Our Key Note Speaker's
Name: Dr. Kiran Suresh Bhole
Institute: Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai, India.
Dr. Kiran S. Bhole received Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. He is Associate Professor, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Dean (R&D) at Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Andheri, Mumbai, India. His research interests are in the areas of fabrication of microstructures using bulk photopolymerization, fluid shaping and development of flexural systems. He has authored over 43 peer reviewed journal papers and 51 peer reviewed conference papers.
He has research projects sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme-II and III (TEQIP-II, TEQIP-III), Indian Nanotechnology Users Program (INUP) of IIT Bombay and University of Mumbai. Total sponsored projects costing @ Rs 4 Crores. He is coordinator of Rs 7 Crore DST sponsored NIDHI Prayas lab in collaboration with Sardar Patel Institute of Technology and Sardar Patel Technology and Business Incubation Centre (SPTBI), Mumbai.
He is recipient of ASME Best Paper Award in IDETC 2022 held at St. Luis USA and Best Researcher Award from IE (I) Navi Mumbai Local Centre in year 2022. He conducted several national level faculty development programs under AICTE ATAL, TEQIP and so on. Further he also served as Guest Editor for Special issue of Springer International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing, Innovation and Emerging Technologies, etc.
Dr. Parikshit N Mahalle
Dean Research and Development,
Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology,
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Dr. Parikshit is a senior member of IEEE and is Professor, Dean Research and Development at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, India.
Prior to this, he worked as a Dean – Research and Development and Head – Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India and Professor, Head, Department of Computer Engineering at Sinhgad Institutes.
He completed his Ph.D. from Aalborg University, Denmark in 2013 and completed his Post Doctoral Research at CMI, Copenhagen, Denmark. He has 25 years of teaching and research experience.
He is an ex-member of the Board of Studies in Computer Engineering, Ex-Chairman Information Technology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Member – BoS and academic council member at more than 30 Universities and autonomous colleges across India.
He has 52 patents, 400+ research publications (Google Scholar citations-4000 plus, H index-28 and Scopus Citations are 2000 plus with H index -21, Web of Science citations are 545 with H index – 11) and authored/edited 71 books with Springer, CRC Press, Cambridge University Press, etc.
He is editor-in-chief for Research Journal of Computer Systems and Engineering (RJCSE), Associate Editor for IGI Global – Journal of Affective Computing and Human Interfaces (JACHI), member-Editorial Review Board for IGI Global – International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence and reviewer for various transactions, journals, and conferences of repute.
His research interests are Machine Learning, Data Science, Algorithms, Internet of Things, Identity Management, and Security. He is guiding 8 PhD students in the area of IoT and machine learning and SEVEN students have successfully defended their PhD under his supervision from SPPU, and two students completed Postdoc under his mentorship from NTU, Taiwan.
He is also the recipient of the “Best Faculty Award” by Sinhgad Institutes and Cognizant Technologies Solutions, International Level S4DS Distinguished Researcher of the Year 2023, and State Level Meritorious Teacher Award and Distinguished Research Guide Award at IEEE ICTBIG 2024, organised by Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences (SUAS), Indore.
He has delivered 400 plus lectures at national and international levels. His book on Design and Analysis of Algorithms is referred to as a textbook in IIITs and NITs, and his book on Data Analysis on Pandemic by CRC Press has received two international awards in 2020. His edited title, ‘Data Science: Techniques and Intelligent Applications’, has been awarded the prestigious Choice Outstanding Academic Titles Award for 2024.
He is also a Certified ISO 27001:2022 Lead Auditor. He has also worked as an Invited Guest Faculty at several international universities like UMA, Lima Peru in South America, National Taipei University Taiwan, etc.
