Ankita Shukla, PhD

Ankita Shukla, PhD

Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Nevada, Reno

Roles: Machine Learning Architecture, acoustic data analysis.

Dr. Shukla is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at University of Nevada Reno, USA. Before joining UNR, she was a Postdoctoral researcher in GML, working with Prof. Pavan Turaga at Arizona State University. She defended her PhD in Oct, 2020 from IIIT-Delhi under the guidance of Dr. Saket Anand. Her dissertation title is “Exploring Geometric Constraints for Learning Representations for Visual Data”. During her PhD, she also worked as a visiting research scholar with Prof. Pavan Turaga for 6 months in 2019 (Feb - Aug) as well as during the summer of 2017. Dr. Shukla received her Master’s degree from IIIT-Delhi and was awarded Best Thesis Award for my thesis titled “Signal Processing Techniques to Reduce Energy Consumption in EEG Acquisition and Transmission for WBAN” under the guidance of Dr. Angshul Majumdar.