PROFILE

Divyashikha Sethia has more than 5 years of rich industrial experience in telecom and networking areas in leading companies in India and the US, such as Cisco Systems , 2Wire, Force10 Networks, and Future Software (acquired by Aricent). She has more than 18 years of experience in research and academics.  She brings rich industry experience to her teaching and research in academia. She leads the Mobile Computing Distributed System (MsDS) research lab, MIND Lab, under the Center of Excellence of Science of Happiness, and co-leads the Samsung lab and MIND lab at DTU. Her research interests are AI for healthcare, physiological signal-based cognitive healthcare and smart agriculture, Secure portable health record systems,  Mobile computing, IoT, Cryptography, distributed systems, Networked multimedia and video streaming.

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Curriculum Vitae

Publications and Patents
 
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PREVIOUS POSITIONS/ EXPERIENCE

  • Associate Professor, Department of Software Engineering, DTU: Aug 2022 to present
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Software Engineering, DTU: Aug 2015 - Aug 2021

TEACHING (COURSES TAUGHT)

  • Data Structure
  • Computer Network
  • Advanced Data Structure
  • Advanced Operating System
  • Operating System
  • Distributed Systems
  • Information and Network Security

MEMBERSHIPS

IEEE, ACM

PUBLICATIONS

 

Journal:

  1. Neha Gahlan, Divyashikha Sethia, "Emotion recognition from auditory Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) using multi-modal physiological signals", IOP Physiological Measurement, accepted Jan 2026, SCIE Impact Factor: 2.7 

  2. S. Jain, D. Sethia, and K.C. Tiwari, "TLM-Stack: A Deep Learning-based Novel Framework for Soil Nutrients Estimation Using Hyperspectral Data", Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Elsevier, (SCIE) accepted Dec 2025

  3. S. Jain, D. Sethia, and K.C. Tiwari. ”CAT-MTLNet: A Novel Deep Multi-Target Framework for Hyperspectral Soil Properties Estimation Using Concrete Autoencoder and Transformer” IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (November 2025). (SCIE, Impact factor-4.4, Publisher: IEEE).

  4. Shikha, Divyashikha Sethia, and Prof. S. Indu, "A Systematic Review on Physiology-based Anxiety Detection using Machine Learning", IOP Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express, Impact Factor 1.3, (SCOPUS), accepted April 2025

  5. Chirag Ahuja, Divyashikha Sethia, "SS-EMERGE: Self-Supervised Enhancement for Multidomain Emotion Recognition using GNNs for EEG”, Springer Nature Scientific Reports (April 2025). (SCIE) 

  6. Chirag Ahuja, Divyashikha Sethia, "TRANSIT-EEG — A Framework for Cross-Subject Classification with Subject Specific Adaptation" IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Jan 2025 (SCIE)

  7. Shikha, Divyashikha Sethia, and Prof. S. Indu. ”ST-CIRL: A Reinforcement Learning-Based Feature Selection Approach for Enhanced Anxiety Classification” Physiological Measurement ( Jan 2025). SCIE, Impact factor-2.3, Publisher: IOPScience. (SCIE)

  8. Shagun Jain, Divyashikha Sethia, Kailash Tiwari,"Developing Novel Spectral Indices for Precise Estimation of Soil pH and Organic Carbon with Hyperspectral Data and Machine Learning", Springer  Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Nov 2024, (SCIE), (Impact Factor 2.9)

  9. Shikha Shikha, Divyashikha Sethia & S. Indu, "KRAFS-ANet: A novel framework for EEG-based stress classification using channel selection and optimized ensemble stacking",  Springer, International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Nov 2024, (SCIE), Impact Factor 3.1

  10. Shikha, Divyashikha Sethia, S. Indu, "Optimization of Wearable Biosensor Data for Stress Classification Using Machine Learning and Explainable AI ", IEEE Access, Sep 2024 (SCIE) (Impact Factor 3.4)

  11. Chirag, Divyashikha Sethia, "Harnessing Few-Shot Learning for EEG Signal Classification: A Survey of State-of-the-Art Techniques and Future Directions", Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Section Brain-Computer Interface, 2024 (SCIE) Impact factor 2.4)

  12. Shagun, Divyashikha Sethia, "A Critical Systematic Review on Spectral-Based Soil Nutrient Prediction using Machine Learning", Springer Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Journal, June 2024. (SCIE) Impact Factor 2.9

  13. Neha Gehlan, Divyashikha Sethia, "Federated Learning in Emotion Recognition Systems based on Physiological Signals for Privacy Preservation: A Review", Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, May 2024 (SCIE) (Impact factor 3.0)

  14. Neha Gehlan, Divyashikha Sethia, "AFLEMP: Attention-based Federated Learning for Emotion recognition using Multi-modal Physiological data", Elsevier Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Aug 2024 (SCIE) (Impact 4.9)

  15. Neha Gehlan, Divyashikha Sethia, "Federated Learning inspired Privacy Sensitive Emotion Recognition based on Multi-Modal Physiological Sensors", Springer, Journal  Cluster Computing , 2023. (SCI),  Impact Factor 4.4.

  16. Varun Chandra, Divyashikha Sethia, "Machine Learning-Based Stress Classification System using Wearable Sensor Devices", IJAI, 2023, (Scopus) 

  17. Divyashikha Sethia, Raj Sahu, "Efficient ECC-based CP-ABE Scheme with Constant-sized Key and Scalable User Revocation ", International Journal of Information Security and Privacy (IJISP) Volume 16, Issue 1, 2022 (Socpus) (Impact factor 0.8)

  18. Gadde Satya Sai Naga Himabindu , Rajat Rao and Divyashikha Sethia, "A Self-Attention Hybrid Emoji Prediction Model for Code Mixed Language - Hinglish", Springer Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2022 (SCIE) (Impact factor 2.3)

  19. Debarshi Nath, Anubhav, Diksha Kalra, Mrigank Singh, Divyashikha Sethia, S.Indu, “EEG-based Mental Workload Detection in a Mental Arithmetic Task using Machine Learning”, International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 2020 (Scopus)

  20. Utsav Dahiya, Uday Vig, Vaibhav Paul, Divyashikha Sethia. (FTM Plus: A High Availability Framework for Cloud Environments. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 2020, 29(05), 11118-11132. (Socpus)

  21. D. Sethia, D. Gupta, H. Saran, "Smart Health Record Management with Secure NFC-enabled Mobile Devices", Elsevier Journal of Smart Health,Nov 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.smhl.2018.11.001, Peer reviewed since 2017

  22. Divyashikha Sethia, Daya Gupta and Huzur Saran,"  NFC Secure Element-based Mutual Authentication and Attestation for IoT access", IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics", ( vol 64 no 4), 2018 (SCI indexed) (Cryptography) Impact Factor 4.3

  23. Divyashikha Sethia, Huzur Saran, and Daya Gupta, “CP-ABE for Selective Access with Scalable Revocation: A Case Study for Mobile-based Healthfolder”, International Journal of Network Security,  (Vol. 20, No. 4), 2018 (Scopus indexed) (Cryptography) (Impact factor 4.3)

  24. Divyashikha Sethia, Daya Gupta, Huzur Saran, Rishabh Aggarwal, Amogh Gaur,"Mutual Authentication Protocol For Secure NFC Based Mobile Healthcard", IADIS International Journal on Computer Science & Information Systems. 2016, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p195-202. 8p.  (Emerging Sources Citation Index) (Cryptography) (Impact factor 0.3)

  25. Nikhil Jindal Akhil Jindal, Divyashikha Sethia, "Automated Tool to Generate Parallel CUDA Code from a Serial C Code”,  IJCA July 2012,973-93-80869-57-1 (http://www.ijcaonline.org/archives/volume50/number8/7790-0891) 

Conferences: 

  1. P. Dubey, D. Sethia, "LWDMNET: LIGHTWEIGHT DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR DEMENTIA STAGE IDENTIFICATION USING CORONAL MRI SCANS", IEEE  International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2026

  2. Yash, D. Sethia, "SpectraZO: Memory-Efficient Zeroth-Order Adaptation for Hyperspectral Diffusion Models", IEEE 7th International Conference on Data Analytics & Management (ICDAM-2026), June 2026

  3. Yash, D. Sethia, "LiteSpecGAN: A Lightweight Generative Framework for Spectral Data Augmentation in Imbalanced Hyperspectral Classification", International Conference on Computing and Communication Networks 2026: ICCCNet 2026

  4. Ayushi Dey, Divyashikha Sethia, A Review of Contrastive Learning for Stress and Anxiety Detection using EDA and BVP Signals, IEEE 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION, Feb 2026

  5. Ayushi Dey, Divyashikha Sethia, AnxioSense: Multimodal Contrastive Learning for Test-Anxiety Detection, IEEE Second International Conference on Advances in Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics, and Communication Technologies, July 2026

  6. J. Bhardwaj, D. Sethia, "TinyTCN: Edge-Deployable Multimodal Stress Detection with Systematic Early–Late Fusion Analysis and Cross-Dataset Transfer Learning", IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (CONIT 2026), June 2026

  7. A. Bhattacharya, D. Sethia, "Kerberos Today: Status, Challenges, and Opportunities for Passwordless Token Integration", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INNOVATIVE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION (ICICC-2026)

  8. J. Bhardwaj, D. Sethia, "Towards Portable Mental Stress Detection Systems: A TinyML Approach for EEG Analysis", International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Knowledge Extraction (ICICKE), IEEE conference, June 2025, Best Paper

  9. A. Bhattarcharya, D. Sethia, Eliminating PKI Overhead in Kerberos: A FIDO2 Hardware Key Pre-Authentication, IEEE International Conference on Networks, Computers and Communications (ICNCCom 2026), June 2026

  10. M. Jain, D. Sethia, ""Secure Location DigiSign - A Certificate-Based NFC Digital Signature System with PC Signer and Mobile-Based Document Signee", IEEE International Conference on Data Analytics & Management (ICDAM-2026), June 2026

  11. M. Jain, D. Sethia "Secure Location DigiSign with Wi-Fi Direct - A Hybrid NFC Authentication Application for High-Speed Proximity Digital Signing", IEEE International Conference on Next-Generation Data Engineering and Analytics (INDEA 2026), Aug 2026

  12. Jyotiska Bharadwaj, Ayushi Dey, Aditya Bibhas Sahu, Karan Maheshwari, Sanat, Divyashikha Sethia, Sonia Baloni, " Effect of Anxiety Reduction Interventions on Exam Anxiety for Engineering Students Using Physiological Signals", IEEE CogMI, Pittsburgh, Nov 2025

  13. Shagun Jain, Divyashikha Sethia & K.C. Tiwari,"CNViS-Net: A Self-Attention Framework for Predicting Soil Nutrients from Hyperspectral Data", IEEE International Conference on Frontier Technologies and Solutions. ICFTS March 2025.

  14. Himanshu Sharma, Divyashikha Sethia,"iHDoc: Secure NFC Mobile-based Digital Document Signatures Prototype", IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Control, Computing and Communications (IC3), Feb 2025

  15. Shikha, Dr. Divyashikha Sethia, Prof. S. Indu ,"A Review on Feature Selection Techniques for Anxiety Classification from Physiological Signals", IEEE 2025 First International Conference on Advances in Computer Science, Electrical, Electronics, and Communication Technologies (CE2CT-2025), Feb 2025 

  16. Shikha, Dr. Divyashikha Sethia, Prof. S. Indu, "CorLMI-FSA: An Efficient Feature Selection Approach for Stress Classification Using Physiological Signals", IEEE 2025 Fifth International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Computing, Communication and Sustainable Technologies (ICAECT-2025), Jan 2025 

  17. Himanshu Sharma, Divyashikha Sethia,"iDSign: Secure Lightweight Digital Document Signatures Framework with Mutual Authentication and Identity-Based Cryptography", IEEE 6th International Conference on Communication and Intelligent Systems (ICCIS 2024), Nov 2024.

  18. Harshit Tyagi, Divyashikha Sethia,"P-MASFEP: security-enhanced PUF-based Mutual Authentication & Session key establishment using Fuzzy Extractor & PKI", Springer 3rd Congress on Smart Computing Technologies, Dec 2024.

  19. Akshyat Shah, Shashi Sah, Shashvat Singhal, Shagun Jain and Divyashikha Sethia,"DSeP-xNet: A Feature Optimized Ensemble Framework for Hyperspectral-Based Soil Organic Carbon Prediction",IEEE International Conference on Augmented Reality, Intelligent Systems, and Industrial Automation, Dec 2024

  20. Mohd Ibrahim Mallick, Mandeep, Divyashikha Sethia, A Machine Learning-Based Approach to Enhance Cybersecurity in Autonomous Vehicles” has been accepted for presentation during ICSCPS-2024

  21. Ayush, Shikha, Divyashikha Sethia, "The Effectiveness of Advance Deep Learning Architectures for Classification of Stress using Raw EEG Data", IEEE APCIT July 2024.

  22. Amriti Gupta, Kunal Nayyar, Harshit Chopra, Neha Gahlan, Divyashikha Sethia, "Multifaceted Discrete Emotion Recognition from EEG Physiological Signals via Machine Learning Techniques", IEEE 5th International Conference for Emerging Technology (INCET), May 2024

  23. Shikha, Divyashikha Sethia, "Investigating the Effect of Sliding Window Length for EEG-based Anxiety Classification", IEEE APCIT July 2024.

  24. Jaikishan Mohanty, Divyashikha Sethia, "??????? ??? ??????? ????????? ????? ???????? ?? ??????? ???????? ??????????" at the 15?? ????????????? ?????????? ?? ?????????, ????????????? ??? ?????????? ???????????? (?????? 2024), June 2024

  25. Harsh Sharma, Kush Pandey, Divyashikha Sethia, “Preserving Privacy in Iris Recognition: A Federated Learning Approach”, IEEE AIP June 2024

  26. Shagun Jain, Divyashikha Sethia, "Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Based Soil pH prediction using Spectral Bands and Indices", Springer  Second International Conference on Agriculture-Centric Computation, May 2024 

  27. Jaikishan Mohanty, Divyashikha Sethia, "Android App Permission Detector Based on Machine Learning Models", IEEE IETCIT 2024, March 2024

  28. Sourav Seal, Dr. Divyashikha Sethia, "Machine Learning Based Approach for Soil Chemical Property Estimation using Multispectral Data in Hungary", IEEE 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES ON INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (ETTIS 2024), March 2024

  29. Konjengbam Roshan Singh, Divyashikha Sethia, Group Authentication and Key Management Protocol with Chinese Remainder Theorem in Multicast Communication, International Conference on Innovation & Emerging Trends in Computing & Information Technology., Jan 2024

  30. Abhinav Mathur, Shikha, Divyashikha Sethia, Body sensor-based Multimodal Nurse Stress Detection using Machine Learning, IEEE COMSNET Nethealth Jan 2024

  31. Neha Gahlan, Divyashikha Sethia, "Emotion Recognition from Facial Expressions using Deep Recurrent Attention Network", IEEE COMSNET Nethealth Jan 2024

  32. Sourav Seal, Divyashikha Sethia, "Soil Moisture Prediction Using Deep Learning on Hyperspectral Data", accepted in 2nd Workshop on SMART AGRICULTURE FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL EMERGENCY (SmartAgr) ACM AI/ML conference Oct 2023

  33. Shagun jain, Divyashikha Sethia, "A hybrid approach for soil nutrient estimation using multispectral data for Begium and Luxembourg.", Oct 2023, IEEE First International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computational Intelligence (ICAEECI) 

  34. Chirag Ahuja, Divyashikha Sethia, "Auto-Augmentation for Emotion Recognition in EEG - A Class and Subject Invariant Approach", IEEE 14th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTING, COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES (ICCCNT), July 2023

  35. Praveen Singh Rawal, Divyashikha Sethia, "APEC: App Permission classification with Efficient Clustering", IEEE (CIISCA), June 2023, Bangalore

  36. Praveen Singh Rawal, Divyashikha Sethia, "App Permission Classification dynamic Model (APCM)", The 14th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), july 2023, New Delhi

  37. Shikha,  Divyashikha Sethia,  S. Indu, Ensemble Classifier for EEG-based Stress Classification: An Empirical Study on Stacking Classifiers, 3rd International Conference on Computational Electronics for Wireless Communications (ICCWC - 2023)

  38. Konjengbam Roshan Singh and Divyashikha Sethia , ALPAK: (Anonymized Lightweight PUF-based group Authentication with Key distribution) for IoT Devices, IEEE 14th ICCCNT June 2023 

  39. Shagun jain, Divyashikha Sethia, "A review on application of artificial intelligence for identifying soil nutrients", International conference on agriculture centric computation, Springer May 2023

  40.  Neha Gahlan, Divyashikha Sethia, "Three Dimensional Emotion State Classification based on EEG via Empirical Mode Decomposition", IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS, April, 2023.

  41. Garima Mazumdar, Karan Singh, Divyashikha Sethia, ML-Based Stress Classification and Detection Using Multimodal Affect Dataset, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ONNETWORKS, INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTING (ICONIC-2023) APRIL 28-29,TH 2023 (Socpus Indexed Taylor & Francis)

  42. Sahgun, Divyashikha Sethia, "A Review on Applications of Artificial Intelligence For Identifying Soil Nutrients", IEEE International Conference on Agriculture-Centric Computation, 11th - 13th May 2023, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar.

  43. Manan Agrawal, Mohd Ayaan Anwar, Neha Gahlan, Divyashikha Sethia, FedEmo: A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Emotion Recognition using EEG Physiological Data . COMSNET Nethealth Jan 2023.

  44. Shikha, Divyashikha Sethia, S. Indu, Efficient Stress Detection System using Feature Selection and Ensemble Learning Method, 1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Communication, Security and Artificial Intelligence Dec (ICCSAI - 2022)

  45. Neha Ghalna, Divyashikha Sethia, "Fed-MLP: Federated Framework for Recognizing human Emotions via Physiological Signal EEG". IEEE ICCSAI, Dec 2022. 

  46. Apratim Shrivastav, Utkarsh Kuchhal, Samarth Singhal ,Tanmay Jain , Divyashikha Sethia , Vidushi Chaudhary ,Rajiv Nigam , Ashish Kumar Namdeo , Optimised Algorithm for Step Count Estimation Using Sensor Data from Smartphones and Wearables, 2022 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP) , July 2022

  47. Gadde Satya Sai Naga Himabindu; Rajat Rao; Divyashikha Sethia, "Encoder-decoder based multi-label emoji prediction for Code-Mixed Language (Hindi+English), IEEE 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (CONIT), 24-26 June 2022"

  48. Mohammad Elham Walizad, Mehreen Hurroo, Divyashikha Sethia, "Driver Drowsiness Detection System using Convolutional Neural Network", IEEE 6th International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICOEI 2022), April 2022

  49. Anushka Gupta, Bhumika Bhatia, Diksha Chugh, Divyashikha Sethia, "iCAST: Impact of Climate on Assistive Scene Text detection for autonomous vehicles", 9th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Systems (ICACCS 2022), June 2022

  50. Prateek Singh, Lakshya, and Divyashikha Sethia, "Stock Price Prediction Using News Sentiment Analysis", IEEE International Conference for Intelligent Technologies (CONIT) June, 2022

  51. Shikha, Aryan, Lovish Arya, Divyashikha Sethia, "HRV and GSR as Viable Physiological Markers for Mental Health Recognition", IEEE COMSNET NetHealth 2022

  52. Chirag Ahuja, Divyashikha Sethia, "Measuring Human Auditory Attention with EEG", IEEE COMSNET MINDS 2022

  53. Taksh Kamlesh, Divyashikha Sethia and Mrigank Singh, "Short Term Effect Of Physical Exercise On Selective Attention Using EEG and Stroop Task ", IEEE COMSNET MINDS 2022     

  54. Anushka Gupta, Bhumika Bhatia, Diksha Chugh, Gadde Satya Sai Naga, Himabindu, Divyashikha Sethia, Ekansh Agarwal, Depanshu Sani and Saurabh Garg, "Context-Aware Emoji Prediction Using Deep Learning", Springer, 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Speech Technology (AIST2021) , NOv 2021

  55. Shikha, Manan Agrawal, Mohd Ayaan Anwar, Divyashikha Sethia, "Stacked Sparse Autoencoder and Machine Learning Based Anxiety Classification Using EEG Signals", ACM AI/ML Conference, Oct 2021

  56. Kshitij Chauhan; Shivam Kumar; Divyashikha Sethia; Mohammad Nadeem Alam, Performance Analysis of Kotlin Coroutines on Android in a Model-View-Intent Architecture pattern, 2nd International Conference for Emerging Technology (INCET), May 2021

  57. Chandra, V., Priyarup, A., Sethia, D. (2021). Comparative Study of Physiological Signals from Empatica E4 Wristband for Stress Classification. In: Singh, M., Tyagi, V., Gupta, P.K., Flusser, J., Ören, T., Sonawane, V.R. (eds) Advances in Computing and Data Sciences. ICACDS 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1441. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88244-0_21 

  58. Sethia, D., Aggarwal, R., Bhayana, S., Mehta, S. (2022). RSA-Based CP-ABE Scheme with Scalable User Revocation for IoT and Smartcard Devices. In: Zhang, YD., Senjyu, T., So-In, C., Joshi, A. (eds) Smart Trends in Computing and Communications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 286. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4016-2_43 

  59. Divyashikha Sethia, Anil Singh Parihar, Aheli Ghosh, Tanish Grover, Deep Diwakar, Shivam Kumar, Utkarsh Tyagi , "mFlameGaze: Mobile-Based Flame Gazing for Improving Sustained Attention", accepted in COMSNETS 2021 - NetHealth Workshop 2021, to be presented in Jan 2021.

  60. Minni Jain, Rishabh Doshi, Vibhu Sehra, and Divyashikha Sethia,  "Exploring the effects of different Embedding algorithms and Neural Architectures on early detection of Alzheimer's Disease", accepted in Springer. International Semantic Intelligence Conference (ISIC 2021),  to be presented in Feb 2021.

  61. Alwin T. Aind ; Akashdeep Ramnaney ; Divyashikha Sethia, Q-Bully: A Reinforcement Learning based Cyberbullying Detection Framework, IEEE Int Conf. Emerging Technology (INCET), 2020 

  62. Debarshi Nath, Anubhav, Mrigank Singh, Divyashikha Sethia, Diksha Kalra, S. Indu, "A Comparative Study of Subject-Dependent and Subject-Independent Strategies for EEG-Based Emotion Recognition using LSTM Network", ACM Int Conf ICCDA , San Jose, 2020

  63. Debarshi Nath, Anubhav, Mrigank Singh, Divyashikha Sethia, Diksha Kalra, S. Indu, An Efficient Approach to EEG-Based EmotionRecognition using LSTM Network at IEEE conference 16th IEEE Colloquium on Signal Processing and its Applications (CSPA 2020), Malaysia,

  64. Divyashikha Sethia et al., "Constant Size CP-ABE with Scalable Revocation for Resource-Constrained IoT Devices", IEEE Proc . Int. Conf. UEMCON 2019, New York

  65. Gupta D., Sethia D., Gupta A., Sharma T. (2020) A Multiclass Classification of Epileptic Activity in Patients Using Wavelet Decomposition. In: Agarwal S., Verma S., Agrawal D. (eds) Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing. MISP 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1085. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1366-4_33

  66. Preeti Naga, Divyashikha Sethia,  Brain Mapping Based Stress Identification Using Portable EEG Based Device”, COMSNET 2019 (BCI)

  67. Zeya Umayya, Divyashikha Sethia, “Pro-SRCC: Proxy-based Scalable Revocation for Constant Ciphertext length”, Accepted in The Twelfth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies SECURWARE 2018,  (Cryptography)

  68.  Harsh Dabas, Chaitanya Sethi, Chirag Dua, Mohit Dalawat and Divyashikha Sethia, "EEG-Based Attention Feedback to Improve Focus in E-Learning", ACM Proc. Int. Conf. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAI 2018), (BCI)

  69. Harsh Dabas, Chaitanya Sethi, Chirag Dua, Mohit Dalawat and Divyashikha Sethia, "Emotion Classification using EEG Signals" , ACM 2018 2nd International Conference on Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAI 2018), (BCI) Best Paper award.

  70. Divyashikha Sethia, Huzur Saran, Daya Gupta, Harsh Dabas, Preeti Nagar, “Selective IoT Access with Scalable CP-ABE Revocation and Delegation”, IEEE Proc. Int. Cong. Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, 2017 (Cryptography)

  71. Preeti Nagar; Divyashikha Sethia ,”Group authorization using threshold signatures for medical procedures”; 2017 9th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), Year: Jan 2017, Pages: 492 – 497, Award for paper presentation, (Cryptography)

  72.  Shalini Sheoran; Divyashikha Sethia; Huzur Saran , “Optimized MapFile Based Storage of Small Files in Hadoop”; 2017 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID), June 2017

  73.  Divyashikha Sethia, Suraj Singh, Vaibhav Singhal, "ABE Based Raspberry Pi Secure Health Sensor (SHS)", Springer's Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, The Second International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNet 2016) (Cryptography)

  74. Divyashikha Sethia, Daya Gupta, Huzur Saran, Security framework for portable NFC mobile based health record system,  IEEE WiMob Oct, 2016 (Cryptography)

  75. Divyashikha Sethia, Daya Gupta, Huzur Saran, Arpit Goyal, Radhika Kucchal, "Secure Distributed Backup Management Of Personal Health Records", E-Health, IADIS Proceedings, Madeira, Portugal, July 2016

  76. Divyashikha Sethia, Daya Gupta, Mishika Gupta, Mayank Goyal and Parul Choudhary, "PCA based Health Card Access", accepted in IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET 2016) (Cryptography)

  77. Swati Mehta, Anant Chowdhary,Kartikeya Bhatt, Siddharth Bhatnagar, Divyashikha Sethia, "MRDMS-Mobile Replicated Database Management Synchronization", IEEE SPIN Feb 2014.

  78. Divyashikha Sethia, Huzur Saran, Daya Gupta, Tanuj Mittal, Ujjwal Arora, "NFC Based Secure Mobile Healthcare System", IEEE COMSNET 2014

  79. Soham Banerjee, Divyashikha Sethia, Tanuj Mittal, Ujjwal Arora, Akash Chauhan, "Secure Sensor Node with Raspberry Pi", IMPACT 2013, IEEE publications (Cryptography)

  80. Tanuj Mittal, Lokesh Singhal, Divyashikha Sethia , "Optimized CPU Frequency Scaling on Android Devices Based on Foreground Running Application", AUC- 2012 Chennai, India, 2012, Springer LNEE.

  81. Divyashikha Sethia, Shantanu Jain, Himadri Kakkar, "Automated NFC enabled Rural Healthcare for reliable patient record maintenance", Global Telehealth (GT2012) Conference November 2012 , Sydney, Australia 

  82. Gaurav Aggarwal, Gaurav Kumar, Divyashikha Sethia, “Dynamic Prefix Caching of Videos with Lazy Update”, CCSEIT- 2012, Coimbatore, India, ACM.

  83. Divyashikha Sethia, Huzur Saran, “Error Resilient Video Streaming for Heterogeneous Network”, High Performance Computing HiPC 2006, Banglore, December 2006, published in Springer Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).  

  84. Divyashikha Sethia, Huzur Saran,  “Resilient Video Streaming with Path Diversity for Heterogeneous Networks”, Recent Advances in Peer-to-Peer Streaming (WRAIPS) 2006,Waterloo, Canada

   Poster:

  1. Nipun Batra, Amit Kothari, Divyashikha Sethia, "Optimizing Brightness Reduction for Battery Saving on Android mobile devices", IBM ICARE, 2011

 
 
 
 

BOOKS/BOOK CHAPTERS (IF ANY)

  1. Chandra, V., Priyarup, A., Sethia, D. (2021). Comparative Study of Physiological Signals from Empatica E4 Wristband for Stress Classification. In: Singh, M., Tyagi, V., Gupta, P.K., Flusser, J., Ören, T., Sonawane, V.R. (eds) Advances in Computing and Data Sciences. ICACDS 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1441. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88244-0_21 ISSN 978-3-030-88244-0

  2. Sethia, D., Aggarwal, R., Bhayana, S., Mehta, S. (2022). RSA-Based CP-ABE Scheme with Scalable User Revocation for IoT and Smartcard Devices. In: Zhang, YD., Senjyu, T., So-In, C., Joshi, A. (eds) Smart Trends in Computing and Communications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 286. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4016-2_43

  3. Gupta, D., Sethia, D., Gupta, A., Sharma, T. (2020). A Multiclass Classification of Epileptic Activity in Patients Using Wavelet Decomposition. In: Agarwal, S., Verma, S., Agrawal, D. (eds) Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing. MISP 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1085. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1366-4_33

  4. Sethia, D., Singh, S., Singhal, V. (2017). ABE Based Raspberry Pi Secure Health Sensor (SHS). In: El-Azouzi, R., Menasche, D.S., Sabir, E., De Pellegrini, F., Benjillali, M. (eds) Advances in Ubiquitous Networking 2. UNet 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 397. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1627-1_47

  5. Mittal, T., Singhal, L., Sethia, D. (2013). Optimized CPU Frequency Scaling on Android Devices Based on Foreground Running Application. In: Chaki, N., Meghanathan, N., Nagamalai, D. (eds) Computer Networks & Communications (NetCom). Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 131. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6154-8_80

  6. Sethia, D., Saran, H. (2006). Error Resilient Video Streaming for Heterogeneous Networks. In: Robert, Y., Parashar, M., Badrinath, R., Prasanna, V.K. (eds) High Performance Computing - HiPC 2006. HiPC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4297. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11945918_34

  7. Jain, S., Sethia, D., Tiwari, K.C. (2025). Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Based Soil pH Prediction Using Spectral Bands and Indices. In: Saini, M.K., Goel, N., Miguez, M., Singh, D. (eds) Agricultural-Centric Computation. ICA 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2207. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74440-2_5

  8. Shikha, S., Sethia, D., Indu, S. (2025). Ensemble Classifier for EEG-Based Stress Classification: An Empirical Study on Stacking Classifiers. In: Rawat, S., Kumar, A., Raman, A., Kumar, S., Pathak, P. (eds) Proceedings of Third International Conference on Computational Electronics for Wireless Communications. ICCWC 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 959. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1943-3_34

  9. Jain, S., Sethia, D. (2023). A Review on Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Identifying Soil Nutrients. In: Saini, M.K., Goel, N., Shekhawat, H.S., Mauri, J.L., Singh, D. (eds) Agriculture-Centric Computation. ICA 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1866. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43605-5_6

  10. Gupta, A. et al. (2022). Context-Aware Emoji Prediction Using Deep Learning. In: Dev, A., Agrawal, S.S., Sharma, A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Speech Technology. AIST 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1546. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95711-7_22

PATENTS (IF ANY)

HONOURS AND AWARDS (IF ANY)

AWARDS

  1. Best M.Tech project titled “ Error Resilient Video Streaming For Heterogeneous Networks” at IIT Delhi, Department of Computer Science, 2006
  2. Topper BTech (Computer Science)
  3. DST International Travel Grant for presentation of paper in the Global Telehealth Conference, Sydney, 2012.
  4. TIFAC DST Patent Support 2014 for Patent titled “PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE BASED SECURE MEDICAL RECORDS MANAGEMENT”
  5. Commendable Research Excellence Award, DTU, 2019, for paper titled “NFC Secure Element-based Mutual Authentication and Attestation for IoT access," IEEE Trans. on Cons. Elec”
  6. Best Paper Presentation Award “Exploring the effects of different Embedding algorithms and Neural Architectures on early detection of Alzheimer's Disease”, MISRNLP-2021: Multilingual and Interlingual Semantic Representations for Natural Language Processing, Feb 25 2021
  7.  Best Paper Presentation  Award for  "Emotion Classification using EEG Signals", at ACM Proc. Int. Conf. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAI 2018), Dec 8 2010, China 
  8. Best Paper Runner-up for paper presentation of ”Group authorisation using threshold signatures for medical procedures”; IEEE Proc. Int. Conf. Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), Jan 2017
  9. Commendable research award, DTU, March 2023, for the paper “A self-attention hybrid emoji prediction model for code-mixed language”, Springer Nature Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SCIE)
  10. Research award at DTU in 2024 for Patent Application No.: 1313/DEL/2015 filed on 12/05/2015, Title: “PORTABLE COMPUTING DEVICE BASED SECURE MEDICAL RECORDS MANAGEMENT", Sep 2024
  11. Best Paper Presentation for "Best Paper presentation for "DSEP-XNET: A Feature Optimized Ensemble Framework for Hyperspectral-based Soil Organic Carbon Prediction" — IEEE ARIIA 2024, 20 Dec 2024
  12. Best Paper Award for paper presentation for  "Towards Portable Mental Stress Detection Systems: A TinyML Approach for EEG Analysis", International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Knowledge Extraction (ICICKE),  IEEE conference, June 2025, 
  13. Commendable Research Excellence Award for 2024 on sep 9 2025, DTU
  14. Best Paper presentation for LIGHTWEIGHT DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR DEMENTIA STAGE IDENTIFICATION USING CORONAL, 2AI2026, Central University of Kashmir, 17 June 2026

 

SPONSORED/CONSULTANCY PROJECTS

S.N.

Title of

the project

Role PI

Total Budget

Approved Duration

Funding Agency

Current Status

1

Machine-learning based Stress Prediction using Physiological biomarkers and EEG (CogMaps) 

 

PI

INR 9 lakhs appx

2019-2020

Samsung Digital India Pvt Ltd

Completed

2

EEG-based feedback with Treadmill for improving attention for mental and memory task

 

PI

INR 13 lakhs appx

2019-2020

Samsung Digital India Pvt Ltd

Completed

3

Mobile camera-based attention feedback

 

PI

INR 6 lakhs

2019-2020

Samsung Digital India Pvt Ltd

Completed

4

Effect of Anxiety Reduction Interventions (Raaga, Breathing) on Exam Anxiety Using Physiological Signals and Machine Learning for Students (EARI)”.

PI

INR 10 lakhs

2025 – 2027

DTU-sponsored Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Project (FIRP)

Ongoing

START-UPS (IF ANY)

MOOC COURSES DEVELOPED (IF ANY)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Sno

Particulars

Place

Duration

1

AICTE, Short Term Course on Cloud Computing Through ICT

Delhi Technological University, Delhi

29 July – 2 August 2013  

2

TEQIP, Short Term Training Programme on Advanced Wed Designing Techniques

Delhi Technological University, Delhi

14-25 July 2014               

3

Three-Week Special Winter School (UGC)

 

Academic Staff College, Jamia Millia Islamia

17 Dec 2014 - 08 Jan 2015

4

TEQP II FDP Advances in Information Technology

Delhi Technological University, Delhi

Jan 18 -22, 2016

5

TEQIP III FDP in the Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber security applications in smart grid

Delhi Technological University, Delhi

12-16 March 2018

6

Machine Learning and Computer Vision: Applications, Research, Challenges (MLCV 2020)

NIT Silchar

24-28 August 2020

7

Machine Learning Applications in Signal Processing and Wireless Networks

Delhi Technological University, Delhi

December 20th-24th, 2021

8

Industrial Training in the field of advanced Machine Learning

mFilterate Noida

10.07.2023- 25.07.2023

ADVISEES

ANY OTHER INFORMATION

Research Lab Coordinator:

  • MIND Lab 
  • Samsung Lab
  • McDS Lab