Prof (Dr.) B. Chandra

Dr. B. Chandra is currently an Adjunct Professor at the School of IT, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She served the computer Science Group of the Department of Maths, IIT Delhi as a senior professor. During her tenure she was the chairman of the Department for three years and the chairperson of the Departmental research committee for five years. She was the chief data scientist for more than a year from August 2016 and subsequently as a consultant in machine learning in an AI company till recently. Her specialization areas include Machine Learning, Feature Selection for Gene Expression data, Clustering Gene Expression data, Deep Learning, Neural Networks and Databases.  She has guided a number of PhD students in these areas at IIT Delhi. She has published more than 150 research papers in reputed International journals in the areas mentioned above. She has authored three books. She is a senior member of IEEE Computer society.

She has been a Visiting Professor for a year with the Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA and for a year at Penn State University, University Park, USA. She has also been a Visiting Scientist at NIST, Maryland and  INRIA, France.

She has delivered talk in several universities in USA, Canada, Korea, France, UK, Singapore. She has been the chief Investigator for several projects funded by Department of Science and Technology, Dept.of Bio Technology on Gene Expression data analysis and Defence. She was granted the patent in October 2020 as an inventor with the Defence on ‘Neural Networks for cryptosystem Identification’. She has been the chief consultant for  Stock market company and social media company. She is the  author of 5 books: OOPs using C++ , Mastering PL/SQL.