DEPARTMENT OF Electronics and Communication

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Educational Qualifications:

• B.E – Mumbai University (2000-2004) – Distinction Holder
• M.E – Mumbai University (2007-2010) – (Fully Sponsored)-Distinction Holder
• Ph.D – Amity University (2020-2024)

Professional Membership:

• IEEE Professional Member – 99020452
• SSCS Membership
• IEEE Council on RFID
• IEEE Nanotechnology Council
• IEEE Sensors Council
• IEEE Transportation Electrification Council
• IAENG 

Research Interest:

• Speech Processing
• Deep Learning
• Machine Learning
• Antenna and Microwaves

Work Experience:

Total Work Experience : 18 Years

• Assistant Professor, Dept of Electronics and Communications at Muthoot Institute Of Technology and Sciences since 12th September 2022
• 16 years as Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications at Xavier Institute Of Engineering from {June 2005 – April 2021}

Positions Held at MITS:

• IQAC member
• Dept. PAC member.
• Dept Timetable co-ordinator
• Rotaract Club of MITS, Faculty co-ordinator
• IEDC Nodal Officer 
• Program co-ordinator, International Relations
• PALS innoWAH co-ordinator
• PALS EC Member
• Member, Ethics Committee
• Faculty Advisor Batch (2022-26)

Courses Engaged (MITS)

Microwave and Antenna , Network Theory, Basic Electronics, Electromagnetics, Signals and Systems Control Systems, Electromagnetics Lab, Mini-project, Project (2023-2024).

Courses Engaged (XIE)

Basics of Electrical and Electronics, Principles of Communication, Digital Communications, Microprocessors and Microcontrollers(lab),Circuit Theory and Transmission lines(Theory & Lab),Communication lab, Microwave Engineering(lab) Fundamentals of Microwave Engineering, Advanced Microwave Engineering, Projects(BE).

PATENTS:

• Neurological Disorder Treatment Device , Application Number 443627-001, Journal Number 11/2025 and Journal Date is 14/03/2025.
• Novel 5G communication microstrip patch antenna for broadcasting and navigation application , Application No. 202241051840 , Publication Date: 11/09/2022.
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Programming based detection of lung infection , Application No. 202141055538A, Publication Date: 10/12/2021.

PAPER PUBLICATIONS:

•  Published a paper entitled ‘An End-to-End Deep Learning Approach for an Indian English Repository’ in the Journal of Theoretical and applied Information Technology, 102(3), 2024.
• Published a paper entitled ‘Maximizing Wireless Connectivity using Arrays of MPA for WLAN Application in the International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol 11, Issue 06, June 2024. (student paper)
• Presented a paper entitled ‘Recurrent Neural Network Approach for End-to-End Deep Learning of a Continuous Speech Model’ in the 3rd International Convention on Green Environment , Technology and Entrepreneurship through  Innovation(ICGETEI-2023) held at Amity University, Jaipur Campus between 9-11 August 2023.
• Published 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.
• Presented a paper in the 3rd International Conference on Smart and intelligent learning for information optimization (CONSILIO 2021)organized by Sreyas Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad and Consilio Lab OU, Tallinn, Estonia India during July 9-10 2021.
• Published a scopus indexed paper entitled ‘ Continuous Telugu 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 sentiment 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)

• As Resource person to ISTE approved National Level Online Short Term Training Program on ‘ Effective AI Tools for Enhancing Teaching Learning and Research’ conducted from July 1- July 6, 2024. 
• As Resource person for conducting a workshop on the Importance of Antenna and its design using HFSS on Mar 31st, 2023 at Viva Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
• 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.
• Delivered session on ‘Technical Paper writing” on 31st August 2021 at 11.30am-1.00 pm at XIE, Mumbai.
•  ‘Advance Microwave Engineering ‘ in the seminar organized by Electronics and Telecommunications on 13th Mar’1.
•  ‘Application of Microwave ‘ under the banner of IETE on 8th Feb’13.
•  ‘Low Noise Amplifier’ on 25th Mar’15 at VIVA, Mumbai.

Invitations: (Judge/Session Chair/Chief Guest)

• Reviewer for the International Conference on Emerging trends in Industry 4.0 Technologies ICETI4T2025 to be held on 6th and 7th June 2025.
• Reviewer for the 9th International Conference on Smart Computing and Communications ICSCC 2023 held between 17th -19th August 2023.
• Session Chair for National Conference at VIVA Institute of Technology on 3rd Mar’17.
• Session Chair for International Conference on Innovative and Advanced Technologies in Engineering held on 13th-14th Jan’17.
• Session Chair for Paper Presentation at the National Conference on Technological Advancement and Automatization in Engineering (NCTAA-2016) dated 28th& 29th Jan’16.
• Joint Chief Conductor appointed by University of Mumbai from 28th May’15- 12th Jun’15.
• Session Chair for National Conference On “Role of Engineers in Nation Building 2017″on 3rd and 4th Mar’17.
• Session Chair for International Conference on Innovative and Advanced Technologies on 12th-14th Jan’17.
• Session Chair for International Conference on Innovative and Advanced Technologies on 12th-14thJan’16.
• Judge of Project Exhibition – IC conducted on 15th Mar’13 by IEEE- TCET.
• Judge of Project Exhibition – IEEE-TCET Branch on 15th Mar’13.
• Judge for IC-The Future 2011- Annual Mini Project Exhibition held at TCET on 21st April 2011 from 9am to 5pm.

Key Positions Held

• MYRT International Robotics Competition co-ordinator.
• PALS innoWAH co-ordinator at MITS.
• PALS innoWAH EC member.
• 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:

• Convener of Gyandheeksha for Batch (2024-2028)

• Conducted a session ‘ Faculty Enrichment Session’ aligning Industry expectations with academic aspirations on 15th July 2024 in collaboration with TCS. 
• MYRT International Robotics Challenge coordinator July 2024.
• Committee member for organising the Professional Development Programme on ‘Outcome Based Education and Implementation’ conducted by the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research , Chennai from 18th June-20th June 2024 at MITS Campus as an initiative of IQAC, MITS. 
• 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.
• Organized ISTE APPPROVED STTP on Advanced Image Acquisition , Processing & Applications held at Xavier Institute Of Engineering from 7th-11th Jan’13.
• ISTE approved STTP on ‘Advanced Image Acquisition, Processing and Applications at XIE from 7th-11th Jan’13.
• SCILAB workshop in co-ordination with FOSSEE-Spoken Tutorial-IIT Bombay on 11th Oct’11.
• Workshop with assistance from FOSSEE and Spoken Tutorial on Scilab, Linux, Python  IIT Bombay funded by National mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Govt. of India on 11th Oct’11.
• 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.
• The First Cultural and Technical Fest on an Inter-collegiate platform in March 2009.

Certifications

TRAININGS:

• Completed AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Faculty Development Program on Cross Roads of AI and Signal Processing from 27th January – 1st February 2025. 
• Completed AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy Faculty Development Program on The Revolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Artificial Intelligence from 18th November- 23rd November 2024. 
• Participated in a One Week National Level Workshop on Research Writing with Advanced Techniques & Inter-collegiate Presentation Competition held on 10th -15th February 2025 at St.John College of Engineering and Management, Palghar. (online mode).
• Participated in a One Week STTP on ‘ Gen AI Tools & Techniques’ organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Madanapalle Institute of Technology and Science in association with CSI from 11th November-16th Nov 2024.
• Participated in the Professional Development Programme on ‘Outcome Based Education and Implementation’ conducted by the National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research , Chennai from 18th June-20th June 2024 at MITS Campus. 
• Participated in One Week FDP  on ‘ Deep Learning and IOT Driven Smart Applications’ organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, MLRIT from 24th- 29th June 2024.
• Attended the FDP on ‘Emerging Technologies’ organised by the department of CSE (AI & ML) , Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering in association with TCS held from 11th Dec 2023 and 15th Dec 2023.
• 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 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.
• Attended 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 using 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 December 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’06  organized by SFIT-ISTE CHAPTER from 19thJun– 1stJul’06.