CSE_Newsletter_II_2021

Index No Title Page No 1 News at glance………………………………………………...... 4 2 Outreach of CSE………………………………………………... 5 3 Faculty Corner…………………………………………………. 6 4 From: Alumni’s Desk…………………………………………... 11 5 Events…………………………………………………………… 12 6 Events: Photo Gallary…………………………………………... 14 7 Education during COVID-19 and Beyond……………………… 15 8 Offshore Connections…………………………………………... 16 9 Students’s Accomplishments ………………………………… 17

News at a Glance One of the final year students of the department, Sulbha Garg, has set a new benchmark by getting placed in Atlassian Corporation Inc , Bangalore as IT Developer profile. She has been offered the CTC of 46.47 LPA. Department of Computer Science and Engineering has signed MoU with JK Lakshmi Cement. The objective of the agreement is to strengthen the relationship between industry and academia by co-creating solutions for industrial problems. Placement of Arpit Shukla, a final year student as Blockchain Developer in 2 US based companies. Dr Sudeep Tanwar, Professor, CSE Department, ITNU received a TOP- CITED paper award from International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley (SCI, WoS, SCOPUS). Dr Ankit Thakkar recognized as honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press for two of his article in Springer and Elsevier.

Outreach of CSE ACM Student chapter has organized online talk on Virtual Reality and Future technology in transportation. The session was conducted by Prof Anthony Steed, University College London. Centre of Excellence in Data Science established at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering organized an online national level Hackathon (MINeD) during February 26-28, 2021. The major sponsors of the event were IndiaNIC InfoTech Ltd, HOPS Healthcare and J K Lakshami Cement Ltd. The event received an overwhelming response in terms of participation from various states of India with 600+ registrations. After scrutiny, 40+ teams were selected to work on specific problem definitions. Various mentorship sessions, technical and non-technical sessions are also planned during the event. Minor Projects got sanctioned: 1. A Digital Humanities Project Study of Presence and Problems of Gendered Language in Digital World with special reference to Political Reporting using AI. Prof. Richa Mishra, Prof. Ratna Rao, Dr. Ankit Thakkar Duration : 2 year 2. IoT based smart card for shopping in supermarket Prof. Deepika Shukla, Prof. Monika Shah Duration : 1 year 3. IoT driven intelligent transportation system for Nirma University Prof. Chandan Trivedi, Prof. Pronoy Bhattacharya Duration : 1 year

Faculty Corner It gives us great pleasure to extend warmest congratulations to Dr. Madhuri Bhavsar on your tenure extension as Head of the Department, CSE Department, Nirma University. Best wishes for this new term of office. A research paper entitled “SLAMMP Framework for Cloud Resource Management and Its Impact on Healthcare Computational Techniques” by Vivek Kumar Prasad and Dr. Madhuri Bhavsar is published in International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC) 12.2 (2021): 1-31. Web of Science, Sopus, Esci. Congratulations to Dr. Sudeep Tanwar for his well-deserved promotion to Professor. May this promotion bring all kinds of new vision, opportunities, fun and challenges for you. Best wishes for your new post. Three research papers co-authored by Dr Sudeep Tanwar, published in IEEE IoT Journal (SCI, Impact Factor: 9.936, Q1), IEEE Networks (SCI, Impact Factor: 8.808, Q1), and IEEE CITS-2020 (held virtually in Hangzhou, China on 5-7 October 2020), have been reviewed and recommended by the WHO in their “COVID-19 Global literature on coronavirus disease database\" ▪ Dr. Sudeep Tanwar appointed (by invitation) as an Associate Editor/Member of Editorial Board in Physical Communication (PHYCOM), Elsevier (SCI, IF: 1.594), Computer Communications (COMCOM), Elsevier (SCI, IF: 2.816, Q1) ▪ A textbook of Dr. Sudeep Tanwar titled as “Multimedia Big Data Computing for IoT Applications: Concepts, Paradigms and Solutions”, published with Springer Nature Singapore, pp. 1-425, 2019. (ISBN: 978-981-13-8759-3) is having 3.7 million downloads as of 27th January 2021 Dr Ankit Thakkar has been elevated to the grade of “IEEE Senior member. Dr Ankit Thakkar, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Institute of Technology is awarded a Cash Award of Rs. 20,000/- for publication of Research Papers in Reputed Journals with Highest Impact Factor 13.669 during the period January 2019 to December

2020. The award was given by the Nirma University, Ahmedabad on March 16, 2021 ▪ A research paper co-authored by Dr Ankit Thakkar, published in IEEE IoT Journal (SCI, Impact Factor: 9.936, Q1) ▪ A research paper entitled “Fusion in stock market prediction: A decade survey on the necessity, recent developments, and potential future directions”, co- authored by Dr Ankit Thakkar, is published in Information Fusion Journal (Indexed in SCOPUS, SCI; Impact Factor: 13.669) ▪ A research paper entitled “CS2M: Cloud Security and SLA Management” by Vipul Chudasama, Vivek Kumar Prasad and Dr. Madhuri Bhavasar is published in Annals of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology (2021): 4459-4465. Scopus ▪ A research paper entitled “Predicting stock trend using an integrated term frequency–inverse document frequency-based feature weight matrix with neural networks”, co-authored by Dr Ankit Thakkar, is published in Applied Soft Computing Journal (Indexed in SCOPUS, SCI; Impact Factor: 5.472) ▪ Dr. Sudeep Tanwar appointed as an Associate Editor in Physical Communication (PHYCOM, Impact Factor 1.594, SCI indexed, IF: 5.472). ▪ Six research papers co-authored by Dr Sudeep Tanwar are in the list of most cited articles published since 2018, extracted from Scopus (02 in Journal of Information Security and Applications (overall fourth rank), 01 in Computers & Electrical Engineering (overall second rank), 03 in Computer Communications). ▪ A paper titled with “A Comprehensive Survey on Deep Neural Networks for Stock Market: The Need, Challenges, and Future Directions” authored by Ankit Thakkar and Kinjal Chaudhri is published in Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier (Impact Factor: 5.452) ▪ Dr Priyank Thakkar presented a paper titled “Image Denoising with Self Adaptive Multi-UNET Valve” in the 10th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving - SocProS 2020 held at IIT Indore in the duration of 18-20 December 2020. The paper was also adjudged as outstanding paper. ▪

▪ Dr Vijay Ukani presented a paper titled “Optimized Reverse TCP Shell using One-timePersistent Connection” in the Innovation in Information and Communication Technologies (IICT-2020) held during 7-8 November 2020. ▪ Prof. Umesh Bodkhe, Dr Sudeep Tanwar, Prof. Pronaya Bhattacharya and Prof. Ashwin Verma published a paper ” Blockchain Adoption for Trusted Medical Records in Healthcare 4.0 Applications: A Survey” in Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems book series (LNNS, volume 203), Springer. ▪ Prof. Mohd Zuhair, Prof. Pronaya Bhattacharya, Prof. Deepti Saraswat and Prof. Ashwin Verma got the best paper at the Second International Conference on Intelligent Engineering and Management (ICIEM-2021), conducted virtually at Amity University, UK. ▪ Prof Monika Shah has presented a paper titled “Identification of Artificially Ripen Mango using Aroma and Texture features” at International Conference on Intelligent Technologies(CONIT 2021) ▪ A paper “RGB-D based human action recognition using evolutionary self- adaptive extreme learning machine with knowledge-based control parameters” co-authored by Dr Ankit Thakkar has been published in Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer (SCIE, SCOPUS, DBLP). The journal has an impact factor of 7.104 as per JCR 2021. ▪ According to the recently released rankings by Guide2Research Team, Dr. Sudeep Tanwar has secured 55th rank (based on h-index, citations, and number of DBLP documents) in the list of “Top Scientists (Computer Scie Electronics) within India”.

▪ Dr. Sudeep Tanwar published a paper on “A Reinforcement Learning-based Secure Demand Response Scheme for Smart Grid System“ in IEEE Internet of Things Journal (SCI, Impact Factor: 9.9) ▪ A research paper entitled “Fusion in stock market prediction: A decade survey on the necessity, recent developments, and potential future directions”, co- authored by Dr Ankit Thakkar, is published in Information Fusion, Elsevier (Indexed in SCOPUS, SCI; Impact Factor: 13.669) ▪ A research paper entitled “Fusion in stock market prediction: A decade survey on the necessity, recent developments, and potential future directions”, co- authored by Dr Ankit Thakkar, has been one of the top 25 most downloaded articles in Information Fusion Journal in the last 90 days. (Most Downloaded Information Fusion Articles - Elsevier) Last Accessed: February 27, 2021. ▪ A research paper entitled “A survey on video-based Human Action Recognition: recent updates, datasets, challenges, and applications”, co- authored by Dr Ankit Thakkar, is in the 41st percentile (ranked 83,562nd) of the 150,953 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals and the 51st percentile (ranked 7th) of the 39 tracked articles of a similar age in Artificial Intelligence Review. (Article Metrics | A survey on video-based Human Action Recognition: recent updates, datasets, challenges, and applications | SpringerLink) Last Accessed: February 27, 2021 ▪ A research paper entitled “Predicting stock trend using an integrated term frequency–inverse document frequency-based feature weight matrix with neural networks”, co-authored by Dr Ankit Thakkar, is published in Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier (Indexed in SCOPUS, SCI; Impact Factor: 5.472) ▪ Dr. Sudeep Tanwar and Mr. Rajesh Gupta published a paper on “Blockchain and 5G integrated softwarized UAV network management: Architecture, solutions, and challenges“ in Physical Communication, Elsevier (SCI, Impact Factor: 1.594) ▪ Dr. Sudeep Tanwar and Dr. Pronaya Bhattacharya published a paper on “Anomaly detection in autonomous electric vehicles using AI techniques: A comprehensive survey“ in Expert Systems, Wiley (SCI, Impact Factor: 1.546)

▪ Dr. Sudeep Tanwar published a paper on “A Reinforcement Learning-based Secure Demand Response Scheme for Smart Grid System“ in IEEE Internet of Things Journal (SCI, Impact Factor: 9.9) ▪ Dr. Sudeep Tanwar Virtually Chaired One Session in 17th IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC-2021) held in Shangri-La Hotel, Harbin, China (virtually). ▪ Congratulations Dr. Kamal Macwan joining our team of Computer Science Department. We hope you will enjoy working with us. ▪ Warmest congratulations to Dr. Priyanka Sharma, Dr. Smita Darandale, Prof. Preksha Pareek and Prof. Kavita Tewani. We will remember you with warm thoughts and memories. Best wishes to you in the future. ▪ It was extremely helpful to understand the basics of Learning Management System (LMS). Thank you Dr. Gaurang Rawal for your very valuable training. ▪ Prof. Pronaya Bhattacharya has successfully defended his PhD Thesis titled Co- Existence of Packets and Bursts in High Speed Networks from Dr. A. P. J Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. A warm congratulation to Dr. Smita Agrawal, Dr. Rupal Kapdi and Dr. Jigna Patel on achieving doctorate degree. Your hardship and efforts have finally paid all of you off. Once again congratulations on such a major success.

From:Alumni’s Desk ❖ Expert talk for the students of 3rd Semester CSE (D to D) was arranged on 20th January, 2021. The session was conducted by Mr. Rahul Singh Raghav. Mr Rahul Raghav is 2017 pass out alumnus of IT branch. He is currently working at Amazon, Bangalore as a Software Development Engineer-2. He delivered an expert talk on “How to climb the career ladder” for the students He also talked about different career opportunities in computer science ❖ An expert talk was conducted on 11th February, 2021 by Mr.Kunal Chhabaria for the students of B.Tech CSE MBA Integrated Course Trimester - II. Mr. Kunal Chhabaria is a 2016 pass out alumnus of CE Department. Post his engineering, he completed his MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi (Batch of 2018) and was selected to be a part of the Tata Administrative Service (TAS) - Leadership Development Program of the Tata Group. He had the opportunity to work across sectors- Retail, Trading, and Digital Transformation with various group companies- Tata International, Tata Global Beverages, Tata Sons, Tata Digital in projects spanning Marketing, Strategy and Product Management. He delivered an expert talk on “Corporate needs business professionals with a Technical knowhow: What can you do to meet the demand?” ❖ An expert talk was conducted for the students of 3rd CSE d to d by our alumnus Ms Barkha Patel. Ms Barkha Patel is 2017 pass-out alumnus of IT branch. She is currently working as a researcher at AT & T (which is world's largest telecommunication company) USA. She gave a talk on \"Higher Studies and Job Opportunities in USA for Specialized Roles\". She also shared her life experiences and her success story with the students.

Centre of Excellence in Data Science (CoE-DS) at Computer Science & Engineering Department, Institute of Technology, Nirma University is organizing a National level online Hackathon (MINeD) during February 26-28, 2021 in collaboration with SUNY Binghamton University, USA Online lecture series on IoT from 27th March 2021 to 24 April 2021 (Every Saturday) from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm by Dr Zhao Liang, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science Shenyang Aerospace University(SAU), China (Coordinators for this activity Dr Vijay Ukani and Dr Sudeep Tanwar). ▪ Online International collaborative lecture series on Blockchain Technology from 27th March 2021 to 24 April 2021 (Every Saturday) from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm by Dr Henry Hong-Ning Dai, Associate Professor Faculty of Information Technology Macau University of Science and technology, macau, Taiwan (Coordinators for this activity Dr Sudeep Tanwar and Dr Vijay Ukani). ▪ As an activity under COE in Data Science, Department of Computer Science and Engineering invited Dr. Daehan Won, Assistant Professor, Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, SUNY, Binghamton University, New York, USA for collaborative teaching of Data Mining courses running in current semester students of CSE department. As collaborating teaching Dr. Won taught selected topics of these courses in a ten hours session in online

mode during 06- March-2021 to 12-April-2021. (Coordinators for this activity Dr Swati Jain and Dr Jai Prakash Verma) Nirma University ACM student’s chapter and Department of CSE organized ‘Research Wave’, a series of distinguished talks delivered by international speakers in the emerging computer science fields such as AR/VR, Data Science, and Human- Computer Interaction during Feb 22- 27, 2021. Speakers included Dr Houbing Song, Professor and Director, Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory, United States; Prof Anthony Steed, Head, Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics Group, University College London; Ms Geeta Chauhan, AI/PyTorch Partner Engineering Head at Facebook AI; and Prof Mark Billinghurst, Professor, University of South Australia. 300+ participants including students, faculty members, researchers from Nirma University, VIIT ACM student chapter, PICT ACM student chapter, UPES ACM student chapter, WCE ACM student chapter, ACM PCCOER, among others attended the talks. The event was successfully organized by the student team of Mr. Tirth Patel (Student chair) as per the vision and guidance of Dr. Saurin Parikh, faculty advisor of the chapter. ▪ ACM Student Chapter has organized an interactive talk series with one of the alumni SHIVAM PATEL, who is a graduate student from Carnegie Mellon University and a former undergraduate student of Nirma University 2020. ▪ ACM student chapter has organized online talk with Mr Param Popat. He is B. Tech CSE alumni of Nirma University and MS graduate from Columbia University, New York, and at present working as a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple. ▪ ACM student chapter has organized online talk with Mr Dhruvil Sanghvi. Mr. Sanghvi is one of the co-founders of LogiNext. He has worked with elite organizations like Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and Tata Group. He is a B. Tech CSE alumni, 2010 of Nirma University and a pass out from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently CEO at LogiNext, which works on AI and ML- based transportation automation.

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Education during COVID-19 & Beyond As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, there has been an increasing move towards online teaching because of shutting down schools, colleges, and universities indefinitely. Online education became a pedagogical shift from the traditional method to the modern teaching-learning approach from classroom to Zoom, Google meet, Cisco WebEx from personal to virtual and from seminars to webinars. With this sudden shift away from the classroom in many parts of the globe, some are wondering whether the adoption of online learning will continue to persist post- pandemic, and how such a shift would impact the worldwide education market. Previously, e-learning, distance education and correspondence courses were popularly considered as the part of non-formal education. Still, it seems that it may gradually replace the formal education system if the circumstances enduringly persist over time. Resilience is required to strengthen innovations in the educational system and private-public partnership. “Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning\" ~ Paulo Freire

Offshore connections Dr. Kamal Goel from the University of California, San Diego visited the campus and delivered the lecture on the topic of “Personalized Medicine: Prediction and Prevention” on 16/03/2021 at N501. Distinguished (Virtual) Visitors for collaborative teaching: ▪ Dr Zhao Liang, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science Shenyang Aerospace University(SAU), China. Dr Henry Hong-Ning Dai, Associate Professor Faculty of Information Technology Macau University of Science and technology, macau, Taiwan. Dr. Daehan Won, Assistant Professor, Systems Science and Industrial Engineering, SUNY, Binghamton University, New York, USA.

Students’s Accomplishments Btech students Mr. Nikunjkumar Patel (17BCE083), and Ms. Shivani Patel (17BCE117) have published a research paper titled Blockchain-envisioned trusted random oracles for IoT-enabled Probabilistic Smart Contracts under the guidance of Prof. Pronaya Bhattacharya and Dr. Sudeep Tanwar in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (SCI, WoS, IF: 9.936) 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3072293. ▪ Mr. Rajesh Gupta, a Full-time Ph.D. scholar, registered under the supervision of Dr Sudeep Tanwar, has been awarded an International Student Grant to attend the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2021, h-index 67) scheduled to be held on 14-23 June 2021 at Monreal, Canada. ▪ M.Tech student Ms. Aarti Popat (19MCEC11) has published a research paper titled A taxonomy of energy optimization techniques for smart cities: Architecture and future directions, under the guidance of Dr. Sudeep Tanwar and Prof. Pronaya Bhattacharya in the Expert Systems, Wiley Journal (SCI, WoS, IF: 1.546). ▪ BTech students Nirav Patel (18BCE365) and Mr. Arpit Shukla (18BCE370) have published a research paper titled KRanTi: Blockchain‐based farmer's credit scheme for agriculture‐food supply chain under the guidance of Dr. Sudeep Tanwar in the Transactions of Emerging Telecommunication Technologies, Wiley (SCI, WoS, IF: 1.594). ▪ Ph.D. student Rajesh Gupta (18FTVPHDE31) has published a research paper titled “Secrecy-ensured NOMA-based Cooperative D2D-aided Fog Computing under Imperfect CSI” under the guidance of Dr. Sudeep Tanwar in the Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier (SCI, WoS, IF: 2.327). ▪ Ph.D. students Rajesh Gupta (18FTVPHDE31) and Aparna Kumari (17FTPHDE22) have published a research paper titled “Amalgamation of Blockchain and IoT for Smart Cities underlying 6G Communication: A Comprehensive Review” under the guidance of Dr. Sudeep Tanwar in Computer Communications, Elsevier (SCI, WoS, IF: 2.816).

▪ Ms. Kinjal Chaudhari, a Ph.D. Scholar of Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Roll number- 17FTPHDE21) has been recognized as an honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press dated 05/01/2021 for her co-authored paper entitled \"Fusion in Stock Market Prediction: A Decade Survey on the Necessity Recent Developments and Potential Future Directions\", published in Information Fusion, Elsevier (Indexed in: Ei Compendex, INSPEC, Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus; Impact factor: 13.669) . ▪ Mr. Divyank Jain, student of Department of Computer Science and Engineering (18BCE059) has received Best Paper Award in Nirma International Conference Of Management (NICOM’2021) on 09/01/2021. ▪ Ms. Madhushree B, Ph.D. student of Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Roll number- 16FTVPHDE13) has published a paper titled “GVSUM: generic video summarization using deep visual features” in the journal Multimedia Tools and Applications by Springer on 23/01/2021. ▪ Ms. Ritika Lohiya (18FTPHDE30) Ph.D scholar of Department of Computer Science and Engineering has published a paper titled “Application Domains, Evaluation Datasets, and Research Challenges of IoT: A Systematic Review” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal on 15th Jan, 2021, which is indexed in Scopus. The paper DOI is: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.3048439 with 1-25 pages ▪ Nivedita Patel (17BCE084), Shireen Patel (17BCE088) and Sapan H Mankad published a paper titled “Impact of autoencoder based compact representation on emotion detection from audio” in Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer (Impact Factor: 4.594) doi : https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652- 021-02979-3 ▪ Ms. Kinjal Chaudhari (17FTPHDE21) Ph.D. Scholar of Department of Computer Science and Engineering has published a research paper entitled “Predicting stock trend using an integrated term frequency–inverse document frequency-based feature weight matrix with neural networks” in Applied Soft Computing Journal (Indexed in SCOPUS, SCI; Impact Factor: 5.472). ▪ Ms. Labdhi Sheth, student of Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Roll number- 18BCE101) with her team got selected in the Impact summit Punjab Hult Prize 2021 and successfully delivered the pitch and got selected in top 6 out of the 100 teams hailing from different sections of neighboring countries on 20/03/2021 representing Institute of technology Nirma university as regional finalists. ▪ A research paper entitled “CS2M: Cloud Security and SLA Management” co- authored by Akshay Mewad and Aheesh Shah is published in Annals of the Romanian Society for Cell Biology (2021): 4459-4465. Scopus

▪ Ms. Divya Mahur, student of Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Roll Number- 18BCE106) has got selected for GSSOC (Girl Script Summer of Code) 2021 among 20,000 applicants. I’ll be working for 3-months in summer with open-source projects mentored by the GS community. ▪ Mr. Rajesh Gupta, research scholar at Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Roll number: 18FTVPHDE31) has been recognised as an honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press, UK (Membership ID: #KU50436) for his research article entitled \"Blockchain-Based Security Attack Resilience Schemes for Autonomous Vehicles in Industry 4.0: A Systematic Review\". ▪ Ms. Farnazbanu Patel (19MCEI104), M.Tech student, and Mr. Rajesh Gupta (18ftvphde31), PhD scholar of the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, have got the Best Paper Award for the paper titled “Block6Tel: Blockchain-based spectrum allocation scheme in 6G-envisioned communications” in the 2021 17th IEEE ComSoc International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (ICWMC-2021) from 28th June- 02nd July 2021. ▪ Mr. Rajesh Gupta research scholar at Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Roll number: 18FTVPHDE31) published a paper on “Anomaly detection in autonomous electric vehicles using AI techniques: A comprehensive survey“ in Expert Systems, Wiley (SCI, Impact Factor: 1.546) ▪ Mr. Jyot Makadiya, student of Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Roll number- 18BCE088) has achieved worldwide rank 99 among 1728 participants in Tabular Playground Series January Data Science programming competition with duration 1 month hosted on Kaggle on 31/01/2021.

Editorial Team Mentor Dr. Madhuri Bhavsar Team Members : Dr. Bhavin Shah Prof. Tarjni Vyas Mr. Manohar Borana (19MCA050) Prof. Ashwin Verma Prof. Deepti Saraswat Special Thanks: Dr. Priyanka Sharma Dr. Sharda Valiveti Prof. Prof. Pooja Shah