Prof. (Dr.) Mitali H. Desai

Profile

Name : Prof. (Dr.) Mitali H. Desai
Qualification: Ph.D. (Computer Engineering)
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Information Technology
Experience: 10 Years
Email: mitali.desai@scet.ac.in
Courses / Subject involved: Database Management Systems, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Graph Database, Programming for Problem Solving

Extra Duty

1 Worked as an organizing committee of SAMPARK 2025, IEEE Gujarat Section's annual networking event hosted by SCET (16 Feb. 2025).
2 Coordinated the Software DataThon event in SAMPARK 2025, IEEE Gujarat Section's annual networking event hosted by SCET (16 Feb. 2025).
3 Coordinated the Tech Tussle: Technical Debate Competition as a part of Converse 2024 under the banner of Kshitij during Sep 20-21, 2024 organized by Information Technology department
4 Faculty Advisor at IEEE SCET Student Branch for Signal Processing Society (Institute level) for the year 2024-2025.

Research Projects

Patents/Copyrights

Books Published

Research Publications

Book Chapter
1 M. Desai, R. G. Mehta and D. P. Rana, "An Experimental Analysis to Learn Data Imbalance in Scholarly Data: A Case Study on ResearchGate", in Data Preprocessing, Active Learning, and Cost Perceptive Approaches for Resolving Data Imbalance, IGI Global, pp. 242-254, June 2021. Available at DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7371-6.ch014 (SCOPUS)
2 M. Desai, R. G. Mehta and D. P. Rana, "RGNet: The Novel Framework to Model Linked ResearchGate Information into Network using Hierarchical Data Rendering", in Advances in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence, Algorithms for Intelligent Systems, Springer, Singapore, pp. 37-45, January 2021. Available at DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-5243-4\_4
3 M. Desai and M. A. Mehta, "Descriptive, Dynamic and Hybrid Classification Algorithm to Classify Engineering Students’ Sentiments", in Smart and Innovative Trends in Next Generation Computing Technologies: Third International Conference, NGCT 2017, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 827. Springer, Singapore. pp. 122-138, June 2018. Available at DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8657-1_10 (SCOPUS)
International Journals
1 M. Desai, R. G. Mehta and D. P. Rana, "Analyzing the Impact of Social Collaborations on Influence Identification in Scientific Literature Analytic: An Analysis on ResearchGate and Academia", International Journal of Information Science and Management, RICeST Publisher, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 23-38, December 2023. Available at DOI: 10.22034/ijism.2023.1977713.0 (SCOPUS)
2 M. Desai, R. G. Mehta and D. P. Rana, "Contextual Analysis of Scholarly Communications to Identify the Source of Disinformation on Digital Scholarly Platforms", Kybernetes, Emerald, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 1434-1449, January 2023. Available at DOI: 10.1108/K-07-2022-0998 (SCIE, SCOPUS)
3 M. Desai, R. G. Mehta and D. P. Rana, "A Model to Identify Redundancy and Relevancy in Question-Answer Systems of Digital Scholarly Platforms", Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier, Vol. 218, pp 2383-2391, January 2023. Available at DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2023.01.213 (SCOPUS)
4 M. Desai, R. G. Mehta and D. P. Rana, "Anatomizing the Impact of ResearchGate Followers and Followings on Influence Identification", Journal of Information Science, SAGE Publications, July 2022. Available at DOI: 10.1177/01655515221100716 (SCIE, SCOPUS)
5 M. Desai, R. G. Mehta and D. P. Rana, "ScholarRec: A Scholars’ Recommender System that Accumulates Scholastic Influence and Social Collaborations to Identify and Rank Influential Scholars in Academic Social Networks", International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, Springer, July 2022. Available at DOI: 10.1007/s41060-022-00345-w (SCOPUS, ESCI)
6 M. Desai, R. G. Mehta and D. P. Rana, "An Empirical Analysis to Identify the Effect of Indexing on Influence Detection using Graph Databases", International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication, Vol. 8, No. 9S, ISSN: 2278-3075, pp. 414-421, July 2019. Available at DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.I1066.0789S19 (SCOPUS)
7 M. Desai, R. G. Mehta and D. P. Rana, "Issues and Challenges in Big Graph Modelling for Smart City: An Extensive Survey", International Journal of Computational Intelligence & IoT, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 44-50, December 2018. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3354388 (Elsevier-SSRN)
8 M. Desai and M. A. Mehta, "Hybrid Classification Algorithm to Classify Engineering Students’ Problems and Perks", International Journal of Data Mining & Knowledge Management Process, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 73–81, March 2016. Available at DOI: 10.5121/ijdkp.2016.6206
9 M. Desai, R. G. Mehta and D. P. Rana, "An Exploratory Study of Scholarly Platforms and Features to help Emerging Scholars Gaining Visibility in Scholar Community", Journal of Scientometric Research, Phcog.Net Publisher, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 480–489, September 2023. Available at DOI: 10.5530/jscires.12.2.044 (SCOPUS, ESCI)
International Conference
1 M. Desai, R. G. Mehta and D. P. Rana, "A Survey on Techniques for Indexing and Hashing in Big Data", in the 4th International Conference on Computing Communication and Automation (ICCCA 2018), IEEE, Greater Noida, India, pp. 1-6, December 2018. Available at DOI: 10.1109/CCAA.2018.8777454 (SCOPUS)
2 M. Desai and M. A. Mehta, "Techniques for sentiment analysis of Twitter data: A comprehensive survey," 2016 International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA), Greater Noida, India, 2016, pp. 149-154, April 2016. Available at DOI: 10.1109/CCAA.2016.7813707. (CPCI, SCOPUS) (115+ Citations as per Google Scholar)

Expert Lectures Delivered

1 Delivered an Expert Talk in MeitY Sponsored One Week Faculty Development Program (FDP) Boot Camp 10.0 on Drone Technology: Fundamental and Applications on the title "Collaborative Drones: Applications and Case Study" on 17-July-2024 at Embedded LAB, DoECE, SVNIT.
2 Delivered an Expert Talk in MeitY Sponsored One Week Faculty Development Program (FDP) Boot Camp 10.0 on Drone Technology: Fundamental and Applications on the title "Collaborative Drones: Applications and Case Study" on 17-July-2024 at Embedded LAB, DoECE, SVNIT.
3 Delivered an Expert Talk in MeitY Sponsored One Week Faculty Development Program (FDP) Boot Camp 5.0 on Drone Applications: Precision Farming on the title "Exploring Collaborating Drones and their Working using Neo4j Graph Database" on 14-March-2024 at EC Department, BMCET.
4 Delivered an Expert Talk in MeitY Sponsored One Week Faculty Development Programme (FDP) Boot Camp 2.0 on Drone Applications on the title "Visualization and Querying using Neo4j: Extending the Capabilities of Drone Applications" on 29-June-2023 at DoCSE, SVNIT.

Achievements / Awards

1 Selected as one of the 30 recipients of the IEEE Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) Professional Certification Grant 2025.
2 Completed the Course and Examination of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 AI Foundations Associate under Oracle Race to Certification
3 Winner of the Oracle Race to Certification Sector 3
4 Appointed as an Academic Editor in PLOS One Journal (SCIE and Scopus Indexed) ISSN: 1932-6203 (online) in Jan-2024.
5 Completed the Course and Examination of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Digital Assistance Professional under Oracle Race to Certification
6 Completed the Course and Examination of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Foundation Association under Oracle Race to Certification
7 Completed the Course and Examination of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Cloud Database Management under Oracle Race to Certification
8 Completed the Course and Examination of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Data Science Professional under Oracle Race to Certification

Administrative Duties

1 Event coordinator for college level tech-fest. [A.Y. 2024-25]
2 Department Project-1 Coordinator [A.Y. 2024-26]
3 Department Internship Coordinator [A.Y. 2024-26]
4 Department Summer Internship Coordinator [A.Y. 2025-26]
5 Class Teacher of B.Tech I IT Division A from the year 2024
6 Subject coordinator of the Programming for Problem Solving (3110003) subject in the first year at CKPCET College Level [A.Y. 2023-2024].
7 Department Practical Exam Time Table & Submission Schedule at CKPCET A.Y. [2023-2024].
8 Department Planning, Purchasing & Infrastructure Activities at CKPCET [A.Y. 2023-2024].
9 Department Techfest Coordinators at CKPCET [A.Y. 2023-2024].
10 Department Laboratory In-charge of Basic Programming Laboratory at CKPCET [A.Y. 2023-2024].
11 Department Academic Bank of Credit ABC-ID Coordinator at CKPCET [A.Y. 2023-2024].

Membership of Professional Bodies

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Workshop / Seminar / STTP

1 Attended University Grants Commission (UGC) - All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Six-days Online Faculty Development Program on UHV-II during 15-20 April, 2024
2 Attended All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Microsoft and SAP led ATAL Five-days Online Faculty Development Program on AI Evolution: "From Foundations to Generative AI” during 29 January - 2 February, 2024
3 Attended One Week Faculty Development Program on Machine Learning, Computer Vision, IoT SAP and ABAP at C. K. Pithawala College of Engineering and Technology during 11-15 December, 2023
4 Attended ExcelR 30 hrs. of Live Training Program on Advanced Excel, Power BI and Tableau under ExcelR - Global Certification Training for Professionals during 3-19 October, 2023
5 Attended ExcelR 15 hrs. of Live Training Program on ChatGPT and Generative AI under ExcelR - Global Certification Training for Professionals during 11-19 September, 2023
6 Attended University Grants Commission (UGC) - All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) Five-days Online Faculty Development Program on Incorporating Universal Human Values in Education during 10-14 July, 2023
7 Attended AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Blended/Hybrid Faculty Development Program on 'Social Media and Social Network Data Mining at Computer Engineering Department, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) during 2-13 January, 2023
8 Attended Training Program on Safeguard against Cybercrime during Pakhwada on 'Elimination of Violence and Discrimination Against Women' of Internal Complaints Committee and Women Cell at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) during 25 Nov, 2022 to 10 Dec, 2022
9 Attended TEQIP-III Sponsored Short Term Training Program on 'High Performance Computing (HPC-2019)' organized by Computer Engineering Department, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) conducted by C-DAC, Pune under National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) during 27-31 May, 2019.
10 Attended TEQIP-III Sponsored One-week Short Term Training Program on 'High Performance Computing (HPC-2018)' organized by Computer Engineering Department, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) conducted by C-DAC, Pune during 4 - 8 Jun, 2018.
11 Attended Faculty Development Program on 'Machine Learning & its Application' at Electronics & ICT Academy, Indian Institute of Technology (IIIT) Roorkee during 1-5 February, 2018
12 Attended Five Day Workshop on 'LaTeX Training' organized by Department of Electronics Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) during 19 - 23 Jan, 2018.
13 Attended Short Term Training Program on 'Web Programming Technologies (WPT-2018)' organized by Computer Engineering Department, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) during 1 - 5 Jan, 2018
14 Attended National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) Workshop on 'High Performance Computing (HPC)' at Computer Engineering Department, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) in Collaboration with C-DAC, Pune on 26 February, 2018

Participation in Other Activities

1 Associated as an Academic Editor in PLOS ONE journal (SCIE Indexed)
2 Working as an examination panel member in Doctoral Progress Committee (DPC) of Ph.D. candidates at Bhagwan Mahavir University
3 An active Reviewer in Journal of Information Science (JIS) by Sage Publications (SCIE, Scopus Indexed) with ISSN: 0165-5515 / 1741-6485
4 An active Reviewer in Kybernetes by Emerald Group (SCIE, Scopus Indexed) with ISSN: 0368-492X / 1758-7883
5 An active Reviewer in Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development by EnPress (ESCI, Scopus Indexed) with ISSN: 2572-7923 (Print)
6 An active Reviewer in PLOS One Journal by PLOS (SCIE, Scopus Indexed) with ISSN: 1932-6203 (online)
7 Reviewed papers in International Conference on Engineering and Technology PiCET 2024 (IEEE Xplore)
8 An active Reviewer in Journal of Data Science and Intelligent Systems by Bon View Publishing with eISSN: 2972-3841
9 Associated as an Editorial Board Member in the International Journal of Science, Technology and Society (Science Publishing Group)
10 An active Reviewer in International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing by World Scientific Publications (ESCI, Scopus Indexed) with ISSN (print): 1793-9623 | ISSN (online): 1793-9615
11 Associated as a Reviewer in SCI and Scopus indexed journals from renowned publication houses: Springer, Elsevier, Emerald, World Scientific, Sage, Wiley and EnPress.
12 Reviewed papers in IGI Global Book Chapters (Scopus Indexed)
13 An active Reviewer in Neural Computing and Applications Journal by Springer Nature (SCIE, Scopus Indexed) with ISSN: 0941-0643 /1433-3058.
14 Reviewed papers in 5th IEEE India Council International Subsections Conference INDISCON 2024 (IEEE Xplore)
15 An active Reviewer in International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM) by Regional Information Center for Science and Technology (Scopus Indexed) with Print ISSN: 2008-8302 Online ISSN: 2008-8310
16 Reviewed papers in International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Engineering by Sciencedirect (Proceedings in Scopus Indexed Procedia Computer Science Journal)