Artificial Intelligence and Open Source Tools for Teaching Learning Excellence

Dr. Maitreyee Dutta graduated in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Guahati University in 1993 and Gold medalist in her batch. She is working in National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chandigarh since 2001. Presently, she is the Professor and Head of the department of Information Management and Emerging Engineering. From July 2015 to 2017, she was Professor and Head of Electronics and Communication Engineering department and from 2017 to 2019, she was head of the department of Educational Television Centre of the same institute. She was also Head of Computer Science and Engineering Department from 2003 to 2015. She had initiated many activities in Computer Science Department. She completed three sponsored projects from Ministry of IT, New Delhi and one project from Ministry of Social Justice. She also completed one RPS project on Securing Billion of Things from AICTE, New Delhi. Besides these she had backed grants from AICTE to conduct FDPS, ATAL Programmes, Grant for Conference etc. She has set up two Cyber Security Labs in the institute and gave the excellence fame to that lab. She has guided 12 PhD students in Image Processing and in Internet of Things and 4 are undergoing thesis work under her guidance.  She was given the charge as overall MOOC Coordinator and overall coordinator of ARPIT Courses by the director of NITTTR Chandigarh under which institute could launch 11 MOOC courses and 2 ARPIT courses till date out of which three are AICTE-NITTT modules. She had published 150 papers in International and National Journals and conferences. Many papers on IOT and Security in IOT have been published in SCI journals. She regularly delivers Expert sessions on Teaching Learning Strategies, AI tools for Teaching Learning, Leveraging Technology for Teaching Learning process inn various FDPS conducted by NITTTR Chandigarh as well as other technical Institutions and Universities viz. NIT Arunachal, NIT Delhi, IIIT Sonepat , SRM University, Amravati, Parul University, Vadodara, Vignyan University etc.

Dr. Meenakshi Sood is currently working as Associate Professor in CDC, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research (Ministry of Education, Govt. of India), Chandigarh, India. She has teaching experience of around 23+ years and worked in various institutes of repute in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Signal Processing and is Gold Medallist and Academic Award winner in Master of Engineering (Hons.) from Panjab University, Chandigarh. She has three patents published in her name and has completed number of Govt funded sponsored research projects. She has edited five books and published more than 150 research papers in reputed indexed Journals and International conferences.

Currently, she has been exhaustively involved in Implementation of OBE and NEP 2020 in technical education and higher education Institutes. She is also involved in NBA and NAAC Accreditation Process of HEIs, Innovative curriculum Design and Teaching-learning pedagogy, Updation of technical and professional competencies of professionals throughout the country. She has been resource person of various technical institutes, MMTTC, Universities for Implementation of NEP 2020 across the country. As a consultant and researcher, she has been involved in numerous studies and has done over 2Cr of consultancy under World Bank projects for capacity enhancement and skill development and leadership enhancement training of Principals of technical Institutes of Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand etc.

She is also part of the core team for developing the curriculum of technical institutes of state of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi. She is on Board of Thapar University, HP Technical Education department, KIET Gaziabad, and holding the post of Executive Member ECE of Institute of Engineers, HP. Lately, she is working on developing OBE and NEP 2020 based curriculum designs, AI in education ecosystem, role of technology in pedagogy.