Dr Aakanksha Sharma
Faculty: School of IT & Engineering
Position: Lecturer and Unit Coordinator
Contact: aasharma@mit.edu.au
Campus: Melbourne
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Bio
Aakanksha Sharma is a Lecturer at the Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, with over 12 years of academic teaching experience. She completed her PhD at Federation University, Australia. Over the years, she has taught at Federation University and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), and previously served for five years as an Assistant Professor at Chandigarh University, India. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Aakanksha is actively involved in research supervision and is currently supervising Master's by Research students. Her research interests include the Internet of Things (IoT), Software-Defined Networks (SDN), Wireless Communications, and Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI).
Qualifications
PhD Information Technology - Federation University, 2022.
M.Tech Computer Science and Engineering - Punjab Technical University, 2015.
B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering - Lovely Professional University, 2011.
Teaching
- MN511 (Enterprise and Cloud Networks)
- MN503 (Overview of Internetworking)
- MN501 (Network Management in Organisations)
- MDA523 (Software Engineering Fundamentals)
- BN112 (Computer System Fundamentals)
- BN201(Professional Issues of IT)
- BN202 (Internetworking Technologies)
- BN209 (Software Engineering)
- MN691, MN692, MDA692 (Project Supervision)
Experience & Research
Experience
- Lecturer/Tutor, School of Institute of Innovation, Science and Sustainability, Federation University (July, 2019 - May, 2023).
- Lecturer/Tutor, School of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, RMIT (Feb, 2023-May, 2023).
- Assistant Professor, Chandigarh University, India (Jan, 2014 - Dec, 2018).
Research
- Internet of Things (IoT), Software-Defined Networks (SDN), Wireless Communications, and Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI).