Room No. 601-A, Academic Block - 4, Delhi Technological University, Shahbad, Daulatpur, Main Bawana Road, Delhi-110042, India.

Scopus ID : 57222400314

Web of Science Researcher ID :  IZD-5670-2023

Researcher ID : rid96610

Orcid ID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6397-6049

Google Scholar ID Link : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kpJ71HEAAAAJ&hl=en

Brief Introduction: Dr. Sunakshi Mehra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Delhi Technological University (DTU). She earned her Ph.D. in Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing from DTU in 2024. She completed her M.Tech. in Information Technology from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU) in 2017 and her B.Tech. in Information Technology from Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW) in 2015. Before joining DTU, Dr. Mehra served as a contractual faculty member at GGSIPU and as a permanent faculty member at Galgotias College of Engineering & Technology (GCET). Her research interests include signal processing, computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. She has authored several publications in SCI/SCIE-indexed journals, presented her work at international conferences, and contributed to book chapters and patents. She also serves as a reviewer for various reputed academic journals and conferences.

Honors and Awards

Received Commendable Research Excellence award from Delhi Technological University on 5^th September 2024.

Publications

SCIE Journals

1.     Sunakshi Mehra, Seba Susan. “Deep fusion framework for speech command recognition using acoustic and linguistic features. Multimedia Tools and Applications (2023): Vol 82.” 38667–38691 (2023). (SCIE-Indexed, IF: 3.6). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-15118-1

2.     Sunakshi Mehra, Virender Ranga, & Ritu Agarwal. “Improving speech command recognition through decision-level fusion of deep filtered speech cues.” Signal, Image and Video Processing SIViP (2023). (SCIE-Indexed, IF: 2.3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760023-02845-z  

3.   Sunakshi Mehra, Virender Ranga, and Ritu Agarwal. "A deep learning approach to dysarthric utterance classification with BiLSTM-GRU, speech cue filtering, and log mel spectrograms." The Journal of Supercomputing (2024): 1-28. (SCIE-Indexed, IF: 3.3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-024-06015-x  

4.   Sunakshi Mehra, Virender Ranga, Ritu Agarwal, and Seba Susan. "Speaker independent recognition of low-resourced multilingual Arabic spoken words through hybrid fusion." Multimedia Tools and Applications (2024): 1-29. (SCIE-Indexed, IF: 3.6). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-024-18804-w  

5.   Sunakshi Mehra, Virender Ranga, and Ritu Agarwal. "Dhivehi Speech Recognition: A Multimodal Approach for Dhivehi Language in Resource-Constrained Settings." Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (2024): 1-21. (SCIE-Indexed, IF: 1.8). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-024-02915-8

6.   Sunakshi Mehra, Virender Ranga, and Ritu Agarwal. "Multimodal integration of mel spectrograms and text transcripts for enhanced automatic speech recognition: Leveraging extractive transformer-based approaches and late fusion strategies". (SCIE-Indexed, IF: 2.1).  https://doi.org/10.1111/coin.70012

7.     Sunakshi Mehra, Virender Ranga, and Ritu Agarwal. "Evaluating Suprasegmental Features for Phonological Fusion and Spectrogram-Based Speech Command Recognition". Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing (2024): 1-21. (SCIE-Indexed, IF: 1.8). (Accepted) 

Other Journals

1. Sunakshi Mehra. "SPEAKNet: Spectrogram-Phoneme Embedding Architecture for Knowledge-enhanced Speech Command Recognition". https://doi.org/10.5120/ijca2025925146

Conference Publications

1. Sunakshi Mehra, and Seba Susan. "Early Fusion of Phone Embeddings for Recognition of Low Resourced Accented Speech." In 2022 4th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Speech Technology (AIST), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/AIST55798.2022.10064735

2. Sunakshi Mehra, & Seba Susan (2021). "Improving word recognition in speech transcriptions by decision-level fusion of stemming and two-way phoneme pruning." In Advanced Computing: 10^th International Conference, IACC 2020, Panaji, Goa, India, December 5–6, 2020, Revised Selected Papers, Part I 10 (pp. 256-266). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0401-0_19

3. Varun Kumar Singh, Sunakshi Mehra, and Ashif Ali (2024). "Edge Computing Integration with 5G for IoT: Framework, Challenges, and Future Directions" In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Networking (ICAIN-2024). Springer.  http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5001181

Book Chapter

1. Sunakshi Mehra et al. (2024). "Ethical Challenges and Innovations in AI-Driven Healthcare and Engineering: A Review of Blockchain, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, and Knowledge Management". IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-4147-6.ch015

Patents

1. Title: IOT-enhanced biofuel production monitoring system for sustainable energy management. Authors: Dr. Vimal Babu, Dr. Sunakshi Mehra, Dr. Arshi Husain, Dr. A. Robert Singh, Dr. Baburao Gaddala, Mr. K. S. Vigneshwaran. Design Number: 445294-001. Country: India. Current Status: Grant. 

2. Title: AI-Driven Precision in Anomaly Detection for Hydraulic Pump Systems.  Authors: Manni Kumar, Nivedita Sharma, Mehakpreet Kaur Virdi, Pooja Bharti, Dr. Sunakshi Mehra, Dr. Richa Sharma, Kuldeep Kumar. Application Number: 202411075513. Country: India. Current Status: Published

3. Title: Deep learning-based speaker-dependent and independent speech impairment recognition. Authors: Dr. Sunakshi Mehra, Mr. Mrityunjay Kumar, Dr. Punam Kumari, Ms. Priya Upadhyay, Mr. Abhishek Singh, Mr. Varun Kumar Singh, Prof. (Dr.) Sandeep Gupta. Application Number: 202411050041. Country: India. Current Status: Published.

4. Title: Autonomous drone with integrated speech recognition for voice-controlled operations. Authors: Dr. Sunakshi Mehra, Mr. Mrityunjay Kumar, Dr. Punam Kumari, Mr. Ashif Ali, Mr. Abhishek Singh, Mr. Varun Kumar Singh, Prof. (Dr.) Sandeep Gupta. Application Number: 202411076346. Country: India. Current Status: Published.

 Conferences/FDPs/Workshops/Seminars Attended

1. Workshop on International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music (FRSM 2021).

2. Workshop on Graph theory and its application in Delhi Technological University (DTU) in 2019.

3. Attended One-Day Workshop on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and IP management for Start-up on 23rd May 2023 in Department of Information technology, DTU.

4. Attended Short Term Course on Recent Trends in Machine Learning and Deep Learning for AI Applications from 5th June 2023 to 9th June 2023 in Department of Information technology, DTU.

5. Attended Short Term Course on Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning and Deep Learning from 26th July 2023 to 30th July 2023 (Online Mode) in National Institute of Technology, Warangal.

6. Attended Five Day GIAN Course on “Mining Software Repositories” from 22nd November 2023 to 26th November 2023 in National Institute of Technology.

7. Attended 1-week online short-term training program on Salesforce from 18th December 2023 to 22nd December 2023 in G H Raisoni college of engineering, Nagpur.

8. Attended 5-days short-term training program on Cloud Architecture and Security from 26th December 2023 to 30th December 2023 in Dept. of Information Technology, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s college of engineering, in association with cloud computing and security research group.

9. Secure web-based application development conducted by ACM Student Chapter @ IGDTUW from 19th June, 2013 to 31st July, 2013.

10. Participated & completed AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Faculty Development Program on “AI and Digital Technologies for Sustainable Healthcare and Medical Technologies” at Institute of Technology, Nirma University from 25/11/2024 to 30/11/2024

11. Participated & completed 5 days Faculty Development Program on the theme “Emerging Trends in Machine Learning / AI” organized by Galgotias college of Engineering and Technology (GCET, Gr. Noida) sponsored by Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU), Lucknow from 05/08/2024 to 09/08/2024.

12. Participated & completed Faculty Development Program on “Deep Learning Applications” organized by Electronics and ICT Academy, IIT Roorkee from 16/09/2024 to 27/09/2024.

13. Participated & completed Faculty Development Program on “Deep Learning for Engineering Applications” organized by National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India from 02/09/2024 to 06/09/2024.

14. Attended and successfully completed One Week National Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on the theme “Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity in Education & Research” organized by Department of Information Communication & Technology (ICT) Tecnia Institute of Advanced Studies, Rohini, Delhi held on 15/07/2024 to 20/07/2024.

15. Participated & completed AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Faculty Development Program on “Healthcare and Med Tech: Innovations, Challenges, and Future Directions” at DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY from 09/12/2024 to 14/12/2024.

16. Participated & completed AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Faculty Development Program on “Semiconductor Materials and Manufacturing Technology: Driving the Semiconductor Ecosystem (SMMT-2024)” at ASSAM DOWN TOWN UNIVERSITY from 02/12/2024 to 07/12/2024.

17. Participated & completed AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Faculty Development Program on “The future of Quantum computing and High-performance computing (HPC)” at P.S.V. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY from 23/12/2024 to 28/12/2024.

18. Team Member of Smart Delhi Ideathon 2025 Event, held at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, during 24/12/2024 to 04/02/2025.

Administrative Contributions:

1. Served as Convener and Co-Convener for various academic and administrative committees at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

2. Member, Minor Examination Committee, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

3. Member, Monitoring Committee, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

4. Member, NAAC Committee, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

5. Co-coordinator of a Two-Day Workshop on “Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in Various Domains,” organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Delhi Technological University

6. Member of ISO and Academic Audit Team, CSE Dept., DTU.