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Dr. Parul Gandhi has a Doctorate in the subject of Computer Science with a study area in Software Engineering from Guru Jambeshwar University, Hisar. She is also a gold medalist in M.Sc. Computer Science. She has a strong inclination towards academics and research. She has over 15 years of academic, research, and administrative experience. She has published more than 30 research articles in prominent international and national journals and conferences. She has also had papers in SCI-indexed journals. Her research interests include software quality, soft computing, software metrics, component-based software development, data mining, and IOT.

She is currently working as a Professor at Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, Faridabad, India. She is also handling the Ph.D. program at the university. She has also been connected as an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous prominent publications and conferences. She has successfully published several book chapters and also edited different books with high-indexed databases. She is a lifetime member of the Computer Science Society of India.

Prof. Dr. N.K Chadha is a Professor and Dean, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences; former Director and Head, Department of Adult, Continuing Education and Extension; and Chairman, Board of Research Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi. For five consecutive years, he was on the panel of judges for the Prime Minister's Trophy for the Steel Industries and the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India. He was the senior consultant to UNDP on Career Development.

Professor Chadha has been teaching in the Department of Psychology at the University of Delhi since 1982. He has authored several books which are referred to as textbooks in many universities in India and abroad at undergraduate, postgraduate, and research levels. Some of the publications are: "Aging and the Aged-A Challenge to Indian Gerontology" (Friends Publications)", "Think Before Getting Grey" (Shri Sai Printographers), "Recruitment and Selection" (Galgotia), "Organisational Behaviour" (Galgotia), "Applied Psychometry" (Sage), "Human Resource Development" (Shri Sai Printographers), "Social Psychology"(McMillan), "The Psychological Releam" (Pinnacle Learning), "Counselling Skills Knowing Self and Others" (The Readers Paradise), "Art and Science of Parenting" (Art of Success). He has also co-authored a book with John Van Willigen, University of Kentucky, US, entitled "Social Aging in a Delhi Neighbourhood". He has been conducting many ongoing research projects with foreign universities and has carried out a number of major interdisciplinary and collaborative projects. He has published more than 120 articles in various scientific national and international journals, which are often quoted by other researchers. He is on the management bodies of many institutes in India and abroad. He was invited by the UN to attend an expert group meeting at UN headquarters on family issues.

He has traveled extensively and lectured in the UK, USA, Spain, Hungary, Sweden, Malta, Germany, France, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Taipei, Japan, and South Africa. He is involved in the development of standardized psychological tests for many multinational companies and public-sector companies for the purpose of recruitment and selection of middle and higher management levels. He is one of the leading psychometricians in India, and his book on Applied Psychology is widely used by students and practitioners of psychological assessment.

Recently, Prof. Chadha has been awarded the National Career Development Association Presidential recognition award on the 28th of June 2017 in Orlando, USA, and “Global Practitioner of the Year-2015” on the 30th of June 2015 during the annual conference held in Denver, USA.

He received the Life Time Achievement Award from the Asia Pacific Career Development Association during its annual meeting held on the 22nd of May 2019, in Vietnam. He has now taken on the responsibilities of the President of the International Career Coach Association, USA.