WHO I AM

Dr. Aaisha Makkar is serving as a Lecturer in Computer Science in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Derby, UK. For a year (2020/21), she served at the Department of Computer Science, Seoul National University of Science & Technology (South Korea) as a postdoctoral (research) Professor. Prior to that, she worked as a research fellow at Thapar University and was awarded the degree of Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD). Her doctorate objectives were focused on Cyber Security using techniques of Artificial Intelligence.
During her research career, she worked for various research projects as research scientist in NRF project. She also has received many travel grants from reputed organisations such as SERB DST, IEEE CIS. She believes in conducting research on industry-oriented techniques such as Federated Learning, although her interests include Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and
Active Learning. Dr. Aaisha has demonstrated expertise in these research domains in terms of research publications, book chapters and Book. She is the author of Book, entitled, ‘Machine Learning in Cognitive IoT’ with the CRC (Taylor & Francis) publisher. As of now (March 2022), she published more than 20 SCI journals (first author) in reputed journals such as IEEE (TII, IoT) Elsevier (FGCS, SCSI, IPM). She is actively participating in editorial services as an
Associate Editor, Guest editor, and Program chair.