Dr.D.Jeya Mala has a Ph.D. in Software Engineering with a Specialization in Software Testing and is currently working as faculty in the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCOPE), VIT University, Chennai, India. She has profound teaching, industrial and research experiences of more than 20 years.
She is a proud recipient of the “Best Techno Faculty Award 2016” from the ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu (Govt. government initiative) and the Best Poster Awardee 2016 from the Indian Science Congress Association, an Initiative of DST, Govt. of India. She has also received the ‘Certificate of Excellence Award ‘ and ‘Top Performer Award’ from IIT Bombay in their ICT courses.
She is a life member of the Indian Science Congress Association and Computer Society of India and a member of IEEE, ACM, ACM-W, and i-Soft (ACM India chapter for Software Engineering). She forms the review board in Journals like IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Elsevier – Information Sciences, Springer, World Scientific, International Journal of Metaheuristics etc.