Dr.
(Mrs.) Nupur Prakash is working as a Principal, Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, a constituent college of GGS Indraprastha University and a girl's engineering college started by Govt. of Delhi. She has also worked as Additional Director (IT) at Institute of Chartered Accountants
of India, Delhi. She was holding
the charge of Dean in the University School of Information Technology at GGS
Indraprastha University,
Delhi (2006-2008) prior to this
assignment.
She received her B.E.
(Electronics & Communication Engineering) and M.E. (Computer Science &
Technology) degree from University of
Roorkee (now I.I.T. Roorkee) in
1981 and 1986 respectively. She was awarded with the Chancellor’s Medal for
being the best outgoing student of 1981. She has worked as a scientist B at
CSIO, Chandigarh (1983-85) on
microprocessor based projects. She completed her PhD (Computer Engineering
& Technology) from Punjab University,
Chandigarh in 1998 in the area of
Natural language Processing using Artificial Neural Networks.
She has served the Department of
Computer Science & Engineering at Punjab
Engineering College,
Chandigarh as Head and Assistant
Professor (1991-2000). Dr. Nupur Prakash has traveled to Australia,
Malaysia, Dubai,
USA, Tokyo,
Italy, New
Zealand and Austria
to attend workshops and present papers at several International Conferences.
She has delivered invited talks at National University of Singapore and University
of Mauritius. She has been
nominated as a member of Board of Studies and Board of
Examiners at University of Mauritius (2005-2007) for courses offered by C-DAC School of Advanced
Computing, Republic of Mauritius. She has recently been nominated as International
Consultant to Asian Development funded project “ICT in Basic Education” by Ministry of Education, Uzbekistan
for 2008-2010.
Dr. Nupur Prakash is a member of
Governing Council and Advisory Board of several Engineering
Colleges and Management Institutes
of India. She is on the editorial board of several IT Magazines and Journals of
National repute. She has been a reviewer for several conferences on Mobile
Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, Pervasive Computing and Secure Wireless
Networks organised at National and International
level.
She has been a nominated by AICTE, UGC, DIT (Ministry of Comm & IT, Govt. of India), NIC, DOEACC, CDAC and DIT (Govt of Delhi) as expert member of various committees. She
has been a recipient of UNESCO fellowship to attend a Workshop on ‘Richmedia Webcasting’ in Italy.
She has attended and organized several seminars and workshops in the area of e-security
and mobile computing.
She possesses a work experience
of around 25 years in research and academics.
Her major areas of interest are Mobile
Communication, Network Security, Cryptography, Secure Wireless Communication and
Natural language Processing. She has authored around 50 research papers and
articles for various national and international journals/conferences. She is a
life member of professional bodies like Computer Society of India (CSI) and
Associate member of Institute of Electronics
and Electrical Engineers (IEEE), USA.