Dr Aakanksha Sharma
Lecturer (Unit Coordinator) & Academic Integrity Officer
School of IT & Engineering
School of IT & Engineering
Melbourne
Publications
List of Dr Aakanksha's PublicationsBio
Aakanksha Sharma is a Lecturer and Academic Integrity Officer in the School of IT and Engineering at Melbourne Institute of Technology (MIT), Australia. She holds a PhD in Information Technology from Federation University Australia and has over 13 years of teaching experience in higher education. She has taught at Federation University Australia and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), and previously served as an Assistant Professor at Chandigarh University, India. Dr. Sharma actively supervises Master by Research students in areas including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, network optimisation, and tourism demand forecasting. Her research interests include the Internet of Things (IoT), Software-Defined Networks (SDN), Wireless Communications, and Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI). She has published extensively in leading international journals and conferences.
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).