The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has a great ecosystem of meritorious students, competent faculty and high end infrastructure for creating a conducive environment for academics and research. This facilitates the nurturing of students for holistic development.
Our students actively participate in various activities/competitions at National and International levels and have won several accolades.Their achievements make us proud and a few of them are listed below.
Dr Ankit Thakkar recognized as an honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press for his article "A Survey on Video Based Human Action Recognition: Recent Updates, Datasets, Challenges, and Applications"
23 Dec 2020
Dr Ankit Thakkar recognised as “Rosalind Member of London Journals Press” for his paper "CREST: Cross-Reference to Exchange-based Stock Trend Prediction using Long Short-Term Memory"
19 May 2020
1st Rank on Survival Task, Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2019
17 Oct 2019
Dr Ankit Thakkar recognised with “Quarterly Franklin Membership" by the Editorial Board of London Journals Press, UK
15 Nov 2019
Award of Best Research paper In IEEE International Conference in 2019
22 Feb 2019
Won the Best Paper Award in IEEE ICC 2019, Shanghai, China, May 20-24, 2019.
24 May 2019
Awarded Leader in Education (by Association of Leaders in education)
23 Apr 2019
Won the Best Paper Award in Springer 2nd International Conference on Recent Innovations in Computing (ICRIC-2019) held on 8th-9th March, 2019 at Central University of Jammu, J & K, India.
09 Mar 2019
Won the Best Paper Award in Springer 2nd International Conference on Recent Innovations in Computing (ICRIC-2019) held on 8th-9th March, 2019 at Central University of Jammu, J & K, India.
09 Mar 2019
Best paper Award in "International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication" – ICICC 2017
18 Aug 2018
NVIDIA Deep Learning University Ambassador
12 Dec 2018
Recipient of ISTE Best Engineering College Teacher Award for the year 2017
13 Jan 2018
Won the Best Paper Award in IEEE GLOBECOM 2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec 9-13, 2018
13 Dec 2018
Bronze level faculty award from Infosys in 2018 under the Inspire- The Campus Connect Faculty Partnership Model
03 Sep 2018
Got Foreign Partial Financial Assistance from CSIR, Govt of India, New Delhi to present research paper in IEEE-GLOBECOM-2018 organized by IEEE Communication Society at Abu Dhabi,UAE
01 Dec 2018
Qualified National Eligibility Test(NET)-2017
01 Jan 2018
Graduate Student Thesis and Dissertation Scholarship award from Florida Atlantic University
30 Jul 2017
Student Travel Scholarship to attend 50 years of ACM Turing awards celebrations awarded by SIGMM
22 Jun 2017
Third Place, at Three Minutes Research Competition, @ CEECS department, Florida Atlantic University
04 Feb 2017
Engineering Second Place at 8th Annual Graduate Research Day of Florida Atlantic University, USA
05 May 2017
Received Gold Medal in MTech (Computer Engineering) from SVNIT Surat
22 Jan 2017
Best Research Paper Award in IEEE International Conference -2016
19 Dec 2016
First Prize in Poster Presentation in "ACM-W India Celebration of Women in Computing – 2016” titled “Video Summarization in Compressed Domain for Effective Multimedia Transmission.”
14 Oct 2016
ISTE Best Engineering College Teacher Award - Gujarat
16 Nov 2016
Best SPoC Award under Campus Connect MoU with Infosys
28 Mar 2016
A paper titled with “Cluster Head Election for Energy and Delay Constraint Application of Wireless Sensor Network” co-authored by Ankit Thakkar is being one of the 25 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers in November 2015.
03 Feb 2016
Best Paper Award in ICRWIP 2015
21 Jan 2015
International Conference Chair of NUiCONE 2015
19 Nov 2015
Got Foreign Partial Financial Assistance from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), HRD Group, New Delhi April 20, 2015 to attend and present research paper in IEEE International Conference on Communication (IEEE-ICC-2015) organized by IEEE Communication Society held at London, UK from June 08th to 12th, 2015
12 Jun 2015
A paper titled with "Cluster Head Election for Energy and Delay Constraint Application of Wireless Sensor Network" co-authored by Ankit Thakkar is being one of the 50 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers in October 2014.
09 Feb 2015
A paper titled with "Cluster Head Election for Energy and Delay Constraint Application of Wireless Sensor Network" co-authored by Ankit Thakkar is being one of the 50 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers in April 2015.
26 Aug 2015
A paper titled with "Cluster Head Election for Energy and Delay Constraint Application of Wireless Sensor Network" co-authored by Ankit Thakkar is being one of the 50 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers in January, February and March 2015.
05 May 2015
Conducted Seminar on "3D Holography Projection : Research and Applications" at University of Dalhousie, Halifax, Canada
17 May 2014
PI of NVIDIA Research Center@Nirma University
11 Jan 2014
Best Research Paper Presentation Award
15 Dec 2014
Best Paper Award
08 Feb 2014
NIT Kozhikode National Award for Guiding the Best B.Tech Project
31 May 2014
Gold Medal
18 Oct 2014
A paper titled with “Cluster Head Election for Energy and Delay Constraint Application of Wireless Sensor Network” co-authored by Ankit Thakkar is being one of the 25 most downloaded Sensors Journal papers in July, August, and September 2014.
30 Oct 2014
Design and Development of Spatio-Temporal Data Mining Technique and Software Framework for Earth Observation Data
30 Jun 2013
Qualified GATE
10 Mar 2013
Oracle Certified Java Professional (OCJP) SE 6 Instructor
31 May 2012
Recognised as the Senior Member - IEEE
26 Jun 2010
Certified with "Oracle 9i Database Administrator Certified Professional (OCP)" by Oracle University
31 May 2009
Ankit Thakkar received Gold Medal for Academic Performance in MTech
12 Oct 2009
Certified with "Oracle 9i Database Administrator Certified Associate (OCA)" by Oracle University
31 May 2008
Appreciation Certificate from ADOBE MAX Conference
01 Oct 2008
Gold Medal for Academic Performance in M. Tech
29 Jun 2007
Young Techno-Entrepreneur 2007
08 Mar 2007
Best Performance Award
07 Jun 2007
Certified with "Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)" by Cisco Networking Academy
31 May 2006
Gold Medalist
16 Oct 2006
NPTEL Elite+Gold Certification for Python
Cisco certified Network Associate Routing and Switching
Qualified GATE
Qualified National Eligibility Test(NET)-2017
Team ‘Vaayuputras’ consisting of Myself Chittal Patel (18BCE045) and Dhruvil Dholariya (18BCE054) have emerged as Runners Up in the IBM Hack Challenge 2020 and have received Rs.25000 worth prizes per person each.
IBM organizes this Hack Challenge every year and this year over 4500 teams from all over India participated. The team had to develop a website/app solution for one of the six problem statements given by IBM. They chose “Predicting the energy output of a wind turbine based on weather condition”. All participants had one month to build the solution. They built a website and hosted it on IBM Cloud and for Wind power prediction using Deep Learning Techniques for Time Series forecasting.
Selected in GSoC 2020 under the NumFOCUS organization which maintains and fiscally supports many open source scientific packages like NumPy and MatPlotLib. He will be working on the project statement “Higher Level API for Gaussian Processes and Optimization Methods in PyMC4” this summer.
Divya Mathur and Parth Desai are selected in the top 250 teams all over the country to receive the Facebook scholarship for Open Spark AR Programme by the School Of Innovation from Facebook and SV.CO. They are currently being given industrial exposure and guided by mentors from Facebook to develop a working project in Augmented Reality.
Ms. Vishakha Unmesh Jambekar, student of Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Roll number- 19MCEI02) has written a chapter on “Security and Privacy issues in Fog Computing for Healthcare 4.0” of book Fog Computing for healthcare 4.0 Environments. DOI-https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46197-3_12 Publisher Name-Springer, Cham Page numbers- 291-314 (Chapter 12) Edition Number-1. The chapter is published online on August 3, 2020.
Mr. Pranav Gajjar, student of Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Roll number- 18BCE064) has achieved Hall of Fame in United Nations (multiple clickjacking vulnerability), University of Victoria Canada (account takeover vulnerability), appreciation letter from Avans Hogeschool Netherlands (cross site scripting vulnerability) and mail acknowledgement from NCIIPC (National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre), University of Melbourne Australia (directory listing, sensitive file leakage and clickjacking vulnerabilities) for bug bounty hunting and reporting critical vulnerabilities in their websites on 27 June 2020. Recently got an appreciation letter from University of Cambridge for submitting a critical vulnerability and information leakage bug.UN Hall of Fame: https://unite.un.org/content/hall-fame University of Victoria Hall of Fame: https://www.uvic.ca/systems/support/informationsecurity/vulnerabilitydisclosure/index.php.
Ms. Aparna Kumari, PhD scholar (17FTPHDE022), and Mr. Rajesh Gupta, PhD scholar (18FTVPHDE031), under the guidance of Dr. Sudeep Tanwar has published a research article entitled “Redills: Deep Learning-Based Secure Data Analytic Framework for Smart Grid Systems” in the prestigious CORE (Qual: A2, H-index 61) ranked conference 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops),at Dublin, Ireland Doi: 10.1109/ICCWorkshops49005.2020.9145448. (Date added to IEEE Xplore: 21 July, 2020)
Mr Vedant Parekh, student of Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Roll number-18BCE144) has completed the Quantum Qiskit challenge organized by IBM Quantum which was a national level competition in india. It is held between 1/8/20 to 15/8/20. He is awarded two certificates from IBM Quantum. He had a rank of 85 in TEAM Completing Variational Quantum Classifier algorithm with accuracy of 75.5 %.
A team of 4 students and their mentor have participated in national level BootaThon organized by IIT Bombay and IIT Kanpur. The team has secured second position in this national event after beating a number of participating teams. They have also received Silver Developer Certificate by the organizers.
Shivam Patel, a final year graduate student has worked with “Mila: The Quebec AI institute” at the University of Montréal in Canada during his summer internship in 2019. He was funded by Microsoft Research Canada. He worked on understanding the economics of climate change. The title his research was “Applying Deep Reinforcement Learning techniques for determining optimal Climate Policy “. Shivam is also a visiting undergraduate researcher at IIT Bombay and working with researchers at University of Toronto Statistics department for a paper in the prestigious NIPS conference.
Delivered a TEDx talk at NHC Medical College (March 12, 2018)
Invited Invited to talk on the “History of Calendar” at L.D. Engineering College and it was covered by Divya Bhaskar (March 30, 2018)
Delivered a talk on “Stories of the Universe” at California Institute of Technology, U.S.A. on June 21, 2018.
Two papers in IEEE international Conference.
successfully completed the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Certified Solutions Architect -Associate and AWS certified solutions architect- Professional.
Invited as a speaker in India’s leading Python Conference SCIPY-2017 at IIT Bombay.
Awarded the Student Travel Grant worth US$700, to attend the GLOBECOM Conference to be held from December 9th -13th in Abu Dhabi, UAE
Won best student award by Indian society for technical education (ISTE) Gujarat Section sponsored by R.K University Rajkot.
Won the prestigious computer society prize in the mobile application development competition organized by IEEE.
Awarded high commendation in the committee of Indian national emergency 2016, at international diplomatic conference 2016 at Mumbai.
