Ph.D. (Computer Engineering), SVNIT Surat
M.Tech. (Computer Engineering), SVNIT Surat
B.E. (Computer), REC/SVNIT Surat
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SVNIT, Surat (since 12/2023)
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SVNIT, Surat (07/2009 to 12/2023)
Subject Matter Expert, Amdocs India Pvt. Ltd., Pune (07/2008 to 07/2009)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Engineering, SVNIT, Surat (07/2005 to 05/2006)
Distributed(Cloud/Container/Edge/Fog) and IoT environment
Performance and security issues - Load balancing, Task scheduling, Intrusion detection system, malware detection, etc.
Digital/Cyber forensics
Kumar Sondarva, Adarsh kumar, Bhavesh N. Gohil, "Forensics Analysis of NTFS file system", IGI Global, 2023.
Mehak Wadhwani, Nisha Mansoori, Shivangi Tanwar, Aanchal Handa, and Bhavesh N. Gohil, "A Secure Online Voting System Using Blockchain", Blockchain for Information Security and Privacy, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Atharva Kalsekar, Avinash Jaiswal, Rogin Koshy, Sameer Mandloi, and Bhavesh N. Gohil, "Secure Electronic Health Records (EHR) Management Using Blockchain", Blockchain for Information Security and Privacy, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Supriya Mishra, Bhavesh N. Gohil, Suprio Ray, "A survey on Persistent Memory indexes: Recent advances, challenges and opportunities", Journal of Systems Architecture, Volume 151, 103140, ISSN 1383-7621, April 2024(SCIE, Scopus)
Nishtha Srivastava, Bhavesh N. Gohil, "Ridership trend analysis and explainable taxi travel time prediction for Bangalore using e-hailing data", 7th Conference of the Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG2023), Dec. 17 - 20 2023, SVNIT Surat.
Nidhi Joraviya, Bhavesh N. Gohil, Udai Pratap Rao, "DL-HIDS: Deep Learning-based Host Intrusion Detection System using System Calls-to-Image for Containerized Cloud Environment", Journal of Supercomputing, 2024(Scopus, SCI)
Ashish R. Chaudhary, Bhavesh N. Gohil, Udai Pratap Rao, "A novel hybrid framework for Cloud Intrusion Detection System using system call sequence analysis", Journal of Cluster Computing, 2023 (Scopus, SCIE)
Adarsh Kumar, K. Sondarva, B. N. Gohil, S. J. Patel, R. Shah, S. Rajvansh, "Forensics Analysis of TOR Browser", ICISPD 2022, NFSU Goa, December 2-3, 2022.
Ashish R. Chaudhary, Bhavesh N. Gohil, Udai Pratap Rao, "A Review on Cloud Security issues and solutions", Journal of Computer Security, IOS press, Pre-press, pp. 1-27, 2022 (Scopus, SCIE) (Accepted)
Bhavesh N. Gohil, Dhiren R. Patel, "Load Balancing in Cloud using improved Grey Wolf Optimizer", Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume-34, Issue-11, Wiley Publication(SCIE, Scopus).
Nishtha Srivastava, Ashish Chaudhary, Nidhi Joraviya, Bhavesh N. Gohil, Suprio Ray, U.P.Rao, "A Review of Machine Learning based Intrusion Detection Systems on Cloud", International Conference on Security, Privacy and Data Analytics, LNEE, Dec. 13-15 2021.
Minal Patel, Bhavesh Gohil, Sanjay Chaudhary, Sanjay Garg, "Smart OffloadChain: A Proposed Architecture for Blockchain Assisted Fog Offloading in Smart City", International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering(IJECE)(Scopus), Volume -12, No-4, 2022.
Bhavesh N. Gohil, Sachin Gamit, Dhiren R. Patel, "Fair Fit – A load balance aware VM placement algorithm in cloud datacenter”, 1st International conference on advanced communication & computational technology, LNCS & LNEE, NIT Kurukshetra, 6-7 December 2019.
B. Varghese, S.Ray, B.N. Gohil, S.Vega, "Research challenges in Query Processing and Data Analytics on the Edge", IBM CASCON 2019, ACM, Markham, ON, Canada, 4-6 November 2019.
Bhavesh N. Gohil, Dhiren R. Patel, "A hybrid GWO-PSO Algorithm for Load Balancing in Cloud Computing Environment”, The 2nd International Conference on Green Computing and Internet of Things(ICGCIoT), IEEE, Bangalore, August 16-18, 2018.
Bhavesh N. Gohil, Dhiren R. Patel, "An improved Grey Wolf Optimizer(iGWO) for Load Balancing in Cloud Computing Environment”, The 18th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing(ICA3PP 2018), LNCS, Guangzhou, China, Nov. 15-17, 2018.
Surabhi Mour, Priyansh Srivastava, Payal Patel, Hari Ram, Bhavesh N. Gohil, Dhiren Patel, "Load management model for cloud computing”, The 9th International conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2014), IEEE, London, Dec. 8-10, 2014.
P.J.Vora, R.G.Mehta, B.N.Gohil, N.J.Mistry, M.M.Raghuwanshi",Tree Based Classification for Stream Data”, Elsevier Proceedings, 2nd International Conference on Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications (ERCICA 2014), NITTE Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Aug. 1-2, 2014.
Mihir R. Gohel, Bhavesh N. Gohil, "A New Data Integrity Checking Protocol with Public Verifiability in Cloud Storage”, IFIPTM , Springer, NIT – Surat, May 21-25, 2012.(Book Chapter)
Urvashi R. Patel, Bhavesh N. Gohil, "Cell Identity Assignment Techniques in Cellular Network: A Review”, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IEEE ICCSIT 2010), Chengdu, China, July 9- 11, 2010.
Bhavesh N. Gohil, Dhiren R. Patel, "An improved Grey Wolf Optimizer(iGWO) for Global Engineering Optimization”, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience(Scopus) .
Priyansh Srivastava, Bhavesh Gohil, Dhiren Patel, "Load management model for cloud computing Using Cloudsim", International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering, Volume-9, No.5, Oct. 2017.
Bhavesh Gohil, Sanjana Shah, Yash Golechha, Dhiren Patel, "A comparative analysis of virtual machine placement techniques in the cloud environment”, International Journal of Computer Application, Volume- 156, No-14, January 2016.
Uttam Kumar, Bhavesh N. Gohil, "A survey on Intrusion Detection System for Cloud Computing Environment”, International Journal of Computer Application, Volume- 109, No-1, January 2015.
Priyansh Srivastava, Surabhi Mour, Payal Patel, Hari Ram, Bhavesh N. Gohil, "A Comparative Study of Pre-Copy based Live Virtual Machine Migration Techniques”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science, Volume-5, No-5, May-June 2014.
Abhishek Prasad, Bhavesh N. Gohil, "A Comparative study of NoSQL Databases”, International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science, Volume 5, No.5, May-June 2014.
Institute Research Grant - "Design and Implementation of secure and efficient Integrity as a Service(IaaS) for Cloud Computing Environment" from 02/14 to 02/16 with fund INR 7,97,969.00
GUJCOST funded - "Examining Congestion Mitigation Strategies for Indian Cities towards Accomplishment of Sustainable Habitat" from 03/2022 to 02/2025 with fund INR 27,88,200.00(CO-PI)(Ongoing)
Information Security Education and Awareness(ISEA) - Phase III funded by MeitY (CO-PI)(Ongoing)
UBA, MoE funded under SEG Sustainable Agriculture System- "Application for early detection of rice diseases: empowering farmers, enhancing yields and promoting sustainability" for the year 2025(PI)(Ongoing)
Five days workshop in collaboration with VNSGU Surat on "Introduction to cloud computing and cloud security" during Sept. 29 - Oct. 4, 2025
ISEA phase III funded Bootcamp on "Advanced Threat Detection" during August 29-31, 2025
ISEA phase III funded STC on "AI/ML in Cybersecurity" during Feb 28-March 2 and March 8-9, 2025
Fifth International Conference on Computational Intelligence(ICCI 2024), Springer AIS, Dec. 24-26, 2024
ISEA phase III funded FDP on "Security and Privacy in Futuristic Technologies" during Dec. 16-20, 2024
ISEA phase III funded Bootcamp on "Advanced Threat Detection and Mitigation" during Dec. 9-13, 2024
Third International Conference on Information Security, Privacy and Digital Forensics(ICISPD 2024), Springer LNEE, Oct. 18-19, 2024
Fourth International Conference on Computational Intelligence(ICCI 2023), Springer AIS, Nov. 4-5, 2023
Second International Conference on Information Security, Privacy and Digital Forensics(ICISPD 2023), Springer LNEE, Dec. 15-16, 2023
Second International Conference on Security, Privacy and Data Analytics(ISPDA 2021), Springer LNEE, Dec. 13-15, 2022
International Conference on Information Security, Privacy and Digital Forensics(ICISPD 2022), Springer LNEE, Dec. 2-3, 2022
International Conference on Security, Privacy and Data Analytics(ISPDA 2021), Springer LNEE, Dec. 13-15, 2021
ATAL FDP on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Digital Forensics, July 19-23, 2021
Cyber Threat Intelligence and Digital Forensics, March 1-5, 2021
Cyber Security and Penetration Testing, Dec 28 2020 - Jan 1, 2021
Recent Trends in IoTs and Cloud Computing, June 29 - July 03, 2020
Big Data & Hadoop, Oct. 24-28, 2016
Effective Teaching/Learning of Computer Programming, Dec. 14-24, 2009
Effective Teaching/Learning of Computer Programming, June 28 - July 10, 2010
"Security in Cloud and Container Environment" at Five days workshop on "Introduction to cloud computing and cloud security" at JPD-IST, VNSGU Surat(October 3, 2025)
"Cyber security and privacy awareness and career guidance" at JPD-IST, VNSGU Surat(August 6, 2025)
"Malware identification and classification in Android" at FDP on Malware Analysis with Data Science at EICT, NIT Patna(June 28, 2025)
"Career paths after Computer Science/Engineering/Applications" at Vanita Vishram University, Surat(June 21, 2025)
"Security in Cloud and Container Environment" at ISEA Phase III, MeitY sponsored STTP on Cyber Threats Intelligence and Forensics (CTIF 2025) at NIT Bhopal(March 7, 2025)
"Safer Internet day" at SVNIT Surat(sponsored by ISEA Phase III, MeitY)(Feb. 11, 2025)
"Security in Cloud Computing Environment" at ATAL FDP at SNPITRC, Bardoli(Nov. 25, 2024)
"Cyber Security and Privacy Awareness" at Short Term Course on Cyber Safety and Security 2024, NIT Rourkela(Oct. 28, 2024)
"Cyber Security and Privacy Awareness" at Regional Children Science Congress 2024, NVS Pune Region (Oct. 9, 2024)
"Cyber security awareness and safe mobile use" during STC on "Exploring New Frontiers in Sustainable and Secure Power, Renewable Energy, and Power Electronics Systems" organized by DoEE, SVNIT, 15th July, 2024.
"Cyber security awareness in emerging technologies of IT" organized by ISTE Students' Chapter GJ05 and LEC Morbi, 20th April, 2024.
"Information Security at Network and Transport Layers" organized by DEPSTAR, Charusat University, Changa, 16th March 2024 .
"Importance of cloud and its security" at Short Term Course on Cyber Safety and Security 2023, NIT Rourkela(Oct. 9, 2023)
"Cyber Safety Awareness" at Short Term Course on Cyber Safety and Security 2023, NIT Rourkela(Oct. 7, 2023)
"Information Security at Network and Transport Layers" organized by DEPSTAR, Charusat University, Changa, 28th March 2023 and 16th March 2024 .
"Cyber Security Awareness" during ATAL FDP on Social Media and Social Network Data Mining at NIT Surat, Jan 2-13, 2023(Jan 9, 2023)
"Cloud Security and Forensics" during online FDP on Cloud Computing and Its Applications: Opportunities and Challenges at NIT Jalandhar, Dec. 16-20, 2022(Dec.17,2022)
"Bottom Up Parsers" organized by DEPSTAR, Charusat University, Changa, 4th November, 2022.
"Cyber Security Awareness and Safe Mobile Use" at Mora Village, Choryasi as a part of Unnat Bharat Abhiyan(UBA) outreach activities, Oct. 16, 2021.
"Case study of Grey Wolf Optimizer" during STTP on Emerging Technologies in Distribution System and Distributed Generation, organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, SVNIT, Surat, Sept. 27 - Oct. 1, 2021(Sept.30, 2021)
"Cloud Security and Forensics" during ATAL FDP on Recent Trends in Cloud Computing organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering & IQAC, DRIEMS Engg. College, Tangi, Cuttack, Odisha, Sept. 6-12, 2021(Sept. 7, 2021)
"Cloud Security and Forensics" during ATAL FDP on Cyber Threat Intelligence and Digital Forensics organized by the Department of Computer Engineering, SVNIT Surat, July 19-23, 2021(July 23, 2021)
"Security awareness in emerging technologies of IT" organized by ISTE Students' Chapter GJ05 and LEC Morbi, 26th June, 2021.
"Understanding the paper review process" during online seminar on "Road map to write technical research paper" organized by RNGPIT, Bardoli and sponsored by GUJCOST , 3rd May, 2021.
"Malware" organized by DEPSTAR, Charusat University, Changa, 4th March, 2021, 17th Sept. 2022.
"Cloud Computing" organized by G.H. Raisoni college of engineering and management, Pune, 12th Feb.,2021.
"Importance of Threads and Memory management in OS" organized by SITAICS, Rashtriya Raksha University, 22nd December, 2020.
"Role of Virtualization in Distributed Computing" organized by SITAICS, Rashtriya Raksha University, 21st December, 2020.
"Basics of Cloud Computing using AWS" during Five days National level workshop on "Emerging Tools & Technology in Cloud Computing: AWS, VMWARE & AZURE" organized by SPCE, Anand and sponsored by GUJCOST, 2nd November, 2020.
"Compiler design phases - ICG and CO" organized by CSE department, G.H. Raisoni Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nagpur, 19th August, 2020.
"Malicious Software" organized by Department of Computer Engineering, ADIT, V.V.Nagar, 22nd July, 2020.
"Cloud Computing" during five days STTP on "Recent Trends in IoTs and Cloud Computing(RT-IoTCC 2020)" organized by Department of Computer Engineering, SVNIT, Surat and sponsored by TEQIP-III, 29th June, 2020
"Cloud Computing using AWS" organized by Department of Computer Application, BMU, Surat, 8th June, 2020
"Malicious Software" and on "Cloud Computing" at CSPIT, Charusat University, Changa, 9th October, 2019
"Search Engine Technologies" at SPCE, Mehsana, 2012.
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience(Wiley), IET Intelligent Transport Systems, Intelligent Systems with Applications(Elsevier)
CICT 2018, IIITDMJ, CICT 2017, IIITM Gwalior
IBM Rational Tools, SVNIT, Surat, April 24-28, 2006
Information Security(IS-2007), SVNIT, Surat, March 19-24, 2007
Coordinator workshop on "Effective Teaching/Learning of C Programming", IIT Bombay, Sept 29- Oct 3, 2009
Analysis and Design of Algorithms, SVNIT, Surat, Jan 4-8, 2010
Data Mining: Techniques and Applications, SVNIT, Surat, Feb 8-12, 2010
Essential Abstractions in GCC'11, IIT Bombay, June 30 - July 3, 2011
Trust Management in ICT, SVNIT, Surat, Feb 6-10, 2012
Architecture of Computing System (ARCS)-2012, Munich, Germany, Feb. 28-29, 2012
Essential Abstractions in GCC ‘12, IIT Bombay, June 30- July 3, 2012
SNIP 2012, CDAC Mumbai, Aug. 30 - Sept 1, 2012
Vision and Challenges of Cloud Computing and Pervasive Computing, Dr. G. R. Damodaran College of Science, Coimbatore, Feb. 25 - March 9, 2013
Cloud Computing, CDAC, Chennai, March 20-22, 2013
Think Parallel: Parallel Programming for Engineers and Scientists, CDAC Bangalore, June 10-20, 2013
QKD Summer School 2013, UoW, Canada, July 29 - Aug. 2, 2013
Cloud Computing, SVNIT, Surat, March 10-13, 2014
Android Application Development, NITTTR, Bhopal, Aug. 29 - Sept. 2, 2016
Developing iOS apps with Swift, VJTI, Mumbai, Dec. 10-15, 2017
Big data and Hadoop, NITTTR, Bhopal, March 5-9, 2018
Digital Forensic Products(FRED, TX1, Magnet Axiom, UFED 4PC), SVNIT, Surat by Cyint Technologies(India), May 23-28, 2022
Magnet Certified Forensic Examiner(MCFE)- AX200 at Delhi by Magnet Certified Trainer of Cyint Technologies, Sept. 26-29, 2022
IoT Induced Artificial Intelligence for Emerging Computing Paradigms, One week online FDP, Department of IT, NIT Jalandhar, Oct. 4-8, 2022
Mr. Ashish Chaudhari (DS19CO003) - Intrusion Detection Approaches for Cloud Computing Environment (Thesis submitted)
Ms. Nishtha Srivastava (D20CO005) - Road traffic/accident prediction [with XAI]
Ms. Nidhi Joraviya (D20CO002) - Investigating intrusion detection approaches for containerized cloud environment: learning-based perspective (Thesis submitted)
Ms. Supriya Mishra (DS20CO002) - Learned spatial index [persistent memory]
Ms. Swati Saxena (D21CO005) - Crop disease detection and identification
Ms. Ami Patel (D21CO006) - Task scheduling[energy aware] in cloud-edge computing
Ms. Shweta Rajput(DS22CS001)- Object detection in aerial images
Mr. Kumar Sondarva(D23CS001) - Malware detection in Android OS
Mr. Adarsh Kumar(D23CS002) - Malware detection/identification in cloud computing environment
Mr. Manish Sharma(D23CS003) - Privacy preservation techniques for Blockchain
Mr. Mitulkumar Patel(DS23CS002) - *Federated Learning*
Ms. Megha Patel(DS23AI001) - Visual question answering
Ms. Ami Mehta(DS24CS001) - Detection and prevention of different attacks in cloud computing environment
Ms. Ayushi Tandel(DS24CS002) - Privacy preserved synthetic data generation
Mr. Rajat Pugaliya
Ms. Alankrita Vishwakarma
Subjects taught @ UG & PG - Cloud Computing, Compiler Design, Operating system, Microprocessor & its interfacing - 8085/86, Information security, Distributed Systems/Computing, Fundamental of Computers and Programming, Information Technology and Management, Digital Forensics, Cyber laws and forensics
Received offer of postdoc and visiting professor from UNB Canada, 2019.
Expert Member, Board of Studies, Department of Computer Application, BMU, Surat/RNGPIT Bardoli
Chaired the session in ICON-AI-SMT25, GSFC University, Vadodara, 2025/ICACS 2025 Changa/AECCST-2021, RTU-AIET, Jaipur/ICITST 2014, London, UK
Jury for the poster presentation, CKPET, Surat, 2010
Expert/judge for the technical event at FETR, Bardoli, 2012
Subject expert, faculty recruitment, FETR, Bardoli, 2014/BMEF, Surat, 2018
External ME examiner, VIT Mumbai, 2015
Paper setter, VNSGU, 2013-15
Member of UBA since 11/16
Member of Hindi Cell since 01/12
Member of Institute library committee since 08/17
Member of Institute anti-ragging committee since 08/16
Associate warden of hostel during 12/09 to 12/14
Warden of hostel during 01/15 to 03/17
Chief warden of hostel during 03/17 to 03/19
Chairman, council of hostel magazine secretary during 03/17 to 03/19
Member of institute canteen committee during 10/13 to 06/16
Department representative for 1st year during 08/17 to 07/19
Faculty in-charge of departmental library during 08/17 to 07/19
Department coordinator for 2017-18 annual report
Co-chairman of hostel network secretary during 01/14 to 01/15
Faculty advisor of Div I of 1st year during 2018-19
Co-chairman of institute magazine committee during 2017-19
Coordinator of invitation and reception committee for "Kashish-2016"
Member of degree certificate verification during 2014-15
Faculty in-charge of department information on institute website during 02/10 to 02/12
Coordinator of department physical stock verification and AMC work during 02/10 to 02/12