Faculty Name: Dr. Ashwini Rao
Designation and Position: Associate Professor & HOD , Department of Information Technology
Education Qualification: PhD (Information Technology), M.E. (Computer Science), and B.E. (Computer Science)
Specialization: Data Mining, Social Media Analytics
Academic Experience: (Number of Experience: 20 Years)
- Lecturer (Computer Science Department), JNNCE, Kuvempu University, Karnataka, India (1999-2001)
- Lecturer (Computer Science Department), SFIT, Mumbai University, Maharashtra, India (2002-2003)
- Lecturer (Computer Science Department), TCET, Mumbai University, Maharashtra, India (2005-2008)
- Senior Lecturer (Computer Science Department), AIT, Ansal University, Haryana, India (2009-2011)
- Assistant Professor (Computer Science Department), TCET, Mumbai University, Maharashtra, India (2011-2013)
- Associate Professor (Information Technology Department), Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering, NMIMS University, Maharashtra, India (2013-Till date)
Non Academic Experience: (Number of Experience: = 1 year)
- Worked as a Ladder S/w Developer for Mitsubishi and Allen Bradley at Pejawar Electronics, Mumbai, India
Number of PhD Students Guiding: 3
- Pankti Doshi
- Topic – Recommendation System for Programming Content
- Manya Gidwani
- Topic – Model for Rumor Detection on social media
- Shraddha Sarode
Certifications & Awards:
- Certified Base SAS Programmer
- SAS Certified Visual Business Analyst: Exploration and Design Using SAS Visual Analytics
- Certified in SAS Predictive Modeling Using SAS Enterprise Miner 13
- International Educator Certification Program (IIECP) – Recognized by the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP)
- Awarded the IGIP International Engineering Educator Award
- Awarded IUCEE Individual Honorary Member award
- Obtained accreditation for
- SAS Visual Analytics
- SAS Predictive Modeling
- BASE SAS
Membership:
- Life Member, ISTE
- Member, ACM
- Member CSI
Service Activities (Within Organization)
- Program Coordinator B Tech (IT)
- Curriculum in charge for B Tech/ MBA Tech IT program
- Coordinator for NBA and ABET
- Faculty in charge for load allocation
- Project mentor for students of B Tech, MBA Tech and B Tech Cybersecurity program
Service Activities (Outside Organization)
- Peer Reviewer
- Journal of Informatics and Automation (Scopus)
- WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development (Scopus Indexed)
- Journal of Autonomous Intelligence (Scopus)
- Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, ASTES Publishers, USA
- Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (JESTEC). (Scopus)
- International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI)
- International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science ((IJRISS)
- International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science (IJRIAS)
- International Journal of Latest Technology in Engineering, Management & Applied Science (IJLTEMAS)
- American Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
- FinTech and Sustainable Innovation (FSI)
Journal Publications:
- Ashwini Rao. “Sentiment Analysis-Towards Harvesting Opinions from the Net,” In International Journal of Computer Science and Network, vol 2, Issue 5, October 2013.
- Ashwini Rao, Dr. Ketan Shah. “Filtering and Transformation Model for Opinion Summarization,” In International Journal of Computers & Technology, vol 2, No. 2, April 2014.
- Ashwini Rao, Dr. Ketan Shah. “A Domain Independent Technique to generate Feature Opinion Pairs for Opinion Mining,” In WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, vol 2, Mar 2018. (Scopus Indexed, Cite factor – 0.6)
- Gidwani, M., & Rao, A. (2023). Comparative Analysis of Rumour Detection on Social Media Using Different Classifiers. Informatics and Automation, 22(4), 777-794. https://doi.org/10.15622/ia.22.4.3 (Scopus Indexed, Cite factor – 1.8)
- Nicole D’Souza, Devarsh Patel & Dr. Ashwini Rao (2023). Survey on Hinglish to English Translation and Classification Techniques. International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication ISSN: 2321-8169 Volume: 11 Issue: 7 https://doi.org/10.17762/ijritcc.v11i7.7840 (Scopus Indexed, Cite Score – 0.8)
- Ashwini Rao, et al. (2023). Speech and Text based Assistive Application for Special Needs Individuals. International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication, 11(9), 3306–3313. https://doi.org/10.17762/ijritcc.v11i9.9532 (Scopus Indexed, Cite Score – 0.8)
- Naisha Jain, Khushi Baid, Rohan Iyer and Dr. Ashwini Rao (2025), “ Kubera: An AI-Powered Financial Management Tool,” Grenze International Journal of Engineering & Technology (GIJET), 2025, Vol 11, Issue Part2, p2783
- Verma S and Rao A (2025) A short report on deep learning synergy for decentralized smart grid cybersecurity. Front. Artif. Intell. 8:1557960. doi: 10.3389/frai.2025.1557960
- Rao A and Verma S (2025) Empowering play: parents shaping serious games for disabled children. Front. Comput. Sci. 7:1620281. doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2025.1620281
- Verma, Saurav, Ashwini Rao, and Ketan Shah. 2025. “SCCM: A Novel Hybrid Framework for Dual Biometric Authentication for Identity Enhancement”. International Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Technovation 7 (4):129-45. https://doi.org/10.54392/irjmt25410.
- Manya Gidwani, Ashwini Rao Efficient Neural Network Method for Rumour Detection over Social Media. Optical Memory Neural Networks 34, 428–440 (2025). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1060992X24601775 (Scopus Indexed, Cite Score – 1.4, Web of Science, Impact factor -0.8)
- Bali, M.S., Jiang, W., Verma, S., Kour, K., Rao, A. (2026). Optimizing Resource Allocation in Blockchain Networks Using Neural Genetic Algorithm. Computers, Materials & Continua, 86(2), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2025.070866
Conference Publications:
- Ashwini Rao. “Information Hierarchy Mining in a Systematic web site”, In proceedings of National Conference on Emerging Trends in IT, SGSITS, Indore Dec-07.
- Ashwini Rao. “Extraction of Informative blocks from a Web Site using Hierarchy mining” In Proceedings of National Conference on Challenges in Information Systems & Technology, Apeejay School of Management, New Delhi, Sept-11.
- Ashwini Rao. “A Survey of Mining in Web Intelligence”, In proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Computing and Management, Dr. D.Y. Patil Institute of Master of Computer Applications, Pune, Jan-12.
- Ashwini Rao, Dr. Ketan Shah. “Model for Improving Relevant Feature Extraction for Opinion Summarization,” In proceedings of IEEE International Advance Computing Conference (IACC -15), 2015.
- Ashwini Rao, Dr. Ketan Shah. “An Optimized Rule based approach to extract relevant features for Sentiment Mining,” In proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development (INDIACom 16), 2016.
- Ashwini Rao, Dr. Ketan Shah. “An Unsupervised Technique to generate Summaries from Opinionated Review Documents” In proceedings of 4th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering (ICACIE 2019), 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6353-9_35
- Rao, A., Paradkar, A., Gupta, S., Kadam, S. (2021). Inter-device Language Translation Application for Smartphones. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Information and Control Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1272. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8443-5_3
- Rao, A. Ahuja, S. Kansara and V. Patel, “Sentiment Analysis on User-generated Video, Audio and Text,” 2021 International Conference on Computing, Communication, and Intelligent Systems (ICCCIS), Greater Noida, India, 2021, pp. 24-28, doi: 10.1109/ICCCIS51004.2021.9397147.
- Biwalkar, A. Rao and K. Shah, “Real or Fake: An intrinsic analysis using supervised machine learning algorithms,” 2021 Fifth International Conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC), 2021, pp. 372-380, doi: 10.1109/I-SMAC52330.2021.9640675.
- Gidwani, M., & Rao, A. (2022). Early Identification of Rumors in Social Media: A Survey. In Modern Approaches in Machine Learning & Cognitive Science: A Walkthrough (pp. 305-316). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96634-8_28
- Ravinder, M., Kulkarni, V., Shah, P. R., Shah, K., & Rao, A. (2024, June). Optimization of Energy Management and Anomaly Detection in Smart Grid Analytics Using Deep Learning. In 2024 International Conference on Integrated Circuits, Communication, and Computing Systems (ICIC3S) (Vol. 1, pp. 1-6). IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICIC3S61846.2024.10602838
- Shanker, V. Kulkarni, A. Rao and S. K. Sahoo, “Transfer Learning for Solar Energy Forecasting: A Comparative Study of BGRU and T-BGRU Models,” 2025 International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies and Computational Intelligence (SETCOM), Gandhinagar, India, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SETCOM64758.2025.10932352.
- Pulickal, E., Kirtikar, Y., Dalvi, T., Rao, A. (2025). SquidAct: Automated Custom Redaction. In: Proceedings of Data Analytics and Management. ICDAM 2024. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1300. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3361-6_20
- Mishra, Tushar and Desai, Priyanka and Rao, Ashwini, “ Quantum Computing Inspired by Chloroplasts: Exploring the Bio- Inspired Approach to Overcome Current Limitations. “ (April 28, 2025). Proceedings of the International Conference on Innovative Computing & Communication (ICICC 2024), Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5233172
Book Published:
- Ketan Shah, Ashwini Rao, Vikram Kulkarni, Pintu Shah, “Innovative Solutions: Practical IT and Cyber Projects for a Secure Digital Future” ISBN: 978-93-91044-61-9, Imperial Publications, Maharashtra, India. (In-Press)
Patents:
- Published an Indian Patent on the title “Generative Adversarial Networks Based Machine Learning Model for Skin Cancer Detection and Classification.” in Feb 2024
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