Dr. Narina Thakur earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Amity University Uttar Pradesh, India, in 2019, specializing in Information Retrieval and Machine Learning. She was a Gold Medalist in her Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Computer Science & Engineering from Himachal Pradesh University and holds an M.Tech in Information Technology from Punjab Technical University, India. Currently, she is the Head of the Research and Innovation Committee and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing at the University of Stirling, RAK Campus, UAE.
With 22 years of teaching experience and an H-index -14, Dr. Thakur has published 5 SCI-SCIE indexed and more than 75 research papers in peer reviewed Scopus Indexed International Journals, ACM SIGARCH, Elsevier, IEEE, and International Conferences. She has authored several books on Algorithms, Programming, and Operating Systems. Her research areas include Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and IoT.
Dr. Thakur has completed successfully funded research projects by the Department of Science and Technology, DST Government of India, titled "Autonomous Intelligent Drone for Smart City Surveillance," as part of the Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems (ICPS) as Principal investigator as well as CARS Consultancy Project on "Data Mining Techniques" at the Defence Research and Development Organization DRDO DESI India, as CO- Principal investigator.