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    Meet the Professor

    Devanjali Relan

    Professor,
    School of Engineering & Technology

    Devanjali Relan

    Position : ACM

    Email : devanjali.relan@bmu.edu.in

    Dr. Devanjali Relan is currently serving as Professor & Faculty Head, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, and Associate Dean – Faculty Affairs at BML Munjal University. She is a senior academic leader with nearly two decades of experience in teaching, research, academic governance and institutional administration across engineering and interdisciplinary domains. She has also completed the Certificate in Leadership in Education, Advocacy, and Policy Development Programme conducted by BITS Pilani (Aug 2025 – Jan 2026). She holds a PhD from The University of Edinburgh in Medical Image Analysis and AI, postgraduate specialization in Advanced Medical Imaging from KU Leuven, M.E. in Control & Instrumentation from Delhi College of Engineering and B.Tech in Instrumentation & Control from Kurukshetra University.

    Her research expertise lies at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, biomedical engineering, healthcare analytics and medical image analysis, with a strong focus on developing AI-driven solutions for healthcare diagnostics, retinal imaging and digital health applications. She has a strong track record of leading interdisciplinary and industry-collaborative research projects, including AI-driven healthcare solutions, translational research initiatives and funded projects. Recently, she received an Institutional Research Grant from Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (2026–27) for an AI-based veterinary healthcare project.

    Dr. Relan has demonstrated the ability to build strong research ecosystems and collaborations with national and international universities, hospitals and industry partners in healthcare, AI and engineering domains.

    • Graduation In: Instrumentation & Control
    • Graduation From: Kurukshetra University
    • Graduation Year: 2002
    • Post Graduation In: Control and Instrumentation
    • Post Graduation From: Delhi College of Engineering (DCE), University of Delhi, India (Now Delhi Technological University, DTU).
    • Post Graduation Year: 2006
    • Post Graduation In: Post-Graduation in Advanced Medical Imaging,
    • Post Graduation From: Katholieke universiteit Leuven, Belgium
    • Post Graduation Year: 2011
    • Doctorate In: Retinal Image processing for Biomarker discovery
    • Doctorate From: University of Edinburgh
    • Doctorate Year: 2016
    • Data Science
    • Advance Machine learning
    • Image Processing
    • Control System
    • Fundamental of digital logics etc.
    From - To (Year) Designation & Organization Core Competency Additional Exp. Details
    Oct 2025 -Till Date Associate Dean- Faculty Affairs, School of Engineering and Technology, BML Munjal University, Gurgaon, Haryana.
    1/Jan/2025-Till date Professor and Faculty Head of Deptt. of Computer Science and Engineering, BML Munjal University, Gurgaon, Haryana.
    1/Jan/2022-31/Dec/2024 Associate Professor and Faculty Head of Deptt. of Computer Science and Engineering, BML Munjal University, Gurgaon, Haryana.
    1 July. 2019- Dec. 2021 Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BML Munjal University, Gurgaon, Haryana.
    1 July. 2019- till date Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of BML Munjal University, Gurgaon, Haryana. 20 March 2006 – 25 April 2006 , Guest Faculty at the Department of Instrumentation and Control of Bharti Vidya Peeth College of Engineering, GGSIPU, Delhi, India
    1 Dec. 2017- 11 June 2019 Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering of Bhagwan Parshuram Institute of Technology, GGSIPU, Delhi. 8 Sept. 2004- 4 April 2006 , Guest Faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi University, Delhi, India.
    1 Jan. 2010– 18 Sep. 2010 Senior Lecturer at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering of Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology (M.A.I.T), GGSIPU, Delhi, India.
    1 Aug. 2006 – 31 Dec. 2009 Lecturer at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering of Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology (M.A.I.T), GGSIPU, Delhi, India.
    13 Aug. 2003 – 31 July 2004 Lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Electronics of APEEJAY College of Engineering, MDU (Rohtak), Gurgaon, Haryana, India
    1 July 2002 – 10 Aug. 2003 Graduate Engineer Trainee at SlachHydratecs Equipment Pvt. Ltd, Delhi, India
    • Mokan, Monika, Goldie Gabrani, and Devanjali Relan. “Pixel-wise classification of the whole retinal vasculature into arteries and veins using supervised learning.” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 106 (2025): 107691. (SCI-Q1)
    • Phutela, N., Gabrani, G., Kumaraguru, P., & Relan, D. (2024). Effectiveness of Higuchi fractal dimension in differentiating subgroups of stressed and non-stressed individuals. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1-18. (SCI-Q1)
    • Devanjali Relan, Monika Mokan, and Rishi Relan, “An Automatic AVR Biomarker Assessment System in Retinal Imaging, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2023. (SCI-Q1)
    • N. Phutela, D.Relan, et al. “Stress Classification Using Brain Signals Based on LSTM-Network.” Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2022 (2022). (SCI-Q1)
    • Ratra D, Rajalakshmi R, Suchetha M, Relan D, Deepikasri JS, Sathishkumar S, et al. The evolving role of artificial intelligence in optimizing treatment and patient selection in diabetic macular edema. Indian J Ophthalmol 2026;74:690-7(SCI-Q2)
    • Vrinda Mittal, Priyanshu Mehta, Devanjali Relan & Goldie Gabrani, “Methodology for resume parsing and job domain prediction”, Journal of Statistics and Management Systems, Pages 1265-1274, Volume 23, 2020, Issue 7, July 2020. (ESCI)
    • Relan, Devanjali, Deepti Jain, and Vrinda Mittal. “Robustness of Fourier fractal analysis in differentiating subgroups of retinal images.” Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography, 22, no. 2 (2019): 101-111. (SCI-Q3)
    • Devanjali Relan and Rishi Relan , ” Unsupervised Sorting of Retinal Vessels Using Locally Consistent Gaussian Mixtures ” in Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine,Volume 199, 2021, 105894, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmpb.2020.105894.
    • Abirami Veluchamy, Lucia Ballerini, Veronique Virt, Caroline Hayward, Katharina E Schraut, Peter K Joshi, Harry Campbell, Mirna Kirin, Devanjali Relan, Sarah Harris, et al. “Novel locus influencing retinal venular tortuosity is also associated with risk of coronary artery disease”, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, American Heart Association Journal., 39, no. 12 (2019): 2542-2552
    • Relan, Devanjali, Lucia Ballerini, Emanuele Trucco, and Tom MacGillivray. “Using orthogonal locality preserving projections to find dominant features for classifying retinal blood vessels.” Multimedia Tools and Applications (2018): 1-21.
    • Relan, D., and R. Relan. “Multiscale self-quotient filtering for an improved unsupervised retinal blood vessels characterisation.” Biomedical Engineering Letters 8.1 (2018): 59-68.
    • Aug 2025- Jan 2026
    • Certificate in Leadership in Education, Advocacy, and Policy Development Programme conducted by BITS Pilani.
    • Digital Image Processing,
    • Python Programming,
    • Fundamentals of Digital Electronics,
    • Fundamental Data Science,
    • Advanced Data Science,
    • Research methodology,
    • Machine Learning,
    • Artificial Intelligence,
    • Artificial Intelligence for Law
    • Digital Twin for Industry 4.0,
    • Computer Vision,
    • Biomedical data analysis