About

Dr.D.Lakshmi, presently working as a Senior Associate Professor in School of Computing & Assistant Director, Centre for Innovation in Teaching & Learning at VIT Bhopal University, Madhya Pradesh. Till February 2021, she was designated as an Educational Research Officer at Vishnu Educational Development and Innovation Centre (VEDIC) and Associate Professor at B V Raju Institute of Technology run by Shri Vishnu Educational Society, Hyderabad from 2016 to Feb 2021. She has been working in the educational sector since 1998. She has more than 22 years of teaching experience. Her key focus is on exploring the dynamics of learning, dynamics of learner and classroom dynamics, suitable to accelerate the learning efficacy of higher education students. Her research areas include educational technology, educational data mining, virtual education and educational psychology. She has been actively involved in educational research and her research papers have been published both in the international conferences as well as in peer-reviewed journals. With reference to the academic interests, she is naturally aligned to the teaching and computation, as her specialization and core expertise lie in Theory of Computation, her favourite subject on which she have authored and published a book, Theory of Computation, and a handbook, and been the first Indian woman author in the subject. Her research paper presentation, Use of ICT in Teaching Theory of Computation: An Experimental Case Study at the IEEE Conference on MOOC Technologies at Poornima Institute of Technology, Jaipur (December 2013),won the Best Paper Award. She has addressed innumerable guest lectures, conducted and organized several Faculty Development Program (FDP) Trainings (covering approximately ~50,000 plus faculty members including TEQIP, SERB, SWAYAM, DST, AICTE, MHRD, ATAL sponsored workshops and also self financed workshop across India from different STEM Educational institutions) conducted numerous workshops at JNTU-Hyderabad on various titles in association with UGC-HRDC, and have served as Subject Matter Expert and Consultant on Theory of Computation. She has been invited as a jury for the national level conferences and national level student’s symposium. She had been invited as a Session Chair and keynote speaker as well. She had reviewed several books for Tata McGraw Hill and Pearson Publishers and conference papers and Journal papers too. She has presented papers in 15 international conferences and published 9 international journal papers, 2 book chapters and 8 Indian patents provisionally published and waiting for examinations and filed 2 copyrights and both of them are granted. 5 Australian patents have been filed and all have been granted. In March 2021 her paper won the best paper award in the Springer Conference on Snake Classification Using Deep Learning Models: A Life Saving App. Currently, her research work has been submitted to two journal papers and two book series which are under review. Recently she has published a book on “Leading Education in Age of Disruption”, An Educator Guideline Series with the ISBN Number: 978-93-5526-730-6.