Prof. Snehal Gandhi

Profile

Name : Prof. Snehal Gandhi
Qualification: M.E (Computer)
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Engineering
Experience: 19 Years
Email: snehal.gandhi@scet.ac.in
Courses / Subject involved: Software Engineering, Database Management System, Data Mining,Text Mining,Machine Learning,Programming in C,Python

Extra Duty

Research Projects

Patents/Copyrights

Books Published

Research Publications

International Journals
1 “Inconsistency Measurement and removal from Software Requirement Specification” , Karuna Patel and Snehal Gandhi, International Journal of Engineering Development and Research, ISBN NO. 2321-9939 (May-2014).
2 “Stock Market Prediction using Data Mining”, Ruchi Desai and Snehal Gandhi, International Journal of Engineering Development and Research, ISBN NO. 2321-9939 (May-2014).
International Conference
1 “A Review on Big Data Analytics in Healthcare using Machine Learning Approaches”, Hardik Patel and Snehal Gandhi, International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICOEI 2018),SCAD College of Engineering and Technology, Cheranmahadevi, Tirunelveli, TamilNadu, India 11-12 May,2018, ISBN:978-1-5386-3570-4 DOI: 10.1109/ICOEI.2018.8553788
2 “A Survey on Context Similarity Techniques for Image Retrieval”, Twinkal Patel, Snehal Gandhi, In Proceedings of IEEE- International Conference on Innovative Mechanisms for Industry Applications (ICIMIA2017) 21st to 23rd February,2017, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangaluru,India.pp231-235 ISBN: 978-1-5090-5961-4 DOI:10.1109/icimia.2017.7975606
3 Bakrola D., Gandhi S. (2016) Enhancing Web Search Results Using Aggregated Search. In: Satapathy S., Joshi A., Modi N., Pathak N. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (ICT4SD 2015), vol 409. Pp675-688,Springer, Singapore Print ISBN 978-981-10-0133-8 Online ISBN 978-981-10-0135-2 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-0135-2_65, 26th February,2016.
4 “Advanced Information Retrieval standard: A Survey”, Dhara Bakrola and Snehal Gandhi,6th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCIT 2015),10th May 2015, Gujarat. ISBN: 978-93-85225-26-6 ISSN: – 2393-837 Vol-2 Issues 7 Pg-56-62
5 “Document Retrieval by query Expansion using Semantic Network” , Snehal Kikaganeshwala, International Conference on Data Management (ICDM 2008)at Institute of Management Technology(IMT),Ghaziabad.(Feb-2008)
National Conference
1 “A Simplified Approach for Music Symbol Detection & Classification using OTSU segmentation & SVM”, Bhranti Thaker and Snehal Gandhi, National Conference on Recent trends on Computer and Communication Technology (RTCCT 2016) MCA Dept, SCET, Surat, May 10-11,2016. ISBN: 978-93-5258-824-4
2 “Aggregated Search:Advanced Information Retrieval Standard”, Dhara Bakrola and Snehal Gandhi, 2nd National Seminar on Natural Language Processing and Data Mining (NLPDM-2015), Vol-II,p-28,3-4 March,2015 at VNSGU,Surat.
3 “Program slicing methods to determine cohesion and coupling of a module” ,Desai Niti and Snehal Kikaganeshwala at National Conference of Information tech. (NCIT-2007) ,Asia Pacific Institute of Management, New Delhi (Aug-Sep, 2007).
4 “Bi-gram based approach for on-line search and retrieval of library books” , Snehal Kikaganeshwala and Desai Niti at National Conference of Information tech. (NCIT-2007) , Asia Pacific Institute of Management, New Delhi (Aug-Sep, 2007).
5 “Automatic Categorization of Library Books” , Snehal Kikaganeshwala, Sanjay Vij, Alkesh Patel, Shailesh Patel at 2nd National Conference on Intelligent Systems and Networks, Haryana Engineering College, Jagadhri(Haryana),India (Feb-2005)

Expert Lectures Delivered

Achievements / Awards

1 Stood in Top 2% Toppers among the 487 candidates certified in 12-week NPTEL online certification course “Software Engineering” offered by IIT Kharagpur during Sep-Dec 2020.
2 Stood in Top 2% Toppers among the 3475 candidates certified in 8-week NPTEL online certification course “Database Management System” offered by IIT Kharagpur during July-Sep 2019.
3 Achieved highest score (39 out of 40) in the test conducted at the end of 6 days ISTE approved-GTU sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Towards Understanding, Grooming and Optimizing Healthy Practice of Induction Program” held during Dec 17 to Dec 22,2018 organized by Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology, Surat, Gujarat among 40 participants.
4 Received appreciation certificate from institute for conducting 12 hours Yoga sessions and working as a mentor throughout the Induction Program during 19 July-9 Aug, 2018 for B.E Sem-1 students.

Administrative Duties

1 Working as Department representative of College level Women Development Cell since July 2019.
2 Working as co-coordinator of Design Engineering Committee of Computer Engineering Department July 2019-Dec 2020.
3 Working with Academic and Industrial Visit Committee of Computer Engineering Department since 2017.
4 Worked with Election committee of Computer Engineering Department during 2016-2017
5 Worked with SCET Alumni Association (SCETAA) as one of the department representative from 2016-2017.
6 Member of departmental NBA committee for handling criterion number 5 of NBA manual.
7 For 2012-16 passed out batch, collected and processed alumni data for National Board of Accreditation (NBA).
8 Working as co-coordinator of college level Yoga committee under Student Activity and Welfare Committee (SAWC) since 2012.
9 Worked as class teacher for the batch 2012-2016 (CO).
10 Worked as class mentor for year 2016-2018 (CO-Shift-2).
11 Worked as class teacher for the batch 2008-2012 (CO).
12 Worked with Academic committee of Computer Engineering Department during 2010-2016.
13 Worked with Library committee of Computer Engineering Department during 2010-2014.
14 Carried out various examination duties as Asst. Factoterm in VNSGU and as Sr. Supervisor in GTU.

Membership of Professional Bodies

1 CSI : Computer Society of India (Life member) Membership No:00175351
2 ISTE : Indian Society for Technical Education (Life member) Membership No:LM 64236)

Workshop / Seminar / STTP

1 Attended AICTE sponsored 1-week STTP on “Data Mining and Data Warehousing” organized by SVNIT,Surat (28-Dec-2009 to 1-jan-2010).
2 Participated in the LibreOffice Suite Writer and LibreOffice Suite Impress – training on 31st January, 2015 offered by the Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay, funded by National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt., of India.
3 Two-week ISTE workshop on “Database Management System”, under the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD (Govt. of India.) Conducted by IIT,Bombay with remote center at SCET,Surat (21st May 2013 to 31st May 2013).
4 Attended “Development with Aakash Tablet” organized by IIT,Bombay under the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD (Govt. of India.) with remote center at SCET, Surat on 10th – 11th November,2012.
5 Attended two-week ISTE workshop on “Research Methodologies”, under the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD (Govt. of India.) Conducted by IIT,Bombay with remote center at SCET, Surat(28th June 2012 to 8th July 2012)
6 Attended Two days workshop on “Mobile Application Development (Android)” organized by Gujarat Technological University on 31st March & 1st April 2012, at Shankarsinh Vaghela Bapu Institute of Technology(SVBIT), Gandhinagar
7 Attended First ever fully hands-on Subject Specific FDP on ERP jointly with Gujarat Technological University , TinyERP India Pvt. Ltd,Gandhinagar and Chaudhari Technical Institute ,Gandhinagar on 10th & 11th March 2012, at Infocity, Gandhinagar.
8 Attended Two days workshop organized by GTU on the topic “Patenting in Engineering” on 3rd & 4th March, 2012 at Bhagwan Mahavir Engg. College, Surat.
9 Organised 2-days workshop on “8051 microcontroller with embedded system” on 6th and 7th March 2010 at SCET, Surat in association with CSI student Chapter.
10 TEQIP II Sponsered Short Term Training Program (STTP) On Research Methodology: Tools and Techniques organized by Mechanical Engineering Department, SVNIT,Surat (June 15-19, 2015).
11 Attended 3 days Workshop on “UML with Rational Rose” organized by SCET,Surat in coordination with CSI Surat Chapter.(6th to 8th March,2009).
12 Attended AICTE approved Short term training program On “Cyber Security “at Computer Engineering Department, SVNIT-Surat. for five days (19th Jan’09 -23rd Jan ’09)
13 Attended Faculty Induction Program under Finishing School program, which is initiated by MHRD and NASSCOM at SVNIT-Surat from 15th to 19th Dec-2008.
14 Attended 1 week AICTE sponsored STTP on “Computer Vision and Image Processing” organized by Computer Engg. Department, SVNIT, Surat.(July 08)
15 Organized and Attended 3 days workshop on “Rational Rose-UML Tool” organized by IBM,pune at Sarvajanik college of Engg. & Tech. (SCET), Surat, India.(June-07).
16 Attended AICTE ISTE approved STTP on “Trends in Distributed Systems” organized by Computer Engineering Department of Sarvajanik college of Engg. & Tech. (SCET), Surat, India from 26/6/06 to 30/6/06.
17 Attended Workshop on “Eclipse-Software Development Platform on Linux” organized by Computer Science Department of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat, India.
18 Successfully completed the 12-week NPTEL online certification course “Software Engineering” with a consolidated score of 91% (Elite+Gold Medal) offered by IIT Kharagpur during-Sep-Dec 2020. I stood in Top 2% Toppers among the 487 candidates certified in this course.
19 Attended TEQIP-II Sponsored Five-day STTP on “Software requirement and specification (SRS-2016)” organized by Computer Engineering Department, SVNIT, Surat during May 09-13,2016.
20 Attended Five days STTP on “Internet of Things and its Applications (IoTA 2017)” Under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) organized by Computer Engineering Department, SVNIT, Surat during 5-10 June ,2017.
21 Attended Two days workshop on “Bigdata and Hadoop” organized by Computer Engineering Department, SCET in association with Computer Engineering Department , SVNIT,Surat during 23rd-24th August,2017.
22 Attended 1-week Continuing Education Program on “Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with Cloud Technology” at DA-IICT (Anchor Institute for ICT) held from Nov 19 to Nov 23,2018 under the aegis of Center for Entrepreneurship Development, Govt. of Gujarat.
23 Attended 1-week Continuing Education Program on “Selected Topics in Operating Systems” at DA-IICT (Anchor Institute for ICT) held from Dec 3 to Dec 7,2018 under the aegis of Center for Entrepreneurship Development, Govt. of Gujarat.
24 Attended 6 days ISTE approved-GTU sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Towards Understanding, Grooming and Optimizing Healthy Practice of Induction Program” held during Dec 17 to Dec 22,2018 organized by Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology, Surat, Gujarat. ISTE Sanction letter No. ISTE/GTU-ISTE FDP/2018 dated 3-12-2018
25 Successfully completed 3-week “Introduction to Big Data” – an online course authorized by University of California San Diego and offered through Coursera with a consolidated score of 96.1% on 13th December,2018
26 Successfully completed 4-week “Machine Learning” – an online course authorized by Stanford University and offered through Coursera with a consolidated score of 95.3% on 25th February,2019.
27 Attended GUJCOST-DST sponsored 3-days workshop on “Python for Data Science” organized by Department of Computer Engineering, SCET, Surat during 28th-30th June,2019.
28 Successfully completed the 8-week NPTEL online certification course “Database Management System” with a consolidated score of 89% (Elite+Silver Medal) offered by IIT Kharagpur during July-Sep 2019. I stood in Top 2% Toppers among the 3475 candidates certified in this course.
29 Successfully completed 1-week “ The Data Scientist’s Toolbox” – an online course authorized by Johns Hopkins University and offered through Coursera with a consolidated score of 100% on 17th April,2020.
30 Successfully completed 2-hours “NLP: Twitter Sentiment Analysis” – an online course authorized by Coursera Project Network and offered through Coursera with a consolidated score of 100% on 27th July,2020.
31 Participated & completed successfully AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on “Artificial Intelligence” from 21-11-2020 to 25-11-2020 at IIIT, Naya Raipur.
32 Participated & completed successfully AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on on “Data Sciences” from 7-12-2020 to 11-12-2020 at Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore.
33 Participated in AICTE sponsored Quality Improvement Programme (QIP) short-term course on “Machine Learning Techniques” organized via online mode during 21-12-2020 to 25-12-2020 by the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

Participation in Other Activities

1 Jointly carried out an Industrial Visit at BSNL Market Exchange, Ring Road, Surat on 3rd February (Friday), 2017 for students of B.E-3 (Shift-1 & Shift-2).
2 Worked as coordinator of UPDATES-2007, a technical paper presentation event for students at SCET, Surat.(Aug-2007)
3 Worked as Chair Person of Advertisement and Promotion Committee in Kshitij-2008, a national level student technocrats organized by SCET,Surat (March 2008)
4 Jointly carried out student industrial training for final year students on POY plant, Reliance, Hazira (March 2008)
5 Worked in sponsorship committee of National Conference on “Emerging Trends in Computer Technology” organized by SCET, Surat(June 2008)
6 Worked as Overall Faculty Chair of Abhivyakti-Paper presentation competition in Kshitij-2009, a national level student technocrats organized by SCET,Surat(April 2009).
7 Jointly carried out Visit under student industrial training for final year students to Infosys, Pune under Spark Initiative. (Aug 2010)
8 Worked as Department level Faculty Chair of Aavishkar-Project and Models presentation competition in Kshitij-2011, a national level student technocrat organized by SCET, Surat (April 2011)
9 Participated in industrial Visit for Final year students at Infosys, Pune in 2012.
10 Worked as Supervisor in Paper Presentation event of Updates 2012 organized by Computer Engineering Department, 10th-11th September , 2012.
11 Participated in industrial Visit for Final year students at BISAG as E-InfoChips, Gandhinagar in 2014.
12 Jointly coordinated a session on “Drools – BRMS (Business Rule Management System)” and “Predictive Analysis using R” – An Introduction by our alumni, Mr. Minesh Javiya for the B.E third, final and M.E first year students on 11 January, 2017 initiated by SCET Alumni Association under the banner of “Share What I Gain”.
13 Contributed as a reviewer in the National Conference on Recent Trends in Computer and Communication Technology (RTCCT 2016) organized during May 10th and 11th 2016 at Sarvajanik College of Engineering & Technology, Surat.
14 Jointly Co-ordinated (along with class mentor) Online Election for B.E-3 Sem-6 (CO) Shift-2 class for January 2020.
15 Worked in Proceedings committee of National Conference on Sustainable Computing and Information Technology (SCIT 2017) (March 25-26,2017) under SCET Multi-Disciplinary Conferences on Engineering and Technology (SMDCET 2017) organized by SCET,Surat.
16 Worked as Internal Jury member in Project Show case event organized by Computer Engineering Department, SCET,Surat during 2017,2018,2019.
17 Worked as Jury in Poster Presentation Event of Updates-2017 under Kshitij Technofest.
18 Conducted 12 hours Yoga sessions and working as a mentor throughout the Induction Program during 19 July-9 Aug,2018 for B.E Sem-1 students.
19 Jointly carried out Industrial Visit at Sumul Dairy, Surat for B.E. I (Computer Engg.) Shift-1 and Shift-2 students organized on 7-Aug-2018.
20 Jointly coordinated International Yoga Day celebration on 21 June and Pre-Yoga workshop (2-3 Days) for SCET staff and students for year 2017,2018,2019,2020.
21 Conducted 1 hour Universal Human Values (UHV) session during induction program for 1st year students, Aug-Sep 2019.
22 Jointly coordinated the event Kala-Utkarsh under “UPDATES 2019” – an annual department-level technical fest of Computer Engineering during 7th-8th September,2019.
23 Perform staff duty on 24th February 2020 (4.30 PM to 12:30 AM) and 25th February (8.30 AM to 4.30 PM) in Smart Gujarat for New India Hackathon 2019-20 organized at SCET,Surat
24 Jointly coordinated and evaluated the Book reading session under “?????????”- Gender Equality Conclave organized by Woman Development Cell (WDC), SCET on 6th and 7th March 2020.
25 Conducted 2 hours Virtual Activity-Meditation sessions during induction program for 1st year students, Oct 2020.
26 Worked as department representative of Kshitij 2020(online), a state level Techfest organized by SCET, Surat under which jointly coordinated the department level event UPDATES 2020 (online), October 2020.