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Dr. Pankhuri Jain

Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences, IIT BHU
Email:
pankhurijain.mat@itbhu.ac.in
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Area of Interest:
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Agentic AI, Fuzzy Logic, Assistive Technology

Current position:
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi: March, 2026 – present.

Previous positions:

AI Engineer, Deutsche Bank, Pune: September, 2025 – February, 2026.

AI/ML Technical Lead, Datumspace.io, Eindhoven, Netherlands: September 2021 – July 2025.

Education:

Ph.D., Mathematical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi: August 2018 – July 2022.

Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi: August 2015 – May 2018.

B.Sc. (Hons) Mathematics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi: August 2012 – May 2015.

Publications

  1. Pankhuri Jain, Anoop Kumar Tiwari, and Tanmoy Som. "A fitting model based intuitionistic fuzzy rough feature selection." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 89 (2020): 103421. SCI, Impact-8.0.

  2. Pankhuri Jain, Anoop Kumar Tiwari, and Tanmoy Som. "An Intuitionistic Fuzzy Bireduct Model and its Application to Cancer Treatment." Computers & Industrial Engineering (2022): 108124. SCI, Impact-6.5.

  3. Pankhuri Jain and Tanmoy Som. "Multigranular rough set model based on robust intuitionistic fuzzy covering with application to feature selection." International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 156 (2023): 16-37. SCI, Impact-3.0.

  4. Pankhuri Jain, Anoop Kumar Tiwari, and Tanmoy Som. "Enhanced prediction of anti-tubercular peptides from sequence information using divergence measure-based intuitionistic fuzzy-rough feature selection." Soft Computing (2020): 1-22. SCI, Impact-2.5.

  5. Pankhuri Jain, Anoop Kumar Tiwari, and Tanmoy Som. "Fuzzy rough assisted missing value imputation and feature selection.” Neural Computing and Applications 35(3) (2023): 2773-2793. SCOPUS. 

  6. Pankhuri Jain, Anoop Kumar Tiwari, and Tanmoy Som. "Intuitionistic fuzzy rough set model based on k-means and its application to enhance prediction of aptamer–protein interacting pairs.” Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing 15(9) (2024): 3575-3586. SCOPUS. 

  7. Shivani Singh, Shivam Shreevastava, Tanmoy Som, Pankhuri Jain, "Intuitionistic fuzzy quantifier and its application in feature selection." International Journal of Fuzzy Systems 21(2) (2019): 441-453. SCI, Impact-3.6.

  8. Pankhuri Jain, Anoop Kumar Tiwari, and Tanmoy Som. "Unsupervised Fuzzy Rough Feature Selection using Earthworm Optimization.” International Journal of Information Technology (Accepted). SCOPUS. 

 

Confer̥ence Proceedings

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  • Pankhuri Jain, Anoop Kumar Tiwari, and Tanmoy Som. "Enhanced prediction of animal toxins using intuitionistic fuzzy rough feature selection technique followed by SMOTE”, 2021 25th International Conference on Information Technology (IT), IEEE, Page 1-4.

  • Pankhuri Jain, Anoop Kumar Tiwari, and Tanmoy Som. "Enhanced Prediction of plant virus-encoded RNA silencing suppressors by incorporating Reduced Set of Sequence Features using SMOTE followed by Fuzzy-Rough Feature Selection Technique”, 2019 10th international conference on computing, communication and networking technologies (ICCCNT), IEEE, Page 1-7.

 

Book Chapters

 

  • Tanmoy Som, Pankhuri Jain, and Anoop Kumar Tiwari. "9 Analysis of credit card fraud detection using fuzzy rough and intuitionistic fuzzy rough feature selection techniques." Computational Intelligence: Theoretical Advances and Advanced Applications 3 De Gruyter (2020): 135. 

  • Tanmoy Som, Pankhuri Jain, and Anoop Kumar Tiwari. "Improving Financial Bankruptcy Prediction Using Oversampling Followed by Fuzzy Rough Feature Selection via Evolutionary Search." Computational Management 18 Springer (2021).

 

  • Pankhuri Jain with Anoop Kumar Tiwari, and Tanmoy Som. "System for predicting anti-tubercular peptides from sequence information using divergence measure-based intuitionistic fuzzy-rough feature selection." is published in Australian Innovation Patent (2021).

  • ISSN international best researcher award for 'Research and Excellence in Machine Learning' in 2022. 
  • Awarded gold medal for securing first position at M.Sc Computer Science/MCA in 2018. 
  • Awarded gold medal for securing first position at B.A/B.Sc (Hons) Mathematics in 2015. 
  • Awarded Banaras shree from 'Bharat Suraksha Parishad' in 2016. 
  • Qualified JRF twice in January, 2018 and July, 2018. 
  • Letter of Appreciation from Crystal Cook n Serve Products Pvt Ltd in 2016. 
  • Awarded 5th position in International Olympiad of Mathematics in 2009. 
  • Awarded 'Topper' in Abacus and Mental Arithmetic Mega Competition 2009.