Books

Research Project

1. Principal Collaborator in “Urban Flow Revolution: Unveiling the Potential of AI, Computer Vision, and Cloud for design and development of Adaptive Traffic Control System”, with Dr. Lataben J Gadhavi, Lecturer, Information Technology Department, Government Polytechnic Gandhinagar, Research Promotion Under Technical Education-STEM Directorate of Technical Education, Gandhinagar, Approval Date: 29th Feb 2024, 3 Years Duration, 4.95 Lakhs.

2. Co-CI in "Capacity Building for Human Resource Development in Unmanned Aircraft System (Drone and Related Technology)", HRD Division, MeitY, to be implemented jointly by the Programme Management Unit (PMU) and identified implementing agencies from 11th July 2022, 5 Years Duration.

3. PI in "Drone Multi Modal Video & Quantitative Data Warehouse Management for Precision Farming", Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India (GoI) from 8th Jun 2023, 1 Year Duration, 2.5 Lakhs. (POC01-024)

International Journal Reviewer

• Mar 2024

  1. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence

• Mar 2022

  1. IEEE Access (Open Access) 

• Jan 2022

  1. International Journal of Data Technologies and Applications, Emerald Publishing Limited, ISSN: 2514-9288

• Dec 2021

  1. IEEE Access (Open Access) 

• Nov 2021

  1. IEEE Access (Open Access) 

• Oct 2021

  1. IEEE Access (Open Access) 

• Sep 2021

  1. IEEE Access (Open Access) 

• Aug 2021

  1. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 

• Aug 2020

  1. International Journal of Data Technologies and Applications, Emerald Publishing Limited, ISSN: 2514-9288

• Apr 2020

  1. International Journal of Soft Computing (SOCO), Springer, EISSN: 1433-7479, Print ISSN 1432-7643

• Others

  1. International Journal of Innovative Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (IJITLHE), IGI Global, ISSN: 2644-1624

  2. International Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, IOS Press, ISSN:  1064-1246 

  3. Advances and Applications in Bioinformatics and Chemistry, Dove Medical Press, ISSN: 1178-6949 (Open Access)

  4. International Journal of Big Data

  5. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Hindawi

Conference Paper Reviewer

1. 3rd International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects: Conception to Execution (TIPCE),  September 18-21, 2025, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247667, Uttarakhand, India (Reviewer - Papers 2)

2. Sixth International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications (icSoftComp2024), 10-12 December 2024, Bangkok, Thailand (Reviewer - Paper 1)

3. First International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Networks and Security (ICCINS), (Hybrid Mode), 22-23 December 2023, Lakireddy Bali Reddy College of Engineering, Mylavaram, Andhra Pradesh, India (Reviewer)

4. 7th IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances and Innovations in Engineering (7th IEEE ICRAIE 2022), National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, Mangalore, Karnataka, India, December 1-3, 2022 (TPC Member + Reviewer) 

5. International Conference on Sustainable Development Goals & Gender Perspective ICSDGAGP 2021, S. V. National Institute of Technology, Surat, India, October 25-26, 2021 (PC member + Reviewer)

6. International Conference on Sustainable Technology and Advanced Computing in Electrical Engineering, (ICSTACE’21), SV National Institute of Technology, India, November 11-12 , 2021  (PC member + Reviewer)

7. International Conference on Information, Communication & Cybersecurity (ICI2C), National School of Applied Sciences ENSAK, Khouribga, Morocco, November 10-11, 2021  (PC member + Reviewer)

8. 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI'21), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, December 15-18, 2021 (Reviewer)

9. International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Intelligent Systems (ICSCIS’21), J. K. Lakshmipat University, Jaipur, India, February 5-6, 2021 (PC Member+Reviewer)

10. ICSAC 2021: International Conference on Sustainable Advanced Computing, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India, March 05-06, 2021  (Reviewer)

11. International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA) 2019  (Reviewer)

12. International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Security & IoT (ICCISIoT) 2019, National Institute of Technology Agartala, Agartala, India, December 13-14, 2019 (Reviewer)

13. ICCIIoT 2018 International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Internet of Things (ICCISIoT) 2018, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Nirjuli, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India, December 2018  (PC Member+Reviewer)

14. International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Internet of Things (ICCIoT) 2018, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Nirjuli, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India, December 2018 (PC Member+Reviewer)

15. International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication (ICICC) 2017 (Reviewer)

16. International Conference on Global Trends in Signal Processing, Information Computing and Communication (ICSPICC) 2016 (PC Member+Reviewer)

17. First International Conference on Data Science Analytics and Applications (DaSAA) 2016  (Reviewer)

18. International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing (ISSP) 2013  (Reviewer)

Ph. D. Students

Ph. D. Degree Awarded

6.    Dr. Pranita Y. Mahajan (PEC: D18Co004)

1. • Thesis Title: Clinical Relation Modeling using Optimized Patient Embeddings from Unstructured Medical Records

   • Thesis Submission Date:  23rd May 2024

   • Ph. D. Viva-voce Date: 3rd December 2024

   • Currently Working as: Sr. Data scientist, Relx-Elsevier 

5.   Dr. John Kenny (PEC: D18Co001)

1. • Thesis Title: Novel Algorithms for Mining Recency and Occupancy based High Utility Patterns 

   • Thesis Submission Date:  24th May 2024

   • Ph. D. Viva-voce Date: 11th November 2024

   • Currently Working as: Head of Department Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Universal College of Engineering, Mumbai, Maharashtra 

4.   Dr. Anjali S. More (PEC: DS15Co008) 

1. • Thesis Title: Novel Classification and Enhanced Sampling based Approaches for Imbalanced Data

   • Ph. D. Viva-voce Date: 25th Jan 2024 

   • Currently Working as: Associate Professor, Symbiosis Institute Technology, Pune, Maharashtra

3.   Dr. Mitali Desai (Guiding with Dr. R. G. Mehta) (FIR: DS17Co003)

1. • Thesis Title: "A Systematic Approach to Identify and Rank Influential Scholars from Digital Scholarly Platforms " 

   • Ph. D. Viva-voce Date: 25th May 2023 

   • Currently Working as: Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology , Surat, Gujarat 

2.   Dr. Isha Agarwal (D17Co004)

1. • Thesis Title: "Novel Approaches for Fake News Detection in Healthcare Domain" 

   • Ph. D. Viva-voce Date: 24th May 2023 

   • Currently Working as: Activity and Lab Coordinator, SVNIT-Surat

1.    Dr. Jenish Dhanani  (Guided with Dr. R. G. Mehta) (FIR: D16Co002)

1. • Thesis Title: "Scalable Learning of Text Embedding for Big Data: Dictionary based Approaches for Sentiment Analysis of Informal Text and Recommendation System for Formal Text" 

   • Ph. D. Viva-voce Date: 11th February 2022

   • Currently Working as: Co-Founder of CoreAI, Surat, Gujarat

Ongoing Ph. D. Research Scholars:

1. Ms. Vaishnavee Rathod  (Guiding with Dr. R. G. Mehta) (ERS: D20Co004)

1. Ms. Nikita  (Guiding with Dr. R. G. Mehta) (FIR: D21Co001)

2. Mr. Patel Parmanand (ERS: D23CS004)

3. Ms. Varunakshi Bhojane (Guiding with Dr. R. G. Mehta) (ERS: D23CS003)

Teaching

Subjects Taught

Academic Year (2025-26)

• On CCLeave from 5th August 2025

Academic Year (2024-25)

• Even Semester

1. Natural Language Processing, M. Tech. I CSE (DS) Sem 2, CSDS116 (Elective Subject)

2.  Data Structures, B. Tech. I CSE Sem 2, CS102

• Odd Semester

1.  Foundation of Data Science, M. Tech. I CSE (DS) Sem 1 (Elective Subject)

2.  Natural Language Processing, B. Tech. IV CSE Sem 7 (Elective Subject)

Academic Year (2023-24)

• Even Semester

CCL Period 01/01/2024 to 26/04/2024 

• Odd Semester

2. 1.  Foundations of Data Science, M. Tech. I CSE & CSE (DS) & Ph. D. Sem 1, CSEDS607 (Elective Subject)

   2. Fundamentals of Computer Programming, B. Tech. I EC Sem 1 (Div A), CS110

Academic Year (2022-23)

• Even Semester

1. Advanced Database Management Systems, M. Tech. I CSE (DS) Sem 2, , CS442 (Elective Subject)

2. Fundamentals of Computer Programming, B. Tech. I EE Sem 2

• Odd Semester

1. Data Structures, B. Tech. II CSE Sem 4, CS210

2. Fundamentals of Computer & Programming, B. Tech. I CE Sem 1, CS109

Academic Year (2021-22)

• Even Semester

1. Database Management Systems, B. Tech. II CSE Sem 3, CS204 

2. Fundamentals of Computer & Programming, B. Tech. I Sem 2

• Odd Semester

1. Computer Organization, B. Tech. II CO Sem 3, CS201 

2. Fundamentals of Computer & Programming, B. Tech. I CE Sem 1, CS109

SCI Journal Publication - 2019 onwards

• 2025

1. Nikita, Dipti P. Rana, Rupa G. Mehta, Vrushti Patel, "Layout Features and Semantic Similarity-based Hybrid Approach for Thematic Classification of Paragraphs in Documents", Knowledge and Information Systems, 30 June 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-025-02524-0 (SCIE, Scopus) (3.1) 

• 2024

1. V. Rathod, Dipti Rana, and Rupa Mehta, “Deep learning-driven UAV vision for automated road crack detection and classification", Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation, Special Issue of Road Cracks, Taylor & Francis, pp. 1–30, 30 Dec 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/10589759.2024.2446650 (SCI) (1.80) (Q2 Journal) 

2. V. Rathod, D. Rana, and R. Mehta, "Road Crack Detection and Classification Using UAV and Deep Transfer Learning Optimization", International Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS), 24 Dec. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-024-02075-x (SCIE, Scopus) (2.2)

3. M J. K. Kumar, Chintan Rajput, Dipti Rana, "D-HUP Tree: Distributed HUP Tree for Scalable High Utility Itemset Mining", International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management, Inderscience Publisher, Accepted: Nov. 2024. (Web of Science, Scopus)(0.4) (ACCEPTED)

4. Vaishnavee V. Rathod, Dipti P. Rana, Rupa G. Mehta & Vijay Nath, "A Computer Vision Approach to Vehicle Detection, Classification, and Tracking from UAV Data for Indian Traffic Analysis", IETE Journal of Research, Taylor and Francis, pp. 1-14,  19 Jul 2024. DOI: 10.1080/03772063.2024.2378478 (Web of Science, SCIE, Scopus) (0.38) (Q4 Journal)

5. Vaishnavee Rathod, Dipti Rana, Rupa Mehta, "Black Widow Optimisation with Deep Learning-based Feature Fusion Model for Remote Sensing Image Analysis", International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 1 Jan 2024. DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2024.10063761 (Web of Science, Scopus) (1.4)

6. M J. K. Kumar, Dipti Rana, “HAUOPM: High Average Utility Occupancy Pattern Mining”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Vol. 49, 3397–3416, March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-023-07971-x (SCIE, Scopus) (2.6) 

7. M J. K. Kumar, Dipti Rana, “HARUIM: High Average Recent Utility Itemset Mining”, International Journal of Data Mining Modeling and Management, Inderscience Publisher, pp. 66 – 100, 1 January 2024. DOI:10.1504/IJDMMM.2024.10055782 (Web of Science, Scopus) (0.5)

• 2023

8. Agarwal Isha, Rana Dipti, "Analysis of Contextual Features’ Granularity for Fake News Detection", Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, 15 November 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-17465-5 (SCIE, Scopus) (3.6)(Q2 Journal) 

9. Mitali Desai, Rupa Mehta, Dipti Rana, "An Exploratory Study of Scholarly Platforms and Features to Help Emerging Scholars Gain Visibility in the Scholars’ Community", Journal of Scientometric Research, Phcog.Net  2023, 12, 2, 480-489, September 2023, . DOI: 10.5530/jscires.12.2.044 (Web of Science, Scopus) (0.8)

10. Pranita Y. Mahajan, Dipti P. Rana, "Text mining approach for the prediction of disease status from discharge summaries using CCBE and NEROA-CNN", Expert Systems with Applications, Science Direct, Vol. 227, 1 October 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.120310. (Web of Science, SCIE, Scopus) (7.5)

11. Pranita Mahajan and Dipti Rana, "Feature Optimization in CNN Using MROA for Disease Classification", Intelligent Decision Technologies, IOS Press, Vol. 17 (2), pp. 301 – 315, 1 Jan 2023. DOI: 10.3233/IDT-220097 (Web of Science, ESCI) (0.6)

    • 2022

12. Isha Agarwal, Dipti Rana, Aemie Jariwala, Sahil Bondre, “A Novel Stance based Sampling for Imbalanced Data ”, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), Vol. 13, No. 1, Jan 2022. (Open Access) DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130157 (Web of Science, Scopus) [Paid]

13. M. Desai, R. G. Mehta and D. P. Rana, "Anatomising 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) (2.4)

14. 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 (ESCI, Scopus) (0.51)

15. Agarwal, I. Y., Rana, D. P., Shaikh, M. and S. Poudel, "Spatio-Temporal Approach for Classification of COVID-19 Pandemic Fake News". Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Vol. 12, pp. 68(1-9), June 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-022-00887-8  (ESCI, Scopus) (0.65)

16. Dhanani, Jenish, Mehta, Rupa, and Rana, Dipti, "Effective and Scalable Legal Judgment Recommendation using Pre-Learned Word Embedding",  Complex & Intelligent Systems, Vol. 8, pp. 3199–3213, Feb. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-022-00673-1 (SCIE, Scopus) (1.13)

17. Anjali S. More and Dipti P. Rana, "Novel Oversampling Algorithm for Handling Imbalanced Data Classification", International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), Vol.13 (8), August 2022. DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130856 (Web of Science, Scopus) [Paid]

18. Tidke, B., Mehta, R., Rana, D., Mittal, D. and Suthar, P. "A Social Network based Approach to Identify and Rank Influential Nodes for Smart City", Kybernetes, Vol. 50(2), pp. 568-587, March 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/K-09-2019-0637 (SCI, Scopus) (0.35) 

19. Dhanani, Jenish, Mehta, Rupa, and Rana, Dipti. "Legal Document Recommendation System: A Cluster Based Pairwise Similarity Computation", Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, pp. 5497 – 5509, 1 Jan 2021. DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-189871. (SCIE, Scopus) (0.32)

Scopus Journal Publication - 2014 onwards

1. Nikita, Krishna Shreeram, Athrav Patil, Aditi Agarwal, Dipti P. Rana, Rupa G. Mehta, "Natural Language Understanding (NLU)- Powered Information Retrieval from Indian Legal Property Graph", Procedia Computer Science, ISSN 1877-0509, Vol. 258, pp. 2500-2509, April 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2025.04.512.

2. V. Rathod, D. Rana, and R. Mehta, "Road Crack Detection and Classification Using UAV and Deep Transfer Learning Optimization", International Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 24 Dec. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12524-024-02075-x 

3. V. Rathod, Dipti P. Rana, Rupa G. Mehta & Vijay Nath, "A Computer Vision Approach to Vehicle Detection, Classification, and Tracking from UAV Data for Indian Traffic Analysis", IETE Journal of Research, Taylor and Francis, pp. 1-14,  19 Jul 2024. DOI: 10.1080/03772063.2024.2378478 (1.5) 

4. V. Rathod, Dipti Rana, Rupa Mehta, "Black Widow Optimisation with Deep Learning-based Feature Fusion Model for Remote Sensing Image Analysis", International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 1 Jan 2024. DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2024.10063761 (1.4)

5. M J. K. Kumar, Chintan Rajput, Dipti Rana, "D-HUP Tree: Distributed HUP Tree for Scalable High Utility Itemset Mining", International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management, Inderscience Publisher, Accepted: Nov. 2024. (0.4) 

6. M J. K. Kumar, Dipti Rana, “HAUOPM: High Average Utility Occupancy Pattern Mining”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Vol. 49, 3397–3416, March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-023-07971-x .

7. M J. K. Kumar, Dipti Rana, “HARUIM: High Average Recent Utility Itemset Mining”, International Journal of Data Mining Modeling and Management, Inderscience Publisher, pp. 66 – 100, 1 January 2024. DOI:10.1504/IJDMMM.2024.10055782. (0.4) 

8. Mitali Desai, Rupa Mehta, Dipti Rana, "Contextual analysis of scholarly communications to identify the source of disinformation on digital scholarly platforms", Kybernetes, Vol. 53 No. 4, pp. 1434 – 1449, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-07-2022-0998

9. Mitali Desai, Rupa Mehta, Dipti 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 (IJISM), Regional Information Center for Science and Technology, Vol. 21(4), pp. 23 – 38, 2023. DOI: 10.22034/ijism.2023.1977713.0 

10. Mitali Desai, Rupa Mehta, Dipti Rana, "An Exploratory Study of Scholarly Platforms and Features to Help Emerging Scholars Gain Visibility in the Scholars’ Community", Journal of Scientometric Research, 2023, Vol. 12(2), pp. 480 – 489, September 2023, . DOI: 10.5530/jscires.12.2.044 

11. Kenny Kumar, M.J., Rana, D. "RSPHUIM: Recent Short Period High Utility Itemset Mining", SN COMPUTER SCIENCE, Vol. 4, Article. 485, June 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-023-01967-y 

12. Pranita Mahajan and Dipti Rana, "Feature Optimization in CNN Using MROA for Disease Classification", Intelligent Decision Technologies, IOS Press, Vol. 17 (2), pp. 301 – 315, 1 May 2023 . DOI: 10.3233/IDT-220097

13. Dhanani, Jenish, Mehta, Rupa, and Rana, Dipti, "DSPWE: distributed sentiment polarized word embedding for voluminous textual data", Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (JAIHC), Springer, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-023-04611-y 

14. I. Y. Agarwal, D. P. Rana, "An Improved Fake News Detection Model by Applying a Recursive Feature Elimination Approach for Credibility Assessment and Uncertainty", Journal of Uncertain Systems, Vol. 16 (01), Article No. 2242008, Jan 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S1752890922420089 

15. Anjali S. More and Dipti P. Rana, "Novel Oversampling Algorithm for Handling Imbalanced Data Classification", International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), Vol.13 (8), August 2022. DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130856 

16. M. Desai, R. G. Mehta and D. P. Rana, "Anatomising the Impact of ResearchGate Followers and Followings on Influence Identification", Journal of Information Science, SAGE Publications, July 2022. Available at DOI: 10.1177/01655515221100716

17. 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 

18. Anjali S. More, Dipti P. Rana, "Performance enrichment through parameter tuning of random forest classification for imbalanced data applications", Materials Today: Proceedings, pp. 3585 – 3593, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.matpr.2021.12.020  

19. Dhanani, Jenish, Mehta, Rupa, and Rana, Dipti, "Effective and Scalable Legal Judgment Recommendation using Pre-Learned Word Embedding",  Complex & Intelligent Systems, Vol. 8, pp. 3199 – 3213, Feb. 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-022-00673-1 

20. Isha Agarwal, Dipti Rana, Aemie Jariwala, Sahil Bondre, “A Novel Stance based Sampling for Imbalanced Data ”, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), Vol. 13, No. 1, Jan 2022. (Open Access) DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130157 

21. Dhanani, J., Mehta, R. and Rana, D. P., "Legal document recommendation system: a dictionary based approach", International Journal of Web Information Systems, Vol. 17 No. 3, pp. 187 – 203, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWIS-02-2021-0015. 

22. Dhanani, Jenish, Rupa Mehta, and Dipti Rana. "Sentiment Weighted Word Embedding for Big Text Data," International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies (IJWLTT), IGI Global, Vol. 16(6), 1 – 17, Dec. 2021. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4018/IJWLTT.20211101.oa2 

23. Tidke, B., Mehta, R., Rana, D., Mittal, D. and Suthar, P. "A Social Network based Approach to Identify and Rank Influential Nodes for Smart City", Kybernetes, Vol. 50(2), pp. 568 – 587, March 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/K-09-2019-0637 

24. Dhanani, Jenish, Mehta, Rupa, and Rana, Dipti. ‘Legal Document Recommendation System: A Cluster Based Pairwise Similarity Computation’, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, pp. 5497 – 5509, 1 Jan 2021. DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-189871. 

25. Agarwal I., Rana D. P., "Credibility of misinformation and the science of sentiments", Journal of Advanced Research in Dynamical and Control Systems, Vol. 12 (7), pp. 1738 – 1745, 2020.  DOI: 10.5373/JARDCS/V12SP7/20202283 

26. Tidke, B., Mehta, R., Rana, D., & Jangir H. (2020). “Topic Sensitive User Clustering using Sentiment Score and Similarity Measures: Big Data and Social Network” International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies (IJWLTT), IGI Global, Vol, 15 (2), 2020. 

27. Divyani Mittal, Pooja Suthar, Madhuri Patil, P.G.S. Pranaya, Dipti P. Rana, Bharat Tidke, Social Network Influencer Rank Recommender Using Diverse Features from Topical Graph, Procedia Computer Science, Volume 167, pp. 1861 – 1871, ISSN 1877-0509, 2020. (conference-paper, DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2020.03.205, EID: 2-s2.0-85084503546). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2020.03.205. 

28. Anjali S. More, Dipti P. Rana,  "An Experimental Assessment of Random Forest Classification Performance Improvisation with Sampling and Stage Wise Success Rate Calculation", Procedia Computer Science, Volume 167, pp. 1711 – 1721, 2020. DOI: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050920308474, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2020.03.381.  

29. Mitali Desai, Rupa G. Mehta, and Dipti 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 (IJITEE), Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication, Vol. 8, No. 9S, ISSN: 2278-3075 (Online), pp. 414-421, July 2019. DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.I1066.0789S19 

30. D. P. Rana, P. Chaudhari, N. J. Mistry, M. M. Raghuwanshi, "Novel Usage of Gujarati Tithi in Weather Analysis of Surat, India", International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 34 – 37, June 2015. 

31. P. Chaudhari, D. P. Rana, R. G. Mehta, N. J. Mistry, M. M. Raghuwanshi,  "Discretization of Temporal Data: A Survey", International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS), ISSN:1947-5500, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 1 – 4, Feb 2014. 

Other Publications

1. Swayam Desai, Yash Pokar, Dipti Rana and Rupa Mehta, "Trigger Optimization for Black-Box Universal Adversarial Attacks on Text Classifiers", Hinweis 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (AIDE), Bengaluru, India, November 29-30, 2024 Published in GRENZE International Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol. 11 (1), pp. 1670-1676. Grenze ID: 01.GIJET.11.1.20

2. N S Kapadia, D P Rana, U Parikh, “Weather Forecasting using Satellite Image Processing and Artificial Neural Networks”, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, (IJCSIS), Vol. 14 (11), pp. 1069, 2016 

Book Chapters - 2016 onwards

1. Dudhia, D.J., Rana, D. "Sentiment Analysis in Gujarati Language with Dictionary Approach", In: Garg, L., Sisodia, D.S., Dewangan, B.K., Shukla, R.N., Kesswani, N., Brigui, I. (eds) AI Technologies for Information Systems and Management Science. ISMS 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1136, pp. 26 - 42, Springer, Cham, Oct. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-70789-6_3 (Scopus)

2. Kumari, J., Rana, D. P., "GeoAI-Based Covid-19 Prediction Model", In: Das, S., Saha, S., Coello Coello, C.A., Bansal, J.C. (eds) Advances in Data-driven Computing and Intelligent Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 653. pp. 669–684, Springer, Singapore, June 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0981-0_51 (Scopus)

3. Agarwal, I., Rana, D., Teja, C.S., Sai Daivik, N.N.S., "FNH—A Data Repository for Studying Fake News in Healthcare Domain", In: Mandal, J.K., De, D. (eds) Frontiers of ICT in Healthcare . Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 519, pp. 39-51, Springer, Singapore, April 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5191-6_4 (Scopus)

4. Shweta Tikhe, D. P. Rana, "Fine-Tuned Predictive Models for Forecasting Severity Level of COVID-19 Patient Using Epidemiological Data", In: Mandal, J.K., De, D. (eds) Frontiers of ICT in Healthcare . Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 519, pp. 431-442. Springer, Singapore, April 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5191-6_35  (Scopus)

5. D. P. Rana, Charmi Shah, Yamini Kabra, Y., Ummul Daginawala, Pranjal Tibrewal, "Hierarchical Earthquake Prediction Framework", In: Yadav, R.P., Nanda, S.J., Rana, P.S., Lim, MH. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Paradigms of Computing, Communication and Data Sciences. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. pp. 241-253, Springer, Singapore, Feb 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8742-7_20 (Scopus)

6. Navodita Saini and Dipti Rana, "Dictionary Based Gender Identification and Gender Based Sentiment Analysis with Polarized Word2Vec", In: Singh, P.K., Wierzchoń, S.T., Chhabra, J.K., Tanwar, S. (eds) Futuristic Trends in Networks and Computing Technologies . Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 936. Springer, Singapore, November 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5037-7_54. (Scopus)

7. Mahajan P., Rana D. "Investigating Clinical Named Entity Recognition Approaches for Information Extraction from EMR". In: Mehta M., Fournier-Viger P., Patel M., Lin J.CW. (eds) Tracking and Preventing Diseases with Artificial Intelligence. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 206, 2022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76732-7_7  (Scopus) 

8. More, Anjali S., and Dipti P. Rana. "Review of Imbalanced Data Classification and Approaches Relating to Real-Time Applications." In Data Preprocessing, Active Learning, and Cost Perceptive Approaches for Resolving Data Imbalance, pp. 1-22. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-7371-6.ch001 (Scopus) 

9. Agarwal, Isha Y. and Dipti P. Rana, Devanshi Bhatia, Jay Rathod, Kaneesha J. Gandhi, and Harshit Sodagar. "Detection of Bot Accounts on Social Media Considering Its Imbalanced Nature." In Data Preprocessing, Active Learning, and Cost Perceptive Approaches for Resolving Data Imbalance, pp. 162-176. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-7371-6.ch009 (Scopus) 

10. Agarwal, Isha Y. and Dipti P. Rana, Kshitij R. Suri, Punitkumar Jain, Saumya Awasthi, and Krittika Roy. "Behaviour Anomaly Detection With Similarity-Based Sampling for Imbalanced Data." In Data Preprocessing, Active Learning, and Cost Perceptive Approaches for Resolving Data Imbalance, pp. 177-194. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-7371-6.ch010 (Scopus) 

11. Agarwal, Isha Y., and Dipti P. Rana. "Fake News and Imbalanced Data Perspective." In Data Preprocessing, Active Learning, and Cost Perceptive Approaches for Resolving Data Imbalance, pp. 195-210. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-7371-6.ch011 (Scopus) 

12. Dhanani, Jenish and Rupa G. Mehta, Dipti P. Rana, Rahul Lad, Amogh Agrawal, Karan Chevli, and Jashwanth Gummula Reddy. "Indian Judgment Categorization for Practicing Similar Judgment Identification." In Data Preprocessing, Active Learning, and Cost Perceptive Approaches for Resolving Data Imbalance, pp. 232-241. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-7371-6.ch013 (Scopus) 

13. Mitali Desai, Rupa G. Mehta, and Dipti 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, pp. 242-254. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-7371-6.ch014 (Scopus) 

14. Rana, Dipti P., and Navodita Saini. "Gender-Based Tweet Analysis (GTA)." In Data Preprocessing, Active Learning, and Cost Perceptive Approaches for Resolving Data Imbalance, pp. 255-267. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-7371-6.ch015 (Scopus) 

15.  Kenny Kumar M.J., Rana D. "High Average Utility Itemset Mining: A Survey" In: Chaki N., Pejas J., Devarakonda N., Rao Kovvur R.M. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Engineering. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 56. PP. 347-374, Springer, Singapore, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8767-2_30. (Scopus)

16. Mitali Desai, Rupa G. Mehta, and Dipti P. Rana, “RGNet: The Novel Framework to Model Linked ResearchGate Information into Network Using Hierarchical Data Rendering”, Advances in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence, Algorithms for Intelligent Systems, Springer, Singapore, pp. 37-45, January 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5243-4_4. (Scopus)

17. Dholakia R., Randeria R., Dholakia R., Ashar H., Rana D. "Cognitive Demand Forecasting with Novel Features Using Word2Vec and Session of the Day", In: Gunjan V., Zurada J., Raman B., Gangadharan G. (eds) Modern Approaches in Machine Learning and Cognitive Science: A Walkthrough. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 885. Springer, Cham, 2020.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38445-6_5 (Scopus)

18. Dhanani J., Mehta R., Rana D., Tidke B.,  "Back-Propagated Neural Network on MapReduce Frameworks: A Survey", In: Tiwari S., Trivedi M., Mishra K., Misra A., Kumar K. (eds) Smart Innovations in Communication and Computational Sciences. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 851. Springer, Singapore, 2019.  (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2414-7_35)

19. Parikh Y., Palusa A., Kasthuri S., Mehta R., Rana D., "Efficient Word2Vec Vectors for Sentiment Analysis to Improve Commercial Movie Success", In: Bhattacharyya S., Gandhi T., Sharma K., Dutta P. (eds) Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 475. Springer, Singapore, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8240-5_30 (Scopus)

20. Rana D., Mehta R., Somkunwar P., Mistry N., Raghuwanshi M., "Segregation of Rare Items Association", In: Nagar A., Mohapatra D., Chaki N. (eds) Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 43. Springer, New Delhi, 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2538-6_18 (Scopus)

Conference Publication - 2018 onwards 

1. Isha Agarwal, Dipti P. Rana, Sarika Pardhi, Rupa G. Mehta, "Efficient Path Planning Algorithms for Coordinated Multi-Drone Systems", International Conference on Emerging Technology in Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (ETAAV), IISc Banglore, Karnataka, 18 - 20 August 2025. (Presented)

2. Varunakshi Bhojane, Dipti Rana, Rupa Mehta, "Extraction of Water Quality Parameters from MultiSpectral Drone Imagery: A Computational Approach ", International Conference on Emerging Technology in Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (ETAAV), IISc Banglore, Karnataka, 18 - 20 August 2025. (Presented)

3. Vaishnavee Rathod, Rajesh Chouhan, Dipti Rana, Rupa Mehta, Ashish Dhamaniya, "UAV-Based Vehicle Detection and Classification Under Varying Lighting Conditions for Indian Traffic", International Conference on Emerging Technology in Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (ETAAV), IISc Banglore, Karnataka, 18 - 20 August 2025. (Presented)

4. Nikita, Aramya Maheshwari, Hardik Tulsiani, Hiren Dhadhal, Utsav Chordia, D. P. Rana and R. G. Mehta "Multiple Graph-Based Approach to Recommend Domain-Dependent Documents" 22nd OITS International Conference on Information Technology (OCIT 2024), SRM University, AP, pp. 50 - 59,  12-14 December  2024. DOI: 10.1109/OCIT65031.2024.00019

5. Swayam Desai, Yash Pokar, Dipti Rana and Rupa Mehta, "Trigger Optimization for Black-Box Universal Adversarial Attacks on Text Classifiers", Hinweis 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (AIDE), Bengaluru, India, November 29-30, 2024. 

6. Nikita, Krishna Shreeram, Athrav Patil, Aditi Agarwal, Dipti P. Rana, Rupa G. Mehta, "Natural Language Understanding (NLU)- Powered Information Retrieval from Indian Legal Property Graph", 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Engineering (ICMLDE 2024 ), School of Computer Science, UPES, Bidholi, Dehradun, India, 28 - 29 November 2024. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2025.04.512

7. V. V. Rathod, D. P. Rana and R. G. Mehta, "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Real-time Garbage Detection System", 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Engineering (ICMLDE 2024), School of Computer Science, UPES, Bidholi, Dehradun, India, 28 - 29 November 2024. 

8.  Isha Agarwal, Dipti Rana, Priyanshi Shah, Aayush Dude and Pooja Patel, "Optimizing Crop Monitoring: A Data Warehouse Approach in Precision Agriculture", The 15th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), IIT - Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India, 24 - 28 June 2024. DOI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10724191.  

9. Nikita, Esha Srivastav, Asthaben Patel, Anjali Singh, Riya Sharma, Dipti P Rana, Rupa G Mehta, "LAWBOT: A Smart User Indian Legal Chatbot using Machine Learning Framework", IEEE 9th International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), Pune,  Maharashtra, India, pp. 1-7, 5-7 April 2024. (DOI: 10.1109/I2CT61223.2024.10543337).

10. Nikita, D. P. Rana and R. G. Mehta, "Research Challenges for Legal Document Summarization," 2023 IEEE World Conference on Applied Intelligence and Computing (AIC), Sonbhadra, India, 29-30 July 2023, pp. 307-312, doi: 10.1109/AIC57670.2023.10263906. 

11. Devanshu Dudhia and Dipti P. Rana, "Sentiment Analysis in Gujarati Language", 6th International Conference on Information Systems and Management Science 2023 (ISMS 2023) Organized by  O. P. Jindal University, Raigarh, India, 23 - 24 December 2023. 

12. Pranita Mahajan and Dipti P. Rana, "Standardization and Context-Specific Named Entity Linking of Electronic Medical Records", 2nd International Conference on Emerging trends and Innovations in ICT-2022 (ICEI-2022) organized by SCTRs, PICT Pune,  10th - 12th March 2022. (PRESENTED)

13. Jyoti Kumari, Dipti P. Rana, "GeoAI-Based Covid-19 Prediction Model",. In: Das, S., Saha, S., Coello Coello, C.A., Bansal, J.C. (eds) Advances in Data-driven Computing and Intelligent Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 653, pp. 669–684, Springer, Singapore, June 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0981-0_51 

14. V. V. Rathod, D. P. Rana and R. G. Mehta, "An Extensive Review of Deep Learning Driven Remote Sensing Image Classification Models," 2022 Third International Conference on Intelligent Computing Instrumentation and Control Technologies (ICICICT), Kannur, India, Oct. 2022, pp. 762-774, doi: 10.1109/ICICICT54557.2022.9917583. 

15. Dipti Rana, Charmi Shah, Yamini Kabra, Ummulkiram Daginawala and Pranjal Tibrewal, "Hierarchical Earthquake Prediction Framework ", International Conference on Paradigms of Communication, Computing and Data Sciences (PCCDS 2022), Organized in Virtual Format by Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India, July  5-7, 2022, In: Yadav, R.P., Nanda, S.J., Rana, P.S., Lim, MH. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Paradigms of Computing, Communication and Data Sciences. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore, 24 February 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8742-7_20 

16. Isha Agarwal, Dipti Rana, Ch Surya Teja and Nunna Naga Surya Sai Daivik, "FNH – A Data Repository for Studying Fake News in Healthcare Domain", 7th International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT 2022), CSI KOLKATA CHAPTER, Kolkata, West Bengal, March 29 - 31, 2022. 

17. Shweta Tikhe and Dipti P. Rana, "Fine-Tuned Predictive Models for Forecasting Severity Level of Covid-19 Patient Using Epidemiological Data", 7th International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT 2022), CSI KOLKATA CHAPTER, Kolkata, West Bengal, March 29 - 31, 2022. 

18. Navodita Saini and Dipti P. Rana, “Dictionary based Gender Identification and Gender based Sentiment Analysis With Polarized Word2vec”, Fourth International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Networks, Computing and Communication Technologies (FTNCT), Nirma University, Ahmedabad, 10-11 Dec. 2021. 

19. Dipti P. Rana, Simran Bawkar, Mansi Jain, Swati Bothra and Shailesh Baldaniya, “Image Based Fake Tweet Retrieval (IBFTR)”, IEEE International Conference for Emerging Technology (INCET 2020), pp. 1-8, Jun. 2020. doi: 10.1109/INCET49848.2020.9154072. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9154072 

20. Mathe John Kenny Kumar and Dipti Rana, "High Average Utility Itemset Mining: A Survey", In: Chaki, N., Pejas, J., Devarakonda, N., Rao Kovvur, R.M. (eds) Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence & Data Engineering (ICCIDE-2020), Hyderabad, India, June 12-13 2020, Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 56. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8767-2_30 

21. Divyani Mittal, Pooja Suthar, Madhuri Patil, P.G.S. Pranaya, Dipti P. Rana and Bharat Tidke, Social Network Influencer Rank Recommender Using Diverse Features from Topical Graph, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Science (ICCIDS 2019), The NorthCap University, Gurugram, 6th-7th September, 2019.

22. Anjali More and Dipti Rana, "An Experimental Assessment of Random Forest Classification Performance Improvisation with Sampling and Stage Wise Success Rate Calculation", International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Science (ICCIDS 2019), The NorthCap University, Gurugram, 6th-7th September, 2019.

23. Dholakia R., Randeria R., Dholakia R., Ashar H. and Rana D., "Cognitive Demand Forecasting with Novel Features Using Word2Vec and Session of the Day" In: Gunjan V., Zurada J., Raman B., Gangadharan G. (eds) Modern Approaches in Machine Learning and Cognitive Science: A Walkthrough. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 885. Springer, Cham, 2020.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38445-6_5

24. Anjali More and Dipti Rana, "Performance Enrichment through Parameter Tuning of Random Forest Classification for Imbalanced Data Applications", Applied Machine Learning & Management of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (V.U.C.A) (AML VUCA 2020), Bhubaneswar India 

25. Mitali Desai, Rupa G. Mehta and Dipti P. Rana, "RGNet: The Novel Framework to Model Linked ResearchGate Information into Network using Hierarchical Data Rendering", International Conference on Modelling, Simulation & Intelligent Computing, Dubai,  29-31 Jan. 2020. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3354388

26. Mitali Desai, Rupa G. Mehta and Dipti P. Rana, "A Survey on Techniques for Indexing and Hashing in Big Data" 4th International Conference on Computing Communication and Automation (ICCCA), pp. 1-6, Dec. 2018. doi: 10.1109/CCAA.2018.8777454. 

27. Parikh Y., Palusa A., Kasthuri S., Mehta R. and Rana D., "Efficient Word2Vec Vectors for Sentiment Analysis to Improve Commercial Movie Success", In: Bhattacharyya S., Gandhi T., Sharma K., Dutta P. (eds) Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 475. Springer, Singapore, 2018. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8240-5_30)

28. Mitali Desai, Rupa G. Mehta and Dipti P. Rana, "Issues and challenges in big graph modelling for smart city: An extensive survey", International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Internet of Things (ICCIIoT 2018), National Institute of Technology, Agartala, India, pp. 44-50, Dec. 2018. (DOI: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3354388)

29. Isha Agarwal, Dipti Rana and Anjali More, "Predicting the Veracity of Fake News on Smart Media for Reducing Misinformation Diffusion ", International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Internet of Things (ICCIIoT 2018), National Institute of Technology, Agartala, India, Dec 2018.

30. Anjali More, Dipti Rana and Isha Agarwal, "Random Forest Classifier Approach for Imbalanced Big Data Classification for Smart City Application Domains ", International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Internet of Things (ICCIIoT 2018), National Institute of Technology, Agartala, India, Dec 2018.

31. Jenish Dhanani, Rupa Mehta, Dipti Rana and Bharat Tidke, "Big and Stream Data Analytics using Incremental MapReduce framework for Smart City", International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Internet of Things (ICCIIoT 2018), National Institute of Technology, Agartala, India, Dec 2018.

32. Nikhil Jain, Mitali Desai and Dipti P. Rana, "Empirical comparison of IoT based smart home models", International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Internet of Things (ICCIIoT 2018), National Institute of Technology, Agartala, India, Dec 2018.

STTP Organized

1. One Week Training Programme Boot Camp 18 on “Drone Technology and Applications" during 30th June - 4th July 2025 under the project “Capacity Building for Human Resource Development in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drone and related Technology)”, a project funded by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India (GoI) conducted by SVNIT, Surat 

2. One Week Training Programme Boot Camp 13 on “Unlocking Drone Technology and Applications" during 16th - 20th December 2024 under the project “Capacity Building for Human Resource Development in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drone and related Technology)”, a project funded by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India (GoI) conducted by SVNIT, Surat 

3. One Week Training Programme Boot Camp 5.0 on “Drone Assembly & Applications" during 11th - 15th March 2024 under the project “Capacity Building for Human Resource Development in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drone and related Technology)”, a project funded by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India (GoI) conducted by SVNIT, Surat in Association with Bhagwan Mahavir College of Engineering and Technology, Surat

4. One Week Training Programme Boot Camp 4.0 on “Drone Assembly, Navigation & Applications" during 20st - 21st, 26th - 28th Jan 2024 under the project “Capacity Building for Human Resource Development in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drone and related Technology)”, a project funded by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India (GoI) conducted by SVNIT, Surat in Association with Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology, Surat

5.  One Week Training Programme Boot Camp 2.0 & 3.0 on “Drone Applications" during 26th - 30th  June 2023 under the project “Capacity Building for Human Resource Development in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drone and related Technology)”, a project funded by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India (GoI)

6. One Week Training Programme Boot Camp 1.0 on “Drone Assembly, Navigation, and Applications" during 8th - 12th April 2023 under the project “Capacity Building for Human Resource Development in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drone and related Technology)”, a project funded by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India (GoI)

7. Two Weeks AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Faculty Development Program (FDP) on “Social Media and Social Network Data Mining” during 2nd  - 13th January 2023 Sponsored by ATAL Academy, New Delhi 

8. One week TEQIP and C-DAC sponsored STTP on "High Performance Computing (HPC-2019)" during 27th  - 31st May 2019

9. One week TEQIP and C-DAC sponsored STTP on "High Performance Computing (HPC-2018)" during 4th  - 8th June 2018

10. Self sponsored STTP on  "Web Programming Technologies (WPT-2018)" during 1st - 5th January 2018

11. Self sponsored STTP on  "Advanced ‘C’ Programming for Engineers (ACPE-2017)" during 11th-15th December 2017

12. Self sponsored STTP on  "‘C’ Programming for Engineers (CPE-2017)" during 4th-9th December (Excl. 6th) 2017  

13. TEQIP-II sponsored Short Term Training Program, “Recent Trends in Big Data Analytics (RTBDA-2017)” during 27th Feb – 3rd Mar 2017 at COED, SVNIT 

14. Short Term Training Program, “Data Mining Technique and Applications” during 8th - 12th Feb 2010 at COED, SVNIT

15. One week workshop on “First Step Towards Rise of Education” under TEQIP Service to Community Programme” at SVNIT

National Workshop Organized

1. 2 days Training Programme conducted on "Microsoft Office (M365)" for the staff / faculty / students of SVNIT, conducted by the Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt Ltd in ONLINE mode at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering during 19th - 20th Oct. 2022  

2. 2 days Online National Workshop on "Big Data Analytics (BDA-2021)" during 6 -7  Dec 2021 at DCSE, SVNIT

Expert Lectures Delivered @ other Institutes

1. "Data Ecosystem", GUJCOST sponsored Six Days STTP on "Data Analytics and Visualization", Information Technology Department, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Technology, Vasad, Gujarat, 5th July 2022 (Through CISCO WebEx).

2. "Association Rule Mining", School of Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence & Cyber Security, Rashtriya Raksha University, Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat, 24th December 2020 (Through CISCO WebEx).

3. "Pointers in C", G. H. Raisoni Academy of Engineerring and Technology, Nagpur, 14 August 2020 (Through CISCO WebEx)

4. “Social Computing”  in National Conference on Sustainable Computing and Information Technology (SCIT-2017),  Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology, Surat 

Certification

1. Examination of "Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator v10" administered by EC-Council on 27th May 2023

Certification/Training Attended

1. 1 week Short-Term Training Program (STTP) on "Design Thinking for Enterpreneurship" at ASHINE, SVNIT, Surat during 17-21 July 2023

2. 2 Days "Technology & Bhartiya Bhasha Summit" at New Delhi during 30 Sept. - 1 Oct. 2023

3. 5 Days Faculty Updation Program on "Capacity Building for Human Resources in Unmanned Aircraft System (Drone and Related Technology)" at Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc Bangalore during 25-29 April, 2023

4. 5 Days Bootcamp Training Program on "Drone Applications and UAS" by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Noida during 13 - 17 March 2023 

5. 3 Days Skill Training Program on "Do Drone" at Dept. of Aerospace Engg, IISc Bangalore during 16-18 November 2022

6. 1 Day Training on "X1 Social Discovery Tool" by ForensicsGuru.com at DoCSE, SVNIT, India on 29 June 2022 

7. 6 Days Product-Oriented Training on "DIGITAL FORENSIC PRODUCTS (FRED, TX1, MAGNET AXIOM & UFED 4PC)"  on "Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator v10" by Cyint Technologies, India at DoCSE, SVNIT, India during 23- 28  May 2022 

8. Hands-on Session on "Quantum Computing" by RGIPT ACM Chapter on 12 Sept. 2021 (Online)

9. Online Webinar on "STI Connect Forum at University for R&D proposals on State Priority Areas of S&T" at SVNIT, Surat on 7th July 2020

Ph. D. Students

Ph. D. Degree Awarded

6.    Dr. Pranita Y. Mahajan (PEC: D18Co004)

1. • Thesis Title: Clinical Relation Modeling using Optimized Patient Embeddings from Unstructured Medical Records

   • Thesis Submission Date:  23rd May 2024

   • Ph. D. Viva-voce Date: 3rd December 2024

   • Currently Working as: Sr. Data scientist, Relx-Elsevier 

5.   Dr. John Kenny (PEC: D18Co001)

1. • Thesis Title: Novel Algorithms for Mining Recency and Occupancy based High Utility Patterns 

   • Thesis Submission Date:  24th May 2024

   • Ph. D. Viva-voce Date: 11th November 2024

   • Currently Working as: Head of Department Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Universal College of Engineering, Mumbai, Maharashtra 

4.   Dr. Anjali S. More (PEC: DS15Co008) 

1. • Thesis Title: Novel Classification and Enhanced Sampling based Approaches for Imbalanced Data

   • Ph. D. Viva-voce Date: 25th Jan 2024 

   • Currently Working as: Associate Professor, Symbiosis Institute Technology, Pune, Maharashtra

3.   Dr. Mitali Desai (Guiding with Dr. R. G. Mehta) (FIR: DS17Co003)

1. • Thesis Title: "A Systematic Approach to Identify and Rank Influential Scholars from Digital Scholarly Platforms " 

   • Ph. D. Viva-voce Date: 25th May 2023 

   • Currently Working as: Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology , Surat, Gujarat 

2.   Dr. Isha Agarwal (D17Co004)

1. • Thesis Title: "Novel Approaches for Fake News Detection in Healthcare Domain" 

   • Ph. D. Viva-voce Date: 24th May 2023 

   • Currently Working as: Activity and Lab Coordinator, SVNIT-Surat

1.    Dr. Jenish Dhanani  (Guided with Dr. R. G. Mehta) (FIR: D16Co002)

1. • Thesis Title: "Scalable Learning of Text Embedding for Big Data: Dictionary based Approaches for Sentiment Analysis of Informal Text and Recommendation System for Formal Text" 

   • Ph. D. Viva-voce Date: 11th February 2022

   • Currently Working as: Co-Founder of CoreAI, Surat, Gujarat

Ongoing Ph. D. Research Scholars:

1. Ms. Vaishnavee Rathod  (Guiding with Dr. R. G. Mehta) (ERS: D20Co004)

2. Ms. Nikita  (Guiding with Dr. R. G. Mehta) (FIR: D21Co001)

3. Mr. Patel Parmanand (ERS: D23CS004)

4. Ms. Varunakshi Bhojane (Guiding with Dr. R. G. Mehta) (ERS: D23CS003)

• B. Tech. Projects

2025-26

1. U22CS035 Mehta Devesh Chetan

U22CS061 Gondwal Hardik Shivkumar

U22CS063 Parmar Niravkumar Rameshbhai

U22CS057 Dangar Ronak Prakashbhai

2. U22CS126 Jawandhiya Lakshita Pradip

U22CS113 Kushagra Kanchan

U22CS099 Atish Ranjan

U22CS114 Jigar Jat

Other Significant Activities

1. Examiner (Dissertation/Practical/Viva) of M.Tech. (CO)-Software Engineering, Dissertation, Sarvajanik University, Surat vide SU/EXAM/order/20241023/008 dated 23/10/2024

2. Member of Board of Studies of the Department of Computer Engineering at St. John College of Engineering & Management, Palghar from June 2024 

3. Examiner of M.Tech. (CO) Dissertation, Sarvajanik University, Surat vide SU/EXAM/Order/20240402/025 dated 02/04/2024

4. Expert Member to re-validate & finalize the Vision, Mission, PSO, PEO of the Information Technology Department, Tapi Diploma Engineering College, Surat from July  2022

5. Mentors of Udayan Shalini Fellowship, Surat (https://www.facebook.com/USFSurat) from Jan 2023

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