Assistant Professor | Arkansas Tech University | United States
Dr. Divya Nimma is an accomplished researcher and Assistant Professor at Arkansas Tech University, specializing in Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, and Machine Learning. With a strong interdisciplinary footprint, she has contributed extensively to domains spanning environmental monitoring, healthcare analytics, intelligent transportation cybersecurity and immersive technologies. She has published 46 scholarly works and accumulated over 326 citations, with an h-index of 10 and i10-index of 10, underscoring her growing global research influence.Dr. Nimma’s research portfolio reflects a commitment to developing intelligent systems for real-world impact. Her notable contributions include climate-responsive modeling of freshwater ecosystems remote sensing–based marine life assessment for food security transformer-driven object detection , and advanced deep learning frameworks for image forensics and semantic segmentation. She has led and co-authored high-impact studies published in Scientific Reports IEEE Transactions Alexandria Engineering Journal Desalination and Water Treatment Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences and other reputed journals.Her collaborative research spans international teams across the United States Europe the Middle East and Asia. Significant works include attention-based models for real-time surveillance explainable AI pipelines for fingerprint recognition IoT-enabled energy management for EV charging predictive maintenance in Industry 4.0 and multisource wearable data analytics for human activity recognition.Dr. Nimma has also made influential contributions to biomedical informatics including cancer detection using optimized deep learning osteoporosis classification and non-invasive brain stimulation–based sleep stage modeling. Additionally her research extends to precision agriculture integrating drone imagery AI and consumer electronics to enhance crop optimization and sustainability.Committed to societal and technological advancement Dr. Nimma’s work demonstrates a unique synthesis of deep learning innovation domain-driven applications and cross-disciplinary collaboration positioning her as a rising scholar and impactful global contributor in modern AI-driven intelligent systems.
Featured Publications
1. Nimma, D., Devi, O. R., Laishram, B., Ramesh, J. V. N., Boddupalli, S., Ayyasamy, R., et al. (2025). Implications of climate change on freshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity. Desalination and Water Treatment, 321, 100889. Cited By : 42
2. Srikanth, G., Nimma, D., Lalitha, R. V. S., Jangir, P., Kumari, N. V. S., & Arpita. (2025). Food security-based marine life ecosystem for polar region conditioning: Remote sensing analysis with machine learning model. Remote Sensing in Earth Systems Sciences, 8(1), 65–73. Cited By : 36
3. Nimma, D., Nimma, R., Rajendar, & Uddagiri. (2024). Image processing in augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication. Cited By : 27
4. Nimma, D., & Zhou, Z. (2024). IntelPVT: Intelligent patch-based pyramid vision transformers for object detection and classification. International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 15(5), 1767–1778. Cited By : 25
5. Nimma, D., Nimma, R., & Uddagiri, A. (2024). Advanced image forensics: Detecting and reconstructing manipulated images with deep learning. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering.
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Dr. Divya Nimma’s research advances intelligent vision systems that enhance environmental sustainability, healthcare diagnostics, and smart transportation. Her work integrates AI with real-world applications, driving scientific innovation that strengthens societal resilience and global technological progress.