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Grade "A+" Accredited by NAAC with a CGPA of 3.46
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Sonika Thakral, Ph.D.

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Areas of Expertise

  • Theoretical Computer Science
Detailed Resume

Sonika Thakral, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change – Carl Rogers

Biography

Dr. Sonika is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, University of Delhi. She completed her post-doctoral research at IIT Delhi in 2021. She started her career as a teacher with University of Delhi in 2005 and has been associated with SSCBS since December, 2014. Her research interests include Theoretical Computer Science, Contemplative Neuroscience and Cognition. She is also interested in Yogic Sciences and its application to mental health.

Education

  • Ph.D. (Theoretical Computer Science), University of Delhi, Title of the thesis: Approximation Algorithms for Data Placement Problems
  • NET (UGC), Computer Science and Applications
  • M.C.A., Gurukul Kangri University
  • B.Sc. (H) Mathematics, University of Delhi

Publications

  • Fialoke, S., Tripathi, V., Thakral, S., Dhawan, A., Majahan, V., & Garg, R. (2024). Functional connectivity changes in meditators and novices during yoga nidra practice. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 12957.
  • Fialoke, S., Tripathi, V., Thakral, S., Dhawan, A., Mahajan, V., Garg, R. (December 2023). Altered States of Consciousness during Yoga Nidra: An fMRI Study of Thalamic Connectivity. Mind, Brain and Consciousness (https://iksmha.iitmandi.ac.in/mbcc/index.php#proceedings).
  • Thakral, S., Rao, A. R., Mishra, S., Mishra, A., Bentur, S, Garg, R. (December 2023) A Survey-based Study During COVID Shows That Lifestyle Factors Correlate with Mental Health. Mind, Brain and Consciousness (https://iksmha.iitmandi.ac.in/mbcc/index.php#proceedings).
  • Thakral, S., Rao, A. R., Mishra, S., Mishra, A., Bentur, S, Garg, R. (August 2023). A Survey-based Study Shows That Lifestyle Factors and Mental Health Correlate with Appearance and Duration of COVID-like Symptoms. National Youth Conference on Indian Knowledge Systems (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xRjauSvB0f1CO4K-xrZ17R-VNTs54gir) pg 51
  • Thakral, S., Garg, R., & Bijlani, R. (2023). Age-related variation in lifestyle and its relationship to chronic disease as shown by a survey using a self-evaluation questionnaire. Yoga Mimamsa, 55(1), 12-24.
  • Bentur, S. A., Mishra, A., Kumar, Y., Thakral, S., Sanjiv, S., & Garg, R. (2022). Integrative Therapy based on Yoga, Ayurveda and Modern Western Medicine for treatment of high-risk cases of COVID-19: A telemedicine-based case series. Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (IJTK), 21(3), 475-488, 0975-1068.
  • Singh, V., Thakral, S., Singh, K., & Garg, R. (2022). Examining cognitive sex differences in elite math intensive education: Preliminary evidence from a gender inequitable country. Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 26, 2211-9493.
  • Mishra, A., Bentur, S. A., Thakral, S., Garg, R., & Duggal, B. (2021). The use of integrative therapy based on Yoga and Ayurveda in the treatment of a high-risk case of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 with multiple comorbidities: a case report. Journal of medical case reports, 15(1), 1-12, 17521947.
  • Arora, S., Gupta, N., Khuller, S., Sabharwal, Y., & Singhal, S. (2014). Facility location with red–blue demands. Operations Research Letters, 42(6-7), 462-465, 0167-6377.
  • 15th International Symposium, WADS Aggarwal, A., Chakaravarthy, V. T., Gupta, N., Sabharwal, Y., Sharma, S., & Thakral, S. (2017, July). Replica Placement on Bounded Treewidth Graphs. In Algorithms and Data Structures 2017, St. John’s, NL, Canada, July 31–August 2, 2017, Proceedings (Vol. 10389, p. 13-24). Springer.
  • Arora, S., Chakaravarthy, V. T., Gupta, K., Gupta, N., & Sabharwal, Y. (2014, December). Replica Placement on Directed Acyclic Graphs. In 34th International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (p. 213).
  • Arora, S., Agarwal, A., Chakaravarthy, V. T., & Sabharwal, Y. (2014, December). Algorithms for power-aware resource activation. In 2014 21st International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC) (pp. 1-10). IEEE.
  • Arora, S., Chakaravarthy, V. T., Gupta, N., Mukherjee, K., & Sabharwal, Y. (2013, December). Replica Placement via Capacitated Vertex Cover. In 33nd International Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (p. 263).
  • Poster presentation of the paper titled ‘Mind and Body in Balance: Assessing Yoga to Demystify its effects on Cognitive Performance’ at the Sixth Annual Conference of Association for Cognitive Science 2019. Co-authors: Prof. Varsha Singh (Deptt. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IITD), Kunal Singh (JRF, Deptt. of Computer Science and Engineering, IITD), Prof. Sanjeev Jain (Deptt. of Mechanical Engineering, IITD), Prof. Rahul Garg (Deptt. of CSE, IITD).