Dr Shikha Mehta , Associate Professor , Department of Computer Science Engineering , Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, attained her doctorate in the domain of Artificial Intelligence from University of Delhi,Delhi.  She has over 18 years of teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Dr Shikha has organized many special sessions in conferences and is in the program committee of various conferences of repute. She has addressed diverse audience as a keynote speaker in  UGC , AICTE and TEQIP sponsored FDPs and workshops. With many national and international research publications to her credit, she is  also the chief editor of 2 books published by reputed international publishers. She is an active researcher in the field of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Nature Inspired computing and Social networks . She has guided various PhD and Mtech thesis and more than 100 Btech projects. She is actively involved as reviewer for many International Journals and Conference Proceedings. She has also chaired many sessions and workshops in International Conferences of repute.