Faculty at School of Engineering

Sonia Khetarpaul

Sonia Khetarpaul

Associate Professor

School of Engineering


Contact Information

Querying and mining Spatio-Temporal Data, Social Network Analysis, NLP, and Information Retrieval

2016, Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

2004, M.Tech., (IT), Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi

06/17-Present, Assistant Professor, Shiv Nadar University, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh

12/09-11/15, Teaching Assistant, IIT Delhi, Delhi

06/05-11/09, Assistant Professor, Northern India Engineering College, Delhi

06/01-05/04, Lecturer, Guru Premsukh Memorial College of Engineering, Delhi

2010, Received IBM PhD Fellowship

Refereed Journal Publications

  • Mishra, Saurabh, and Sonia Khetarpaul. uR-tree: a spatial index structure for handling multiple point selection queries. Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp. 1-19, 2022, Springer Nature.
  • Sonia Khetarpaul. Mining location based social networks to understand the citizens check-in patterns. In Springer Computing, pp. 1-27, 2021, Springer Nature.
  • Singh, Rajeev Kumar, Sonia Khetarpaul, Rohan Gorantla, and Sai Giridhar Allada. SHEG: summarization and headline generation of news articles using deep learning. In Neural Computing and Applications, pp. 1-15, 2021, Springer Nature.
  • Sonia Khetarpaul, S. K. Gupta and L. Venkata Subramaniam. Mining optimal meeting points for moving users in spatio-temporal space. In Springer Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), Volume 8(1):50, July 2018, Springer Nature.
  • Sonia Khetarpaul, S. K. Gupta and L. Venkata Subramaniam. Spatio- Temporal-Social(STS) Data Model - Correlation Social Networks and Spatio- Temporal Data. In Springer Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), Volume 6(1), pp. 1-17, September 2016, Springer Nature.

Refereed Conference Publications

  • Mishra, Saurabh, and Sonia Khetarpaul. Predicting Taxi Hotspots in Dynamic Conditions using Graph Neural Network. pp. 89-102. In Australasian Database Conference Springer, Cham, 2022.
  • Sonia Khetarpaul, Dolly Sharma, Jackson I. Jose and Mohith S. Real-time Detection and Visualization of Traffic Conditions by Mining Twitter Data. pp. 141-152. In Australasian Database Conference, Springer, Cham, 2022.
  • Dolly Sharma, Sonia Khetarpaul, Ambreesh Parthsarthy, Mohit Kumar S and Sparsh Agarwalla. Performance prediction of songs on online music platforms. pp. 209-216. In Australasian Database Conference, Springer, Cham, 2022.
  • Mohith, S., Rebhav Guha, Sonia Khetarpaul, and Samant Saurabh. Team Selection Using Statistical and Graphical Approaches for Cricket Fantasy Leagues. In International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, pp. 719-726. Springer, Cham, 2022.
  • Mishra, Saurabh, and Sonia Khetarpaul. Optimal Placement of Taxis in a City Using Dominating Set Problem. In Australasian Database Conference. pp. 111-124. Springer, Cham, 2021.
  • Sonia Khetarpaul, Dolly Sharma, Mayuri Gupta, and Vaibhav Gautam. A Real Time Analysis of Offensive Texts to Prevent Cyberbullying. In Australasian Database Conference, pp. 152-165. Springer, Cham, 2021.
  • Mohith, S., Jackson I. Jose, Sonia Khetarpaul, and Dolly Sharma. Analyzing Tweets to Understand Factors Affecting Opinion on Climate Change. In Australasian Database Conference, pp. 99-110. Springer, Cham, 2021.
  • Manika Mittal, Shivangi Goel, Sonia Khetarpaul. Monitoring Social Media Content for Religious Context. In proceedings of 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, MLDM 2021.
  • Gupta, Akash, Neha Tandon, and Sonia Khetarpaul. Influence-Time-Proximity Driven Locations Recommendation Model: An Integrated Approach. IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), pp. 1381-1386. IEEE, 2019.
  • Sonia Khetarpaul, S. K. Gupta and L. Venkata Subramaniam. Correlating Social Interconnections of Users with Spatio-Temporal Check-ins Behavior. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining (SSTDM 2016) in Cooperation with IEEE ICDM 2016.