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| Name : | Prof. (Dr.) Mayuri Mehta |
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| Qualification: | Ph.D. (NIT, Surat) |
| Designation: | Professor |
| Department: | Computer Engineering |
| Experience: | 25 years |
| Email: | mayuri.mehta@scet.ac.in, profmayurimehta@gmail.com |
| Courses / Subject involved: | Data Science, Machine Learning/Deep Learning, Medical Image Analysis, Health Informatics, Computer Vision, Computer Algorithms, Python Programming. |
| Portfolio: | International Relations and External Affairs Officer |
Extra Duty
Research Projects
Patents/Copyrights
| 1 | An Indian Utility Patent titled “AI-Enabled Display Device Integrated with Fluoroscopy Machine” (Application No. 202421026505). Filed on 30th March 2024, published on 10th May 2024. |
| 2 | An Indian Utility Patent titled “A Novel IoT Based Digital Magnetic Resonance Cardiovascular Health Analyzer Machine” (Application No. 202321018250). Filed on 17th March 2023, published on 7th April 2023. |
| 3 | An Indian Utility Patent titled “An IoT Based Pneumatic ICU Hospital Bed with Electric ABS Panel and Railing” (Application No. 202321018251). Filed on 17th March 2023, published on 7th April 2023. |
| 4 | An Indian Design Patent titled “Urban Health ATM” (Application No. 376490-001). Filed on 31st Dec 2022, Granted on 24th April 2024. |
| 5 | An Indian Utility Patent titled "IoT-based Device to Monitor the Quality of Vermicompost Nutrients" (Application No. 202221076287). Filed on 28th Dec 2022, published on 13th Jan 2023. |
| 6 | An Indian Utility Patent titled "Ground Water Quality Assessment using Multivariate Statastical Techniques and its Correlation with Cancer" (Application No. 202221069856). Filed on 3rd Dec 2022, published on 30th Dec 2022. |
| 7 | An Indian Utility Patent titled “Neural Network based Vedic Multiplier for Enhancing Computing Speed” (Application No. 202221059577). Filed on 18th Oct 2022, published on 30th Dec 2022. |
| 8 | An Indian Design Patent titled “Development of a Cost-Effective Artificial Intelligence Based Safer Transport Management System in U- Turn Mountains Area” (Application No. 367796-001). Filed on 16th July 2022, Granted in Jan 2023. |
| 9 | An Indian Utility Patent titled “IoT Based Cost Effective Wireless Infrared Thermometer Designed Non-Contact New Born Health Care Monitoring System” (Application No: 202231032951). Filed on 9th June 2022, published on 8th July 2022. |
| 10 | An Indian Utility Patent titled “IR based Application for Automatic Railway Gate” (Application No: 202241026429). Filed on 6th May 2022, published on 20th May 2022. |
| 11 | An Indian Utility Patent titled “GPS Activated IoT based Optimised Center Pivot Irrigation System for Low Energy Precision Valley” (Application No. 202221000436). Filed on 4th January 2022, published on 14th January 2022. |
| 12 | An Indian Utility Patent titled “An IoT based Neonatal Caddy” (Application No. 202221000306). Filed on 4th January 2022, published on 14th January 2022, Granted on 19th July 2024. |
| 13 | Copyright titled “IoT based Mobile Operated Solar Ball Mill” (Diary No. 26451/2021-CO/L) is approved by Copyright India |
| 14 | An Indian Industrial Design Patent titled “Mammography Screening Machine for Breast Cancer” (Application No. 347980-001). Filed on 16th August 2021, Granted in Dec 2022. |
| 15 | Utility Patent titled “A Novel Electro Acupuncture Device for Covid Treatment” (Application No. 202131022724). Filed on 21st May 2021, published on 18th June 2021. |
| 16 | An International Innovation Patent titled “Fabrication of Portable Device for Easy Detection on Neonatal Milia using Deep Learning” (Application No. 2021101767). Granted on 5th May 2021. |
| 17 | An International Innovation Patent titled “Fabrication of Portable Device for Easy Detection on Newborn Ringworm using Deep Learning” (Application No. 2021101962). Granted on 23rd June 2021. |
| 18 | An International Innovation Patent titled “Fabrication of a Novel Portable Device for Easy Detection of Neonatal Atopic Dermititis using Deep Learning” (Application No. 2021101769). Filed on 7th April 2021, Granted on 9th March 2022. |
| 19 | An International Innovation Patent titled “Indigenous Compact Device for Early Diagnosis of Neonatal Hypothyroidism using Deep Learning” (Application No. 2021101430). Granted on 5th May 2021. |
Books Published
| 1 | R. Aluvalu, M. Mehta, P. Siarry (Eds.), Explainable AI in Health Informatics, Springer, August 2024. (ISBN: 978-981-97-3704-8) https://link.springer.com/book/9789819737048 |
| 2 | C. Gaie and M. Mehta (Eds.), Transforming Public Services – Combining Data and Algorithms to Fulfil Citizen's Expectations, Springer, May 2024. (ISBN: 978-3-031-55574-9) https://link.springer.com/book/9783031555749 |
| 3 | C. Gaie and M. Mehta (Eds.), Recent Advances in Data and Algorithms for e-Government, Springer, January 2023. (ISBN: 978-3-031-22407-2) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-22408-9 |
| 4 | M. Mehta, V. Palade, I. Chatterjee (Eds.), Explainable AI: Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, Springer, October 2022. (ISBN: 978-3-031-12806-6) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-12807-3 |
| 5 | M. Mehta, K. Passi, I. Chatterjee, R. Patel (Eds.), Knowledge Modeling and Big Data Analytics in Healthcare: Advances and Applications, CRC Press, December 2021. (ISBN: 978-0-367-69661-0) https://tinyurl.com/26cfeff5 |
| 6 | M. Mehta, P. Fournier-Viger, M. Patel, J.C.-W. Lin (Eds.), Tracking and Preventing Diseases using Artificial Intelligence, Springer, August 2021. (ISBN: 978-3-030-76731-0) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-76732-7 |
Research Publications
| Book Chapter | |
| 1 | C. Gaie and M. A. Mehta, “Digital Transformation of Public Services: Introduction, Current Trends and Future Directions,” C. Gaie, M. A. Mehta (Eds.) Transforming Public Services - Combining Data and Algorithms to Fulfil Citizen's Expectations, Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 252. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55575-6_1 |
| 2 | D. Kumar and M. A. Mehta, “An Overview of Explainable AI Methods, Forms and Frameworks,” M. Mehta et al. (Eds.) Explainable AI: Foundations, Methodologies and Applications, Springer, Oct 2022. (ISBN: 978-3-031-12806-6) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12807-3_3 |
| 3 | M. Panchal and M. A. Mehta, “Machine Learning Driven Drug Discovery: Recent Trends and Future Opportunities,” Joy of Engineering & Management, Prof. Ramesh Chandra Panda and Ar. G. Radhika, Rock Pigeon Publication, June 2020. |
| 4 | M. A. Mehta, “AI in Healthcare: Current Trends, Challenges and Future Opportunities,” Joy of Engineering & Management, Prof. Ramesh Chandra Panda and Ar. G. Radhika, Rock Pigeon Publication, June 2020. |
| International Journals | |
| 1 | R. S. Oza, M. A. Mehta, and P. Siarry, "A Review on Surgical Robotic Platforms including RMIS, AI-based CAS Systems, Challenges, and Future Directions," The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, vol. 21, no. 4, 23 July 2025. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcs.70089 |
| 2 | D. Kumar, M. A. Mehta, K. Kotecha and Ambarish Kulkarni, “Computer-aided Cholelithiasis Diagnosis using Explainable Convolutional Neural Network,” Scientific Reports, 15, 4249, Jan 2025. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85798-2 |
| 3 | N. Dave, M. A. Mehta, K. Kotecha, “Effective Stemmers Using Trie Data Structure for Enhanced Processing of Gujarati Text,” International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Vol. 17, No. 309, 19 Dec 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44196-024-00679-2 |
| 4 | V. C. Joshi, M. A. Mehta, and K. Kotecha, "White blood cell segmentation using U-Net and its variants to improve leukemia diagnosis," Neural Comput & Applic (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-024-10757-3 |
| 5 | S. S. Noronha, M. A. Mehta, D. Garg, K. Kotecha and A. Abraham, "Deep Learning-Based Dermatological Condition Detection: A Systematic Review With Recent Methods, Datasets, Challenges, and Future Directions," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 140348-140381, 2023, http://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3339635 |
| 6 | D. Kumar, M. A. Mehta, V. C. Joshi, R. S. Oza, K. Kotecha, J. C. Lin, “Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network using Filter Pruning Method,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, 7 Dec 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-17656-0 |
| 7 | R. S. Oza, M. A. Mehta, K. Kotecha, and J. C. Lin, “Analytics of deep model-based spatiotemporal and spatial feature learning methods for surgical action classification," Multimedia Tools and Applications, 14 Nov 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-17344-z |
| 8 | N. Dave, M. A. Mehta, K. Kotecha, “A Systematic Review on Stemmers of Indian and Non-Indian Vernacular Languages,” ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Volume 0, Issue ja, 14 June 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3604612 |
| 9 | Magaraja, A.D.; Rajapackiyam, E.; Kanagaraj, V.; Kanagaraj, S.J.; Kotecha, K.; Vairavasundaram, S.; Mehta, M.; Palade, V., “A Hybrid Linear Iterative Clustering and Bayes Classification-based GrabCut Segmentation Scheme for Dynamic Detection of Cervical Cancer,” Appl. Sci. 2022, 12, 10522. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122010522 |
| 10 | A. H. Vyas, M. A. Mehta, K. Kotecha, S. Pandya, M. Alazab and T. R. Gadekallu, “Tear Film Breakup Time-Based Dry Eye Disease Detection using Convolutional Neural Network,” Neural Computing and Applications (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-022-07652-0 |
| 11 | D. Kumar, M. A. Mehta, I. Chatterjee, “Empirical Analysis of Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network for Ultrasound Image Synthesis,”, The Open Biomedical Engineering Journal. vol. 15, no. Suppl-1, M3, pp. 71-77, 2021. https://doi.org/10.2174/1874120702115010071 |
| 12 | K. B. Gabani, M. A. Mehta and S. Noronha, “Racial Categorization Methods: A Survey,” International Journal of Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems (ASTESJ), vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 388-401, June 2020. https://doi.org/10.25046/aj050350 |
| 13 | A. H. Vyas and M. A. Mehta, “A Comprehensive Survey on Image Modality based Computerized Dry Eye Disease Detection Techniques,” International Journal of Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems (ASTESJ), vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 748-756, April 2020. https://doi.org/10.25046/aj050293 |
| 14 | M. Desai and M. A. Mehta, “A Hybrid Classification Algorithm to Classify Engineering Students’ Problems and Perks,” International Journal of Data Mining & Knowledge Management Process (IJDKP), vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 73-81, India, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5121/ijdkp.2016.6206 |
| 15 | M. A. Mehta and D. C. Jinwala, “A Hybrid Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithm for Distributed Systems,” Journal of Computers, vol. 9, no. 8, pp. 1825-1833, Academy Publishers, UK, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4304/jcp.9.8.1825-1833 |
| 16 | M. A. Mehta and D. C. Jinwala, “A Hybrid Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithm for Distributed Systems using Genetic Algorithms,” International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technology, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 1-23, IGI Global Publishing, USA, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijdst.2014070101 |
| 17 | M. Mehta and D. Jinwala, “Comparative Evaluation of Load Balancing Algorithms in Distributed Systems,” International Journal of Software Engineering (IJSE), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 105-118, 2010. |
| 18 | S. Pati and M. A. Mehta, “Analyzing Job Aware Scheduling Algorithm in Hadoop for Heterogeneous Cluster,” International Journal of Research and Innovations in Science and Technology, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 51-57, India, 2015. |
| International Conference | |
| 1 | V. C. Joshi and M. A. Mehta, "Vision Transformer (ViT)-based Approach for Accurate Detection of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia," Proceedings of the 6th IEEE INDISCON 2025 Conference, Rourkela, India, 21-23 Aug 2025. |
| 2 | K. Shah, S. Patel, and M. A. Mehta, "Automatic Detection of Craters and Boulders from Orbiter High Resolution Camera(OHRC) Images using YOLOv11 Model," Proceedings of the 6th IEEE INDISCON 2025 Conference, Rourkela, India, 21-23 Aug 2025. |
| 3 | J. S. Nasriwala, Y. K. Mistry, M. P. Mangtani, S. R. Mishra, M. A. Mehta, and D. K. Singh, "Malaria Parasite Detection in Thin Blood Smear Images Using ConvNeXt with Explanation," Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI 2025), Hyderabad, India, 21-23 Aug 2025. |
| 4 | P. Navinchandra, Y. P. Patel, V. S. Singh, and M. A. Mehta, "Kidney and Kidney Tumor Segmentation from 3D CT Scan using SAM-2 Model," Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Technologies for Sustainability (AISTS) 2025, Rajkot, India, 21-23 Aug 2025. |
| 5 | H. Borad, D. Maktuporia, C. Chauhan, M. A. Mehta, and D. K. Singh, "Ultrasound Image Enhancement using Modified ESR-GAN ," Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Technologies for Sustainability (AISTS) 2025, Rajkot, India, 21-23 Aug 2025. |
| 6 | S. Noronha, N. Naik, M. A. Mehta, and S. A. Patel, "Computer-Aided Detection of Milia Skin Condition in Infants from Dermoscopic Image using Pre-Trained CNN," Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Technologies for Sustainability (AISTS) 2025, Rajkot, India, 21-23 Aug 2025. |
| 7 | O. M. Patel, D. D. Patel, M. A. Mehta, and R. S. Oza, "ATCM: A Method for Land-Water Classification from Satellite Images using MobileNetV2," Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Technologies for Sustainability (AISTS) 2025, Rajkot, India, 21-23 Aug 2025. |
| 8 | D. D. Patel, P. P. Sisodiya, O. M. Patel, R. S. Oza, M. A. Mehta, "EmotionClassNet: A Method for Emotion Detection and Classification using DenseNet121 from Facial Images," Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Technologies for Sustainability (AISTS) 2025, Rajkot, India, 21-23 Aug 2025. |
| 9 | R. B. Cheruku, V. M. Badiyani, F. D. Chauhan, M. A. Mehta and R. S. Oza, "Classification of Multiple Eye Diseases using Pretrained Convolution Neural Network," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on recent trends in Microelectronics, Automation, Computing and Communications Systems (ICMACC-24), Hyderabad, India, Dec 2024. |
| 10 | N. Naik, M. A. Mehta and V. C. Joshi , "Proximal Femur Segmentation from the Fluoroscopy Image using DeeplabV3+ Model," Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on recent trends in Microelectronics, Automation, Computing and Communications Systems (ICMACC-24), Hyderabad, India, Dec 2024. |
| 11 | T. A. Jariwala, P. C. Mehta, M. A. Mehta and V. C. Joshi "Kidney and Kidney Tumour Segmentation from 3D CT Scan using DeepLabv3+," Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), Delhi, India, Sept. 2024. |
| 12 | V. C. Joshi and M. A. Mehta, "White Blood Cell Segmentation using DeepLabv3+ for Improved Hematological Disease Detection," Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP), Canberra, Australia, Sept. 2023. |
| 13 | V. Chauhan, R. Oza and M. A. Mayuri, “Detection and Localization of High-Grade Glioma Brain Tumor using Fusion of MRI and MRSI,” Proceedings of the 19th IEEE India Council International Conference INDICON 2022. Kochi, India, 24-26 Nov 2022. doi: 10.1109/INDICON56171.2022.10039883. |
| 14 | B. S. Parmar and M. A. Mehta, “Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Thyroid Dysfunction: A Survey,” L. Bellatreche et al. (Eds.) Big Data Analytics. BDA 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 12581, pp. 164-189, Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66665-1_12 |
| 15 | N. Naik and M. A. Mehta, “An Improved Method to Recognize Hand-over-Face Gesture based Facial Emotion using Convolutional Neural Network,” Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT 2020), Bangalore, India, July 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CONECCT50063.2020.9198376 |
| 16 | S. Noronha, M. A. Mehta and R. Oza, “A Comparative Study of Forehead Landmarking Techniques,” Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICOEI 2020), Tirunelveli, India, June 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOEI48184.2020.9142901 |
| 17 | N. R. Dave and M. A. Mehta, “Comparative Analysis of Rule-Based, Dictionary-Based and Hybrid Stemmers for Gujarati Language,” In: Madria S., Fournier-Viger P., Chaudhary S., Reddy P. (eds) Big Data Analytics. BDA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 11932, pp. 140-155, Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37188-3_9 |
| 18 | N. Naik and M. A. Mehta, “Hand-over-Face Gesture based Facial Emotion Recognition using Deep Learning,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems in Digital Enterprise Technology (ICCSDET 2018), Kottayam, India, December 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSDET.2018.8821186 |
| 19 | N. N. Naik and M. A. Mehta, “Comprehensive and Comparative Study of Cloud Simulators,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Analytics (2018 IEEE Punecon), Pune, India, December 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/PUNECON.2018.8745422 |
| 20 | M. A. Mehta and S. A. Pote, “Text Detection from Natural Scene Videos having Blurriness and Text of Different Sizes,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Analytics (2018 IEEE Punecon), Pune, India, December 2018. DOI: 10.1109/PUNECON.2018.8745375 |
| 21 | M. Desai and M. A. Mehta, “Descriptive, Dynamic and Hybrid Classification Algorithm to Classify Engineering Students’ Sentiments,” In: Bhattacharyya P., Sastry H., Marriboyina V., Sharma R. (eds) Smart and Innovative Trends in Next Generation Computing Technologies (NGCT 2017), Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 827, pp. 122-138, Springer, Singapore , 2018. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8657-1_10 |
| 22 | S. A. Pote and M. A. Mehta, “An Improved Technique to Detect Text from Scene Videos,” Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP2017), Melmaruvathur, India, pp. 1190-1194, April 2017. DOI: 10.1109/ICCSP.2017.8286566 |
| 23 | H. H. Lad and M. A. Mehta, “Analysis of Feature based Object Mining and Tagging Algorithm Considering Different Levels of Occlusion,” Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP2017), Melmaruvathur, India, pp. 171-175, April 2017. DOI: 10.1109/ICCSP.2017.8286800 |
| 24 | M. Desai and M. A. Mehta, “Techniques for Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data: A Comprehensive Survey,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computing Communication and Automation (ICCCA 2016), Greater Noida, India, pp. 149-154, April 2016. DOI: 10.1109/CCAA.2016.7813707 |
| 25 | H. Lad and M. A. Mehta, “Feature based Object Mining and Tagging Algorithm for Digital Images,” International Conference on Communication and Networks, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer-Singapore, vol. 508, pp. 345-352, Ahmedabad, February 2016. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-2750-5_36 |
| 26 | S. Pati and M. A. Mehta, “Job Aware Scheduling in Hadoop for Heterogeneous Cluster,” Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advance Computing (IACC 2015), Bangalore, India, pp. 778-783, June 2015. DOI: 10.1109/IADCC.2015.7154813 |
| 27 | A. Patel and M. A. Mehta, “A Novel Approach for Efficient Handling of Small Files in HDFS,” Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advance Computing (IACC 2015), Banglore, India, pp. 1258-1262, June 12-13, 2015. DOI: 10.1109/IADCC.2015.7154903 |
| 28 | M. A. Mehta, S. Agrawal, and D. C. Jinwala, “Novel Algorithms for Load Balancing using Hybrid Approach in Distributed Systems,” Proceedings of the 2012 2nd IEEE International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Gird Computing (PDGC 2012), Waknaghat, IEEE Press, pp. 27-32, December 2012. DOI: 10.1109/PDGC.2012.6449786 |
| 29 | M. Mehta, “Designing an effective dynamic load balancing algorithm considering imperative design issues in distributed systems”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT 2012), Rajkot, India, pp. 397-401, May 2012. DOI: 10.1109/CSNT.2012.92 |
| 30 | M. A. Mehta and D. C. Jinwala, “Analysis of Significant Components for Designing an Effective Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithm in Distributed System,” Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modeling and Simulation (ISMS 2012), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, pp. 531-536, February 2012. DOI: 10.1109/ISMS.2012.83 |
| 31 | M. Mehta and D. Jinwala, “A Hybrid Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithm for Heterogeneous Environments,” Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Grid Computing and Applications (GCA ’11), Las Vegas, USA, pp. 61-66, CSREA Press, USA, July 2011. |
| 32 | M. A. Mehta and D. C. Jinwala, “Analytical Parametric Evaluation of Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithms in Distributed Systems,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Information Technology and Mobile Communication (AIM 2011), Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, vol. 147, no. 3, Springer-Verlag, pp. 388-391, April 2011. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20573-6_68 |
| National Conference | |
| 1 | M. Mehta, “Research on stability of load distributing algorithms,” Proceeding of the National Conference on Advancements in Computer Engineering (ACE2008), Sirhind, Punjab, Apr. 2008. |
| 2 | M. Mehta, “An exploration of load sharing and load balancing algorithms,” Proceedings of the National Conference on Emerging Trends in Computer Technology (ETCT2008), pp. 38-40, Surat, Jun. 2008. |
| 3 | M. Mehta, “Survey of load distributing algorithms of distributed systems,” Proceedings of the National Conference on Current Trends in Technology (NUCONE2007), pp. 301-304, Ahmedabad, Dec. 2007. |
| 4 | M. Mehta and N. Desai, “Security of Ad hoc Networks: A Snapshot,” Proceeding of the National Conference (USID2007), Hyderabad, Jun. 2007. |
Expert Lectures Delivered
| 1 | Talk on "Generative AI and its Applications in Computer Vision" on 17th September 2025 in 1-week Faculty Development Program organized by Ravindra College of Engineering for Women (Autonomous), Karnool, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 2 | Tutorial on “How AI is Transforming Healthcare: New Frontiers and Future Research Directions” on 22nd August 2025 in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Technologies for Sustainability (AISTS 2025) organized by IEEE Gujarat Section and hosted by Marwadi University, Rajkot. |
| 3 | Talk on “Explainable AI and Trustworthy AI for Modern Applications” on 24th April 2025 in 1-week Faculty Development Program organized by Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. |
| 4 | Talk on “Explainable AI and its Role in Modern Applications” on 19th March 2025 in 1-week Faculty Development Program organized by Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. |
| 5 | Keynote Speaker (Title: AI as a Catalyst for Transformational Change in Traditional Industries) at the National Conference on "Technological Advancements in Academia & Industry 4.0 (NCTAAI 4.0)" organized by Indira College of Engineering & Management, Pune during 28-29 March 2025. |
| 6 | Talk on “Revolutionizing Healthcare Through AI and IoT Integration” on 27th March 2025 organized by Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR), Pune in association with IEEE Student Chapter. |
| 7 | Talk on “Integration of IoT and AI for Sustainable Urban Mobility” on 4th Feb 2025 in AICTE ATAL-sponsored FDP on "Innovations in Sustainable Smart City Development and Urban Mobility" organized by Faculty of Computer Applications, Marwadi University, Rajkot. |
| 8 | Talk on “Leveraging Data Science for Urban Development and Sustainability” on 8th Feb 2025 in AICTE ATAL-sponsored FDP on "Innovations in Sustainable Smart City Development and Urban Mobility" organized by Faculty of Computer Applications, Marwadi University, Rajkot. |
| 9 | Tutorial on “Self-Supervised Learning: A Breakthrough in Machine Learning to Learn Representations from Unlabeled Data” on 20th Dec 2024 in 2nd International Conference on recent trends in Microelectronics, Automation, Computing and Communications Systems (ICMACC-24) organized by VNR Vignana Jyothi College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad |
| 10 | Tutorial on “Self-Supervised Learning: A Next Step in AI to Learn Representations from Unlabeled Data Generating Implicit Labels” on 18th Dec 2024 in 12th International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (BDA 2024) hosted by University of Hyderabad. |
| 11 | Talk on “Generative AI in Medical Imaging” on 17th Dec 2024 in AICTE ATAL-sponsored FDP titled “Generative AI and Its Applications in Computer Vision” organized by L. D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad. |
| 12 | Talk on “Recent Developments and Future Opportunities in AI” on 5th Dec 2024 in AICTE ATAL-sponsored FDP titled “Full Stack Web Development using AI” organized by R. N. G. Patel Institute of Technology, Bardoli |
| 13 | Talk on “Generative AI in Healthcare” on 16th Dec 2024 in FDP titled “Advanced AI: Tools and Algorithms (AATA-2024)” organized by Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar (SSN) College of Engineering, Chennai. |
| 14 | Talk on “The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Revolutionizing Healthcare Sector” on 23rd Dec 2024 organized by School of Engineering, Indrashil University, Gujarat |
| 15 | Talk on “How AI and Explainable AI are Transforming Healthcare Industry” on 25th Nov 2024 in AICTE ATAL-sponsored FDP titled “AI and Explainable AI in Healthcare: Current Trends and Future Research Opportunities” organized by SCET, Surat. |
| 16 | Talk on “Transforming Healthcare using AI and Data Science: New Frontiers and Research Directions” on 14th Nov 2024 organized by The Bhawanipur Education Society College, Kolkata. |
| 17 | Invited to conduct two tutorials, titled “Transforming Healthcare using AI and XAI: New Frontiers and Research Directions” and “Self-Supervised Learning: An Efficient Emerging Learning Technique to Learn Representations from Unlabeled Image Data”, in IEEE R10 HTC 2024 (Humanitarian Technology Conference) organized by IEEE Kuala Lumpur Subsection in Kuala Lumpur during 1st – 3rd October 2024. |
| 18 | Tutorial on “Self-Supervised Learning: An Efficient Learning Technique to Learn Representations from Unlabelled Image Data” on 22nd August 2024 in the 4th International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI 2024) organized by Mahindra University, Hyderabad. |
| 19 | Talk on “How AI is Transforming the Traditional Healthcare Industry” on 24th August 2024 organized by VNR Vignana Jyothi College of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad |
| 20 | Addressed participants from IEEE Bangladesh Section on 23rd June 2024 during the launch of IEEE WIE (Women in Engineering) Day 2024. Delivered talk on "AI in Healthcare: Introduction and Applications". |
| 21 | Talk on “AI as a Catalyst for Transformational Change in Traditional Healthcare Industry” at C-DAC Mumbai on their 37th Foundation Day on 9th April 2024. |
| 22 | Keynote Speaker (Title: “Self-Supervised Learning: An Efficient Technique to Process Unlabeled Data”) at the 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Science - ICCIDS 2024 organized by SSN College of Engineering, Chennai during 21-23 Feb 2024. |
| 23 | Workshop on "AI and XAI-based Use Cases in Healthcare using Python" at the 7th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Science - ICCIDS 2024 organized by SSN College of Engineering, Chennai during 21-23 Feb 2024. |
| 24 | Talk on “Recent Developments and Future Directions in AI” on 8th Jan 2024 in 1-week STTP on “Research Trends of Search Engine Optimization in AIML” organized by G. H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur. |
| 25 | Talk on “Interpretable AI” on 30th January 2024 in FDP on “Advanced AI: Tools and Algorithms (AATA-2023)” organized by SSN College of Engineering, Chennai. |
| 26 | Talk on “New Frontiers and Future Directions in AI and Data Science” on 6th Dec 2023 at Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies (VIPS) – Technical Campus (School of Engineering & Technology), Delhi. |
| 27 | Tutorial on “AI and Explainable AI (XAI) in Healthcare: Recent Advancements, Use Cases and Future Opportunities” on 7th Dec 2023 in 11th International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (BDA 2023) hosted by IIIT Delhi. |
| 28 | Panelist in a panel discussion on “Emerge as a Successful Woman Professional with the Right Balance of Body, Mind, and Spirit” on 5th Dec 2023 organized under IEEE India Council Professional Program for Young Women in Academics |
| 29 | International Webinar on "Essential Guidelines to Write an Effective Research Paper: Structure & Content" on 3rd Dec 2023 organized under IEEE EMBS (Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society) Student Mentoring Program. |
| 30 | Talk on “Recent Developments in Healthcare using Convolutional Neural Networks” on 20th December 2023 in AICTE ATAL sponsored 1-Week FDP on “Leveraging AI for Enhanced Healthcare Delivery Systems" organized by L. D. College of Engineering, Ahmedabad. |
| 31 | National Webinar on “How to Prepare a Good Quality Research Paper” on 17th Nov 2023 organized under IEEE India Council Professional Mentoring Program for Young Faculty Members. |
| 32 | Tutorial on “AI and Robotics for Healthcare Sector” in IEEE R10 HTC 2023 (Humanitarian Technology Conference), a premier annual cross disciplinary conference, organized by Marwadi University, Rajkot during 16-18 Oct 2023. |
| 33 | Invited to conduct a Tutorial on “Transforming Healthcare through AI and Explainable AI (XAI) Revolutions” in the 22nd International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT2023), Sydney, Australia during 16-18 Oct 2023. |
| 34 | Invited to conduct a Tutorial on “Self-Supervised Learning and its Applications in Computer Vision” in the 22nd International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT2023), Sydney, Australia during 16-18 Oct 2023. |
| 35 | Talk on “How to Manifest Anything You Desire in Your Life” on 17th Oct 2023 at Darshan Institute of Engineering and Technology, Rajkot. |
| 36 | Tutorial on “How AI and Explainable AI (XAI) are Transferring the Healthcare Industry” in IEEE Region 10 Symposium TENSYMP 2023 organized by the IEEE Region 10 (Asia Pacific) at Canberra, Australia during 6-8 Sept 2023 |
| 37 | Seminar on “Self-Supervised Learning and its Applications in Computer Vision” on 7th June 2023 at Coventry University, UK. |
| 38 | Talk on “Self-Supervised Learning to Process Unlabeled Image Data” on 8th June 2023 at Imperial College, London, UK (# 6th in QS World University Rankings). |
| 39 | Talk on "Advancements in Data Preprocessing" on 27th June 2023 in FDP on “Recent Trends in Data Science for Engineering” organized by Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. |
| 40 | Keynote Speaker in “Symbiclave 2023: India's First Ever Skill-Based Patent Conclave” organized by Symbiosis University of Applied Science, Indore on 6th May 2023. Delivered a talk on “AI Innovations in Healthcare: Currents Trends and Future Possibilities”. |
| 41 | Invited Talk on “How AI and Robotics are Transforming Healthcare Industry” on 28th April at International Conference on Robotics and Cyber Physical Machines organized by Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT), Hyderabad. |
| 42 | Talk on “Convolutional Neural Network: Model Architecture and Applications” on 24th April 2023 in STTP on “Concept of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Towards Research Applications” organized by Parul Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vadodara |
| 43 | Talk on “Use Cases of Convolutional Neural Network in Healthcare” on 24th April 2023 in STTP on “Concept of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Towards Research Applications” organized by Parul Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vadodara |
| 44 | Talk on “Self-Supervised Learning and its Applications in Computer Vision” on 24th April 2023 in STTP on “Concept of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Towards Research Applications” organized by Parul Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vadodara |
| 45 | Talk on “Happiness is the Key to Success” on 15th April 2023 in International Women’s Day Celebration organized by Google Developers Group, Surat and Women Techmakers, Surat |
| 46 | Webinar on “Artificial Intelligence: Breakthroughs and Future Prospects” on 23rd April 2023 organized by IEEE WIE MP Section. |
| 47 | Talk on “How AI and Data Science are Transforming Healthcare Sector” on 1st March 2023 in ISTE approved STTP on “Research Trends in Data Science” organized by the Department of Information Technology of Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune. |
| 48 | Conducted 1-Day Workshop on “How AIML & Data Science are Transforming various Industries of the Real World” on 4th Jan 2023 organized by Vivekananda School of Engineering & Technology, Delhi. |
| 49 | Keynote Speaker in Global Conclave on Intellectual Property Right in association with Tradepreneur Global Research Organization, UK organized by KC Group of Institutions, Punjab on 5th Jan 2023. Delivered a talk on “Research and Innovations in Health Informatics” |
| 50 | Talk on "Explainable AI Methods, Forms and Frameworks" on 19th Jan 2023 in a SERB, DST sponsored 1-Week SERB KARYASHALA (High-End Workshop) on "Understanding Machines: Explainable AI" organized by the Department of Computer Applications, Cochin University of Science & Technology(CUSAT), Kochi. |
| 51 | Tutorial on “Self-Supervised Learning to Process Labeled and Unlabeled Medical Image Data” on 22nd Dec 2022 in 10th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2022) organized by IIIT Hyderabad. |
| 52 | Tutorial on “AI, XAI and Data Science in Healthcare: Applications and Use Cases” on 29th Dec 2022 in 8th IEEE International WIE Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECON-ECE 2022) organized by IIIT-Naya Raipur and Kaligna University. |
| 53 | Talk on “Artificial Intelligence: Current Trends and Future Scope” on 10th Nov 2022 at IIIT Una in Orientation program for B Tech I |
| 54 | Talk on “Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Healthcare: Emerging Trends and Future Opportunities” on 17th Nov 2022 in GUJCOST sponsored STTP on “Recent Advancements in Machine Learning and IoT” at GSFC University, Vadodara. |
| 55 | Keynote Speaker in 2-Days World Innovation Patent Conclave 2022 organized by Apeejay School of Management, Dwarka, Delhi during 26-27 Aug 2022. Delivered a talk on “Research and Innovations using AI in Healthcare”. |
| 56 | Talk on “AI in Healthcare: Current Trends and Future Scope” on 6th August 2022 organized by Department of Computer Engineering, DEPSTAR in association with IEEE DEPSTAR SB. |
| 57 | Talk on “AI in Healthcare: Recent Developments, Use Cases and Future Prospects” on 5th August 2022 organized by IEEE GUNI SB, Ganpat University, Mehsana. |
| 58 | Talk on “The Increasing Role of AI and Explainable AI (XAI) in Healthcare” on 2nd July 2022 at IIT Bombay in 10th version of the IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP 2022). |
| 59 | Talk on “Data Science Applications in Healthcare” in WiDS Delhi Conference organized during 18-19 June 2022. |
| 60 | Talk on “How to Prepare an Effective Book Proposal” on 14th May 2022 organized by IEEE CBIT SB in association with the department of ECE and IT, Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. |
| 61 | Talk on "Research Opportunities in Healthcare using AI" on 22nd April 2022 in Global Institute of Technology and Management (GITM), Gurgaon, Delhi. |
| 62 | Talk on “Deep Dive in Data Science” on 1st March 2022 in Women in Data Science Conference (WiDS 2022) organized by WiDS Ahmedabad |
| 63 | Talk on “Machine Learning in Healthcare: Emerging Trends and Future Opportunities” on 12th February 2022 in STTP on “Machine Learning” at GLS University, Ahmedabad. |
| 64 | Talk Show on “Artificial Intelligence: Current Trends and Future Scope” on 28th January 2022 at Gajera Global School, Surat. |
| 65 | Tutorial On “Big Data Analytics and Explainable AI in Healthcare: Recent Developments and Future Scope” on 17th December 2021 in 9th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2021) organized by IIIT Allahabad. |
| 66 | Tutorial On “Explainable AI in Healthcare: Current Trends and Future Scope” on 1st December 2021 in 2021 IEEE Second International Conference On Technology, Engineering, Management for Societal Impact Using Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Talent (IEEE TEMSMET 2021) organized by Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Pune. |
| 67 | Tutorial on “AI in Healthcare: Recent Developments and Future Scope” on 1st November 2021 in International Conference on Machine Intelligence and System Sciences (MISS 2021) organized by Techno College of Engineering, Agartala, India and Tongmyong University, Busan, South Korea. |
| 68 | Delivered a Talk on “Data Science and its Applications” on 9th October 2021 in BVM, Vidhyanagar, Anand |
| 69 | Delivered a Talk on “Big Data Analytics and its Applications in Healthcare” on 4th September 2021 in CHARUSAT University, Changa. |
| 70 | Tutorial on “AI in Healthcare: Emerging Trends, Use Cases and Future Directions” on 25th August 2021 in the International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence – ICETCI-2021 organized by Mahindra University, Hyderabad |
| 71 | Delivered a Webinar on “Applications of Deep Learning in Healthcare” on14th August 2021 in GUJCOST sponsored webinar series organized by P. P. Savani University, Surat. |
| 72 | Delivered a talk on “Drafting and Communicating Research Paper” on 10th August 2021 in GUJCOST sponsored STTP on Research Methodology organized by P. P. Savani University, Surat |
| 73 | Talk on “Health Informatics and Data Science” in WiDS Delhi Conference organized during 19-20 June 2021. |
| 74 | Talk on “AI in Healthcare: Emerging Trends, Use Cases and Future Directions” on 11th June 2021 in 2-weeks STTP on “Full-stack AI and Deep Learning Practitioner Approach” organized by K. L. University, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 75 | Talk on “How to Write a Good Quality Research Paper” on 4th June 2021 in 1-Week FDP organized by Greater Kolkata College of Engineering and Management. |
| 76 | Talk on “How to Draft a Research Paper” on 3rd May 2021 in a GUJCOST sponsored National Seminar on “Road Map to Write Technical Research Paper” organized by R. N. G. Patel Institute of Technology, Bardoli |
| 77 | Talk on “Convolutional Neural Network” on 24th April 2021 in a GUJCOST sponsored 2-Days Workshop on “Machine Learning in Image Processing” organized by Smt. Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel Institute of Computer Applications (CMPICA), Changa. |
| 78 | Talk on “Role of Machine Learning in Data Science Applications” on 5th March 2021 in GUJCOST sponsored 2-Days National Seminar on “Advance Application Development through Data Science & Artificial Intelligence” organized by Rashtriya Raksha Shakti University, Gandhinagar |
| 79 | Talk on “CNN and its Applications” on 4th March 2021 in AICTE-GTU sponsored FDP on “Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning: Trends and Applications” organized by MCA Department, SCET. |
| 80 | Talk on “Demystifying Data Science and Machine Learning” on 13th February 2021 at Devang Patel Institute of Advance Technology and Research, Changa. |
| 81 | Webinar on “Role of Machine Learning in Data Science Applications” on 13th February 2021 organized by A. D. Patel Institute of Technology, New Vallabh Vidyanagar. |
| 82 | Talk on “Internet of Things: Recent Applications and Future Scope” on 4th January 2021 in ATAL sponsored 1-Week FDP on “Internet of Things” organized by P. S. R. Engineering College, Sevalpatti, Sivakasi. |
| 83 | Tutorial on “Growing Role of Big Data and AI in Transforming Healthcare Industry” on 18th December 2020 in 8th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2020) organized by Ashoka University, Delhi. |
| 84 | Talk on “AI for Healthcare: Emerging Trends and Use Cases” on 15th December 2020 in AICTE sponsored 2-Week online FDP on “Data Science and its Applications” organized by SPIT, Andheri. |
| 85 | Talk on “Tensorflow: The Fastest Growing Framework to Build Machine Learning Models” on 14th December 2020 in AICTE sponsored 2-Week FDP on “Technical Trends in IoE, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence” organized by P. S. R. Engineering College, Sevalpatti, Sivakasi. |
| 86 | Talk on “Big Data Analytics in Healthcare: Use Cases” on 27th November 2020 in 1-Week FDP jointly organized by IIIT, Una and Himachal Pradesh Technical University. |
| 87 | Talk on “Big Data Analytics in Healthcare: Emerging Directions” on 27th November 2020 in 1-Week FDP jointly organized by IIIT, Una and Himachal Pradesh Technical University. |
| 88 | Talk on “Supervised and Unsupervised Learning” on 23rd November 2020 in AICTE sponsored 2-Week FDP on “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning” organized by SPIT, Andheri. |
| 89 | Talk on “Data Processing and Visualization” on 21st November 2020 in AICTE sponsored 2-Week FDP on “Insights into Intelligent Automation, Machine Learning and Data Science” organized by SPIT, Mumbai. |
| 90 | Talk on “Introduction to Machine Learning for Data Science and Analytics” on 27th October 2020 in GUJCOST-DST sponsored Webinar Series organized by GIT, Gandhinagar. |
| 91 | Talk on “Applications of Deep Learning in Healthcare” on 9th October 2020 in DST-SERB sponsored Workshop organized by SSN College of Engineering, Tamilnadu. |
| 92 | Talk on “Convolutional Neural Network” on 16th September 2020 in GUJCOST-DST sponsored Webinar Series organized by CHARUSAT University. |
| 93 | Invited to conduct a Workshop on “TensorFlow: The Fastest Growing Framework to Build Machine Learning/Deep Learning based Applications” during 26-27 July 2020 in IEEE INDISCON 2020 organized by Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam, India. |
| 94 | Talk on “Medical Breakthrough: An Era of AI-Powered Healthcare” on 11th July 2020 in Women in Data Science Conference (WiDS 2020), Noida. (**WiDS is a Stanford University initiated community of Data Science enthusiasts to empower women in this field) |
| 95 | National Webinar on “AI in Healthcare: Recent Trends and Future Possibilities” on 14th June 2020 hosted by SYNERGY Institute of Technology, Dhenkanal, Odisha. |
| 96 | National Webinar on “Medical Breakthroughs: An Era of AI-Powered Healthcare” on 6th June 2020 hosted by GCET, Vidyanagar. |
| 97 | Talks on “Linear Programming” and “NP-Completeness” on 20th February 2020 at PEIT, Baroda. |
| 98 | Talk on “Increasing Role of Machine Learning for Automation” on 24th January 2020 at CGPIT, Bardoli. |
| 99 | Conducted a Tutorial on “Emergence of AI in Healthcare” on 19th December 2019 in 7th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2019) organized by Ahmedabad University, Gujarat. |
| 100 | Delivered an Invited Talk on “Stemmers for Gujarati Language’ on 17th December 2019 in BDA 2019 conference organized by Ahmedabad University, Gujarat, India. |
| 101 | Talk on “Hands-on Artificial Neural Network with Python Programming” (Attendees: BE Students) on 3rd October 2019 at Parul Institute of Technology, Vadodara. |
| 102 | Talk on “Problem Solving using Computer Algorithms” (Attendees: ME Students) on 3rd October 2019 at Parul Institute of Technology, Vadodara. |
| 103 | Talk on “Guidelines for Preparing Project Proposal” (Attendees: Faculty Members of CE & IT) on 3rd October 2019 at Parul Institute of Technology, Vadodara. |
| 104 | Workshop on “Building Machine Learning Models using TensorFlow” on 21st September 2019 in IGNIS ’19 organized by MBICT, Vdiyanagar. |
| 105 | Conducted a Workshop on “Building Deep Learning based Healthcare Applications using TensorFlow” on 10th August 2019 in Open Data Science Conference (ODSC INDIA 2019), Bangalore. (https://confengine.com/user/mayuri) |
| 106 | Invited to conduct a Tutorial on “Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare” on 25th July 2019 in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT 2019) organized by IIIT Bangalore. |
| 107 | Talk on “Internet of Things: Introduction and Applications” on 3rd July 2019 in 1-Week GUJCOST-DST sponsored STTP on “Industry 4.0” organized by C. G. Patel Institute of Technology (CGPIT), Bardoli. |
| 108 | Hands-on Session on “TensorFlow: From Installation to Building Machine Learning Models” on 29th June 2019 in 3-Days GUJCOST-DST sponsored Workshop on “Python for Data Science” organized by SCET, Surat. |
| 109 | Hands-on Session on “TensorFlow: A Platform to Build ML/DL Models” on 26th June 2019 in 1-Week GUJCOST-DST sponsored FDP on “Research Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning” organized by C. G. Patel Institute of Technology (CGPIT), Bardoli. |
| 110 | Hands-on Session on “Apply Machine Learning to IoT using TensorFlow” on 11th June 2019 in 1-Week GUJCOST-DST sponsored STTP on “EF-IOT: Recent Advances in Edge and Fog Computing for Internet of Things” organized by A. D. Patel Institute of Technology(ADIT), Vidyanagar. |
| 111 | Hands-on Session on “Hands-on with TensorFlow: A Practical Approach to Machine Learning based IoT Applications” on 25th April 2019 in 1-Week GUJCOST-DST sponsored STTP on “Machine Learning for IoT” organized by G. H. Patel College of Engineering and Technology (GCET), Vidyanagar. |
| 112 | Talk on “NP-Completeness” on 23rd March 2019 at Parul Institute of Engineering & Technology (PIET), Vadodara. |
| 113 | Talk on “Linear Programming” on 23rd March 2019 at Parul Institute of Engineering & Technology (PIET), Vadodara. |
| 114 | Hands-on Workshop on “TensorFlow for Machine Learning” on 8th February 2019 at Symbiosis Institute of Technology (SIT), Pune. |
| 115 | Hands-on Session on “TensorFlow with Hands-on” on 4th December, 2018 in 2-Week TEQIP-III sponsored STTP on “Python and its Applications” organized by BVM Engineering College, Vallabh Vidyanagar. |
| 116 | Talk on “Internet of Things: Introduction, Applications and Future Scope” on 2nd August 2018 in GUJCOST-DST sponsored 3-Days Workshop on “Recent Applications and Future Scope in Internet of Things” organized by SCET, Surat. |
| 117 | Talk on “Data Processing in IoT” on 12th July, 2018 at GTU School of Engineering and Technology, Gandhinagar Campus. |
| 118 | Talk on “Internet of Things: Introduction, Applications and Future Scope” on 12th July, 2018 at GTU School of Engineering and Technology, Gandhinagar Campus. |
| 119 | Talk on “Distributed Data Processing in IoT” on 9th February 2018 in 2-Days State Level Workshop on “Recent Advances in Internet of Things (IoT)” organized by Sandip Institute of Technology and Research Centre, Nashik in association with BCUD Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. |
| 120 | Talk on “Parallel and Distributed Data Mining” on 19th December, 2017 in STTP on “Data Mining and Soft Computing: Tools and Techniques” organized by GCET, Vidyanagar . |
| 121 | Talk on “Computational Complexity and NP-Completeness” on 8th December 2017 at CGPIT, Bardoli. |
| 122 | 1-day Workshop on “Optimization using Genetic Algorithms” on 30th March 2017 at Chhotubhai Gopalbhai Patel Institute of Technology, Bardoli. |
| 123 | Talk on “Optimization using Genetic Algorithms” on 17th February 2017 at Faculty of Engineering Technology and Research (FETR), Bardoli. |
| 124 | Talk on “NP-Completeness and Approximation Algorithms” on 3rd December 2016 at Chhotubhai Gopalbhai Patel Institute of Technology, Bardoli. |
| 125 | Talk on “Social Engineering Attack – A Biggest Problem in Solving Cyber Security Issues” on 11th April 2016 in GUJCOST-DST sponsored 3-days Workshop on “Future Trends and Research Opportunities in Cyber Security” organized by SCET, Surat. |
| 126 | Talk on “Load Balancing in Distributed Systems” on 10th March 2010 at Nagaji Institute of Technology and Management (NITM), Gwalior. |
| 127 | Talk on “Distributed Algorithms” on 6th January 2010 in AICTE/ISTE sponsored STTP on “Analysis and Design of Algorithms” organized by NIT, Surat. |
| 128 | Talk on “Scheduling in Distributed Systems” on 28th June 2006 in AICTE/ISTE approved STTP on “Trends in Distributed Systems” organized by SCET, Surat. |
| 129 | Talk on “OOP through C++” on 22nd April 2003 in Workshop organized by Information Technology Centre (ITC), Vidyanagar, Anand. |
Achievements / Awards
| 1 | A fund of Rs. 75,000/- was availed in September 2025 under the Student Startup and Innovation Policy (SSIP), Government of Gujarat for supporting the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of an utility patent titled "Portable AI-driven Device for Early and Real Time Detection of Multiple Eye Diseases from Fundus Image". |
| 2 | Our paper titled "Malaria Parasite Detection in Thin Blood Smear Images using ConvNeXt with Explanation" is awarded with the “Best Presentation Award" in the Track ‘’Explainable AI for Computational Intelligence" at the Fifth International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI 2025) organized by Mahindra University, Hyderabad in association with IEEE Computational Intelligence Society during 21-23 August 2025. |
| 3 | Awarded with the “Best Paper Award” for the paper titled “Proximal Femur Segmentation from the Fluoroscopy Image using DeeplabV3+” in the Track ‘Computational Intelligence and Computing’ having 200+ submissions at the conference ICMACC'24 organized by VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology in association with IEEE Hyderabad Section during 19-21 Dec 2024. |
| 4 | Received fund of Rs. 3,50,000/- from AICTE ATAL to organize 1-week Faculty Development Program on “AI and Explainable AI in Healthcare: Current Trends and Future Research Opportunities” from 25th to 30th November 2024. |
| 5 | Awarded with the “Nation Builder Award” by the Rotary Club, Surat on 5th September 2024 on the occasion of Teacher’s Day for being among the good teachers of the region Rotary District 3060. |
| 6 | Her AI expertise is recognized by INDIAai on 22nd July 2024, featuring her in ‘Women in AI’ series of INDIAai.gov.in (Women in AI on INDIAai) (INDIAai Post on LinkedIn ) |
| 7 | Deputed to visit Paris-East Creteil University (UPEC) and College De Paris in Paris, France for official purposes in July 2024. |
| 8 | Deputed to visit ETH Zurich in Switzerland and SRH University, Heidelberg in Germany for official purposes in June 2024. |
| 9 | Our poster titled “MultiCLR: A Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Surgical Tool Detection” won the 2nd prize on 2nd March 2024 in “IGNITE - Symposium on Ph.D. Forum and Poster Presentation” organized by IEEE Signal Processing Society, Gujarat Section and hosted by Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU), Ahmedabad. |
| 10 | A fund of Rs. 75,000/- was availed in March 2024 under the Student Startup and Innovation Policy (SSIP), Government of Gujarat for supporting the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of an utility patent titled "AI-Enabled Display Device Integrated with Fluoroscopy Machine" . |
| 11 | A team of B Tech III AIDS students (Taashna Jariwala and Pranavi Mehta) under my mentorship secured the 2nd position in the National level Data Science Challenge 2.0 jointly organized by IEEE SPS SCET SBC, IEEE SCET SB and SIP Club on 5th March 2024. |
| 12 | A team of B Tech II Computer Engineering students (Ruhaan Dalal, Jay Nasriwala and Pratham Desai) under my mentorship secured the Runners-Up position in the National level Data Science Challenge 2.0 jointly organized by IEEE SPS SCET SBC, IEEE SCET SB and SIP Club on 5th March 2024. |
| 13 | Awarded with the “Best Teacher Award” by 112 years old Philanthropic Sarvajanik Education Society on 5th September 2023 on Teacher’s Day. |
| 14 | Deputed to visit University of Nottingham, Monash University and Multimedia University, Malaysia for official purposes in July 2023. |
| 15 | Deputed to visit James Cook University, Singapore for official purposes in July 2023. |
| 16 | Invited to Imperial College, London (# 6th in QS World University Ranking) to deliver an expert talk on 8th June 2023. |
| 17 | Invited to Coventry University, UK to deliver the seminar on 7th June 2023. |
| 18 | A fund of Rs. 50,000/- was availed in Jan 2023 under the Student Startup and Innovation Policy (SSIP), Government of Gujarat for supporting Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of an utility patent titled "IoT based Device to Monitor the Quality of Vermicompost Nutrients". |
| 19 | A fund of Rs. 14,000/- was availed in Jan 2023 under the Student Startup and Innovation Policy (SSIP), Government of Gujarat for supporting Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of a design patent titled "Urban Health ATM". |
| 20 | A team of BE II students (Bhagya Patel, Krishna Kalani, Hema Sen, Maitri Desai) under my guidance was shortlisted for the Final round of Multimedia Signal Processing Cup 2022 held on 6th Aug 2022 and organized by IEEE SPS GS and IEEE SPS SCET SB. |
| 21 | Deputed to visit SRH University, Heidelberg and BMW Welt, Munich in Germany for official purposes in June 2022. |
| 22 | Deputed to visit EM Strasbourg Business School, Strasbourg University, France for official purposes in June 2022. |
| 23 | A fund of Rs. 50,000/- was availed in Dec 2021 under the Student Startup and Innovation Policy (SSIP), Government of Gujarat for supporting the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of an utility patent titled "An IoT based Neonatal Caddy". |
| 24 | A fund of Rs. 50,000/- was availed in Dec 2021 under the Student Startup and Innovation Policy (SSIP), Government of Gujarat for supporting Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of an utility patent titled "GPS Activated IoT based Optimised Center Pivot Irrigation System for Low Energy Precision Valley". |
| 25 | Awarded with the “Researcher of the Year Award (Engineering, Female)” by 3rd International Business and Academic Excellence Award (IBAE-2021) committee on 26th December 2021 for Exceptional Caliber and Outstanding Performance as Academician, Researcher, Mentor, Advisor, and a Thought Leader. |
| 26 | Received fund from GUJCOST-DST to organize 3-days workshop on “Python for Data Science” from 28th to 30th June, 2019. |
| 27 | Adjunct Faculty at Gujarat’s largest Private University – Parul University. |
| 28 | Received fund from GUJCOST-DST to organize 2-days workshop on “Recent Developments and Applications of Deep Learning” from 28th to 29th September, 2018. |
| 29 | Received fund from GUJCOST-DST to organize 3-days workshop on “Recent Applications and Future Scope of Internet of Things” from 2nd to 4th August, 2018. |
| 30 | Received fund from GUJCOST-DST to organize 3-days workshop on “Future Trends and Research Opportunities in Cyber Security” from 11th to 13th April, 2016. |
| 31 | A project titled “Craniofacial Measurements: Facial Index and Nasal Index of Population of South Gujarat and its Relevance in Reconstructive Surgery” was approved for the fund by Multidisciplinary Research Unit of SMIMER (Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research). |
Administrative Duties
| 1 | Co-Convener, International Relations, Sarvajanik University (Since Nov 2024) |
| 2 | Member, Board of Studies (BoS) of Computer Engineering and IT, Uka Tarsadia University, Bardoli (Since April 2024) |
| 3 | International Relations & External Affairs Officer, SCET (Since July 2023) |
| 4 | External Member, Research Advisory Committee, QIS College of Engineering and Technology, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 5 | Expert Member, Board of Studies (BoS) of Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Vidhyadeep University, Kim, Surat. |
| 6 | Expert Member, Board of Studies (BoS) of Computer Engineering Department, Birla Vishvakarma Mahavidyalaya, Vidhyanagar (Term: 1st July 2022 to 30th June 2024). |
| 7 | Member, Advisory Committee, PG Diploma in Data Science and PG Diploma in E-Governance, Gujarat Technological University (Since April 2020) |
| 8 | AICTE Coordinator, SCET (Since July 2019) |
| 9 | NBA Coordinator |
| 10 | Member, R&D Committee (Since July 2019) |
| 11 | GTU Coordinator, PG Program, Computer Engineering Department (Since July 2019) |
| 12 | PG In-Charge, Department of Computer Engineering (June 2019 to December 2020) and PG Coordinator, Department of Computer Engineering (Since January 2021) |
| 13 | Academic Expert, Advisory Committee, Computer/IT Engineering, Uka Tarsadia University (Since 2019) |
| 14 | Convener, Committee for Recognition of PhD Supervisor, Computer/IT Engineering, Gujarat Technological University (September 2017 to December 2018) |
| 15 | Coordinator, Expert Talks/Seminars under R & D Committee for all Engineering Branches (August 2017 to June 2018) |
| 16 | Coordinator for AICTE-INAE Distinguished Visiting Professorship (DVP) Scheme (April 2017 to May 2018) |
| 17 | Coordinator, Nodal Centre, Value Virtual Lab (Since August, 2016) · For year 2018-19, SCET was recognized as an Active Nodal Center of VALUE Virtual Lab (SCET was at 7th position amongst 130 Nodal Centers in India). · For year 2016-17, SCET was recognized as an Active Nodal Center of VALUE Virtual Lab (SCET amongst TOP 20 users of Virtual Lab amongst 99 Nodal Centers in India) and was awarded Certificate and Honorarium in Annual Conference of VALUE Virtual Lab in May 2017. |
| 18 | Senior Member, Disability Resource Centre (Since 2016) |
| 19 | Convener of Internet Committee, Website Committee and OSTC Committee (January 2015 to October 2017) **OSTC – Open Source Technology Club |
| 20 | Senior Member, Anti-Ragging Squad (Since 2014) |
| 21 | Member, Security Monitoring Committee (2014-15) |
| 22 | Representative of Computer, IT & MCA Departments, R & D Committee (2014 to 2016) |
| 23 | GTU Coordinator, UG Program, Computer Engineering Department (January 2014 to June 2019) |
| 24 | Convener, Counseling Committee (2011-12) |
| 25 | Convener, Art and Intellect Committee (2011-12) |
| 26 | Exam Superintendent, VNSGU Examination (Winter 2009, Summer 2011) |
| 27 | Coordinator, GKS (Gujarat Knowledge Society) Examination for BE I Students (December 2010) |
| 28 | Co-convener, Literature and Debate Committee (2010-11) |
| 29 | Coordinator, AICTE Compliance Report (June 2008, June 2009) |
| 30 | Student Branch Counselor, CSI Student Chapter (April 2008 to March 2012) |
Membership of Professional Bodies
| 1 | IEEE Senior Member (94034111) |
| 2 | Member of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBS) |
| 3 | Member of IEEE Women in Engineering (IEEE WIE) |
| 4 | Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS) |
| 5 | Member of IEEE Young Professionals (IEEE YP) |
| 6 | Lifetime Member of CSI (I1505155) |
| 7 | Lifetime Member of ISTE (LM 48089) |
Workshop / Seminar / STTP
Participation in Other Activities
| 1 | Speaker at recognized International conferences during 2024: 12th BDA 2024 (University of Hyderabad), 2nd ICMACC 2024 (VNRVJIET, Hyderabad), 4th ICETCI 2024 (Mahindra University, Hyderabad), 7th ICCIDS 2024 (SSN College of Engineering, Chennai) |
| 2 | Served as a mentor in IEEE EMBS Student Mentoring Program (Span: July to Dec 2024). **IEEE EMBS - IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society |
| 3 | Speaker at recognized International conferences during 2023: BDA 2023 (IIIT Delhi), IEEE R10 HTC 2023 (Marwadi University, Rajkot), IEEE R10 TENSYMP 2023 (Australia), ISCIT2023 (Sydney, Australia), Symbiclave 2023 (Symbiosis University, Indore), ICRCPM (CBIT, Hyderabad), Global Conclave on IPR (Punjab) |
| 4 | Served as a visiting faculty at Computer Science and Engineering, Darshan University, Rajkot during the Odd semester of the year 2023-24 to teach the subject "Deep Learning for Computer Vision". |
| 5 | Served as an Academic Mentor in an IEEE India Council’s initiative “Professional Mentoring Program for Young Faculty” (Span: 01.10.2023 to 30.11.2023 [9 weeks]) |
| 6 | Served as a mentor in IEEE EMBS Student Mentoring Program (Span: July to Dec 2023). **IEEE EMBS - IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society |
| 7 | Speaker at recognized International conferences during 2022: IEEE WIECON-ECE (IIIT, Naya Raipur), 10th BDA (IIIT, Hyderabad), World Innovation Patent Conclave (Delhi), IEEE R10 TENSYMP (IIT Bombay), WiDS Delhi Conference, WiDS Ahmedabad Conference |
| 8 | Served as an AI Consultant at MAH Healthcare OU (Estonia Based rapidly growing Healthcare IT company) for their AI-based healthcare solutions during Jan to Jun 2022. (https://mahhealthcare.com/leadership.php) |
| 9 | Speaker at recognized International conferences during 2021: 9th BDA (IIIT Allahabad), IEEE TEMSMET (Symbiosis, Pune), MISS 2021 (Agartala), ICETCI 2021 (Hyderabad), WiDS Delhi Conference |
| 10 | Served as a visiting faculty at M Tech (AIML), Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune during the Odd semester of the year 2021-22 to teach the subject "Supervised Machine Learning". |
| 11 | Served in several International Conferences in different positions such as Session Chair/Track Chair/Special Session Chair, Member of Technical Program Committee/Organizing Committee, Reviewer, etc. |
| 12 | Thesis examiner at several reputed universities including Laurentian University-Canada. |
| 13 | Member of a PhD Progress Review Panel at several universities across the nation. |
| 14 | Speaker at recognized International conferences during 2020: 8th BDA (Ashoka University, Delhi), WiDS Noida Conference |
| 15 | Served as a visiting faculty at M Tech (Computer), NIT, Surat during the year 2006-07 to teach the subjects "Distributed Systems" and "Data Mining and Warehousing". |
| 16 | Served as a visiting faculty at MCA, Anand Institute of Information Science, Anand during September 2003 to April 2004. |
| 17 | Served as a visiting faculty at MCA (Distance Education), Madurai Kamraj University, Madurai during September 2000 to February 2001. |