Specialization

Human Computer Interaction, Data Science, E-learning

Email

simran.setia@thapar.edu

Education
●    PhD from IIT Ropar (2022)
●    M.Tech (C.S.E) from Thapar University (2017)
●    B.Tech (C.S.E) from Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat  (2015)

Experience
1.    Assistant Professor @ CSED TIET Patiala, India (July 2023 - present)
2.    Assistant Professor @ Jaypee University of Information Technology (August 2022 -July 2023)

SCI/SCIE Journal publications
Non-SCI Journal Publications
1.    Setia, S., Iyengar, S. R. S., Chhabra, A., Verma, A. A., & Dubey, N. (2021). How well do the students understand the course contents? Assessing comprehension through course videos. Journal of Computers in Education, 1-35.
2.    Setia, S., Iyengar, S. R. S., Chhabra, A., Verma, A. A., Dubey, N, Kumar, G.S., & Singh, Ankit. (2021). "Knowledgeroids vs. Knowledgetrition: Does Pace matter in Wikipedia?" First Monday.(Accepted)
3.    Verma, A. A., Iyengar, S. R. S., Setia, S., & Dubey, N. (2021). An open source library to parse and analyze online collaborative knowledge-building portals. Journal of Internet Services and Applications, 12(1), 1-24.
4.    Verma, A. A., Dubey, N., Setia, S., Kamtam, P., & Iyengar, S. R. S. (2022). Quantifying the Impact of Biopics on Wikipedia Articles. Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT), 24(3), 1-11.
5.    Dubey, N., Verma, A. A., Setia, S., & Iyengar, S. R. S. (2022). PerSummRe: Gaze-Based Personalized Summary Recommendation Tool for Wikipedia. Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT), 24(3), 1-18.

Conference Publications
●    Setia, S., Iyengar, S. R. S., & Verma, A. A. (2020, August). Qwiki: Need for qna & wiki to co-exist. In Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (pp. 1-12).
●    Setia, S., Iyengar, S. R. S., & Agarwal, A. (2020, October). Qwiki: A collaborative space to mine feedback for MOOCS. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (pp. 305-305).
●    Setia, S., Iyengar, S. R. S., Verma, A. A., & Dubey, N. (2021, September). Is Wikipedia Easy to Understand?: A Study Beyond Conventional Readability Metrics. In International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (pp. 175-187). Springer, Cham.
●    Verma, A. A., Iyengar, S. R. S., Setia, S., & Dubey, N. (2020, August). Kdap: An open source toolkit to accelerate knowledge building research. In Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (pp. 1-11).
●    Verma, A. A., Dubey, N., Iyengar, S. R. S., & Setia, S. (2021, April). Tracing the factoids: the anatomy of information re-organization in Wikipedia articles. In Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 (pp. 572-579).
●    Dubey, N., Setia, S., Verma, A. A., & Iyengar, S. R. S. (2020, December). WikiGaze: Gaze-based Personalized Summarization of Wikipedia Reading Session. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Human Factors in Hypertext (pp. 1-9).
●    Dubey, N., Verma, A. A., Iyengar, S. R. S., & Setia, S. (2021, September). Implicit Visual Attention Feedback System for Wikipedia Users. In 17th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (pp. 1-11).
●    Kumar, R., & Setia, S. (2017, September). Interface aware scheduling of tasks on cloud. In 2017 4th International Conference on Signal Processing, Computing and Control (ISPCC) (pp. 654-658). IEEE.

Book Chapters

Peer reviewer for Journals
●    Reviewer for Journal of Computers in Education, Springer.
●    Reviewer for Springer Book on Big Data Certifications

Expert Lectures/FDPs delivered:

FDPs/ Technical workshops attended
●    Participated in AI for Computational Social Systems Workshop at IIIT Delhi (February, 2019)
●    Organised Winter Workshop on Python at IIT Ropar (December, 2018) 

Other activities
●    Delivered a consultancy project on “Integrated Learning Environment on MOOCs” (NPTEL,IIT Madras) (August, 2019 - December, 2019)
●    Delivered lectures for NPTEL MOOC “The Joy of Computing using Python”.