Dr.Usha Batra

Professor and Dean at GD Goenka University

Dr Usha Batra is currently working as a Professor and Associate Dean, School of Engineering and Sciences at GD Goenka University, Gurugram, India. She is a doctorate in Computer Science Engineering from Banasthali Vidyapith. She has 18 years of rich academic, research and administrative experiences in Indian universities' systems including Jaypee University, Northcap University and presently at GD Goenka University. She was recently awarded with government recognised prestigious Indian Achievers' Award 2021 for Excellence in Education in recognition of outstanding professional achievement and contribution in nation building.

Dr Usha Batra is a university rank holder during Bachelors of Engineering. She has authored or co-authored more than 50 scholarly research articles, conference papers, and book chapters. She has 14 national and international patents published to her credit. She is an editor and reviewer of reputed and indexed journals of IEEE, Springer and Elsevier. She contributed as keynote speaker in IEEE international conference, session chair of various international conferences; and convener and organizer of many international conferences in association with IEEE and Springer. She presented herself as a special Invitee and IT expert for a live talk on ‘emerging trends in IT’ on IBN7. She is Deputy Chairperson of NAAC Steering Committee of GD Goenka University. She is an active member of the Academic Council and chair, Board of Studies of School of Engineering and Sciences. She is IBM certified faculty for various courses in the domain of cloud computing and Business Analytics. Her current responsibilities also include designing state of the art curriculum and finalising MoUs with industries like IBM, Oracle, Xebia, Dell, Amazon, Microsoft etc. She has supervised over 30 projects at Undergraduate to Postgraduate level and got 6 national level winning projects. Three scholars have successfully completed their PhD in her guidance and 3 more scholars have submitted their PhD thesis. She is currently supervising 2 PhD scholars. Her areas of research include Distributed Systems, Enterprise Application Integration, Business Analytics, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Internet of Things and Cyber Physical Systems.

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Day Oct 7 2021

Blockchain secured smart buildings
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Blockchain, often associated with cryptocurrencies, has been lately realized to have immense potential across other domains too vide Blockchain 2.0 and futuristic Blockchain 3.0 versions. Blockchain has magnified itself beyond cryptocurrencies and has a universal appeal ranging across variety domains. Though still at inception stage, but a variegated options and choices have emerged on how blockchain can benefit and make the world better with its immutability, smart contracts and transparency features. Also we have evolving cyber physical systems (CPS), which are consolidations of new generation computing methods, physical and networking operations. In CPS, the embedded computing technologies and networks proctor and check the physical functions, with feedback loops where physical processes bear upon computing part and contrariwise. CPS incorporates the kinetics of the physical operations with software and networking, delivering abstractions and simulating, conceptions, and analysis techniques for the complete system. This paper will discuss and propose the deployment of the CPS Smart building (CPS-SB) network based on an Ethereum private blockchain system mechanized by smart contracts and also discuss inherent challenges on a IoT Simulator (Cupcarbon). The proposal allows for operation of self sustaining CPS-SB based on smart contracts to realize predictive building controls.