Vijeta Sharma

About

Dr. Vijeta Sharma is a High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI) scientist with over 15+ years of R&D experience in both industry and academia. She holds a master's degree in Data Science and a PhD in the convergence of Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing (HPC), an area where she continues to contribute extensively.

Before joining NTNU, she served for 12 years at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India - a pioneering research organisation of India’s PARAM series of supercomputers. During her tenure, she contributed to several strategic projects of the Government of India spanning health, defence, and the National PARAM Supercomputing Facility (NPSF) under the National Supercomputing Mission. She was instrumental in driving benchmarking and pioneering AI application research on PARAM Siddhi-AI, India’s fastest and first AI supercomputer (2021).

Her pioneering contributions earned her ASWAR-2020, one of India’s most prestigious research awards by the Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India, recognising her novel PhD research.

At NTNU, she is actively engaged in Research, Teaching, and the supervision of bachelor’s and master’s dissertations. She is deeply involved in international collaborations for research, workshops, conferences, and knowledge dissemination. Her core research interests span Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision (image & video processing), Human Action Recognition, Deep Learning, Large Vision Models (LVM), High-Performance Computing (HPC), Embodied AI, and Robotics. Specifically, in AI on HPC, her passion lies in AI model parallelisation across accelerators such as CPU, GPU, and TPU - a central theme of her research work.

She has delivered 40+ invited talks on international platforms, including as a keynote speaker. She is an active member of Women in HPC (WHPC). Beyond technology, she is also recognised as a woman leader and recipient of the Global Women Leadership 2022 award, honouring her inspiring contributions to women in science and leadership.

Research

Intelligent System and Analytics

Publications

Sharma, Vijeta; Zlamal, Jaro; Mishra, Deepti. (2025) Explainable Embodied AI: A Study Towards Developing Interpretability in Medical Robots, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision in Medical Domain (AICVMD-2025), Varanasi, India, 17-19 February, 2025, Academic article

Jain, Sanyam; Kappan, Marsha Mariya; Sharma, Vijeta. (2025) Towards Robust Human Action Recognition in Healthcare: Addressing Challenges with Vision-Language Model CLIP and Introducing Class-Specific Noise, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision in Medical Domain (AICVMD-2025), Varanasi, India, 17-19 February, 2025, Academic article

Zlamal, Jaroslav; Devold-Hagen, Henny-Mari; Sharma, Vijeta. (2025) The Role of AI-Enabled Robotics in Clinical Skills Training: Innovations, Applications, Feasibility Study and Future Outlook, HCII International, Gothenburg, Sweden, 22-27 June 2025 (Accepted), Academic article

Sharma, Vijeta; Mupenda, Numbi, Didier ; Lars Thorvik; Mishra, Deepti. (2025) Robot making human-like actions for social interaction: Going deeper into ROS2 multiprocessing and Kinematics, HCII International, Gothenburg, Sweden, 22-27 June 2025 (Accepted), Academic article

Sharma, Vijeta; Thorvik, Lars; Ahmed Yusuf, Abdirahman; Mishra, Deepti. (2025) From Greeting to Guidance: Exploring Sanbot’s Capabilities for Enhanced Human-Robot interaction at public events, HCII International, Gothenburg, Sweden, 22 - 27 June 2025 (Accepted), Academic article

Jain, Sanyam; Sharma, Vijeta. (2025) Is It Large Enough? A Prompt Learning for Large Multi-Modal Models, 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, June 22-26, 2025, Zakopane, Poland (Accepted), Academic article

Nida Afroz; Moinak Boral; Vijeta Sharma; Manjari Gupta. (2021) Sentiment Analysis of COVID-19 Nationwide Lockdown Effect in India, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Systems (ICAIS), Academic article

Sharma, Vijeta; Kumar Gupta, Gaurav; Gupta, Manjari. (2021) Performance benchmarking of GPU and TPU on Google Colaboratory for Convolutional Neural Network, Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering: Proceedings of First Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (GCAIA 2020), Academic article

Vijeta Sharma, Shrinkhala Yadav, Manjari Gupta. (2020) Heart disease prediction using machine learning techniques, 2nd international conference on advances in computing, communication control and networking (ICACCCN), Academic article

2025

Shandilya, Utkarsh; Sharma, Vijeta; Mishra, Deepti. (2025) Human Action Recognition using Mediapipe Holistic Keypoints: A Deep Learning Approach. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Mupenda, Didier Numbi; Thorvik, Lars; Mishra, Deepti. (2025) Edge AI to Edge Robotics: Enhancing Human Pose Estimation with High-Performance TPU Computing. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Mupenda, Didier Numbi; Thorvik, Lars; Mishra, Deepti. (2025) Robot Making Human-Like Actions for Social Interaction: Going Deeper into ROS2 Multiprocessing and Kinematics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Thorvik, Lars; Yusuf, Abdirahman Ahmed; Mishra, Deepti. (2025) From Greeting to Guidance: Exploring Sanbot’s Capabilities for Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction at Public Events. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Mishra, Deepti. (2025) Gesture-Controlled Storytelling Framework with Kinematic Actions on ROS and Google TPU-Based Robotic Platform. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Academic article

2024

Sharma, Vijeta; Shandilya, Utkarsh; Mishra, Deepti. (2024) Multi-Pose Human Action Recognition Using Deep Learning ConvLSTM. European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Gupta, Manjari; Kumar, Ajai; Mishra, Deepti. (2024) STAR-3D: A Holistic Approach for Human Activity Recognition in the Classroom Environment. Information
Academic article

2022

Sharma, Vijeta; Gupta, Manjari; Pandey, Anil Kumar; Mishra, Deepti; Kumar, Ajai. (2022) A Review of Deep Learning-based Human Activity Recognition on Benchmark Video Datasets. Applied Artificial Intelligence
Academic article

2021

Sharma, Vijeta. (2021) A Review of Deep Learning-based Human Activity Recognition on Benchmark Video Datasets. IEEE Access
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Gupta, Manjari; Kumar, Ajai; Mishra, Deepti. (2021) Video Processing Using Deep Learning Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review. IEEE Access
Academic literature review
Sharma, Vijeta; Gupta, Manjari; Kumar, Ajai; Mishra, Deepti. (2021) EduNet: A New Video Dataset for Understanding Human Activity in the Classroom Environment. Sensors
Academic article

Journal publications

Shandilya, Utkarsh; Sharma, Vijeta; Mishra, Deepti. (2025) Human Action Recognition using Mediapipe Holistic Keypoints: A Deep Learning Approach. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Mupenda, Didier Numbi; Thorvik, Lars; Mishra, Deepti. (2025) Edge AI to Edge Robotics: Enhancing Human Pose Estimation with High-Performance TPU Computing. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Mupenda, Didier Numbi; Thorvik, Lars; Mishra, Deepti. (2025) Robot Making Human-Like Actions for Social Interaction: Going Deeper into ROS2 Multiprocessing and Kinematics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Thorvik, Lars; Yusuf, Abdirahman Ahmed; Mishra, Deepti. (2025) From Greeting to Guidance: Exploring Sanbot’s Capabilities for Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction at Public Events. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Mishra, Deepti. (2025) Gesture-Controlled Storytelling Framework with Kinematic Actions on ROS and Google TPU-Based Robotic Platform. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Shandilya, Utkarsh; Mishra, Deepti. (2024) Multi-Pose Human Action Recognition Using Deep Learning ConvLSTM. European Workshop on Visual Information Processing
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Gupta, Manjari; Kumar, Ajai; Mishra, Deepti. (2024) STAR-3D: A Holistic Approach for Human Activity Recognition in the Classroom Environment. Information
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Gupta, Manjari; Pandey, Anil Kumar; Mishra, Deepti; Kumar, Ajai. (2022) A Review of Deep Learning-based Human Activity Recognition on Benchmark Video Datasets. Applied Artificial Intelligence
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta. (2021) A Review of Deep Learning-based Human Activity Recognition on Benchmark Video Datasets. IEEE Access
Academic article
Sharma, Vijeta; Gupta, Manjari; Kumar, Ajai; Mishra, Deepti. (2021) Video Processing Using Deep Learning Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review. IEEE Access
Academic literature review
Sharma, Vijeta; Gupta, Manjari; Kumar, Ajai; Mishra, Deepti. (2021) EduNet: A New Video Dataset for Understanding Human Activity in the Classroom Environment. Sensors
Academic article

Teaching

Courses

IDG2004 - Information Structures and Database Systems

IDG2004 - Information Structures and Database Systems (full teaching)
IDATG2206 - Computer Vision (guest lecture)
IMT4894 - Advanced Project Work (supervisor)

Supervision

Bachelor Studnets' supervision for Robotics Projects

Mater Thesis and advance project planning supervision - Large Vision Model, AI on HPC

Outreach

Recent Trends of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Inter-disciplinary School of Health Science, SPPU, Pune, India, March 02, 2019

AI for Intelligent Video Analytics

AI Summit 2019, Malta

2024

Programme participation

Pande, Akshara; Gosala, Bethany; Sharma, Vijeta; Rani, Anshul; Mishra, Deepti. (2024) Catch IDI at NTNU Gjøvik. https://tinyurl.com/NTNU-CatchIDI2024-Gjovik https://tinyurl.com/NTNU-CatchIDI2024-Gjovik [Internet] 2024-03-13
Programme participation

Pande, Akshara; Kundu, Shrabanti; Sharma, Vijeta; Rani, Anshul; Omerovic, Aida; Mishra, Deepti. (2024) Researchers' night event organized by Vitensenteret Innlandet. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16wj5saN3c/ https://www.facebook.com/share/r/16wj5saN3c/ [Internet] 2024-09-27

2023

Programme participation

Bhuthegowda, Bhavana Nachenahalli; Pande, Akshara; Sharma, Vijeta; Mishra, Deepti. (2023) Open day at NTNU Gjøvik. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=727166902777271&set=pcb. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=727166902777271&set=pcb. [Internet] 2023-11-01

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About

Competencies

Research

Publications

2025

2024

2022

2021

Journal publications

Teaching

Courses

Supervision

Outreach

AI and Robotics in 2025

Large Vision Model Parallelisation on HPC Systems

High-performance computing on Edge TPU

"When Beauty of AI met with the power of HPC”- A story by women Scientist

Convergence of High Performance Computing and AI

Role of Women in Supercomputing

Deep learning for video processing

Recent Trends of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

AI for Intelligent Video Analytics

2024

2023