PROFILE
Dr. Ruchika Malhotra is Head of Department and Professor in the Department of Software Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India. She has served as Associate Dean in Industrial Research and Development, Delhi Technological University. She was awarded with prestigious Raman Fellowship for pursuing Post-doctoral research in Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis USA. She received her master's and doctorate degree in software engineering from the University School of Information Technology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi, India. She has received IBM Faculty Award 2013. She has been ranked amongst the World’s top 2% scientist by Stanford University report, USA, for her research in the field of “Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing” (Ploss Biology, 2020). She is recipient of Commendable Research Award (in 2018-2022) by Delhi Technological University. Her h-index is 41 as reported by Google Scholar. She is author of book titled “Empirical Research in Software Engineering” published by CRC press and co-author of a book on Object Oriented Software Engineering published by PHI Learning. She has published more than 250 research papers in international journals and conferences. Her research interests are in software testing, improving software quality, statistical and adaptive prediction models, software metrics and the definition and validation of software metrics.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS/ EXPERIENCE
• Associate Head, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, December 2015-March 2021
• Associate Dean, IRD, October 2018- August 2022
• Nodal Officer, International & National Rankings
• Assistant Director, International Affairs, Delhi Technological University, October 2018-December 2019
• Ph.D & M.Tech Admissions Co-ordinator, Delhi Technological University, 2012–14
• Public Relations Officer, Delhi Technological University, Feb 2012 – July 2014
TEACHING (COURSES TAUGHT)
Graduation level (B.Tech): Software Testing, Software Engineering, Object Oriented Software Engineering
Post-Graduation (M.Tech & Ph.D): Software Testing, Software Quality & Metrics, Software Engineering
Designed B.Tech(Software Engineering), M.Tech (Software Engineering) & M.Tech (Data Science Scheme
MEMBERSHIPS
PUBLICATIONS
Publications in Top Journals in Software Engineering: Empirical Software Engineering (IF: 3.5), Information and Software Technology (IF: 3.8), Automated Software Engineering (IF: 2.0), Applied Soft Computing, (IF: 7.2), Software Quality Journal (IF: 1.7), Swarm and Evolutionary Computation (IF: 8.2), Neurocomputing (IF: 5.5), ACM Computing Surveys (23.8), Cluster Computing (IF: 3.6) Total Publications: 271
Number of Books Published: 02
Number of Book Chapters Published: 05
Publications in International Journals: 132
Publications in National Journals: 04
Publications in National and International Conferences: 128
Ph.D Awarded: 11
Ph.D Pursuing: 09
M.Tech Thesis Guided: 130
BOOKS/BOOK CHAPTERS (IF ANY)
- Yogesh Singh and Ruchika Malhotra, Object Oriented Software Engineering, PHI Learning, March 2012.
- Ruchika Malhotra, Empirical Methods in Software Engineering: Concepts, Analysis & applications, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, October 2015.
PATENTS (IF ANY)
HONOURS AND AWARDS (IF ANY)
• Received Raman Post Doctoral Fellowship of $3000 per month in USA for 12 months from University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, India.
• Ranked amongst top 2% scientists in the world for careerlong citation impact up until the end of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 in field of Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing by a recent study by Stanford University published in Ploss Biology.
• Received Commendable Research Award for SCIE indexed publications in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018 by DTU.
• IBM Best Faculty Award 2013 of $5000 • Received Best Presenter Award of £100 in “Search Based Software Testing”, 36th ICSE 2014