DEPARTMENT OF Electronics and Communication

Educational Qualifications:
• B.E – Mumbai University (2000-2004) – Distinction Holder
• M.E – Mumbai University (2007-2010) – (Fully Sponsored by Xavier Institute Of Engineering, Mahim, Mumbai )-Distinction Holder
• Ph.D – Amity University (2016 Registration) – pursuing

Professional Membership:
• IEEE Professional Member
• RAS Membership

RESEARCH INTEREST:
• Speech Processing
• Deep Learning
• Machine Learning

Work Experience:
• Assistant Professor, Dept of Electronics and Communications at Muthoot Institute Of Technology and Sciences from Sept 2022
• 16 years as Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications at Xavier Institute Of Engineering from {June 2005 – April 2021}

CERTIFICATIONS:
TRAININGS:
• Certification Course in ‘ Career Guidance and Counselling’ from Garware Institute of Career Education and Development , University of Mumbai recognised, AIF(American India Foundation) , supported by Dell Technologies.
• Attended in the International Webinar Session on Technology Impact on New Education Policy -2020, on Aug 27th 2021 organized by IQAC Cell & Department of Computer Science and Engineering, AEC,CSI chapter.
• Attended an FDP on Thesis Writing by LIBA on 20th January , 2022.
• Attended a webinar on ‘Smartphone Security’ on 27th May 2021.
• Ateended aAttended a 6-day funded AICTE-ISTE funded induction programme on ‘ Future Wireless Communications-Standards and Technologies’ from 24th May to 29th May 2021.
• Webinar on ‘ Empowerment through Emotional Intelligence’ on 27th & 28th May 2021.
• Attended a session on ‘Digital Trends and Insights powering growth via search engines’ on 17th July 2021 conducted by ITM Business school.
• Attended National Level FDP on Role of Teachers in Building an Emotionally Intelligent Generation on 8th Aug 2021.
• Attended 5-day virtual Faculty development programme on ‘Research perspectives on Data Science and Deep Learning’ in July 2021.
• Attended 40-hour Online Faculty Development Programme on ‘ Speech , Audio and Image Processing Uisng Deep Learning Techniques’ from NIT Warangal in June 2021.
• Successfully completed AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on ‘Internet of Things’ from 2020-12-7 to 2020-12-11.
• Successfully completed AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on ‘Computer Science and Biology’ from 2020-10-1 to 2020-10-5.
• Successfully completed AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on ‘Engineering Laws’ from 2020-10-12 to 2020-10-16.
• Successfully completed AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on ‘’ from 2020-10-1 to 2020-10-5.
• Attended a webinar on ‘Overview of Quantitative Analysis’ by Amity University on 15th July 2021.
• Successfully completed the AICTE sponsored (F.No.7-102/RFID/SG/POL-1/2016-17) two weeks short term training program on ‘ Analytics Essentials and Tools in Applied Research’ held from Nov 27th – 8th Decemeber 2017 at SFIT, Mumbai.
• 5-day International workshop at Xavier Institute Of Engineering from 14th-18th Dec’15 organized by department of Electronics and Telecommunications in association with Santa Clara University, USA
• Official workshop aimed at ‘How to Attract Best Industries on Your Campus’ conducted by Ms.Hema Sisodia, Dean Corporate Relations & Prof. Rita Rangnekar, Soft Skills Trainer, IBS Business School, on 30th May’13 at Mumbai
• ‘Credit and Grading System Workshop’ on 26th Jul’12 at SPIT, Mumbai
• Two day workshop on ‘Microwave Engineering: Design Aspects, Applications and Hazards’,on 20th& 21stJan’12
• STTP on ‘Microwaves and Antennas’ approved by ISTE, New Delhi from 10th-14th Jan’11 organized by EXTC Department, DJ Sanghvi COE,Mumbai
• Orientation program on ‘Advanced Microwave Engineering’ approved by Mumbai University on 17th Jan’11
• ISTE approved one week STTP on ‘Trends in RF and Microwave Engineering’ from 3rd-7th Jan’11 at Vidyalankar IOT
• Two day seminar on ‘Effective Tools and Techniques for teaching in the field of Engineering’, on 25th&26thNov’10 at XIE, Mumbai
• ISTE approved one week STTP on ‘Satellite Image Processing ‘ held from 14th-19th Dec’09 at VESIT,Chembur,Mumbai
• ISTE approved one week STTP on ‘Software Tools in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering’ from 15th -19th Dec’08 at Rajiv Gandhi IOT, Mumbai
• Two day workshop on ‘Image Processing with MATLAB’ organized by TSEC , Mumbai on 19th& 20thSep’08
• Two day course on ‘Antennas and EM WAVE propagation’ organized by Fr.Conceicao Rodrigues COE, Mumbai on 15th ^ 16th Feb’08
• Faculty Interaction Program for revised course on 1st Aug’08 at Vidyavardhini’s COE and Technology.
• ISTE approved one week STTP –‘Faculty Induction Program’
• Approved by ISTE as per letter no. ISTE/proceedings/2005/STTP-SF dated 30th Mar’06organized by SFIT-ISTE CHAPTER from 19thJun– 1stJul’06.
PATENTS:
Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Programming based detection of lung infection , Application No. 202141055538A, Publication Date: 10/12/2021.
Novel 5G communication microstrip patch antenna for broadcasting and navigation application , Application No. 202241051840 , Publication Date: 11/09/2022
PAPER PUBLICATIONS:
• Publishes a scopus indexed paper entitled, ‘Lexicon based Model for Continuous Speech Recognition in Indian English’ in Design Engineering, ISSN: 0011-9342 | Year 2021,Issue: 8 | Pages: 15629-15643
• Published a scopus indexed paper entitled ‘ Parasitic Sorority of Speech Processing algorithms with an assortment of statistical toolkits’ in the Journal of Physics in July 2021, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1998/1/012024.
• Published a scopus indexed paper entitled ‘ Continuous Telegu Speech Recognition through combined feature extraction by MFCC and DWPD using HMM based DNN Techniques’ in International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 114(11), 187-197.
• ‘Low frequency based fire extinguisher’ published in pramanaresearch.org in 2019
• ‘Review of neural networks for sentimental analysis’ in pramanaresearch.org in 2019
• Poster presented on ‘Speech Signal in Malayalam Language: A Comprehensive Review on Windowing and Filtering Techniques’ at RSC 2017 in October 2017.
• ‘Review of Speech Recognition on South Indian Dravidian Languages, IJCTA, 2017.
• ‘Non Invasive Glucose Measurement Using Raman Spectroscopy’ IJRET,2017.
• ‘Non-Invasive Blood Glucometer using NIR Spectroscopy’, IRJET 2017.
• ‘Reading Assistant for the blind’, International Conference,IJCET,2014.
• ‘Visible Image and Video Watermarking’ in International Conference on Contours of Computing Technology’ , Springer Publication, IEEE, Bombay Section.
• ‘Method of Iris Recognition’ in National Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers, NECEE-09, IETE
• ‘A Survey on Video Watermarking Algorithms and Comparative Analysis’ in National Conference on Electronics, Communications and Computers, NECEE-09, IETE.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lectures Delivered: (Other Institutes)
o Delivered a Webinar on “The Art of Technical Paper Writing” , on the 8 th of September 2021 from 9:00 to 11:00am at Atharva College of Engineering, Mumbai.
o Delivered session on ‘Technical Paper writing” on 31st August 2021 at 11.30am-1.00 pm at XIE, Mumbai.
o ‘Advance Microwave Engineering ‘ in the seminar organized by Electronics and Telecommunications on 13th Mar’1.
o ‘Application of Microwave ‘ under the banner of IETE on 8th Feb’13.
o ‘Low Noise Amplifier’ on 25th Mar’15 at VIVA, Mumbai.

Invitations: (Judge/Session Chair/Chief Guest)
o Session Chair for National Conference at VIVA Institute of Technology on 3rd Mar’17
o Session Chair for International Conference on Innovative and Advanced Technologies in Engineering held on 13th-14th Jan’17
o Session Chair for Paper Presentation at the National Conference on Technological Advancement and Automatization in Engineering (NCTAA-2016) dated 28th& 29th Jan’16
o Joint Chief Conductor appointed by University of Mumbai from 28th May’15- 12th Jun’15
o Session Chair for National Conference On “Role of Engineers in Nation Building 2017″on 3rd and 4th Mar’17
o Session Chair for International Conference on Innovative and Advanced Technologies on 12th-14th Jan’17
o Session Chair for International Conference on Innovative and Advanced Technologies on 12th-14thJan’16
o Judge of Project Exhibition – IC conducted on 15th Mar’13 by IEEE- TCET
o Judge of Project Exhibition – IEEE-TCET Branch on 15th Mar’13
o Judge for IC-The Future 2011- Annual Mini Project Exhibition held at TCET on 21st April 2011 from 9am to 5pm.
Key Positions Held
• Syllabus Setter /Panel Member appointed by University of Mumbai for ‘Network Theory’ in 2020-2021.
• Co-ordinator for ISRO programmes 2020-2021.
• NBA Co-ordinator for the year 2020-21.
• Co-ordinator for Alumni Activities and Communication 2020-21.
• Head of E-Cell 2020-21.
• Co-ordinator for Spoken Tutorial Program in collaboration with IITB from 2006-2019.
• Examination Head for Department from 2016-2019.
• Co-ordinator of NAAC committee.
• Mentor for TEDx events conducted between 2017-2019.
• Project Co-ordinator in Department from 2009-2012.
• Class Advisor from 2006-2017.
• Laboratory Incharge for various Labs from 2005-2019.
• Successfully worked under SCMS, IEEE in 2008.
• Compere and Organizer for First Year Orientation Program 2005-2008.
• Technical Head of Techfest ‘ TRANSMISSION’ 2009
Organised Events:
o Workshop on PHP and MYSQL on 2nd April 2014 at Xavier Institute Of Engineering organized from Spoken Tutorial Project developed at IIT Bombay funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Govt. of India
o Organized ISTE APPPROVED STTP on Advanced Image Acquisition , Processing & Applications held at Xavier Institute Of Engineering from 7th-11th Jan’13
o ISTE approved STTP on ‘Advanced Image Acquisition, Processing and Applications at XIE from 7th-11th Jan’13
o SCILAB workshop in co-ordination with FOSSEE-Spoken Tutorial-IIT Bombay on 11th Oct’11
o Workshop with assistance from FOSSEE and Spoken Tutorial on Scilab, IIT Bombay funded by National mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt. of India on 11th Oct’11
o Workshop with assistance from FOSSEE and Spoken Tutorial on Linux, IIT Bombay funded by National mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt. of India on 11th Oct’11
o Workshop with assistance from FOSSEE and Spoken Tutorial on Python, IIT Bombay funded by National mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt. of India on 11th Oct’11
o Linux workshop on 23rd Sep’11 held at Xavier Institute Of Engineering with help from Spoken Tutorial project , IIT Bombay , funded by National Mission on Education through ICT , MHRD, Govt. of India.
o The First Cultural and Technical Fest on an Inter-collegiate platform in March 2009.