Speakers

Ms. Astha Zalani received her B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, in 2015. She joined the Centre for Development of Telematics (CDOT), New Delhi as a Research Engineer in 2015, where she has been actively engaged in the design and development of secure real-time communication systems, mission-critical applications, and scalable backend solutions.

During her tenure at C-DOT, she has contributed to several strategic projects including the development of a Mission Critical Communications (MCX) Dispatcher—a 3GPP-compliant desktop application enabling secure voice, video, and data communication for Command and Control Centres. She has also played a key role in the design and deployment of secure chat and voice communication systems, contributing to both backend architecture and client applications, ensuring end-to-end encryption, high availability, and low-latency performance.

She has also worked on Visual Positioning Systems (VPS) for indoor localization using machine learning and computer vision, and developed big data search engines for real-time analytics. Her research interests include secure communication, AI/ML, and cloud solutions, and she has contributed to published papers such as InPosNet: Context Aware DNN for Visual SLAM and Optimal Latent Space for Low-Shot Face Recognition.

Currently, Ms. Astha Zalani is serving as Deputy Head, Unified Mission Critical Communications at the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), New Delhi. In this capacity, she is spearheading the development of the MCX Dispatcher and leading strategic initiatives to harness cutting-edge technologies for building state-of-the-art, secure, and fault-tolerant communication solutions tailored for first responders, emergency services, and strategic forces