Prof. (Dr.) Nirali Nanavati

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Name : Prof. (Dr.) Nirali Nanavati
Qualification: Ph.D. (Computer engineering)
Designation: Associate Professor
Department: Computer Engineering
Experience: 12.5 years
Email: nirali.nanavati@scet.ac.in
Courses / Subject involved: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Privacy, Database Management Systems, Data Visualization

Extra Duty

Research Projects

Patents/Copyrights

Books Published

Research Publications

Book Chapter
1 S. Bodiwala and N. R. Nanavati, “Stochastic Computing for Deep Neural Networks”, “Computing Technologies and Applications: Paving Path To-wards Society 5.0”, CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), 2021.
2 N. R. Nanavati and D. C. Jinwala, “Information-theoretically Secure Privacy Preserving Approaches for Collaborative Association Rule Mining” in Computer and Network Security Essentials, Springer, chapter 4, pp 65-78, aug 2017.
International Journals
1 Nidhi A. Patel, Nirali Nanavati, "A State-of-the-art review on User Behavioural Issues in Online Social Networks", Recent Advances in Computer Science and Communications, Bentham Science, Vol. 16, Issue 2, 2023, indexed in SCOPUS.
2 S. Bodiwala and N.R. Nanavati, “CDIPEM: Cardiovascular Disease Incidence Probability Estimation CNN Model.”, Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences, Taru Publications, vol. 44, no.5, pp 865-894, 2023, indexed at ESCI, Scopus.
3 S. Bodiwala and Nanavati, “An efficient stochastic computing based deep neural network accelerator with optimized activation functions.”, International Journal of Information Technology, Springer, vol. 13, no.3, pp 1179-1192, 2021, indexed at Scopus, UGC-Care.
4 V. Joshi and N.R. Nanavati, “A review of EEG signal analysis for diagnosis of neurological disorders using machine learning.”, Journal of Biomedical Photonics and Engineering, vol. 7, no.4, 2021, indexed at Scopus.
5 S. Bodiwala and N. Nanavati, “Efficient Implementation of Stochastic Computing Based Deep Neural Network on Low Cost Hardware with Saturation Arithmetic,” Journal of Computer Science, Science Publications, vol. 16, no. 11, pp 1570-1584, 2020, indexed at Scopus, UGC-Care.
6 N. R. Nanavati, P. Lalwani, and D. C. Jinwala, “Novel Game Theoretic Privacy Preserving Construction for Rational and Malicious Secret Sharing Models for Collaborative Frequent Itemset Mining,” International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, Inderscience, vol. 4, no. 3/4, pp 320-346, 2017, indexed at ACM DL, DBLP and INSPEC.
7 N. R. Nanavati and D. C. Jinwala, “A Novel Privacy Preserving Scheme for Collaborative Frequent Itemset Mining Across Vertically Partitioned Data,” Security and Communication Networks, Wiley Online Library,vol. 8, no. 18, pp 4407-4420, dec 2015, indexed at Thomson Reuters (SCI) and DBLP.
8 N. R. Nanavati, P. Lalwani, and D. C. Jinwala, “Analysis and Evaluation of Schemes for Secure Sum in Collaborative Frequent Itemset Mining across Horizontally Partitioned Data,” Journal of Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Article ID 470416, vol. 2014, no. November, p. 10, nov 2014, indexed at INSPEC.
9 N. R. Nanavati, N. Sen, and D. C. Jinwala, “Analysis and Evaluation of Efficient Privacy Preserving Techniques for Finding Global Cycles in Temporal Association Rules across Distributed Databases ,” International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST), IGI Global, vol. 5, no. 3, pp 58-76, oct 2014, indexed at ACM DL, INSPEC, SCOPUS and DBLP.
International Conference
1 Ninad Anklesaria, Yashvi Malu, Dhyey Nikalwala, Urmi Pathak, Jinal Patel, Nirali R Nanavati, Preethi Srinivasan, Arnav Bhavsar, "Multi Modality Medical Image Translation for Dicom Brain Images", BIOIMAGING, 2022
2 Adit Doshi, Helly Patel, Rikin Patel, Brijesh Satasiya, Muskan Kapadia and Nirali Nanavati, ” Audio peripheral volume automation based on the surrounding environment and individual human listening traits”, International Conference on Smart Systems: Innovations in Computing, India, Jan 2021, indexed in Springer.
3 S. Bodiwala, N. Nanavati, “Efficient Hardware Implementations of Deep Neural Networks: A Survey.” International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control (ICISC 2020), Coimbatore, India, jan 2020, indexed in IEEE XPlore, SCOPUS
4 S. Garg, D. Mohnani, D. Sachwani, M. Savani, N. Nanavati. “A Novel Budget-Based Collaborative Recommendation System for Tourism.” International Conference on Computing, Communications, and Cyber-Security (IC4S 2019), Chandigarh, India, oct 2019, indexed in LNNS Springer, SCOPUS
5 N. Hadiya, N. Nanavati. “Natural Language Processing based Sentiment Analysis on Major Indian Languages.” International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC 2019), India, mar 2019, indexed in IEEE XPlore, SCOPUS.
6 M. Zinzuvadiya, V. Dhameliya, S. Vaghela, S. Patki, N. Nanavati, A. Bhavsar. “Co-Detection in Images using Saliency and Siamese Networks.” Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP 2018), Jabalpur, India, 2018, indexed in Springer (Awarded the Best Poster Paper).
7 J. N. Vanasiwala and N. R. Nanavati, “Multiple Sensitive Attributes Based Privacy Preserving Data Publishing,” in International Conference on Computing Methodoligies and Communication (ICCMC), Erode, India, IEEE, feb 2018, indexed at IEEE Xplore.
8 A. Agarwal and N. R. Nanavati, “Association rule mining using hybrid GA-PSO for multi objective optimisation,” in International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research (ICCIC), Chennai, India, IEEE, dec 2016, pp. 241-247, indexed at IEEE Xplore. (Awarded the Best Paper in the corresponding track.)
9 N. R. Nanavati and D. C. Jinwala, “A Game Theory Based Repeated Rational Secret Sharing Scheme For Privacy Preserving Distributed Data Mining,” in International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), Rome, Italy, SciTePress, july 2013, pp. 512-517, indexed at DBLP.
10 N. R. Nanavati and D. C. Jinwala, “Privacy preserving approaches for global cycle detections for cyclic association rules in distributed databases,” in International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), Reykjavik, Iceland, SciTePress, july 2012, pp. 368-371, indexed at DBLP.
11 N. R. Nanavati and D. C. Jinwala, “Privacy preservation for global cyclic associations in distributed databases,” in International Conference on Communication, Computing & Security (ICCCS), Procedia Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, Elsevier, vol. 6, no. 0, pp. 962-969, oct 2012.
National Conference
1 N. R. Nanavati and D. C. Jinwala, “A novel privacy preserving game theoretic repeated rational secret sharing scheme for distributed data mining,” Security and Privacy Symposium, Organized by IIT Kanpur, IIIT Delhi and BITS Pilani – Hydrabad Campus at IIT Kanpur, feb 2013.
2 N. R. Nanavati and D. C. Jinwala, “Investigating Privacy Preserving Approaches For Collaborative Association Rule Mining,” Fourth IDRBT Doctoral Colloquium, Hyderabad, Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) (Established by Reserve bank of India), dec 2014.
3 N. R. Nanavati and D. C. Jinwala, “Investigating Privacy Preserving Approaches For Collaborative Association Rule Mining,” Inter Research Student Seminar in Computer Science(IRISS), Goa, ACM, feb 2015.

Expert Lectures Delivered

1 Jan – 2024 Delivered Expert Talk on “AI Trends and Explainable AI” at a one day workshop on “Explainable AI with Generative AI Tools and Techniques” organized by SRKI, Surat.
2 Dec – 2023 Delivered Expert Talk on “Introduction to Explainable AI” at a one week IEEE SPS Seasonal School on “Explainable AI for signal and Image Processing” organized by PCCoE, Pune.
3 Jan – 2021: Conducted Hands on Session on “Simple Linear Regression Model Building, Multiple Linear Regression Model Building” at GUJCOST workshop on “Insights into Data Science and its Applications” organized by SCET, Surat.
4 Dec – 2020: Delivered Expert Talk on “AI – Birdie: A Case Study of Deep Learning BasedApplication” at a one week STTP on Artificial Intelligence for Signal ProcessingApplications organized by SCET, Surat.
5 Dec – 2020 Delivered Expert Talk on “Privacy in Data” at STTP on Cyber SEcurity and BlockChain Technologies organized by VVPEC, Rajkot.
6 Nov – 2020Delivered Expert Talk on “AI – Birdie: Case Study of Deep Learning Based Ap-plication” at 2 day workshop on Deep Learning:Recent Trends and Applications organized by SNPIT, Bardoli
7 June- 2020 Delivered Webinar on “Understanding the fundamentals of Machine Learning” organised by S.S.A. I.E.T.
8 Sept – 2019 Delivered Expert Talk on “Game Theory Basics and Applications” at Parul University, Vadodara.
9 Jan – 2019 Delivered Expert Talk on Machine Learning Basics in Intelligent techniques in Electrical Engg at STTP in SCET, Surat
10 Sept – 2018 Talk on “Exploring Deep Learning using Tensorflow” at GUJCOST – DST sponsored 2 Days workshop on “Recent Advancements and Applications of Deep Learning” at SCET, Surat.
11 Mar – 2017 Talk on “Advances in Clustering algorithms for Big Data Analytics” at five day TEQIP II Sponsored, Short Term Training Program (STTP) On “Recent Trends in Big Data Analytics (RTBDA-2017)” at SVNIT, Surat
12 Feb – 2017 Talk on “Application of Game Theory in Security” at one day State Level Seminar on Game Theory and its Applications at Vadodara Institute of Engineering, Kotambi
13 Dec – 2016 Talk on “Map–Reduce Detailed for Big Data” at five day QIP STC on Advances in Big Data Analytics at SVNIT, Surat
14 Dec – 2016 Talk on “Frequent Itemset Mining and Clustering algorithms for Big Data Analytics” at five day QIP STC on Advances in Big Data Analytics at SVNIT, Surat
15 Mar – 2017 Talk on “Advances in Clustering algorithms for Big Data Analytics” at five day TEQIP II Sponsored, Short Term Training Program (STTP) On “Recent Trends in Big Data Analytics (RTBDA-2017)” at SVNIT, Surat
16 June – 2016 Talk on “Clustering Algorithms for Big Data Analytics” at TEQIP II sponsored five day STTP on Big Data Analytics at SVNIT, Surat
17 June – 2016 Talk on “Understanding the Map-Reduce Paradigm” at TEQIP II sponsored five day STTP on Big Data Analytics at SVNIT, Surat
18 June – 2015 Talk on “Proposed Information Theoretically Secure Approaches in Privacy Preserving Frequent Itemset Mining” at TEQIP II sponsored five day STTP on Privacy Preserving Data Mining at SVNIT, Surat
19 June – 2015 Talk on “A Game Theoretic Approach in Privacy Preserving Distributed Data Mining” at TEQIP II sponsored five day STTP on Privacy Preserving Data Mining at SVNIT, Surat
20 Dec-2015 – Talk on “Privacy Preserving Schemes for Distributed Data Mining” at Intelligent Computing – Algorithm and Applications : ICAA15 at MIT, Pune
21 Feb – 2017 Talk on “Application of Game Theory in Security” at one day State Level Seminar on Game Theory and its Applications at Vadodara Institute of Engineering, Kotambi

Achievements / Awards

1 Mentor of the 7 member team that was awarded the “First Prize” for the machine learning based project “Medical Image Translation” in the 10th Computer Society of India-InApp National Student Project Awards 2021 among 650 entries across India.
2 Mentor of the 6 member team that was awarded the “Special Jury Prize” (Second Runners up) for the machine learning based project “AI-Birdie” in the 9th Computer Society of India-InApp National Student Project Awards 2020 among 650 entries across India.
3 Guided the student group that won the Best Project Award in the Software Category for the project “Digital Salesman” in the National Event called Innovations 2019 organized by CSI.
4 Mentored the Student group that reached the final round for the All India Smart India Hackathon 2019 in the Innovations category for the project called “PlantNet”.
5 Awarded the Best Poster Paper for the following contribution at the renowned conference CVIP 2018: M. Zinzuvadiya, V. Dhameliya, S. Vaghela, S. Patki, N. Nanavati, A. Bhavsar. “Co-Detection in Images using Saliency and Siamese Networks.” Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP 2018), Jabalpur, India, 2018, indexed in Springer.
6 Awarded the Best Paper in the corresponding track for the paper: A. Agarwal and N. R. Nanavati, “Association rule mining using hybrid GA-PSO for multi objective optimisation,” in International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research (ICCIC), Chennai, India, IEEE, dec 2016, pp. 241-247, indexed at IEEE Xplore.
7 Awarded Ph.D. in June 2015.

Administrative Duties

1 IPR Cell Co-ordinator, Department representative for the R and D cell and IIC cell at college level.
2 On the committee for Academics, GATE/Aptitude, Data Collection at SCET. Department representative for R&D committee. Member of Art and Intellect Committee.
3 Defined the course curriculum for Knowledge Based management Systems and Data Science. Course co-ordinator for various subjects like Database management Systems, Knowledge based management systems and Data Science at SVNIT Surat.

Membership of Professional Bodies

1 CSI

Workshop / Seminar / STTP

1 Mar – 2018 One Day Workshop on “Introduction to Neural Network and Deep Learning” at SCET, Surat
2 Nov – 2017 ISTE approved two week FDP on Innovation and Entrepreneurship – From Design Thinking to Funding at SCET, Surat
3 June – 2017 MeitY sponsored one week STTP on Internet of Things and its Applications(IoTA 2017) at SVNIT, Surat
4 Feb – 2017 One day State Level Seminar on Game Theory and its Applications at Vadodara Institute of Engineering, Kotambi
5 July – 2015 TEQIP II sponsored one week STTP on Big Data and Advanced Video Compression at SVNIT, Surat
6 June – 2015 TEQIP II sponsored five day STTP on Privacy Preserving Data Mining at SVNIT, Surat
7 Apr – 2015 TEQIP II sponsored Finishing School on Creating Effective Poster from Project/Paper/Research at SVNIT, Surat
8 Mar – 2014 TEQIP II and ISEA Sponsered STTP on Cloud Computing at SVNIT, Surat
9 July – 2013 TEQIP II Sponsered Five Day STTP on Wireless Sensor Networks: Secure Data Aggregation and Related Issues at SVNIT, Surat
10 May – 2013 TEQIP II Sponsered Five Day STTP on Wireless Sensor Networks: Application and Security Issues (WSNASI 2013) at SVNIT, Surat
11 Jan – 2011 ISEAP Sponsered Two Day Seminar on Wireless Sensor Networks: Security Issues and Applications at SVNIT, Surat
12 Dec – 2010 ISTE Workshop on Database Management Systems conducted by IIT Mumbai
13 Dec – 2010 Sixth International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS 2010) at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar
14 Feb – 2010 AICTE Sponsered STTP on Data Mining: Techniques and Applications at SVNIT, Surat
15 Jan – 2010 AICTE Sponsered STTP on Analysis and Design of Algorithms at SVNIT, Surat
16 Dec – 2009 ISTE Workshop on Effective teaching/ learning of Computer Programming conducted by IIT Mumbai

Participation in Other Activities

1 Reviewer for IEEE,ACM Conference/s International Conference of Information Systems Security(ICISS)(Springer LNCS) Journal/s International Journal for Distributed Systems and Technologies, IGI Global (dblp Indexed) Journal/s Security and Communication Networks, Wiley Online Library (SCI Indexed)
2 On the technical committee for the following STTPs at SVNIT May – 2015 TEQIP II sponsored five day STTP on Design and Analysis of Algorithms at SVNIT, Surat May – 2016 TEQIP II sponsored five day STTP on Design and Analysis of Algorithms at SVNIT, Surat