Dr. Seema Bawa
Parallel & Distributed Algorithms | Block chain Technology | Smart parking System | Quantum Computing | Machine Learning & AI | QML, QAOA | NLP
|
Degree |
Specialization |
Institution |
Year |
Distinction |
|
Ph.D. |
Computer Science & Engineering |
TIET, Patiala |
2004 |
Thesis: Parallel & Distributed Algorithms for Test Generation |
|
M.Tech. |
Computer Science & Data Processing |
I.I.T. Kharagpur |
1992 |
9.32 CGPA | Institute Scholarship |
|
M.Sc. |
Statistics |
I.I.T. Kanpur |
1989 |
8.0 CPI | Merit Scholarship |
|
Institution / Organization |
Designation |
Period |
|
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala |
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering |
11 Oct 2004 – Present |
|
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala |
Assistant Professor |
04 May 1999 – 10 Oct 2004 |
|
Inde Dutch Systems (India) Ltd., Chandigarh |
Sr. Software Engineer |
Aug 1998 – Apr 1999 |
|
SLIET, Longowal |
System Analyst |
Jun 1997 – Jul 1998 |
|
Inde Dutch Systems (India) Ltd., Chandigarh |
Software Engineer |
04 Jan 1993 – May 1997 |
|
Role |
Institution |
Period |
|
Dean (Outreach) |
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala |
May 2023 – April 2026 |
|
Professor Incharge Nava Nalanda Central Library |
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala |
April 2016 – April 2023 |
|
Dean (Student Affairs) |
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala |
Sep 2010 – Sep 2014 |
|
Head, Department of Computer Science & Engineering |
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala |
Jan 2006 – June 2009 |
|
Head, Department of Computer Science & Engineering |
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala |
Aug 2001 –Aug 2004 |
|
Head, Centre for Information Super Highway |
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala |
Aug 2004 – Aug 2011 |
|
Network Manager |
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala |
Jul 1999 – Aug 2004 |
|
President, Pratigya Society |
Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala |
Aug 2007 – Aug 2010 |
|
Metric |
Value |
|
Total Publications |
208 (Journals + Conferences) |
|
h-Index |
32 |
|
Total Citations |
3,300+ |
|
Ph.D. Students Supervised (Completed) |
28 |
|
M.E. / M.Tech. Supervised (Completed) |
54 |
|
Sponsored Research Projects |
07 (AICTE, DST, TCS, MoCIT, DAE) |
|
Year |
Organization |
Project |
Amount |
Role |
|
2012– 2016 |
Tata Consultancy Services |
Collaborative Mobility Aware Reliable Data Dissemination in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks |
~14 Lacs |
PI (Co-supervisor) |
|
Jun 2008– Jun 2009 |
AICTE |
Technological Upgradation of High End Computing Lab |
8 Lacs |
Principal Investigator |
|
Apr 2005 onward (5 yrs) |
MoCIT, GOI |
SMDP-VLSI Phase-II |
H/W, S/W & Infrastructure |
Co-Coordinator |
|
Jul 2004 onward |
TU, Patiala |
Establishing Centre of Excellence in Grid Computing |
13 Lacs |
Coordinator |
|
1997– 2002 |
MoCIT, GOI |
IMPACT Phase-II Sustainability Support Scheme (SSS) |
Rs. 24 Lacs |
Coordinator (Aug 2002– Dec 2003) |
|
Jan 1999– Mar 2005 |
MoCIT, GOI |
SMDP-VLSI Phase-I |
Rs. 22 Lacs + 76 Lacs Infrastructure |
Coordinator |
|
Nov 1998– Apr 1999 |
CIT, Milton Keynes, UK |
Dental Surgeon's Clinical Workstation (Offshore) |
N.A. |
Project Leader |
Two years of R&D experience in funded government projects:
PUBLICATIONS LIST IN JOURNALS, CONFERENCES: Dr. Seema Bawa
[208] Vijay Prakash, Ajay Kumar, Mohd Shahid, Lalit Garg and Seema Bawa, “An efficient model to estimate and optimise the cloud migration costs from on-premises web apps”, Discover Computing (2025) 28:151.
[https://doi.org/10.1007/s10791-025-09666-3]
[207] Seema Bawa and Neenu Garg, “Quantum Sensors: Revolutionizing Sensing Capabilities in the IoT Era”, in International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Computing Technologies (ICSSCT-2k25), organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and the School of Computer Applications at Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth, Faridabad, India, April 18–19, 2025.
[206] Seema Wazarkar and Seema Bawa, “Aqua Check: The Water Quality Assessment System for
Public Health and Environmental Stability”, in Proceedings of NCSPER-2025: National Conference on Sustainable Practices for Environmental Remediation, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India, Feb. 19–20, 2025.
[205] Paramdeep Singh Gill, Mamta Gulati, Seema Bawa and Twinkle, “Systematic approach to enhance signal quality and noise reduction in remote sensing and astrophysical application”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Statistical Learning (ICSL - 2025), Indian
Institute of Technology Ropar, Center of Applied Research and Data Science, IIT Ropar, India, March 6-8, 2025. P. 6
[204] Venus Singla, Seema Bawa, Jasmeet Singh, “Enhancing Indian sign language recognition through data augmentation and visual transformer”, Neural Computing and Applications, 36 (2024), Pages 15103–15116.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-024-09845-1
[203] Sandeep Saharan, Seema Bawa, Neeraj Kumar, Rajkumar Buaya, “Foggy-Park: A Dynamic Pricing and NSGA based Allocation Scheme for On-Street Parking System, ZTA-NextGen '24”, Proceedings of the SIGCOMM Workshop on Zero Trust Architecture for Next Generation Communications, (2024), pages 31 – 36.
[https://doi.org/10.1145/3672200.3673873]
[202] Seema Bawa, Siddharth Trivedi, Raywa Singh, Manvir Kaur , Abhinav Tyagi, Guneev
Jawandha, Seema Wazarkar “AQUA CHECK: The Water Quality Assessment System for Public Health and Environmental Sustainability,” Journal of Environmental Science & Engineering (JESE), Vol. 65, No. 2, (2023), pages. 1660–1670,
[201] Ajay Kumar, Seema Bawa & Neeraj Kumar, “iDP: ML-driven diabetes prediction framework using deep-ensemble modeling”, Neural Computing and Applications (2023), pages 2525–2548. [SCIE] [IF = 6.0].
[https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-09184-7]
[200] Sandeep Saharan, Neeraj Kumar, Seema Bawa, “Dy PARK: A Dynamic Pricing and Allocation Scheme for Smart On-Street Parking System”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, (2023), pages 4217 - 4234 (SCI) [IF 9.551].
[https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2022.3230851]
[199] Harcharan Jit Singh, Seema Bawa, “Scalable Metadata Management Techniques for Ultra-Large Distributed Storage Systems–A Systematic Revie”, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 51(4):82, (2018), pages 1 - 37 [SCI/SCIE] [Impact Factor =23.08]. [https://doi.org/10.1145/3212686]
[198] Amit Kumar Bhardwaj, Seema Bawa , “Understanding The Voice And Emotions Of The
Citizens of Brics Nations On Outcome Based Education”, European Chemical Bulletin (2023), pages 12941-12949.
[https://doi.org/10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si4.1172]
[197] Venus Singla, Seema Bawa, and Jasmeet Singh “Improving accuracy using ML/DL in Vision based Techniques of ISLR”, Multimedia Tools and Applications (2023), pages 20677–20698. [SCIE] [IF = 3.6].
[https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-16299-5]
[196] Kaur, Sukhandeep, Seema Bawa, and Ravinder Kumar, “Segmentation-free composite character recognition (CR) in bilingual handwritten text for Gurumukhi–English scripts” , Soft Computing (2023), pages 1-20. (SCI) IF=3.732). [https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-023-07996-2]
[195] Seema Bawa, “Enhancing Content Delivery through Visual Interventions”, at National Conference on Outcome Based Education, held at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, INDIA, April 17-18, 2023.
[194] Kaur, Sukhandeep, Seema Bawa, and Ravinder Kumar, “Heuristic-based Text Segmentation of
Bilingual Handwritten Documents for Gurumukhi-Latin Scripts”, Multimedia Tools and Applications. (2023), pages 18667–18697 [SCIE] (IF=3.6).
[https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-15335-8]
[193] Amit Kumar Bhardwaj, Seema Bawa, “Outcome Based Education: A Bibliometric Analysis For
Assessing Future Trends Towards Quality Education”, European Chemical Bulletin (2023), pages 12929-12940.
[https://doi.org/10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si4.1171]
[192] Harcharan Jit Singh, Seema Bawa, “LaMeta: An efficient locality aware metadata management technique for an ultra-large distributed storage system”, Journal of King Saud University –
Computer and Information Sciences 34 (2022), pages 8323–8335.[SCI] [IF= 9.00] [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jksuci.2022.08.012]
[191] Kaur, Sukhandeep, Seema Bawa, and Ravinder Kumar, Munish Kumar, “Bilingual Documents Text line extraction using conditional GAN”, in ICMLBDA (2022) at IIT Patna, pages 49-58. [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15175-0_5]
[190] Darell Edmond, Vijay Prakash, Lalit Garg, Seema Bawa, “Adoption of Cloud Computing in Central Banks: Hindering factors and the recommendations for the way forward”, Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practices 11, no. 2 (2022) pages 123-143. (eSCI and Scopus indexed).
[https://doi.org/10.2478/jcbtp-2022-0016]
[189] Kaur, Sukhandeep, Seema Bawa, and Ravinder Kumar, “Evaluating Generative Adversarial
Networks for Gurumukhi handwritten Character Recognition(CR)”, in MISP 2022 at NIT Raipur, pages 503 - 513.
[ https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0085-5_41]
[188] Vijay Prakash, Claudio Savaglio, Lalit Garg, Seema Bawa, Giandomenico Spezzano. “Cloud- and Edge-based ERP systems for Industrial Internet of Things and Smart Factory” ,International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing (ISM-2021), held at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Vienna on 17-19th November, 2021 Procedia Computer Science Elsevier 200 (2022) pages 537-545. (Scopus).
[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.01.251]
[187] Vijay Prakash, Lalit Garg, Elena Fomiceva, Sergio Vega Pineda, Alex Navia Santos, Seema
Bawa, “A Framework for Masked-Image Recognition System in COVID-19 Era”, The 4th International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing & Pattern Recognition (RTIP2R-2021), held at University of Malta, Malta on 8-10th December 2021. pages 195-209.Springer, Cham, 2022. (Scopus). [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07005-1_18]
[186] Hari Singh, Seema Bawa. “Predicting COVID-19 statistics using machine learning regression model: Li-MuLi-Poly”. Multimedia Systems Vol. 28 (1), pages 113-120, 2021. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-021-00798-2]
[185] Sitender, Seema Bawa. “A sanskrit-to-english machine translation using hybridization of direct and rule-based approach”. Neural Computing and Applications, volume 33, pages 2819–2838.
Springer, 2021, [SCIE] [IF = 5.606]. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-020-05156-3]
[184] Munish Kumar, Sitender, Seema Bawa, Sangeeta. “A comprehensive survey on machine translation for english, hindi and sanskrit language. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, pages 1–34. Springer, 2021, [SCIE] [IF = 7.10]. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-021-03479-0]
[183] V. Mehta, S. Bawa, J. Singh, “Stamantic Clustering: Combining Statistical and Semantic
Features for Clustering of Large Text Datasets” Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 174, pages 114710, 2021. [SCIE] [IF = 6.954]. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.114710]
[182] V. Mehta, S. Bawa, J. Singh, “WEClustering: Word Embeddings Based Text Clustering Technique for Large Datasets” Complex and Intelligent Systems, vol. 7(6), pages 3211-3224, 2021, [SCIE] [IF = 4.927]. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-021-00512-9]
[181] G Sharma, PS Rana, S Bawa, “Hybrid machine learning models for predicting types of Human
T-cell Lymphotropic Virus” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IEEE, 18(4), pages 1524-1534, 2021. [SCIE] [IF = 3.71]. [https://doi.org/10.1109/TCBB.2019.2944610]
[180] Kaur, Sukhandeep, Seema Bawa, and Ravinder Kumar, “A survey of mono-and multi-lingual character recognition using deep and shallow architectures: indic and non-indic scripts” Artificial Intelligence Review 53 (2020): 1813-1872. (SCI IF=9.588). [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-019-09720-9]
[179] G Sharma, A Kotia, SK Ghosh, PS Rana, S Bawa, MKH Ali, “Kinematic Viscosity Prediction of
Nanolubricants Employed in Heavy Earth Moving Machinery using Machine Learning Technique” International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing, Springer, 21(10), pages 1921–1932, 2020. [SCIE] [IF = 2.11].
[https://doi.org/10.1007/s12541-020-00379-9]
[178] Vijay Prakash, Seema Bawa, Lalit Garg, “Multi Dependency and Time Based Scheduling Algorithm for Scientific Applications in Cloud Computing” Electronics, 10 (11):1320, 2021. [SCIE] [IF= 2.690].
[https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111320]
[177] Vijay Prakash, Alex Williams, Lalit Garg, “Claudio Savaglio, Seema Bawa. Cloud and Edge Computing-based Computer Forensics: Challenges and Open Problems” Electronics, 10 (11): 1229, 2021 [SCIE] [IF = 2.690].
[https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10111229]
[176] Marlene Marinho, Vijay Prakash, Lalit Garg, Claudio Savaglio, Seema Bawa, “ Effective Cloud Resource Utilisation in Cloud ERP Decision-Making Process for Industry 4.0 in the United States” Electronics, 10 (8), 959, 2021. [SCIE] [IF = 2.690].
[https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10080959]
[175] Sandeep Saharan, Seema Bawa, Neeraj Kumar, “op3 s: On-street occupancy based parking prices prediction system for its. In 2020 IEEE Globecom Workshops GC Wkshps” Taipei, Taiwan, pages 1–6. IEEE, 2020.
[https://doi.org/10.1109/GCWkshps50303.2020.9367433]
[174] Sitender, Seema Bawa, “Sanskrit to universal networking language enconverter system based on deep learning and context-free grammar” Multimedia Systems, pages 1–17, 2020 [SCIE] [IF = 1.935].
[https://doi.org/10.1007/s00530-020-00692-3]
[173] Vivek Mehta, Seema Bawa, Jasmeet Singh, “Analytical review of clustering techniques and proximity measures” Artificial Intelligence Review 2020 [SCIE] [IF = 8.139].
[https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-020-09840-7]
[172] Ajay Kumar, Seema Bawa, “Adjacency cloud-oriented storage overlay topology using self-organizing m-way tree” In International Conference on Innovative Computing and Communications, pages 463–472. Springer, 2020.
[https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0324-5_40]
[171] Ajay Kumar, Seema Bawa. “Dais: dynamic access and integration services framework for cloud-oriented storage systems”Cluster Computing, pages 1–20, 2020[SCIE] [IF = 1.809].
[https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-020-03088-0]
[170] Neenu Garg, Seema Bawa, Neeraj Kuma, “An efficient data integrity auditing protocol for cloud computing” Future Generation Computer Systems, 2020 [SCIE] [IF = 7.187].
[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2020.03.032]
[169] Sandeep Saharan, Neeraj Kumar, Seema Bawa, “An efficient smart parking pricing system for smart city environment: A machine-learning based approach” Future
Generation Computer Systems, 106:622 – 640, 2020 [SCIE] [IF = 7.187]. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2020.01.031]
[168] Sandeep Saharan, Seema Bawa, Neeraj Kumar, “Dynamic pricing techniques for
intelligent transportation system in smart cities: A systematic review” Computer Communications, 150:603 – 625, 2020 [SCIE] [IF = 3.167]. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2019.12.003]
[167] Ajay Kumar, Seema Bawa, “A comparative review of meta-heuristic approaches to optimize the sla violation costs for dynamic execution of cloud services” Soft Computing, 24:3909–3922, 2020 [SCIE] [IF = 3.643].
[https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-019-04155-4]
[166] Tristan Mercieca, Lalit Garg, Vijay Prakash, and Seema Bawa, “Big Data Analytics on Cloud Environment:Advantages, Limitations and Issues", International Journal of Electrical, Electronics and Data Communication (IJEEDC), pages. 14-18, Volume-7, Issue-10, 2019.
[https://iraj.doionline.org/dx/IJEEDC-IRAJ-DOIONLINE-16394]
[165] Hari Singh, Seema Bawa, An improved integrated grid and mapreduce-hadoop
architecture for spatial data: Hilbert tgs r-tree–based igsim. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 31(17): e5202, 2019 [SCIE] [IF = 1.536]. [https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.5202]
[164] Supreet Kaur, Seemu Sharma, Seema Bawa, Smart indoor air quality monitoring system. 2019.
[http://www.doi.org/10.35940/ijrte.B1179.0782S619]
[163] Kenndy Njenga, Lalit Garg, Amit Kumar Bhardwaj, Vijay Prakash, Seema Bawa, The cloud computing adoption in higher learning institutions in kenya: Hindering factors and recommendations for the way forward. Telematics and Informatics, 38:225–246, 2019 [SCIE] [IF = 9.140]. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2018.10.007]
[162] Manisha Bhardwaj, Seema Bawa, Fuzz testing in stack-based buffer overflow. In Advances in Computer Communication and Computational Sciences, pages 23–36.Springer, 2019.[https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0341-8_3]
[161] Nishtha Hooda, Seema Bawa, Prashant Singh Rana. B2fse framework for high dimensional imbalanced data: A case study for drug toxicity prediction.
Neurocomputing, 276:31–41, 2018 [SCIE] [IF = 5.719].
[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2017.04.081]
[160] Ajay Kumar, Seema Bawa, Generalized ant colony optimizer: swarm-based metaheuristic algorithm for cloud services execution. Computing, pages 1–24, 2018 [SCI/SCIE] [IF = 2.220]. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-018-0674-x]
[159] Lohit Kapoor, Seema Bawa, Ankur Gupta. Intercloud: A hype or reality? international journal of next-generation computing, 9 (3), 2018 [ESCI]. [https://doi.org/10.47164/ijngc.v9i3.151]
[158] Nishtha Hooda, Seema Bawa, Prashant Singh Rana, Fraudulent firm classification: A case study of an external audit. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 32(1):48–64, 2018 [SCIE] [IF = 1.580]. [https://doi.org/10.1080/08839514.2018.1451032]
[157] Nishtha Hooda, Seema Bawa, Prashant Singh Rana. Mctope e n s e m b l e machine learning framework: A case study of routing protocol prediction. In 2018 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Computing, Communication and Security (ICCCS), pages 92–99. IEEE, 2018. [https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCS.2018.8586811]
[156] Seemu Sharma, Seema Bawa, Hitashi Lomash. Approaches in cultural computing: A survey and inference from social computing with dynamics of mind. Wireless Personal Communications, 103(4):2693–2713, 2018 [SCIE][IF= 1.671]. [https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-018-5956-2]
[155] Sitender, Seema Bawa. Sansunl: A sanskrit to unl enconverter system. IETE Journal of Research, pages1–12, 2018 [SCIE] [IF = 2.333]. [https://doi.org/10.1080/03772063.2018.1528187]
[154] Neenu Garg, Seema Bawa. Rits-mht: Relative indexed and time stamped merkle hash tree based data auditing protocol for cloud computing. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 84:1–13, 2017 [SCIE] [IF = 6.281].
[https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2017.02.005]
[153] Amit Dua, Neeraj Kumar, Seema Bawa. Reidd: reliability-aware intelligent data dissemination protocol for broadcast storm problem in vehicular ad hoc networks. Telecommunication Systems,64(3):439–458, 2017[SCIE] [IF= 2.314].
[https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-016-0184-0]
[152] Nishtha Hooda, Seema Bawa, Prashant Singh Rana. T-ensemble approach for drug toxicity prediction. International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, 15(1):545, 2017.