Dr. Mridula Verma

Assistant Professor
vmridula(at)idrbt(dot)ac(dot)in

Educational Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) in 2018
  • M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2009
  • B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur in 2006.

Research Interests

  • Trustworthy Machine Learning, Federated Learning, Adversarial Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning for Computer Vision, Private and Light-weighted Video Analytics
  • Personalized Dialogue Systems, Financial NLP
  • Machine Learning for Cyber Security
  • Convex Optimization Algorithms, Regularization Techniques

Professional Experience

  • Worked as Assistant Professor in Delhi Technological University from September 2012 to June 2013
  • Worked as Assistant Professor in Galgotia College of Engineering and Technology from July 2010 to December 2011.

Externally Funded Research Projects

  • Blockchain and Machine Learning Powered Unified Video-KYC FrameworkSponsored by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India, IIT Bhilai Innovation and Technology Foundation (IBITF), 2022-2025. Role: Chief Investigator
  • Extraction of Actionable Cyber Threat Intelligence from Unstructured Sources in the WebSponsored by Joint Innovation Center, Union Bank of India, 2023-2024. Role: Principal Investigator

Internally Funded Projects

  • Diwas (Digital Walk to Services): Secure Onboarding Customer for Banking Services.

Ph.D. Guidance

  • Hemraj Singh (with Dr Ramalingaswamy Cheruku, NITW), “Video Salient Object Detection using Lightweight Deep Learning Approaches”. (Thesis Defended on 29th May 2025) “Congrats Hemraj!”
  • Zarka Bashir (with Prof C. Krishna Mohan, IIT Hyderabad), “Federated Learning”. In progress since 2021.

M. Tech. Guidance

  • Gudibanda Sai Jeevan Reddy, UoH (2024-2025; with Lanka Narasimham, GE): Ongoing
  • Sai Rishik Thakkallapally, UoH (2024-2025; with Sudhanshu Mishra, GE): Ongoing
  • Rajyalaxmi Vanam, UoH (2021-2022; with Dr Susmita Mandal, IDRBT)
  • S Sravani, UoH (2020-2021)
  • Mahipal Singh Papola, UoH (2019-2020)

Courses / Training Programs

Professional Services

  • IT Consultancy Services
    • Punjab National Bank from August 2018 to December 2022.
    • Indian Overseas Bank from January 2023 to November 2024.
  • Managing Editor, Journal of Banking and Financial Technology, since October 2024.
  • Session Chair: 31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2024), Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Organizing Chair of ACM Sponsored Conference Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation FIRE-2020 (online) on 16th-20th December 2020.
  • Member of Professional Bodies: IEEE, The Institution of Engineers (India)
  • Reviewer: IEEE TKDE, IEEE TNNLS, ACM Multimedia, IEEE Sensors, IEEE Access, TENCON, IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning and Applications, Journal of Banking and Financial Technology, ESWA, KBS, COMSNETS
  • Joint Coordinator, IDRBT Chief Analytics Officers Forum since January 2022.
  • Joint Coordinator, IDRBT FinTech Forum since July 2018.
  • Coordinator of the 8th and 9th IDRBT Doctoral Colloquium on December 7, 2018 and December 9, 2019, respectively.

Recent Publications