Name: Dr. Sunakshi Mehra

Gender: Female 

Designation: Assistant Professor 

Department: Computer Science and Engineering 

Email: [email protected]

Qualification: B.Tech (IT, IGDTUW), M.Tech (IT, GGSIPU), Ph.D. (IT, DTU) 

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.

 

Experience: 

Type	University / College	Branch	Year	Subject	Count
Assistant Professor (Regular)	Delhi Technological University	CSE	(March 2025 – December 2025)	Theory of Computation, Compiler Design, Programming Fundamentals	10 Months
Assistant Professor (On Contract)	Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU)	CSE	(Oct 2024 – March 2025)	Python, Compiler Design, Machine learning	3 months
Assistant Professor (Regular)	Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology (GCET)	Computer Science and Engineering (CS)	(May 2024 – Sep 2024)	Compiler Design	4 months
Assistant Professor (Guest Faculty)	Delhi Technological University (DTU)	Information Technology (IT)	(Aug 2023 – Dec 2023)	Soft Computing	5 months
Teaching assistantship	Delhi Technological University (DTU)	Information Technology (IT)	(Aug 2019 – July 2023)	Compiler Design, Theory of Computation, Programming	4 years

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.

Course Taught: Theory of Computation, Compiler Design, Programming Fundamentals, Machine learning, Soft Computing

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" Computational Intelligence, 40(6), e70012. (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). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-025-03231-5

8.      Pandey, Saroj Kumar, Yogesh Kumar Rathore, Sunakshi Mehra, Anurag Sinha, Tarun Raj Kumar, Ankit Kumar, Rekh Ram Janghel, Ayodele Lasisi, Quadri Noorulhasan Naveed, and Md Sazid Reza. "Inductive and Transfer Learning?Based Hybrid Model Techniques for Accurate and Automated Diagnosis of Neurological Diseases." Brain and Behavior 15, no. 8 (2025): e70788. (SCIE-Indexed, IF: 2.7). https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.70788

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.

Honors and Awards

Received Commendable Research Excellence award from Delhi Technological University on 5^th September 2024. Receieved 3 Commendable Research Excellence award from Delhi Technological University on 19^th September 2025.