Dr. Sonia Khetarpaul is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shiv Nadar University. She obtained her Ph.D degree in Computer Science from IIT Delhi in 2017. She received her M.Tech. degree in Information Technology from GGSIP University, Delhi. She has 14 years of experience in teaching and research. She has taught various courses in Computer Science and focused on Database Systems. Her research interests span a broad area of data analytics, particular focus on querying and mining spatio-temporal data, social networks data mining, Information Retrieval, Large Language Models, etc.

Educational Qualifications

• 2016 Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
• 2004 M.Tech. (IT) Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi

Work Experience

• 01/23 – Present, Associate Professor, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence (Deemed to be University), Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh
• 06/17 – 12/22, Assistant Professor, Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh
• 12/09 - 11/15 Teaching Assistant, IIT Delhi, Delhi
• 06/05 - 11/09 Assistant Professor , Northern India Engineering College, Delhi
• 06/01 - 05/04 Lecturer, Guru Premsukh Memorial College of Engineering, Delhi

Teaching & Research Interests:

Research Interests: Databases, Querying and mining Spatio-Temporal Data, Social Network Analysis, Information Retrieval, and LLMs

Teaching Interests: DBMS, Operating System, Object Oriented programming using Java, Information Retrieval, Data Science