Profile
| Name : | Prof. (Dr.) Dhatri Pandya |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D. (Computer Engineering) |
| Designation: | Assistant Professor |
| Department: | Computer Engineering |
| Experience: | 14 years |
| Email: | dhatri.pandya@scet.ac.in |
| Courses / Subject involved: | Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Soft Computing |
Extra Duty
| 1 | Part of Registration Committee Member during SU Convocation for Computer Engineering Department during 2025-2026 Convocation |
Research Projects
| 1 | Working on Open Ended Problem on "AI for Early Oral Cancer Detection" along with Student Team |
| 2 | Working on Open Ended Problem on Modeling Plant VOC Emissions for Space Habitats using AI/ML Approaches along with Student Team |
| 3 | Working on Open Ended Problem on : An AI-Powered Medical Question Answering System Using Indian Medical Guidelines and Literature along with student Team |
| 4 | Working on Open Ended Problem on Data-Driven Classification and Analysis of River Water Quality in India along with student team |
| 5 | Working on Open Ended Problem on Cross-Breed Generalization in Video-Based Canine Emotion Recognition Systems along with student team |
| 6 | Working on Open Ended Problem on Dust, Data, and Decisions: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of India’s Air Quality along with student team |
| 7 | Working on Opend Ended Problem on Mindful Metrics: An AI-Powered Platform for Proactive Mental Wellness along with students team |
| 8 | Working on skin acne detection using Deep Learning along with the student team |
| 9 | Autonomous robot for pickup and dropping the object. Granted a utility patent in Jan, 2026. Patent no 578389 |
Patents/Copyrights
Books Published
| 1 | Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering S Modi, D Pandya, A-VQA: Attention Based Visual Question Answering Technique for Handling Improper Count of Occluded Object in Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer in 2021. |
Research Publications
| International Journals | |
| 1 | Dhatri Pandya, Dr. Keyur Rana, "EDUANOM: Deep Learning Approach for Anomaly Detection in the Classroom Environment" in the SSRG-International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT), accepted for publication in Feb 2025.(Scopus Indexed) ISSN: 2231-5381. |
| 2 | Dhatri Pandya, Dr. Keyur Rana, Aditi Padhiyar, “Comparative analysis of deep learning approach to identify usage of mobile phone in the classroom environment in Education and Information Technologies (Q1, Social SCI, Scopus), Springer Nature in Jan 2025. |
| International Conference | |
| 1 | A Vishwakarma, K Rana, D Pandya, Detecting Collective anomaly using Ensemble method in Cloud Computing in 2025 4th OPJU International Technology Conference (OTCON) on Smart Computing |
| 2 | P Dalal, P Kapadia, B Jinjala, D Pandya, Autonomous Inpainting Algorithm for Wire Removal from Image in 2021 International Conference on Emerging Smart Computing and Informatics |
| 3 | S Modi, D Pandya, VQAR: review on information retrieval techniques based on computer vision and natural language processing in 2019 3rd International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC) |
| 4 | B Jagruti, P Nidhi, D Pandya, A survey on webservice security techniques in 2018 4th International Conference on Computing Communication and Automation |
| 5 | J Boda, D Pandya, A survey on image matting techniques, 2018 International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP) |
| 6 | Dhatri Pandya,Prof.Bhumika Shah ,”Comparative Study on Automatic Image Annotation” in International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering”, (ISSN 2250- 2459, ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal), Volume 4, Issue 3, March, 2014. |
| 7 | Dhatri Pandya,Prof.Bhumika Shah ,“Automatic Image Annotation Based on Dominant Color and GLCM using Fuzzy c means Clustering” in International Conference on Advances in Engineering and Technology”,ICAET 2014 held at RIT,ROORKEE organized by institute of research engineers and doctors and RIT,ROORKEE in association with uttarkhand university (ISBN: 978-1-63248-028-6 and doi: 10.15224/ 978-1-63248-028-6-01-120) |
| 8 | Payal Yadav,Prof.Dhatri Pandya,”SentiReview: Sentiment analysis based on text and emoticons” ,Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Innovative Mechanisms for Industry Applications (ICIMIA),Banglore,21 Feb – 23 Feb 2017.(isbn-978-1-5090-5960-7) |
Expert Lectures Delivered
| 1 | Conducted Workshop on "From Innovation to Integrity: Ethical use of AI in research" on 25th Feb, 2026, organized under Multidisciplinary International Conference on Design Identities: Intersections of Art, Architecture, Culture, Religion, Science, Technology and Society organised by MIDPT, Surat, Sarvajanik University in association with European Union ERASMUS+ Capacity Building Project, InEq-SL (I0I082909) during 25th- 27th Feb, 2026 |
| 2 | Conducted session on 2nd Feb, 2026 for the topic "AI Careers and Ethics for an Industry?Ready Workforce" for core branch engineering students under IIC Cell, SCET in association with ADIRA initiative by DATALEADS and Presummit AI India Event, 2026 |
| 3 | Delivered an expert talk on "Ethical and Social Implications of AI" on 4th Dec, 2025, in a Five-Day Faculty Development Program on “AI for All” orgnaised by Sarvajanik University |
| 4 | Workshop on Exploring AI Applications: Responsible Use, Healthcare, and Media" on 09/10/2025 under AI club, SCET in association with ADIRA DataLeads Initiative |
| 5 | Conducted a hands-on session in GUJCOST-sponsored workshop on "NLTK for Natural Language Text Processing" on 30th June, 2021 |
| 6 | Delivered expert talk on Introduction to Natural Language Processing in STTP organized by Computer Engineering Department, SVNIT, Surat |
| 7 | Delivered expert talk on Word Sense Disambiguation in STTP organized by Computer Engineering Department, SVNIT, Surat, 9th Jan 2018 |
| 8 | Conducted Hands on Session on NLTK and Stanford NLP Toolkit in STTP organised by SVNIT, COED, Surat during 6-7th Jan, 2018 |
| 9 | Expert Lecture on “Argonomics,Aesthetics,Product Design” in Computer Engineering Department,SCET,Surat |
| 10 | Delivered expert talk on “Introduction to Natural Language Processing” for B.E(IV),CO Students at SSASIT, Surat on 15th March, 2018 |
| 11 | Expert lecture on “BMC Canvas”in Computer Engineering Department,SCET,Surat |
| 12 | Expert Lecture on “ Empathy,Ideation and PDC Canvas” in Computer Engineering Department,SCET,Surat. |
| 13 | Expert Lecture on “LNM and Dirty Mockups” in Computer Engineering Department,SCET,Surat |
Achievements / Awards
| 1 | Dr. Dhatri Pandya is a certified ADiRA Trainer, recognized for delivering training and awareness on Artificial Intelligence and digital readiness. As part of the ADiRA (AI for Digital Readiness and Advancement) initiative led by DataLEADS, she contributes to building AI literacy and empowering professionals and students with practical AI knowledge and responsible technology use for Healthcare Professionals, Media Professionals, Educators, Students, ASHA Workers |
| 2 | Organised WiDS Conference in colloboration with WiDS Mumbai Ambassadors during 14th March, 2026 |
| 3 | Organised NASA SPACE APPS CHALLENGE SURAT 2024 Global Hackathon managed by earth science division of NASA. With 470+ Participants and 5 Global Nominees and one team selected as People Choice Awards out of 940+ Global Nominees, 163 countries, and 485 Local events in collaboration with STPL Surat, IEEE Gujarat Section, CSI Surat Chapter, Yashvi Foundation Charitable Trust, ISTE SCET Chapter. |
| 4 | Organised Virtual Bootcamp for NASA SPACE APPS CHALLENGE SURAT 2024 with eminent industry speakers Drijesh Patel- Cyber security Manager from IBM, Gaurav Thakkar SDE-1 from Bookmyshow, Usha RengaRaju - Founder of NeuroAI, Anthony Byansi - Data Engineer at CTI, Gold MLSA, Pranav Durai- Research Fellow at Stanford University, Manuel Pimenta - Founder and CEO of Virtual Moon, LLC, NewYork. |
| 5 | Organised Surat Tech Summit in collaboration with GDSC SCET Chapter during 23rd June, 2024 in collaboration with XDG Gujarat and AWS User Group Surat, MLSA Surat. |
| 6 | Completed Industrial Training in the AI based agriculture-based startup - Kissan.AI (Earlier known as Titodi Infotech) Two Weeks Industrial Training at Titodi Infotech Pvt. Ltd, Surat from 20th December, 2021 to 1st January, 2022 |
| 7 | Coding Competition organised under CODECHEF SCET Chapter during 10th April 2021 in collaboration with CodeChef SIT Chapter,CodeChef DMCE ChapterCodeChef IIST Chapter, CodeChef CU Chapter, CodeChef SNU Chapter. ? Partnered with: Geeks For Geeks, Infigon, SNU, Outshade, CSI-SCET. |
| 8 | HackBash Coding Competition organised under GDSC SCET in collaboration with NIT Surat, IIIT Surat, Dharmsinh Desai University, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya, Charusat, Surampalem, Andhra Pradesh during 13th March 2021 |
| 9 | Organising Committee Member of the SCET-A-THON on 2nd Oct, 2018 |
| 10 | Mentored Project Group for AICTE-Vishwakarma Awards,2017 for representing innovative solutions for the Smart Institute. Project Presented in the final round at AICTE-New Delhi during 18th-19th September, 2017 |
| 11 | Mentored the Project Group which was nominated for best project titled “GMitra” for Gujarat Mitra Newspaper by GTU in Late Shri Dewang Mehta IT Awards 2016 |
| 12 | Sanctioned 40,000 INR from the GUJCOST for Workshop Proposal on 2 days Workshop on "Animation, VFX and Graphics Design" during 15th-16th March, 2019 |
| 13 | Sanctioned Financial grant of 25k for Project titled “IOT based hospital bottle indicator” under SSIP during 1st July,2020 |
| 14 | Mentored Project Group for Smart India Hackathon at grand finale during 1st-3rd August, 2020 for Project Titled “Virtual assistant for Tourism” |
| 15 | Mentored Project Group for SSIP-Hackathon for Project titled “Health card“ in the regional round of SSIP Hackathon during 24-25th February,2020 |
| 16 | Mentored Project Titled “Education Assistant” - Chatbot based on Natural Language Processing for admission information developed by B.E(IV),CO, Shift1 students secured third prize in Project Showcase 2019 |
| 17 | Mentored Project titled VII touch which secured first rank in Project Showcase 2018 |
| 18 | Secured 10 SPI in M.E(Computer) |
| 19 | Achieved 1st prize for paper “Holographic data storage” at GCET VIDHYANAGAR |
Administrative Duties
| 1 | Member of Industry Connect Cell Committee |
| 2 | Faculty coordinator for SCET- E magazine since 2019 to present |
| 3 | RedHat Academy Representative for College |
| 4 | Convener of the Coding Club since 2016 to present |
| 5 | Convenor ,Research CENTOS Committee(since 2014) |
| 6 | CSI Student Branch Counseller,SCET,SURAT (since october 2016) |
| 7 | Class Teacher of B.E(I),CO,SHIFT2,Academic year (since july,2017) |
| 8 | Worked as class mentor of B.E(III) Shift 2 for the year 2016-2017 |
| 9 | Part of the committee member in Purchase Cell for the academic year 2016-2017 |
| 10 | Involved in coordinating and conducting activities related to Design Engineering-2A and Design Engineering -2B for academic year 2015 to 2016 |
| 11 | Faculty Coordinator for CO-Smriti Departmental Magazine from 2018 to 2021 |
| 12 | PR Committee Convener of Computer Engineering Department |
Membership of Professional Bodies
| 1 | Lifetime Membership of IAENG 357505 |
| 2 | Lifetime Membership of ISRD M4150903159 |
| 3 | CSI, Student Branch Counsellor, SCET,Surat from 2017 to 2020 |
| 4 | WiDS Ambassador, Surat since 2024 |
| 5 | Member of AWJ |
Workshop / Seminar / STTP
| 1 | 6 Days National Level Faculty Development Program (FDP) on Generative & Agentic AI - Tools & Demo's organized by Department of CSE, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology(SVNIT) Technically Co-sponsored by IEEE - Gujarat Section & partnered with Pantech Solutions (India) Pvt., Ltd. from 16th - 21st February 2026 |
| 2 | One-week Faculty Development Program on Ethics of Technology AI and Data in Society, organized by the Department of Computer Science and Applications, RAAK ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE, in association with Pantech e Learning, Chennai, during 1st Dec to 5th Dec, 2025. |
| 3 | Attended 4 week AICT-FDP on “Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended Learning”at SCET,Surat organised by IITB. |
| 4 | An expert talk on Angular during 19th March, 2019 under CSI Student Chapte |
| 5 | An expert talk on iOS Programming during 19th March, 2019 under CSI Student Chapter |
| 6 | Organised an expert talk on “Unusual careers – The Road Less Traveled” under CSI Student Chapter on 6th March, 2019 |
| 7 | Organised Two days workshop on Cyber Security – Recent attacks and countermeasures on 4-5 Feb, 2019 under CSI Student Chapter |
| 8 | Organised Seminar on Red Hat Linux on 8 Jan, 2019 under CSI Student Chapter |
| 9 | Organised Workshop on PC Assembly on 19 Dec, 2018 under CSI Student Chapter |
| 10 | Organised seminar on Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality on 10 Sept, 2018 under CSI Student Chapter |
| 11 | Organised Workshop on Photoshop Essentials 07 July, 2018 under CSI Student Chapter |
| 12 | Organised 2 Days workshop on BIGDATA & Hadoop during 23-24th Aug, 2017 under CSI Student Chapter in association with Computer Engineering Department, SVNIT, Surat |
| 13 | Organised Workshop on Basics of LINUX 27-28 Mar, 2018 under CSI Student Chapter |
| 14 | Organised Expert Talk on IoT on 15 Feb, 2018 under CSI Student Chapter |
| 15 | Organised Expert talk on The essential of JavaScript for AngularJS on 7 Feb, 2018 under CSI Student Chapter |
| 16 | Attended GUJCOST sponsored “Future trends and research opportunities in cyber security” during 11th-13th april,2016. |
| 17 | Workshop on “PC assembly” under CSI Student Chapter on 22nd November,2017 and 23th November ,2017 |
| 18 | Attended TEQIP-II sponsored five day STTP on “Recent trend in Big Data Analytics” at SVNIT,Surat |
| 19 | Attended TEQIP-II sponsored five day STTP on “Software Requirement and Specification” at SVNIT,Surat |
| 20 | Attended IEEE sponsored one day workshop on “Soft Computing” at SCET,Surat |
| 21 | Attended IEEE sponsored One day Workshop on “Pattern Recognition” at SCET,Surat |
| 22 | Attended five day ISTE STTP on “Introduction to Design of Algorithms “ at SCET,Surat |
| 23 | Attended “e-yantra workshop during 17th-18th November,2017 organised by MHRD,IIT Bombay at SCET,SURAT |
| 24 | Workshop on “PC assembly” under CSI Student Chapter on 26th September,2016 and 27th September,2016 |
| 25 | 2 day workshop on “Cloud Computing under CSI student Chapter during 6th-7th October,2016 |
| 26 | Awareness Program on Digital Finance under CSI students Chapter during 27thDec,2016 |
| 27 | Seminar on “Kali Linux” under CSI student Chapter during 23rd March,2017 |
| 28 | Expert talk on “Basics of 1,2,3 of Cryptography under CSI students Chapter during 19th April,2017 conducted by Dr.Alwyn R.Pais,NIT Surathkhal |
| 29 | 1 Day Global Azure Boot Camp2017 under CSI Student Chapter during 22nd Apr,2017 |
| 30 | iOS PROGRAMMING – ESSENTIAL TRAINING under CSI Student Chapter during 28th -29th july,2017 |
| 31 | Big Data and Hadoop in association with SVNIT during 23-24th august,2017 |
Participation in Other Activities
| 1 | Coordinated Global Hackathon in Virtual Mode for NASA SPACE APPS CHALLENGE 2024 SURAT with 470+ Participants. |
| 2 | Played active role in the process of MOU for Academic partner between REDHAT and SCET |
| 3 | Coordinated Techfest UDPATES’19 under the banner of KSHITIJ |
| 4 | Organising Committee Member of the SCET-A-THON on 2nd Oct, 2018 |
| 5 | Event Coordinator in event “Quantum CODING” in UPDATES'17 |
| 6 | Delivered expert talk on Word Sense Disambiguation in STTP organised by Computer Engineering Department, SVNIT, Surat during 27th January 201 |
| 7 | Delivered expert talk on Introduction to Natural Language Processing in STTP organised by Computer Engineering Department, SVNIT, Surat during 24th January 2018 |
| 8 | Coordinated Cast a Spell Competition under Exuberance ‘2020 |
| 9 | Coordinated Stone Art Competition under Exuberance ‘2020 |
| 10 | Coordinated Poster Making Competition under Exuberance ‘2020 |
| 11 | Jointly co-ordinated department level preupdate cultural event “CO-CREO 17 |
| 12 | Received Approval for enrollment of free courses under MOOC Platform- Coursera under Coursera to Campus Plan during 2020 and 2021 |
| 13 | Jointly co-ordinated preupdate event “WEB SKETCH RACE”. |
| 14 | Jointly co-ordinated department level preupdate cultural event “CO-CREO 15” |
| 15 | Part of the registration committee in” XITIJ-2014” |
| 16 | Jointly Coordinated department level Techfest “UPDATES-14” |
| 17 | Event Corodinator in event “Logo Design” in GTU TECHFEST’15 |
| 18 | Event Coordintar in event “Quantum CODING” in UPDATES’17 |