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Faculty Area: 2. University faculty

Mr Navin Chettri

Mr Navin Chettri is an Assistant Professor in the Management Area at NIIT University. He holds a BCom (Hons) degree from St. Anthony’s College, Shillong, MCom (Accounting and Finance) from North Eastern Hill University, Shillong and an PGDCSR from IGNOU. He has submitted his PhD thesis and is awaiting the award from North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. His research contributions focus on Corporate Structure, Corporate Social Responsibility, Dividend Payout, Corporate Governance with publications in national and international journals of repute.

Dr Ruchilekha

Dr. Rucilekha completed her PhD from the Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. Her research focused on developing affective and cognitive computing frameworks using machine learning and deep learning techniques. Her key areas of interest include emotional intelligence, affective computing, signal processing, image processing, and machine learning. She has worked extensively on emotion groups recognition using physiological signals such as EEG, EMG, EOG, GSR, etc. Her work has practical applications in human-machine interaction, healthcare, marketing, and humanoid technologies.

Dr Honey Sharma

Dr Honey Sharma is an accomplished academician, researcher, and higher education leader with 19 years of extensive experience in teaching, research, and academic administration. His expertise spans a wide range of domains, including Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision, Conversational AI, Mathematics, Approximation Theory, and q-Calculus. Passionate about education and innovation, he is dedicated to fostering academic excellence, mentoring students, and advancing research in emerging technologies.

Mr Ayush Kumar Sharma

Mr Ayush Kumar Sharma is an Assistant Professor in Management (Finance) at NIIT University. He holds a BCom (Hons) degree from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, MCom (Accounting and Finance) from University of Calcutta and an MBA (Finance) from Suresh Gyan Vihar University. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Management (Finance) from Sir Padampat Singhania University, Udaipur. Apart from regular university degrees he has also completed his CA-Inter with articles, OT training and IT training. He has been actively involved in mentoring students, facilitating placements training, and conducting academic research. His research contributions focus on taxation laws, financial literacy, behavioural finance, digital skills and FinTech with publications in national and international journals of repute.

Ms Prachi Mehta

Ms Prachi Mehta is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering Area at NIIT University. She is pursuing her PhD from CTAE, Udaipur where her research is focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. She is passionate about exploring the societal impacts of AI technologies and aims to develop solutions that address real-world challenges. After completing her Masters, she worked as a lecturer at Poornima College of Engineering for 2 years. And she was the guest faculty at CTAE, Udaipur for 1 year, from where is pursuing her PhD as well. Currently she is teaching Machine Learning using Python and Artificial Intelligence at NIIT University.

Dr Abhishek Rawat

Dr Abhishek Rawat is an Assistant Professor in the Geographic Information Systems area at NIIT University. He completed his PhD from IIT ISM (Dhanbad), with his research focused on seismic hazard assessment in northern Bihar using geospatial techniques. His research interests primarily revolve around environmental hazard assessment and the application of geospatial and image enhancement techniques.

Prof Gautham More

Prof Gautham More, an alumnus of Bangalore University, is a Professor of Practice and Area Director of Educational Technology. With over 36 years of experience in Finance, Technology and ICT Education, he brings to NIIT University a wealth of expertise.
A banker turned education technologist, Prof. More’s passion for education started through several experiments with students in rural Karnataka which involved the use of technology as a tool in learning. From then on, his quest for impacting lives through education led him into various corporate roles in India and Africa.
His tenure at NIIT Ltd was at the Instructional Research & Development Division, then at NIIT Networks and finally NIIT School Learning Solutions. The stint at NIIT was embellished with multiple awards of Excellence that culminated in being a member of the Chairman’s Quality Club when he was Technology Head at School Learning Solutions.
With the intent of touching more young lives with quality education, Prof More moved to RUMI Education which was in the affordable school segment. As General Manager for Technology Initiatives, his solutions won the best Innovation award In Vocational Education & Skills Training at World Education Summit 2011.
His expertise in executing high volume ICT projects was leveraged next by Core Education & Technologies. As Senior Vice President for operations, he ensured that quality computer education was made a reality for more than 5 million students across the country with more than 35000 educators getting trained in ICT.
This capability then extended to the African continent, wherein, as Chief Executive Officer of STPL Global, he leveraged Ed-tech extensively to improve the quality of learning and instruction in schools in Nigeria.
He is currently involved in the Technical and Higher Education domain as well, notably with NIIT University where he is responsible for implementing Pedagogic innovations through an elaborate Learning Engineering framework called the Additive Curriculum. The industry is involved in mentoring students by providing real-industry problems along with the necessary technical tools and insights. This integration of learning and business processes through the Additive Curriculum prepares students to be industry ready.

Dr Zeesha Mishra

Dr Zeesha Mishra working as a Assistant Professor in the Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) Area in NIIT University, Neemrana. Her research interests include cryptography, lightweight cryptographic algorithms, and hardware architecture design for digital images. She has primarily worked on lightweight cryptography, a branch of cryptography designed to provide security solutions for environments with constrained resources, such as embedded systems, IoT devices, and smart cards.

Dr Sujata

Dr Md Abdus Salam Shaik is an Assistant Professor in the area of Mathematics and Basic Sciences at NIIT University (NU). Abdus Salam has earned his PhD in Chemistry with a major in Materials Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has received his bachelor’s degree from Calcutta University and completed his MSc degree from Jamia Millia Islamia. He works in the area of synthesizing various carbon nanoparticles and demonstrating their cutting-edge applications in sensing technology. His research also includes the use of ultrafast spectroscopic techniques to study the excited state phenomena involved in the various applications of carbon-based nanomaterials. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has given poster presentations at national as well as international conferences.

Dr Md Abdus Salam Shaik

Dr Md Abdus Salam Shaik is an Assistant Professor in the area of Mathematics and Basic Sciences at NIIT University (NU). Abdus Salam has earned his PhD in Chemistry with a major in Materials Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He has received his bachelor’s degree from Calcutta University and completed his MSc degree from Jamia Millia Islamia. He works in the area of synthesizing various carbon nanoparticles and demonstrating their cutting-edge applications in sensing technology. His research also includes the use of ultrafast spectroscopic techniques to study the excited state phenomena involved in the various applications of carbon-based nanomaterials. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has given poster presentations at national as well as international conferences.

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