Dr. Gurjit Kaur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering at the Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi, India. She has been a topper throughout her academic education. As a testimonial to the same, she has been awarded by Chief Minister S. Prakash Singh Badal for being the topper in Punjab state. After that, she was awarded a 'Gold Medal' by former President of India Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam for being the overall topper of the Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar in B.Tech program. She also received an Honour by Guru Harkrishan Education Society for being topper among all the colleges and all the disciplines of PTU, Jalandhar. She then proceeded to PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh to complete her M. Tech in 2003 and also earned her Ph.D. degree from Panjab University, Chandigarh in 2010 with distinction. She has spent over 17 years of her academic career towards research and teaching in the field of Electronics and Communication in well-reputed institutes like PEC University of Technology, Punjab University, Jaypee Institute of Information and Technology, Gautam Buddha University and Delhi Technological University, Delhi. During this academic tenure, she has guided 04 Ph.D. students and more than 50 M.Tech students. Her research interests mainly include Optical CDMA, Wireless Communication system, high-speed interconnect and IOT. She has also authored four books at the international and national level. Her three books i.e., " Green and Smart Technologies for Smart Cities", "Handbook of Research on Big Data and the IoT" and "Examining Cloud Computing Technologies through the Internet of Things," were published by CRC & IGI-Global, International Publisher of Progressive Information Science and Technology Research in 2019, 2018 and 2017 respectively. She also authored a national level book entitled "Optical Communication," which was published by Galgotia Publications. Apart from that Dr. Kaur contributed various book chapters in well-renowned publishers books i.e., IGI, Springer, CRC, etc. She has presented her research work as short courses/tutorials in many national and international conferences. In recognition of her outstanding contribution as an active researcher, she received "Research Excellence Award" by Delhi Technological University in March 2020. She also received Bharat Vikas Award by Institute of Self Reliance in National Seminar on Diversity of Cultural and Social Environment at Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India & Prof. Indira Parikh 50 Women in Education Leader Award in World Education Congress, Mumbai, India in 2017. Her career accomplishments over the past sixteen years include over 90 peer-reviewed publications, including 60 journal publications, 35 conference publications, and over ten invited talks/seminars. Due to her pioneer research, her name is also listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering Directory, USA and her biography was also published by International Biographic Center, Great Britain as 2000 Outstanding Scientists. She also worked as a convener for two international conferences i.e. International ICIAICT 2012 which was organized by CSI, Noida Chapter and International conference EPPICTM 2012 which was held in collaboration with MTMI, USA, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USA and Frostburg State University, USA at School of Information and Communication Technology, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, India. Till date, she had delivered many expert talks on the emerging trends in optical for all domain applications at various universities and served as a reviewer of multiple journals like IEEE transactions on communication etc.
