projects with stock market and Social Media companies in the field of Machine Learning.