Academic and Administrative Services

• Serving as Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering since August 3, 2023

• Served as Head, Department of Artificial Intelligence (August 3, 2023 - January 31, 2024)

• Served as Dean Academics (January 9, 2023 - August 3, 2023)

• Served as Head, Department of Computer Science and Engineering (February 6, 2019 - February 6, 2022)

• Co-chairman of a committee for administrative and academic activities of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Surat mentored by SVNIT, Surat for April-August 2017

• Member of a committee for compliance/monitoring of plagiarism check in SVNIT Surat since April 2017

• Technical and Local Organzing Committee Member for Centralized Counseling for MTech Admission CCMT - 2017

• Member of Institute Disciplinary Committee for academic year 2015-16 and 2016-17

• Chairman of Training & Placement Core Committee March-December 2013

• Served as Professor In-Charge Central Computer Center (February 2010 - December 19, 2011 and 24 November 2015 - 25 November 2016)

• Served as Head, Department of Computer Engineering (February 2, 2007 - February 3, 2010)

• Coordinated Accreditation for UG programme at Department (2008, 2014)

• Coordinated Syllabus revision (2007)

• Faculty convener for MIND BEND 2006 and 2007 Technical Symposium

• Faculty advisor for ACM student chapter (February 2010 - July 2015)

• Faculty advisor for Drishti Technical Society (Innovation Lab) 2005-06 to Spetember 2017

• Faculty advisor for PhD students (February 2010 - January 2023)

• Faculty advisor for B. Tech.-IV (Computer) 2006-07, February 2010 to 2013-14

• Faculty advisor for B. Tech.-III (Computer) for 2005-06

• Department PG In-charge for 2005-07

• Department representative for TEQIP I, II and III at institute level

• Served as Committee member for Media Centre under TEQIP project

• Committee member for Networking Institutes Programme under TEQIP project

• Member of Campus Network committee under TEQIP project

• Project member for a sanctioned project titled ”Development of a Computer Aided Software Engineering Centre” from the DoE, MHRD under the scheme of Thrust Areas of Technology.

• Served as In-charge Head and In-charge Central Computer Centre occasionally in the period of void prior to 2007

• Served as Committee Chairman for Institute Procurement (High Performance Servers, PCs, Laptop, Printers, UPS) number of times

• In-charge of Computer Lab of Computer Engg. Department (1995-2001), setup and maintaining Novell Network, Windows NT network and Linux network, setup and maintaining Novell Network at Central Computer Center

• Served as Time Table Committee member for a period of two years

Review of Course Work

• Reviewed course work for subject Programming and Problem Solving prepared for pilot project entitled Design of suitable pedagogical methods for various classes, intellectual calibers and research in elearning anchored by IIT, Kharagpur

As a Visiting Faculty: PG and UG teaching

• M.E. Computer Engineering (Wireless and Mobile Computing) for subject Mobile Adhoc Networks at Gujarat Technological University (GTU), during 17, 22-24 March, 2012 at BISAG, Gandhinagar (course run by C-DAC under the auspices of Advanced Computing Training School (ACTS))

• M. Tech. (Electronics) in Electronics Engineering Department, SVNIT, Surat
  Teaching the following subjects partly:
  (a) Application of Digital Signal Processing (2005-06, 2006-07)
  (b) Information Theory & Coding (2005-06)
  

• M.Tech. (Transportation Engg. & Planning) Elective Subject: Soft Computing Techniques (CE 871) at 3rd Semester (2008-09), 2011-12

• MCA/DCA, South Gujarat University, Surat (1995-1996)

• UG level first year course teaching at Sarvajanik College of Eng. & Tech. Surat (1996-1997)

• at Indira Gandhi National Open University, Surat (1999)