Dr. Aditi Zear

Dr Aditi Zear is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. She has done Ph. D on 'Network partition recovery using UAVs' at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Kurukshetra. During M. Tech at Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), She worked on 'Digital Image Watermarking using Back Propagation Neural Networks'.  She has obtained B Tech degree in Information Technology (IT) from University Institute of Information Technology (UIIT), HPU, Shimla.  She has over three years of teaching experience at NIT Hamirpur, COER University, Roorkee, and UPES, Dehradun. She has published papers in multiple SCI/SCIE/Scopus-indexed journals and international conferences.

S.N.	Position held	Institute/Organization	Nature of work	Period
1	Assistant Professor	Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi	Teaching	March 2025 to Present
2	Assistant Professor	UPES Dehradun	Teaching	March 2024 to March 2025
3	Assistant Professor	COER University Roorkee	Teaching	Dec 2022 to Feb 2024
4	Lecturer	Department of Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Hamirpur	Teaching	Jan 2017 to June 2018
5	Assistant Professor	Department of Computer Engineering, NIT Kurukshetra	Teaching	Aug 2016 to Jan 2017

SCIE Journals

1. Aditi Zear, Virender Ranga, and Kriti Bhushan. "Network Partitioning Problem and UAVs' Integration for Efficient Connectivity Restoration: A Systematic Review." International Journal of Communication Systems, vol. 38, no. 3, p. e6107, 2025. (SCI, IF=1.7)
2. Aditi Zear, Virender Ranga, and Kamal Kumar Gola, “Network partition detection and recovery with the integration of unmanned aerial vehicle.” Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 36, no. 13, p. e8048, 2024. (SCI, IF=1.5).
3. Aditi Zear, Virender Ranga and Kriti Bhushan, “Coordinated network partition detection and bi-connected inter-partition topology creation in damaged sensor networks using multiple UAVs,” Computer Communications, Elsevier, vol. 203, pp.15-29, 2023. (SCI, IF=4.5).
4. Aditi Zear and Virender Ranga, “UAVs assisted Network Partition Detection and Connectivity Restoration in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks,” Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier, vol. 130, 102823, 2022. (SCI, IF=4.4).
5. Aditi Zear, Virender Ranga and Kriti Bhushan “Partition Detection and Recovery by UAVs in damaged WSANs using N-angle clustering,” International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, 35(11), p.e5190, 2022. (SCI, IF=1.7).
6. Aditi Zear and Virender Ranga, “Distributed Partition Detection and Recovery using UAV in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks”, Kuwait Journal of Science, Elsevier, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 1-16, 2021 (SCI, IF=1.2).
7. Aditi Zear, and Pradeep Kumar Singh. "Secure and robust color image dual watermarking based on LWT-DCT-SVD." Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer 81(19), pp.26721-26738., 2021. (SCI, IF=2.9)
8. Aditi Zear, Amit Kumar Singh and Pardeep Kumar, "A proposed secure multiple watermarking technique based on DWT, DCT and SVD for application in medicine", Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 77, no. 4, pp. 4863-4882, 2018. (SCI Index, IF = 2.9)

Scopus Journals

1. Aditi Zear, Amit Kumar Singh and Pardeep Kumar. "Robust watermarking technique using back propagation neural network: a security protection mechanism for social applications." International Journal of Information and Computer Security, Inder Science, vol 9, no. 1-2, pp. 20-35, 2017.
2. Aditi Zear, Amit Kumar Singh and Pardeep Kumar, "Multiple watermarking for healthcare applications", Journal of Intelligent Systems, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 5-18, 2018.

Conference Publications

1. Aditi Zear and Virender Ranga, “Path Planning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): Current State and Future Challenges”, International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Computational Intelligence (ICTSCI-2019), Jaipur, Rajasthan, pp. 409-419.
2. Aditi Zear and Virender Ranga, “Trajectory Tracking Control of UAV for Autonomous Applications”, International Conference on Micro-Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (ICMETE 2019), pp. 421-430.
3. Aditi Zear, Kamal Kumar Gola, and Himanshu Gupta. "Network Partition Detection and Recovery with the Integration of UAVs: A Systematic Review." In International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 319-329, 2023.

 

• Deputy Coordinator, Internal IQAC Team, DTU
• Faculty Placement Coordinator (B.Tech CSE, M.Tech CSE, M.Tech AI, M.Tech Cyber Security)
• Member of Mid Semester Exam Management Committee and Flying Squad, CSE Dept. DTU
• Member of Interview committee for University Student Internship Program (USIP), DTU (2025).
• Member of Registration cum Orientation Committee of B.Tech. admitted students Induction Programme (2025-26).