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Dr. Hitesh Chhinkaniwala

Associate Dean (Academics) and Associate Professor

Ph.D. (Computer Engg), M.Tech (Computer Science & Engg), NIT-K, BE (Computer Engg), Diploma in Management

Dr. Hitesh Chhinkaniwala is currently associated with Adani University, Ahmedabad–INDIA. Currently he is working as an associate professor and head of Information and Communication Technology department. He is having 22 years academic experience. Apart from academic experience, Dr. Chhinkaniwala also has an experience to work with a US based data analysis firm for two years during the early years of his career and later worked as a consultant for more than 17 years. Dr. Chhinkaniwala has been invited at as a session chair at many international conferences. Many engineering colleges invited him to deliver expert talks on data science and machine learning. Dr. Chhinkaniwala is also a peer reviewer of national as well as international conferences. Dr. Chhinkaniwala is highly interested in participating in the development of new interdisciplinary programs of study; has deep commitment to teaching; excels in research and explore more connects with the industry.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Privacy Preserving, Text Mining, Text summarization, Information Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, Statistical Data Analysis, Information Filtering, Social Network Analysis, Ontology Learning.

  • PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, 2014, KSV Gandhinagar
  • M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, 2008, NIT Surathkal
  • B.E. in Computer Engineering, 1997, Gujarat University
  • Diploma in Management, 2004, IGNOU
  • 2023 onwards: Associate Dean (Academics), Adani University. Associate Professor and Head, Computer Science and Engineering (AI-ML) department.
  • 2017-2022: Associate Professor & Head, Computer Science & Engineering allied courses, Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering, Ahmedabad
  • 2017 onwards: Associate Professor & Head, Computer Science & Engineering allied courses, Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering, Ahmedabad
  • 2015-2017: Associate Professor, Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering, Ahmedabad
  • 2014-2015: Associate Professor, Shankersinh Vaghela Bapu Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
  • 2000-2014: Assistant Professor, U V Patel College of Engineering, Mehsana
  • 2000-2015: Senior Research Consultant, FinGlobe Inc, NJ, USA
  • 1998-2000: System Analyst, Center of International Financial Analysis and Research (CiFAR), Ahmedabad

Dr. Chhinkaniwala has published / presented 26 technical papers in international journals and conferences. He was session co-chair at National Level Conference on “Knowledge Information & Telemetics (KITE)

He has also published one book – “Privacy Preserving Data Mining – Issues & Techniques: Preserving privacy of data streams and large data sets while mining”. He is a recognized Ph.D. guide at Gujarat Technological University, Ganpat University, Mehsana and C U Shah University, Surendranagar. He has guided 14 Post graduate students and 6 scholars are pursuing Ph.D. under his supervision.

He was a committee member (reviewer) of International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT 2008). He was also a committee member (reviewer) of the First IEEE International Conference on Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008).

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