Namita Bajpai

Namita Bajpai

Assistant Professor – Senior Scale

Profile Summary

Namita Bajpai is an academic and researcher working in the domain of Artificial Intelligence. She completed her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and her M.Tech from IIT ISM Dhanbad.

Her work particularly focuses on addressing hidden stratification, subclass discovery in real-world datasets, and designing robust classifiers.

She has published multiple SCIE-indexed journal papers and peer-reviewed international conference papers. Her academic interests lie in building intelligent systems capable of handling challenging real-world data scenarios such as imbalance, noise, and high dimensionality.

Work Experience

Before joining UPES as an Assistant Professor – Senior Scale, Namita Bajpai served as an Assistant Professor at C. V. Raman College of Engineering, Bhubaneswar, in the Computer Science Department during 2017–18.

She has also worked on the “Integrated Information System and Knowledge Discovery Platform for ONGC” as a Research Assistant at IIT Kharagpur.

Research Interests

Robust Classification Methods | Graph-Based Learning | Machine Learning for Imbalanced Data | Noisy Data Analytics | High-Dimensional Data Mining | Artificial Intelligence

Teaching Philosophy

Namita believes in the principle expressed by Confucius: “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Her teaching emphasizes hands-on learning, demonstrations, and practical problem-solving to cultivate deep and lasting understanding in students.

She encourages curiosity, experimentation, and analytical thinking in the classroom.

Courses Taught

Distributed Systems | Data Mining | Design and Analysis of Algorithms | C Programming | Linux

Awards and Achievements

Recipient of multiple travel grants to present research at WiML @ NeurIPS 2024 and 2025.

Awarded the CSIR grant. Recipient of a Doctoral Fellowship and Post Graduate Scholarship.

Qualified the GATE examination and received scholarship support throughout four years of graduation.

Served as reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals and international conferences.

Scholarly Activities

Namita Bajpai has contributed significantly to research in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning through publications in SCIE-indexed journals and peer-reviewed international conferences.

Her scholarly work focuses on hidden stratification, subclass discovery, robust classifiers, and graph-based learning methods.

She actively engages with the research community through conference participation, reviewing scholarly manuscripts, and collaborative academic initiatives.