Digital Twins and Simulation Technology

Lavanya Sharma received her Ph.D. (Computer Science) from Uttarakhand Technical University (State Government University), India in 2018, in the area of Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision. She also received TEQIP scholarship for the same. She received her M.Tech (Computer Science) in 2013 from Manav Rachna College of Engineering, affiliated to Maharshi Dayanand University, Haryana, India. She is currently working in New Delhi Institute of Management, Delhi, India as an Assistant Professor in the department of Information technology, Research & Innovation. A certified professional with 20 professional certificates. Her work is on Motion based Object Detection using Background Subtraction Technique for Smart Video Surveillance. She is recipient of several prestigious awards during her academic career and qualified certification courses from ISRO Dehradun unit, India. She has 8 books (Authored and Edited) and over 70 research articles to her credit. She has 5 patents in the area of Computer Vision, Image Processing, Machine Learning and Medical Imaging. She acted as Organizing Committee Member, Conference Chair, Session Chair, Reviewer, Technical Program Committee (TCP) member of various International conferences and journals. Besides, supervising a large number of undergraduate projects, she has guided more than 40 Post Graduates projects. Her primary research interests are Digital Image Processing and Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, deep learning, Internet of Things, Remote Sensing & GIS.

P.K. Garg worked as a Vice Chancellor, Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun. Presently he is working in the department of Civil Engineering, IIT Roorkee as a Professor. He has completed B.Tech (Civil Engg.) in 1980 and M.Tech (Civil Engg) in 1982 both from the University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee). He was a recipient of the gold medal at IIT Roorkee during his M.Tech programme, the Commonwealth Scholarship Award for doing Ph.D. from University of Bristol (UK), and the Commonwealth Fellowship Award to carry out post-doctoral research work at University of Reading (UK). Prof. Garg has published more than 300 technical papers in national and international journals. He has undertaken 26 research projects and provided technical services to 83 consultancy projects on various aspects of Civil Engineering, generating funds for the Institute. He has authored and edited various books and produced two technical films on Story of Mapping. He has developed several new courses and practical exercises in Geomatics Engineering. Besides, supervising a large number of undergraduate projects, he has guided about 74 M.Tech and 30 Ph.D. Thesis. He is instrumental in prestigious MHRD funded projects on e-learning; Development of Virtual Labs, Pedagogy and courses under NPTEL. He has served as an expert on various national committees, including Ministry of Environment & Forest, EAEC Committee, NBA (AICTE) and Project Evaluation Committee, DST, New Delhi. He has successfully organized multiple conferences and workshops, and 44 programmes in advanced areas of Surveying, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, GIS and GPS. He is a life member of 24 professional societies, out of which he is a Fellow member of 8 societies.