Bio Sketch

Dr. Poonam Rani is working as an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at NSUT Main Campus, Dwarka, New Delhi, India. She did her Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Delhi University, India. She has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience. Her research interest includes Machine learning, quantum ML, Blockchain, IoT, Soft Computing, and Social networks Analysis. She has published several papers in reputed international journals including SCIE and international Scopus conferences and book chapters. She is invited as a Faculty Resource Person/Session Chair/Reviewer/TPC member in different FDP, conferences, and journals. She has reviewed several research articles in reputed international journals. She has been awarded commendable research awards for several of her papers. She has guided several B.Tech. and M.Tech. students in their major projects. She is also teaching and guiding Ph.D. students in the CSE department of NSUT.

Currently, she is a member of ISTE, IETE, and IEEE. She has worked on the timetable committee, admission committees at various levels – BBA/B.Tech. /M.Tech./PhD. She has done election duties several times in capacity of Master trainer and Sector officer. She has performed observer duty in CET2018 and CET2019, 
 besides all the above, she has worked as a members in other committees like –  ANTI RAGGING SQUAD TO VISITS THE HOSTELS, Publicity Co-Chairs in “International conference TEAMC2018” organized by CSE department in 2018,Chairperson for Refreshment and hospitality for annual sports day 2020, Orientation officer in registration of first semester students, Coordinator in mokksha2019-Nishad

Apart from this she had donated blood several times for social welfare. She is currently working as chairperson of DTCRC (CSE), NBA/NAAC/NIRF coordinator, and Departmental Library coordinator, a member in DRC committee in Computer Engineering under FOT and OIC for committee room CSE. 
She is an executive member of AAI (Alumni Affairs Interim). She had participated as a keynote speaker in national and international conferences.

Areas of Interest

• Artificial Intelligence
• Blockchain
• Quantum Machine Learning
• IOT
• Social Networks Analysis
• Soft Computing

Publications in International Journal

Rani, Poonam, Shokeen, J. FNNet: a secure ensemble-based approach for fake news detection using blockchain. J Supercomput 80, 20042–20079 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-024-06216-4

Tripathi, A., Rani, Poonam.''An Improved MSER using Grid Search based, PCA and Ensemble Voting Technique''. Multimed Tools Appl (2024).https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-17915-0

Bhavya Dhingra, Shivam Tyagi, Aryan Verma, Anuradha Tomar, Rani Poonam, A pseudo-labelled ensemble inference for fast an efficient real field photovoltaic system’s power
prediction,Optik,Volume 287,2023,171095,ISSN 0030-4026,,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2023.171095 .

Rani Poonam, Tayal D, Bhatia MPS, “Sociocentric SNA on Fuzzy Graph Social Network Model,” SOFT Computing, Springer, http://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-022-06961-9,   March 2022, SCIE, IF-3.732

Rani Poonam, Jain V, Shokeen J, Balyan A (2022) "Blockchain-based rumor detection approach for COVID-19." Journal of  Ambient Intelligence Humanized Computing, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-022-03900-2, May 2022, SCIE, IF-3.662

Rani Poonam, Preeti K, Jain V, Shokeen J, Sweety (2022b) "Blockchain-based IoT enabled health monitoring system," The Journal Supercomputing, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-022-04584-3, May 2022, SCIE, IF-2.557

Rani Poonam, Shokeen J (2021) "A survey of tools for social network analysis," Int J web Eng Technol (Scopus, inderscience) 16:189–216, Scopus, https://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2021.119879

Poonam Rani, M. P. S. Bhatia, and D. K. Tayal, “Conical SNA using Fuzzy K-Medoids based on user experience,” Int. J. Electr. Eng. Educ. DOI 10.1177/0020720920988490 ISSN 0020-7209 Online ISSN 2050-4578, pp. 1–16, March 2021, Scopus.

A. Khanna, Poonam Rani, P. Garg, P. K. Singh, and A. Khamparia, “An Enhanced Crow Search Inspired Feature Selection Technique for Intrusion Detection Based Wireless Network System,” Wirel. Pers. Commun., SCIE, IF-2.017, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-08766-9, 2021

A. Khanna, Poonam Rani, H. S. Tariq, D. Gupta, V. Kansal, and J. J. P. C. Rodrigues, “Blockchain ‑ Based Security Enhancement and Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Network,” Wirel. Pers. Commun., no. SCIE, IF-2.017  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-021-08729-0, 2021.

D. Pustokhin, I. Pustokin, Poonam Rani  et al., “Optimal deep learning approaches and healthcare big data analytics for mobile networks toward 5G,” Comput. Electr. Eng., vol. 95 (2021), no. SCIE, I.F-4.152, p. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2021.107376, October 2021.

A. Khamparia, R. Jain, Poonam Rani, D. Gupta, and A. Khanna, “AN ADAPTIVE NEURO FUZZY MODELLING AND PREDICTION SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSIS OF COVID-19,” Appl. Comput. Math., vol. 20(1), pp. 124–139, March 2021, SCIE, IF-3.898.

A. Khamparia, P. K. Singh, Poonam Rani, D. Samanta, A. Khanna, and B. Bhushan, “An internet of health things-driven deep learning framework for detection and classification of skin cancer using transfer learning,” Trans. Emerg. Telecommun. Technol., vol. 32, no. 7, SCIE, IF-3.310,  pp. 1-11 doi:10.1002/ett.3963, July 2021.

S. Kaur, R. Naaz, A. Khamparia, Poonam Rani, and D. Gupta, “Heterogeneous load balancing clustering protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks,” Cogn. Syst. Res., vol. 70, no. SCIE, IF- 4.541, pp. 10–17, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2021.07.00,  December 2021.

B. Sujitha1, V. S. Parvathy2, E. L. Lydia, Poonam Rani, ZdzislawPolkowski, and K. Shankar, “Optimal deeplearning based image compression technique for data transmission on IIot.pdf,” Trans. Emerg. Telecommun. Technol., vol. 32, no. 7-Special Issue: “Deep Network Based Industrial Internet of Things Applications” and “Integration of Satellite‐Aerial‐Terrestrial Networks”, p. https://doi.org/10.1002/ett.3976, SCIE, I.F-3.310, July 2021.

Poonam Rani, N Madan,"A New Dimensionality Reduction technique for K-Means Clustering performance Improvement",Mukt Shabd Journal,Volume IX, Issue V, MAY/2020,DOI:09.0014.MSJ.2020.V9I5.0086781.10357,Page No: 3271-3280,UGC Care

Poonam Rani, M. P. S. Bhatia, and D. K.Tayal, “‘An astute SNA with OWA Operator to Compare the Social Networks,’” I.J.Information Technol. Comput. Sci. DOI-10.5815/ijitcs.2018.03.08, ISSN 2074-9015(Print), ISSN 2074-9015(Online), vol. 3, no. March, pp. 71–80, 2018.

Poonam Rani, D. K. Tayal, and M. P. S. Bhatia, “‘Different Aspects, Challenges, and Impact of Social Networks with A Mathematical Analysis of Teaching Learning process,’” JARDCS, ISSN 1943, vol. 14, no. Special issue, pp. 1576–1590, 2018, Scopus.

Poonam Rani, M. P. S. Bhatia, and D. K. Tayal, “‘Predicting Facebook Group Relationship,’” Int. J. Innov. Technol. Explor. Eng. (IJITEE), ISSN 2278-3075, DOI 10.35940/ijitee.K1804.0981119, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 1862–1869, 2019, Scopus.

Poonam Rani, J. Shokeen, and D. Mullick, “Recommendations Using Modified K-Means Clustering and Voting Theory,” Int. J. Comput. Sci. Mob. Comput., vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 143–148, 2017.

Poonam Rani and A. K. Gupta, “Social Recommender System Using Skyline Query and Reciprocal Scoring Technique,” IOSR J. Eng. ISSN 2250-3021, ISSN 2278-8719 Vol., vol. 07, no. 03, pp. 61–65, 2017.

 

Publications in national Journal

Publications in National Conferences

 

Publications in International Conferences

S. Misra and Poonam. Rani, "Quantum Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Overview and Analysis," 2024 15th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), Kamand, India, 2024, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICCCNT61001.2024.10724803.

Rani, Poonam., Kumar, D., Sudhakar, N., Prakash, D., Shubham (2023). Text- to-Image Synthesis using BERT Embeddings and Multi-Stage GAN. In:Hassanien, A.E., Castillo, O., Anand, S., Jaiswal, A. (eds) International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications. ICICC 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 537. Springer,
Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3010-4_14

Rani, Poonam., Tewari, T. (2024). An Application-Oriented Review of
Blockchain-Based Recommender Systems. In: Hassanien, A.E., Castillo, O., Anand, S., Jaiswal, A. (eds) International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications. ICICC 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 731. Springer, Singapore.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4071-4_63

Tripathi, A., Rani, Poonam. (2023). PCA-Based Feature Selection and Hybrid Classification Model for Speech Emotion Recognition. In:
Hassanien, A.E., Castillo, O., Anand, S., Jaiswal, A. (eds) International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications. ICICC2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 703. Springer,Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3315-0_26

 Monika, Rani, Poonam. (2023). Vehicular Ad Hoc Network: A Review. In Hassanien, A.E., Castillo, O., Anand, S., Jaiswal, A. (eds)
International Conference on Innovative Computing and
Communications. ICICC 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and
Systems, vol 703. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-
981-99-3315-0_19

 

Rani, Poonam., Shokeen, J., Singh, A., Singh, A., Kumar, S., Raghuvanshi, N. (2022). Stock Price Prediction Using Reinforcement Learning. International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1388. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2597-8_6, sep2021

Rani, Poonam ., Shokeen, J., Agarwal, A., Bhatghare, A., Majithia, A., Malhotra, J. (2022). Credit Card Fraud Detection Using Blockchain and Simulated Annealing k-Means Algorithm.  International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1394. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3071-2_5, 51-59,August2021

Rani, Poonam., Jain, V., Saif, M., Mugloo, S.H., Hirna, M., Jain, S. (2022). Improving Accuracy of Deep Learning-Based Compression Techniques by Introducing Perceptual Loss in Industrial IoT. International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1394. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3071-2_6,61-69

P. Rani, V. Jain, M. Joshi, and M. Khandelwal, “A Secured Supply Chain Network for Route Optimization and Product Traceability using Blockchain in Internet of Things,” in International Conference on Data Anayltics and Management, 2020, pp. 637–647.

P. Rani et al., “Stock price prediction using reinforcement learning,” in ICICC2021, 2021, vol. 1.

P. Rani, A. Balyan, V. Jain, D. Sangwan, P. Pal, and J. Shokeen, “A Probabilistic Routing-based Secure Approach for Opportunistic IoT Network using Blockchain,” in 17th India Council International Conference (INDICON), 2020,IEEE Xplore Digital library, pp. 1–7.

P. Rani, P. P. Singh, A. Balyan, J. Shokeen, and V. Jain, “A Secure Epidemic Routing using Blockchain in Opportunistic Internet of Things,” in International Conference on Data Anayltics and Management, 2020, pp. 101–110.

J. Shokeen, C. Rana, and P. Rani, “A trust-based approach to extract social relationships for recommendation,” in International Conference on Data Anayltics and Management, 2020, pp. 51–58.

P. Rani, D. K. Tayal, and M. P. S. Bhatia, “‘SNA using User Experience’ 14-16 Feb., 2019,” in “IEEE, International Conference on Machine Learning, Big data, Cloud and Parallel computing: Trends, Perspectives and Prospects,” 2019.

P. Rani and J. Shokeen, “Designing a Project Leader Recommender System using Twitter Feed Analysis,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, Big Data, Cloud and Parallel Computing: Trends, Prespectives and Prospects, COMITCon 2019,14th -16th Feb, DOI: 10.1109/COMITCon.2019.8862261, 2019, pp. 56–60.

P. Rani, M. Bhatia, and D. K. Tayal, “‘A Comparative study of Qualitative and Quantitative SNA,’” in IEEE Conference ID: 46181 2019 6th International Conference on “Computing for Sustainable Global Development”, 13th - 15th March, 2019, 2019, pp. 500–504.

P. Rani, “‘Closeness Centrality using Communication aspect,’” in 2019 6th International Conference on “Computing for Sustainable Global Development”, 13th - 15th March, 2019, IEEE Conference ID: 46181, 2019.

P. Rani, M. P. S. Bhatia, and D. K. Tayal, “‘A soft-computing based approach to Group relationship analysis using weighted arithmetic and geometric mean,’” in International conference on innovative computing and communication (ICICC-2018), Online ISBN 978-981-13-2354-6,Print ISBN 978-981-13-2353-9,doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2354-6_19, 2018, pp. 171–178.

P. Rani, M. P. S. Bhatia, and D. K. Tayal, “‘Qualitative SNA Methodology,’” in 5th International conference on “Computing for sustainable global Development”, IEEE conference Id-42835, 2018, pp. 4223–4228.

P. Rani and J. Shokeen, “Issues and Challenges in Link Prediction for Social Networks,” in Proceedings of the 11th INDIACom and 4th International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development, ISSN: 0973-7529, 2017, pp. 6889–6895.

P. Rani and J. Shokeen, “A Survey on Label Propagation based Techniques for Community Detection in Social Networks,” 5th Int. Conf. “Computing Sustain. Glob. Dev. 14th - 16th March, 2018 Bharati, ISSN 0973-7529, pp. 4282–4286, 2018.