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| Name : | Prof. (Dr.) Keyur Rana |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D. (Comp. Engg. NIT, Surat) |
| Designation: | Professor |
| Department: | Computer Engineering |
| Experience: | 27 years |
| Email: | keyur.rana@scet.ac.in |
| Courses / Subject involved: | Soft computing, AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Python for Data Science, C and Python Programming |
| Portfolio: | Pro-Dean, Faculty of Engineering |
Extra Duty
Research Projects
Patents/Copyrights
Books Published
Research Publications
| International Journals | |
| 1 | Jagruti Boda, Keyur Rana. "Investigating Hostile Post Detection in Gujarati: A Machine Learning Approach". International Journal of Engineering, Vol. 37, No. 7, pp. 1284-1295, July 2024, ISSN : 1025-2495 [Scopus, Web of Science and Emerging Sources Citation Index] |
| 2 | Saurabh Tandel, Keyur Rana. "A Comparative Analysis of Various Algorithms of Recommender Systems for Serendipity using Novelty Scores", International Journal of INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 275-282, Jun 2024 [ISSN : 2147-6799] [SCOPUS indexed] |
| 3 | Saurabh Tandel, Keyur Rana. "Novel Serendipitous Recommender System using Relevance Scores for Long Tail Items", International Journal of INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS IN ENGINEERING, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 676-682, Dec 2023 [ISSN : 2147-6799] [SCOPUS indexed] |
| 4 | Keyur Rana, Mukesh Zaveri, “A-Star Algorithm for Energy Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Network”, in : David C. Wyld, Michal Wozniak, Nabendu Chaki, Natarajan Meghanathan and Dhinaharan Nagamalai (Eds.), NeCoM/WeST/WiMoN 2011 Chennai, India July 2011, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011, Vol 197, pp. 232-241 [ISSN 1865-0929 ISBN 978-3-642-22542-0]. |
| 5 | Keyur Rana, Mukesh Zaveri, “Energy-efficient routing for wireless sensor network using genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimisation techniques”, International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 2013 Vol.6, No.4, pp.392 – 406, DOI: 10.1504/IJWMC.2013.056548 [ISSN online: 1741-1092, ISSN print: 1741-1084]. |
| 6 | Keyur Rana, Mukesh Zaveri , “Synthesized Cluster Head Selection and Routing for Two Tier Wireless Sensor Network,”, Journal of Computer Networks and Communications, Hindawi, Volume 2013, Article ID 578241, doi:10.1155/2013/578241. [ ISSN : 2090 7141, E-ISSN : 2090 715X] [Scopus Indexed, ACM Digital Library, Comp. Sci. Index, DBLP] |
| 7 | Keyur Rana, Mukesh Zaveri, “ASEER : A Routing Method to extend life of two-tiered Wireless Sensor Network” published in International Journal of Advanced Smart Sensor Network Systems ( IJASSN), Vol 1, No.2, October 2011 [ISSN : 2231 – 4482 [Online] ; 2231 – 5225 |
| 8 | Keyur M Rana and Mukesh A Zaveri. “Techniques for Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Network”, International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA) Special Issue on Intelligent Systems and Data Processing, pages 1-9, 2011. [ISSN 0975 – 8887] [Published by Foundation of Computer Science] |
| 9 | Keyur M Rana, Mukesh A Zaveri, “Genetic Algorithm Based Routing Technique to Extend Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Network” International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science, Volume 1, Issue 2, July-August 2010, pp. 126-132 ] [ISSN 0976 – 5697]. |
| 10 | Jalpa Patel and Keyur Rana, “Distributed Privacy Preserving Data Mining: A framework for k-anonymity based on feature set partitioning approach of vertically fragmented databases”, International Journal of Advances in Computer Networks and Its Security– IJCNS, Volume 4 : Issue 3, September 2014. [ISSN 2250 – 3757] |
| 11 | Karishma Desai, Keyur Rana, “A Survey on Clustering Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Journal of Advances in Cloud Computing and Computer Science (IJACCCS), volume 1, no. 2, 2015 [ISSN (print): 2454-406x, (Online): 2454-407] |
| 12 | Kirti Hirpara and Keyur Rana, “Energy-Efficient Constant Gain Kalman Filter Based Tracking in Wireless Sensor Network,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 2017, Article ID 1390847, 7 pages, 2017. doi:10.1155/2017/1390847 (SCI Indexed journal, 1.899 Impact factor), April 2017 [ISSN : 1530-8669, E-ISSN : 1530-8677] |
| 13 | Rachana Mehta, Keyur Rana, “Evolution of Singular Value Decomposition in Recommendation Systems : A Review”, International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining (IJBIDM), Vol 14, Issue 4, 2019. [ISSN online: 1743-8195, ISSN print: 1743-8187] DOI : 10.1504/IJBIDM.2017.10007516 (submitted in 2017, published online in 11-Apr-2019) [Scopus Indexed] |
| 14 | Zinal Patel, Keyur Rana, “LAVR: link failure avoidance and void recovery routing protocol for underwater sensor networks”, International Journal of Sensor Networks, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 253-271, Dec, 2020, [SCI Indexed journal, Impact factor (Clarivate Analytics) 2020 : 1.428, ISSN Online : 1748-1287, ISSN Print : 1748-1279, DOI: 10.1504/IJSNET.2020.111787] |
| International Conference | |
| 1 | Keyur M Rana, Mukesh A Zaveri, “Ant Colony Optimization and Genetic Algorithm based Techniques for Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Network”, International Conference on Intelligent System and Data Processing (ICISD 2011), GCET, Anand, Gujarat, January 24-25, 2011, [ISBN number : 978-1-6123-3002-0]. |
| 2 | Parth Joshi and Keyur Rana, “Simulating Mouse Movements using Accelerometer and Myography”, In: Computer Networks and Security, International Conference on Communication and Computing (ICC 2014), Elsevier Science and Technology (June 2014), pp. 161-168, ISBN: 9789351072447 |
| 3 | Parth Joshi and Keyur Rana, “Demonstrating Human Computer Interaction using Myography and Accelerometer”, International Multi Conference on Innovations in Engineering and Technoloogy (IMCIET 2014) – Communication and Computing (ICCC-2014), Banglore, India, August, 2014 |
| 4 | Karishma Desai, Keyur Rana, “Clustering Technique for Wireless Sensor Network”, in Next Generation Computing Technologies (NGCT), 2015 1st IEEE International Conference on, Dehradun, India, pp.223-227, 4-5 Sept. 2015 (IEEE ) [doi: 10.1109/NGCT.2015.7375116 ] |
| 5 | Jenish Dhanani, Keyur Rana “Logistic Regression with Stochastic Gradient Ascent to Estimate Click Through Rate”, In Second International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2016), 1-2 July 2016, Goa. Print ISBN: 978-981-10-3931-7, Electronic ISBN: 978-981-10-3932-4, DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3932-4_33, pp. 319-326. |
| 6 | Nidhi Periwal, Keyur Rana, “An Empirical Comparison of Models for Dropout Prophecy in MOOCs”, 3rd International Conference on Computing Communication and Automation (ICCCA 2017), pp. 906-911; 5, 6 May 2017, , Under Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India [ISBN : 978-1-5090-6471-7, IEEE XPLORE] [ IEEE Conf. record no. # 41372] |
| 7 | Rachana Mehta, Keyur Rana, “An Empirical Analysis on SVD based Recommendation Techniques”, International Conference on Innovations in Power and Advanced Computing Technologies (i-PACT2017), pp. 1-7; 21-22 April 2017, VIT University, Vellore India, [Electronic ISBN: 978-1-5090-5682-8, IEEE Conf. record no. # 40628] doi: 10.1109/IPACT.2017.8245024 |
| 8 | Rachana Mehta, Keyur Rana,”A Review on Matrix Factorization Techniques in Recommender Systems”, 2nd International Conference on Communication Systems, Computing and IT Applications (CSCITA 2017), pp. 269-274; 7-8 April 2017, Mumbai India, [ISBN : 978-1-5090-4381-1, IEEE Conf. record no. # 38873]. |
| 9 | Nidhi Periwal, Keyur Rana, “Dropout Prophecy in Massive Open Online Courses: A Review”, International Conference on Telecommunication, Power Analysis and Computing Techniques (ICTPACT 2017), 6-8 April, 2017, Chennai India. [IEEE Conf. record no # 39993] |
| 10 | Zinal Patel and Keyur Rana, “A Review on Time Synchronization Free Localization Schemes in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks”, 2nd International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICOEI), Tirunelveli, India, 2018, pp. 330-335 [ doi: 10.1109/ICOEI.2018.8553814, Electronic ISBN: 978-1-5386-3570-4; DVD ISBN: 978-1-5386-3569-8; Print on Demand(PoD) ISBN: 978-1-5386-3571-1] ; 2018 |
| 11 | Aayushi Shah, Keyur Rana, “A Review on Supervised Machine Learning Text Categorization Approaches”, IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems in Digital Enterprise Technology (ICCSDET), SAINTGITS College of Engineering, Kerala, INDIA, 21-22 Dec, 2018 (IEEE Conf.) |
| 12 | Aayushi Shah, Keyur Rana, “A Review on Scene Classification Techniques”, 3rd International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control (ICISC 2019), JCT College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India, 10-11, January 2019, pp. 558-566 (IEEE Conf.) [ DOI: 10.1109/ICISC44355.2019.9036472, Electronic ISBN: 978-1-5386-3950-4] |
| 13 | Yashvin Munsadwala, Pankti Joshi, Pranav Patel and Keyur Rana, “Identification and Visualization of Hazardous Gases Using IoT”, 2019 4th International Conference on Internet of Things: Smart Innovation and Usages (IoT-SIU), Ghaziabad, India, pp. 1-6, Apr 2019. [ISBN : 978-1-7281-1253-4, DOI: 10.1109/IoT-SIU.2019.8777481 |
| 14 | Aahushi Shah, Keyur Rana, “Scene Classification using Deep Learning techniques”, International conference on Computing, Communication and Cyber-Security (IC4S-2019), 12-13 Oct, 2019, Chandigarh, India, pp. 575-587. [Won the best paper award in the conference. Springer LNNS publication conference] [doi : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3369-3_43, ISBN : 978-981-15-3369-3] |
| 15 | Aayushi Shah, Keyur Rana, “A Review on Supervised Machine Learning Text Categorization Approaches”, IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems in Digital Enterprise Technology (ICCSDET), SAINTGITS College of Engineering, pp. 1-6, 21-22 Dec, 2018 Kottayam, INDIA. |
| 16 | Hetvi Shah, Keyur Rana, “A Deep Learning Approach for Autonomous Navigation of UAV”, Third International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Networks and Computing Technologies (FTNCT-2020), Southern Federal University, Taganrog, Russia, 14-16 Oct 2020 (Online) – Publication is in process. |
| National Journals | |
| 1 | Keyur Rana, “Spam E-Mail Filtering using Bayesian Network”, National Level Symposium on Security and Soft Computing(NSSC-2007) at SVNIT, Surat, March 29-31, 2007 |
| 2 | Keyur Rana, “Bayesian Network Structure Learning using Genetic Algorithm”, National Seminar on Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Technology, SCET, Surat, January 27-28, 2007 |
| National Conference | |
| 1 | Keyur Rana, “Study of Various Methods to Learn Bayesian Network Structure”, National Conference on Emerging Trend in Current Computing, SCET, Surat, June 26-27, 2008 |
| 2 | Jenish Dhanani, Keyur Rana, “Logistic Regression with Stochastic Gradient Ascent to Predict the Default Credit”, National Conference on Recent Trends in Computer and Communication Technology (RTCCT 2016), 10, 11 May 2016 at SCET, Surat. [ISBN : ISBN: 978-93-5258-824-4] |
| 3 | Kirti Hirpara, Keyur Rana, “Comparative Analysis of Target Localization Algorithms in Wireless Sensor Network”, National Conference on Recent Trends in Computer and Communication Technology (RTCCT 2016), 10, 11 May 2016 at SCET, Surat. [ISBN : ISBN: 978-93-5258-824-4] |
| 4 | Nidhi Periwal, Keyur Rana, “Grade Prediction in MOOCs using Black Box Classification Techniques”, National Conference on National Conference on Sustainable Computing and Information Technology (SCIT-2017) held under co-located conferences SMDCET-2017, 25, 26 March 2017 at SCET, Surat. [ISBN: 978-81-933591-2-9] |
Expert Lectures Delivered
| 1 | Gave an Expert lecture on “Deep Learning essentials and its application - Drone Action Classification” in BOOT CAMP 5.0 on Drone Application: Precision Farming Jointly conducted by S.V. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, SURAT and BHAGWAN MAHAVIR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, SURAT on 12-Mar-2024 |
| 2 | Gave an Expert lecture on “Deep Learning concepts and Classification of Actions for Autonomous Navigation of UAV using Deep Learning” in BOOT CAMP 2.0 on DRONE APPLICATIONS at S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat on 26-Jun-2023 |
| 3 | Visiting Faculty at National Institute of Technology, Surat (SVNIT) for ONE semester, at M. Tech I (CSE) – 2nd semester (Sub: CSE636 – ANN and Deep Learning) EVEN semester Academic year 2022-23, Jan 2023 to May 2023 |
| 4 | Visiting (expert) Faculty at SRKI, SES (Sub: Fundamentals of AI) for MSc-IT Sem 2 (July to Dec 2022) |
| 5 | Gave an expert talk on “AI, Deep Learning and its Applications” at GUJCOST & DST sponsored one day Seminar on Topic "Leading Edge applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence” at P. P. Savani University on 14-Oct-2022 |
| 6 | Conducted an expert talk at GUJCOST Sponsored STTP on "AI, ML and its Applications", at AURO university, 25-29 July 2022 |
| 7 | Conducted a session being a key speaker in Webinar on Data Smart Cities - Transforming lives through Data scheduled by Surat Smart City Development Limited on 21-Jan- 2022 |
| 8 | Visiting Faculty at National Institute of Technology, Surat (SVNIT) for ONE semester, at B. Tech III (CO) - Fifth semester (Sub: CO303 - Design and Analysis of Algorithm) Aug 2016 to Dec 2016 |
| 9 | ONE Expert lecture delivered as a Keynote speaker on SMART COMPUTING on 16-Feb-2018 at Sardar Patel Education Campus – Bakrol, Anand |
| 10 | Expert lecture at STTP “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE : A Modern Approach” 2nd to 7th MAY 2005 at SCET |
| 11 | ONE Expert lectures in TEQIP II sponsored “One Week Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications” during Dec 19 – 24, 2016 at Dept. Of Comp. Engg, BVM, V V Nagar (Topic : Optimized Routing Protocol for WSN) |
| 12 | ONE Expert lectures in “A Five-days Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on Wireless Network and Mobile Computing (WMC 2016)” Under the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme II (TEQIP II) during May 16 – 20, 2016 at Comp. Engg Dept, SVNIT, Surat (Topic : Optimized Routing Protocol for WSN (using PSO, GA)) |
| 13 | ONE Expert Lectures in IEEE SPS Chapter, GS sponsored workshop on “Recent Trends in Soft Computing and Image Processing Applications” at at SCET, Surat on 05/03/2016 (Topic: Genetic Algorithm and its applications. |
| 14 | TWO Expert Lectures in STTP: “Machine Learning (ML2013)” under TEQIP-II at Comp. Engg Dept, SVNIT, Surat on 20-06-2013 a)GA, PSO b)GA applications, Routing using GA and PSO |
| 15 | Expert Lecture in STTP: “Wireless Sensor Networks: Applications and Security Issues (WSNASI)” under TEQIP-II at Comp. Engg Dept, SVNIT, Surat on 23-05- 2013 a) Routing in WSN using GA/PSO and A-Star algorithm |
| 16 | Taken 9 Lectures in Training to Engineers of Surat Municipal Corporation on “Microsoft windows 2000 server and installation and configuration” in 2006-07 |
| 17 | Expert lecture in National level seminar “Wireless Sensor Networks Security” at SVNIT, Surat during 12-01-11 to 13-01-11 |
| 18 | Two Expert Lectures in STTP: “Soft Computing” at ADIT college, V. V. Nagar, Anand, May 2006 |
Achievements / Awards
| 1 | Being the Aakash coordinator, Aakash equipment fund of Rs. 1,00,000/ received from IIT Bombay on 14-Oct-2014 towards procurement of equipment and infrastructure development for the smooth conduct of Aakash center. |
| 2 | Became one of the top performers in the FDP by IIT Bombay on “Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended Learning” From 2/5/2016 to 10/07/2016 and won the excellence reward of Rs. 5000/- |
| 3 | Won the best paper award : “Scene Classification using Deep Learning techniques”, International conference on Computing, Communication and Cyber-Security (IC4S-2019), 12-13 Oct, 2019, Chandigarh, India |
Administrative Duties
| 1 | NAAC Institutional convener (Mar-2024 to till date). |
| 2 | PG In-charge, Computer Engg. Dept., SCET (Jul-2023 to till date). |
| 3 | Dean – Student Activities and Welfare, SCET ( 17-Jun-2019 to 30-Jun-2023) |
| 4 | Head of Department, Computer Engg from Jan 2017 to Jun 2019 |
| 5 | Convener of IT Solution Committee, SCET from 02-03-2016 to Jun 2019 |
| 6 | Head of Department, Computer Engg from April 2011 to Aug 2015 |
| 7 | Aakash center coordinator (SCET Center) for Aakash Project initiated by IIT Bombay |
| 8 | Department In-charge of MCA Dept, from Jan-2010 to July- 2010 |
| 9 | Department In-charge of Computer Engineering Department from Oct 2005 to Nov 2009 |
| 10 | Chairman, Board of Study, Computer Engineering branch, VNSGU, Surat |
Membership of Professional Bodies
| 1 | ISTE : Indian Society for Technical Education (Life member) |
| 2 | ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) : (Professional membership since Nov 2008) |
| 3 | CSI: Computer Society of India |
Workshop / Seminar / STTP
| 1 | Attended and completed 8 week NPTEL Swayam Online Course on Programming, Data Structures And Algorithms Using Python (Jul-Sep 2021) |
| 2 | Attended and completed 12 week NPTEL Swayam Online Course on Deep Learning (Jan-Apr 2020) |
| 3 | Attended and completed 8 week NPTEL Swayam Online Course on Practical Machine Learning with Tensorflow (Jan-Mar 2020) |
| 4 | Coordinated 2 week ISTE workshop on Computer Networking Under the NMEICT (MHRD, Gov. of India), conducted by IIT Bombay, at SCET, Surat June- July, 2014. |
| 5 | Attended two week ISTE workshop for coordinators on Computer Networking under the NMEICT (MHRD, Gov. of India), at IIT Bombay, May, 2014. |
| 6 | Attended TEQIP (II) Sponsored One week Short Term Training Programme (STTP) On Big Data and Advanced Video Compression at SVNIT, Surat, 29-6-15 to 3-7-15. |
| 7 | Coordinated and organized one day workshop on ‘Azure Cloud Campus’ for Students and staff on 10-09-2015 |
| 8 | Coordinated and organized one day CAMP on MS AZURE on 22-09-2015 |
| 9 | Coordinated an expert talk on “Machine Learning and its scope in research” on 06-08-2015 at 1:30 p.m to 3:00 p.m. at SCET. (Speaker : Dr. Mukesh Zaveri, SVNIT, Surat) |
| 10 | Coordinated 3 days workshop on Node JS and Mongo DB at SCET, 15-16-17 July, 2016 |
| 11 | Attended 1 week QIP Short Term Course on “Advances in Big Data Analytics” at SVNIT, Surat during 12/12/2016 to 16/12/2016 |
| 12 | Attended AICTE approved 4 week Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on “Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended Learning”, conducted by IIT, Bombay From 2/5/2016 to 10/07/2016 |
| 13 | Organized one workshop on Awareness program on Digital Finance” on 27/12/2016 at SCET (CSI Surat chapter and Comp. Engg. Dept, SCET), conducted by Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), Gandhinagar |
| 14 | Organized one expert talk on “1 2 3 4 5 of Cryptography’ by Dr. Alwyn Pais, NIT Surathkhal on 19/04/2017 at SCET |
| 15 | Organized one day workshop on ‘Global Azure Boot Camp 2017’ at Mahida Bhavan on 22/04/2017 (Collaboration with CSI Surat chapter and IE, financially supported by Microsoft) |
| 16 | Organized and coordinated an Expert talk on “Surat- Moving towards becoming a Smarter City” on 29th September 2017 at SCET |
| 17 | Attended GUJCOST sponsored One week STTP on “Machine Learning & Deep Learning for Data Science and Analytics using NVIDIA Graphics card & GPU Cloud” from 3rd Dec. 2018 – 8th Dec. 2018 @ DEPSTAR, CHARUSAT, Changa |
| 18 | Attended and completed 3 days Hands on Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning from 4-Jan-2019 to 6-Jan-2019 conducted by leadiningindia.ai, a nationwide Initiative of Bennett University, Greater Noida |
| 19 | Attended a workshop organized by Microsoft & GIL on Micorsoft .NET and C# between 26-09-08 and 28-09-08 at MSC-IT, Surat. |
| 20 | Attended STTP of 1 week on “Information Security” at SCET, 1st Nov – 6th Nov, 2004 |
| 21 | Attended STTP of 1 week on “ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE : A Modern Approach” 2nd to 7th MAY 2005 at SCET |
| 22 | Attended STTP of 1 week on “Recent Trends in Embedded Systems” organized at SCET in 18-12-06 to 22-12-06 |
| 23 | Attended Workshop on “Cell Architecture” by IBM at SVNIT on 3rd August, 2007 |
| 24 | Attended training of IBM’s Rational Rose and Requisite Pro software under IBM SEED Program (July 12 to July 14 2007). |
| 25 | Attended a Seminar on “Mainframe Career Start” at Department of Computer Science, VNSGU, Surat on 25th October, 2007 delivered by Dr Murray from IBM business partner named Global Online Learning in Australia. |
| 26 | Attended AICTE-ISTE approved STTP on “Emerging Trends in Network Security”during 24-12-07 to 28-12-07 at SCET, Surat |
| 27 | Attended one day seminar on “Carbon Credit : Trading and It’s Prospects” on 29-03-2008, organized by Civil Engg department and TIFAC-CORE, SCET, Surat. |
| 28 | Attended STTP of 2 weeks on: “Distributed Progamming & parallel processing” at Hydrabad, CBIT. 24-6-2002 to 5-7-2002 |
| 29 | Attended AICTE-Sponsored STTP on “Advanced Engineering optimization through intelligent techniques” during 22-12-08 to 26-12-08 at SVNIT, Surat |
| 30 | Attended AICTE-Sponsored STTP on “Machine learning and soft computing techniques” during 29-12-08 to 02-01-09 at SVNIT, Surat |
| 31 | Attended a National Workshop on Simulation of Wired and Wireless Network using NS-2 on Linux (SWWN 09) at Charotar Institute of Technology, Changa, during 19-03-2009 to 21-03-2009. |
| 32 | Attended Workshop on “Workshop on Emerging Research Topics in Engineering” at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, during 24-25 July 2009 |
| 33 | Attended workshop on “Advanced Robotics: Autonomous Mobile Robots using Neuro Fuzzy Techniques” organized by SCET, Surat and IEEE Gujarat Section at SCET on 11-oct-2009 |
| 34 | Attended AICTE sponsored Short Term Training Programme on “Advances in Data Structures” at SVNIT, Surat on 14-12-2009 to 19-12-2009. |
| 35 | Conducted 2 days ISTE workshop for teachers on “Aakash for Education” for Staff members of SCET college on 10/11/12 and 11/11/12 through IIT, Bombay under Aakash Project |
| 36 | Coordinator of “Aakash Android Application Programming Workshop for Student”( 23rd-24th Feb and 2nd-3rd March 2013) through, IITB and National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India) |
Participation in Other Activities
| 1 | Acted as a CO-Chairperson for Special Session in International Conference on Data Acquisition, Processing and Communication (DAPCom-2024) held on 29-Feb-24 to 2-Mar-24 |
| 2 | Coordinated (as the Center head) UGC-NET exam on 21-Sep-2022 conducted by NTA |
| 3 | Coordinated (as a Center head) CUET 2022 Phase I (15th, 16th, 19th and 20th July 2022 ) and Phase II exam (4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 10th Aug 2022) at SCET center conducted by NTA |
| 4 | Coordinated CMAT 2022 exam at SCET center on 9-Apr-2022 |
| 5 | Coordinated Smart Gujarat for New India Hackathon 2019-20 (Grand Finale round) – a 36 hours hackathon, organized by Gov. of Gujarat (SSIP and GKS) organized at SCET, Surat during 10th and 11th Aug 2021 |
| 6 | Coordinated One day Hands-on Workshop on Blockchain and its Usage (Under R&D lecture series) on 31-Aug-2019 (speaker : Dr. Mayank Aggarwal, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar) at SCET, Surat |
| 7 | Coordinated GCET-2010 Exam for SCET center in June-July 2010 |
| 8 | Coordinated Smart Gujarat for New India Hackathon 2019-20 (Regional round) – a 36 hours hackathon, organized by Gov. of Gujarat (SSIP and GKS) organized at SCET, Surat during 24th and 25th Feb 2020 |
| 9 | Organized and Coordinated (General Co-chair) a national level multi conference SCET Multi Disciplinary Conferences on Engineering & Technology – 2017 (SMDCET 2017) at SCET, March 2017 |
| 10 | Coordinated GCET-2011 Exam for SCET center in June-July 2011 |
| 11 | Coordinated Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) online exam, 18-22 Jan, 2011 |
| 12 | Organized “National Conference on Emerging Trend in Current Computing” ETCT-08 during June 26-27, 2008 at SCET. |
| 13 | Maintained college web site for year 2008, 2009, 2010 |
| 14 | Coordinated the college level committee of Internet/Intranet Committee for 2007 to 2011 |
| 15 | Worked as one of the Convener of Kshitij-2011, a National level techno festival. |
| 16 | Coordinated a seminar on Ethical Hacking & Computer Security by Mr. Ankit Fadia at SCET for final year students of CO, IT, ECC and MCA on 20-09- 2010 |
| 17 | Had an industrial visit of Infosys, Pune under SPARK Initiative programme, with 4th year students of CO on 21-08-2010. |
| 18 | Coordinated a seminar on Ethical Hacking by Mr. Ankit Fadia at SCET for final year students of CO and IT on 03-09-2008 |
| 19 | Conducted lecture/lab of RELIANCE Employees of Chemical Engg. in Diploma course run at SCET for the First semester, Computer Application subject. During Oct, 07 to Jan, 08 |
| 20 | Worked as one of the Convener of Kshitij-2008, a National level techno festival. |
| 21 | Taken Lectures in Training to Engineers of Surat Municipal Corporation on “Microsoft windows 2000 server and installation and configuration” in 2006-07 |
| 22 | Coordinator of “Update 2002” and “Update 2005” a paper presentation event, College level. |