Faculty at School of Engineering

Sweta Kumari

Sweta Kumari

Assistant Professor

School of Engineering


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Dr. Sweta Kumari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi-NCR, India. She worked as a Research Scientist at the Unstructured Data Storage Lab, Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., from January 2021 to April 2023. Prior to joining Huawei, she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, under the supervision of Prof. Hagit Attiya. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India. Her current research interests include Blockchain, Parallel and Concurrent Programming, Distributed Computing, Software Transaction Memory Systems, and Applications of AI/ML in Systems. She has published multiple research papers in renowned international conferences and journals, and her research contributions have received recognition from pioneering researchers, including a Best Student Paper Award and Best Poster Awards.

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  • PhD in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India (2019)
  • M.Tech in Computer Science from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India (2014)

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, Dec 2023 - Present
  • Research Scientist Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. Jan 2021-April 2023
  • Postdoctoral Fellow Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Oct 2019-Jan 2021
  • Assistant Professor Atmiya Institute of Technology & Science, Rajkot, Gujarat, India July, 2 014-Nov, 2014
  • Programmer analyst trainee Cognizant Technology Solutions, Pune, India Dec, 2011-Jul, 2012

  • Blockchain, Parallel and Concurrent Programming, Distributed Computing, Software Transaction Memory Systems, and Applications of AI/ML in Systems.

  • Silver Medal in Huawei Innovation Contest Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. 2021
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship (from Oct 2019-Oct 2021) Technion Fellowship 2019/20
  • Appreciation in ResearchIIT Hyderabad, India 2019
  • Best Poster Award Doctoral Symposium, 20th International Conference ICDCN 2019 
  • Best Student Paper Award 20th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2018) 2018
  • Best Poster Award 6th International Conference on Networked System (NETYS) held at Essaouira, Morocco from 9 th to 11 th May 2018
  • Microsoft Research Travel Grant for IPDPS 2016, Chicago, Illinois, USA Microsoft, India2016
  • Visvesvaraya Ph.D Fellowship (From 2015-2019) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India 2015
  • Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) with 98.3 percentile in Computer Science 2012. Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering 2012
  • B. Tech Honors Rajasthan Technical University (RTU), Kota 2011

  • Appreciation in Research IIT Hyderabad, India 2019
  • Best Poster Award Doctoral Symposium, 20th International Conference ICDCN 2019
  • Best Student Paper Award 20th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2018)
  • Best Poster Award 6th International Conference on Networked System (NETYS) held at Essaouira, Morocco from 9 th to11 th May 2018

  1. “Parallel Heuristic Semantic Walk on Large Knowledge Graphs with Text Embeddings”, Raj Singh Bisen, Vipul Kumar Chauhan, Parth Gupta, Sweta Kumari, Archit Somani, 2025 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC), Singapore, pp. 53-59, DOI: 10.1109/MCSoC67473.2025.00019.
  2. “OPT-MorphDAG: An Efficient Implementation of Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)-Based Blockchain”, Anish Gupta, Sweta Kumari, Suryansh Rohil, Archit Somani, 2025 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC), Singapore, pp. 686-693, DOI: 10.1109/MCSoC67473.2025.00111.
  3. “Exponentially Fast Collaborative Broadcasting in 3D Space”, Yotam Ashkenazi, Shlomi Dolev, Sergey Frenkel, Manish Kumar, Sweta Kumari, Ram Prasadh Narayanan, and Archit Somani, 10th International Conference on Information and Network Technologies (ICINT 2025), Melbourne, Australia, 2025, pp. 124-128, DOI: 10.1109/ICINT65528.2025.11030906.
  4. “MLDPBS: A Machine Learning-based Dynamic Partitioning Buddy System for Efficient Memory Allocation in Embedded Systems”, Sweta Kumari, Dhruv Mishra, Aaradhy Shrama, and Archit Somani, 17th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2024, pp. 261-268, DOI: 10.1109/MCSoC64144.2024.00051.
  5. “Optimal Resilience in Systems that Mix Shared Memory and Message Passing” Hagit Attiya, Sweta Kumari, Noa Schiller, in the 24th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS) 2020, Strasbourg, France, DOI:10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2020.16.
  6. “Store-Collect in the Presence of Continuous Churn with Application to Snapshots and Lattice Agreement”, Hagit Attiya, Sweta Kumari, Archit Somani, Jennifer L. Welch, in 22d International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS) 2020, Austin, Texas, USA, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64348-5_1.
  7. “Collect in the Presence of Continuous Churn with Application to Snapshots and Lattice Agreement”, Hagit Attiya, Sweta Kumari, Archit Somani, Jennifer L. Welch, as a brief announcement in 39th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) 2020, Salerno, Italy, pp 51-53, https://doi.org/10.1145/3382734.3405709.
  8.  “Efficient Concurrent Execution of Smart Contracts in Blockchains using Object-based Transactional Memory”, Parwat Singh Anjana, Hagit Attiya, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani, in 8th International Conference On Networked Systems, 2020, Morocco, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67087-0_6.
  9. “Achieving Starvation-Freedom with Greater Concurrency in Multi-Version Object-based Transactional Memory Systems”, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani in 21st International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2019), Pisa, Italy; pp 209–227, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-34992-9\_17.
  10. “Achieving Starvation-Freedom in Multi-Version Transactional Memory Systems”, Ved Chaudhary, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, and Sathya Peri in 7th International Conference On Networked Systems, 2019, Marrakech, Morocco; pp 291-310, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31277-0_20.
  11. “An Efficient Framework for Optimistic Concurrent Execution of Smart Contracts”, Parwat Singh Anjana, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, Sachin Rathor, and Archit Somani in 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP 2019) at Pavai, Italy; pp 83–92, doi: 10.1109/EMPDP.2019.8671637.
  12. “An Innovative Approach to Achieve Compositionality Efficiently using Multi- Version Object Based Transactional Systems”, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani in 20th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2018), Tokyo, Japan; pp 284-300, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03232-6_19. (Best Student Paper Award)
  13. “A Parallel Selection Sorting Algorithm on GPUs Using Binary Search”, Sweta Kumari and Dhirendra Pratap Singh in IEEE Conference on ICART, Kanpur, India, 2014; 2347-9337, doi: 10.1109/ICAETR.2014.7012819.

  • “Store-Collect in the Presence of Continuous Churn with Application to Snapshots and Lattice Agreement”, Hagit Attiya, Sweta Kumari, Archit Somani, Jennifer L. Welch IN Information and Computation Journal, Volume 285, ISSN 0890-5401, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2022.104869, 2022.
  • “Achieving Starvation-Freedom in Multi Version Transactional Memory Systems”, Ved Chaudhary, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, and Sathya Peri, in Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-021-00994-y, 2022.
  • “An Efficient Approach to Achieve Compositionality using Optimized Multi-Version Object Based Transactional Systems”, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani, in Information and Computation Journal, Volume 285, ISSN 0890-5401, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ic.2021.104696, 2022.
  • “OptSmart: a space efficient optimistic concurrent execution of smart contracts” Parwat Singh Anjana, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, Sachin Rathor, and Archit Somani, Distributed and Parallel Databases. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-022-07412-y, pp.153,2022.
  • “Ensuring Starvation-Freedom with Greater Concurrency in Multi-Version Object-based Transactional Memory Systems”, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani. [In-progress]
  • “Efficient Concurrent Execution of Smart Contracts in Blockchains using Object-based Transactional Memory ”, Parwat Singh Anjana, Hagit Attiya, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani. [In-progress]

  • I gave a Technical talk on Blockchain in Hyperledger APAC, Women in Blockchain in June 2023.
  • I am delighted to give a talk at IMSc Chennai on “Concurrent Execution of Contracts in Blockchains” in Feb 2020.
  • I presented at numerous international conferences, including IPDPS 2015/16, ICDCN 2017/18/19, PDP 2019, SNIA EMEA 2021, SNIA India 2022, and IEEE CCEM 2021.

I delivered oral presentations at various international conferences, including MCSoC 2025/26, SNIA India 2022, IEEE CCEM 2021, SNIA EMEA 2021, SSS 2018, NETYS 2019, ICDCN 2017/18/19, and PDP 2019.

  • “Efficient Concurrent Execution of Smart Contracts in Blockchains using Object-based Transactional Memory”, Parwat Singh Anjana, Hagit Attiya, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri and Archit Somani in15th Inter-Research-Institute Student Seminar in Computer Science, India.
  • “An Innovative Approach to Achieve Compositionality Efficiently using Multi-Version Object Based Transactional Systems”, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani in 13th Inter-Research-Institute Student Seminar at Computer Science, India.
  • “Entitling Concurrency to Smart Contracts Using Optimistic Transactional Memory”, Parwat Singh Anjana, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, Sachin Rathor, and Archit Somani in Doctoral Symposium, ICDCN 2019 at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. (Best Poster Award)
  • “An Innovative Approach to Achieve Compositionality Efficiently using Multi-Version Object Based Transactional Systems”, Chirag Juyal, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, Sathya Peri, and Archit Somani in 6th International Conference On Networked Systems, 2018, Essaouira, Morocco. (Best Poster Award)
  • “Starvation Freedom in Transactional Memory Systems” Ved Prakash Chaudhary, Raj Kripal Danday, Hima Varsha Dureddy, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, and Sathya Peri in Department day of Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India, July 2016.
  • “Modified FOCC Protocol That Satisfies Opacity and Starvation Freedom” Ved Prakash Chaudhary, Raj Kripal Danday, Hima Varsha Dureddy, Sandeep Kulkarni, Sweta Kumari, and Sathya Peri in 30th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2016, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

I was a PC member of ICDCIT 2022/25/26 and UPCON 2022, and reviewed multiple papers for various conferences and journals, including DISC’20/18, IndoSys’19/20/21, SRDS’18, HLPP’18, CODS-COMAD’18/19/22, ICDCN’18/17/16, OPODIS’17, ICDCIT’16/22/25/26, ICIT’15, IEEE Access, and Computing Journal.

I am the publicity chair for ICDCIT 2027