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Educational Qualification (highest):
  • PhD

Area of Research: Data Mining, Social Media Analytics

Department: Information Technology
PhD Scholars: 2 Registered

Basic Information:
  • Email Id: ashwini.rao@nmims.edu
  • Landline extension: 022-45024792
  • Desk (location): Faculty room 701, Cabin 3
Reviewer for:
  • Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal, ASTES Publishers, USA
  • Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (JESTEC).
  • International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI)
  • American Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
Achievements
  • 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
  • Obtained accreditation for
    • SAS Visual Analytics
    • SAS Predictive Modeling
    • BASE SAS
Publications

Conferences

  • Ms. Ashwini Rao. “Information Hierarchy Mining in a Systematic web site”, In proceedings of National Conference on Emerging Trends in IT, SGSITS, Indore Dec-07.
  • Ms. 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.
  • Ms. 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
  • A. 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.
  • A. 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
Journals:
  • Ms. Ashwini Rao. “Sentiment Analysis-Towards Harvesting Opinions from the Net,” In International Journal of Computer Science and Network, vol 2, Issue 5, October 2013.
  • Ms. Ashwini Rao, Dr. Ketan Shah. “Filtering and Transformation Model for Opinion Summarization,” In International Journal of Computers & Technology, vol 2, No. 2, April 2014.
  • Ms. 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)
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
PhD Scholars
  • Ms. Pankti Doshi
    • Topic – Recommendation System for Programming Content
  • Ms. Manya Gidwani
    • Topic – Model for Rumor Detection on Social Media