Mr. Sachin Bhandari

Area of Interest

Machine Learning, Nature inspired Computing, Deep Learning, Image processing, Computer vision, Data Science, IOT

Work experience

Since Jan 2013

• 1 Years - Academic experience as an Assistant Professor at Shri GovindRam Seksariya Institute of Technology & Science, Indore (From Jan’10 ’2013-Feb '12 '2016).
• 2 Years - Academic experience as an Assistant Professor at Swami Vivekanand College of Engineering (From Feb '13' 2016- July ‘8’ 2017).
• 6 years - Academic experience as an Assistant Professor at SVKM’s NMIMS MPSTME Shirpur Campus (July '10' 2017 onwards).

Professional Membership

• Soft Computing Research Society, India

Awards and Achievements

• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a session chair in 3^rd International Conference on Advances in Data-Driven Computing and Intelligent Systems (ADCIS 2024) organised by Bits pilani, KK Birla, Goa campus and National Forensic Science University, Goa, held during September 20-21, 2024.
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a session chair in 2024 IEEE International conference of contemporary computing and Communication(InC4) Organised by the department of computer science and engineering, CHRIST(Deemed to be university), Kengeri campus, Bangalore- 560074 during march 15-16 2024.
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a session chair in the International conference of on computing and Machine learning (CML2024) held at department of computer applications, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim Manipal University, India during 29-30 Mar, 2024.
• Received a letter of Appreciation from Institute innovation council (IIC) SVKM’s NMIMS University Mumbai, for successful completion of IIC 6.0 activities for the academic year 2023-2024 on 11^th September 2024.
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a session chair in the Third International Conference on Intelligent Vision and Computing (ICIVC 2023) organized by National Institute of Technology, Agartala, from Nov 25-26, 2023.
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a session chair in the Fourth International Conference on Computational Intelligence (ICCI 2023) organized by Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, from Nov 04-05, 2023.
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a session chair in the Seventh International Joint Conference on Advances in Computational Intelligent (IJCACI 2023) organized by SAU Center for Research and Innovative Learning (SCRIL), South Asian University, India and Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, from October 14-15, 2023.
• Received a letter of Appreciation from Institute innovation council (IIC) SVKM’s NMIMS University Mumbai, for successful completion of IIC 6.0 activities for the academic year 2022-2023 on 16^th sep 2023.
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a session chair in International conference on Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Applications (AITA 2023) Organized by ICFAI Business School (IBS) Bangalore, Offcampus Centre of ICFAI foundation for Higher Education (IFHE) Univeristy, India during August 11-12, 2023.
• Invited as resource person in One Week International Faculty Development Programme (FDP) on "Application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Research and Innovations (IWMLAI-2023)” dated 2^nd May to 6^th May 2023 organised by Regional college of Education Research and Technology, Jaipur.
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a session chair in International Conference on advances in Data-Driven Computing and Intelligent Systems (ADCIS 2022), Organized by BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus in Association with Soft Computing Research Society from September 23-25, 2022.
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a session in 3^rd Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2022), Organized in Virtual Format by Christ University, Bangalore in Association with Soft Computing Research Society from September 05-06, 2022.
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a Program Committee Member in 3^rd Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2022), Organized in Virtual Format by Christ University, Bangalore in Association with Soft Computing Research Society from September 05-06, 2022.
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a Program Committee Member in "International Conference on Paradigms of Communication, Computing and Data Science (PCCDS 2021)” held online during May 07-09, 2021 in India, Organised by National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra and Soft Computing Research Society.
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a Program Committee Member in "International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCCT-2021)” held online during February 27-28, 2021 in India, Organised by RIET, Jaipur and RTU Kota in association with Soft Computing Research Society.
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a session chair in International conference on Sustainable Computing in Science, Technology and management (SUSCOM-2020) in Jan, 20-22, 2020 at Amity University Jaipur, Rajasthan.
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a Program Committee Member in International Conference on Communication and Intelligence Systems (ICCIS 2020), RTU TEQIP-III Sponsored, Jointly Organized in Virtual Format by Global Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan Technical University Kota and Birla Institute of Applied Science in Association with Soft Computing Research Society from  December 26  to December 27, 2020
• Received a certificate of Appreciation as a Program Committee Member in "Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2020 World Conference in Virtual Format)” held online during September 05‐06, 2020 in India, Organised by Soft Computing Research Society.
• Received a letter of Appreciation for extensive contribution to the initiative, ‘E CELL NMIMS Shirpur on 30 August 2022.
• Certificate of participation as a   Program Committee Member and Reviewer   in the "Congress on Intelligent Systems (World Conference in Virtual Format)” held online during September 05‐06, 2020 in India, Organised by Soft Computing Research Society.
• Certificate of participation as a   Program Committee Member and Reviewer in the "International Conference on Communication and Intelligent Systems” held online during December 26-27, 2020 in India, Organised by GIT, Jaipur and RTU Kota in association with Soft Computing Research Society.
• Certificate of participation as a   Program Committee Member and Reviewer in the "International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies” held online during February 27-28, 2021 in India, Organised by RIET, Jaipur and RTU Kota in association with Soft Computing Research Society.

Research and Publications

• Bhandari, S., Pathak, S., Jain, S.A. et al.Improved diabetic retinopathy severity classification using squeeze-and-excitation and sparse light weight multi-level attention u-net with transfer learning from xception. Acta Diabetol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00592-024-02341-x, 26 July, 2024.
• Naik, A., Agarwal, R., Jain, U., Bhandari, S. (2024). Monitoring Water Quality Based on Potability Using Machine Learning and IoT. In: Sikander, A., Zurek-Mortka, M., Chanda, C.K., Mondal, P.K. (eds) Advances in Energy and Control Systems. ESDA 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1148. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0154-4_33
• Jha, K., Gokharu, N., Mathur, R., Bhandari, S. (2024). Review Paper on Glaucoma Detection Using Machine Learning. In: Sikander, A., Zurek-Mortka, M., Chanda, C.K., Mondal, P.K. (eds) Advances in Energy and Control Systems. ESDA 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1148. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0154-4_31
• Sachin Bhandari, Sunil Pathak, and Sonal Amit Jain. "A literature review of early-stage diabetic retinopathy detection using deep learning and evolutionary computing techniques." Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering30, no. 2 (2023): 799-810.
• Sachin Bhandari, Sunil Pathak, Sonal Amit Jain, and Varun Deshmukh. "A Review on Swarm intelligence & Evolutionary Algorithms based Approaches for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection." In 2022 IEEE World Conference on Applied Intelligence and Computing (AIC), pp. 161-166. IEEE, 2022.
• Bhavya Singh, Nidhi Upadhyay, Srishti Verma, Sachin Bhandari "Classification of Hateful Memes Using Multimodal Models” 2nd International Conference on Data Intelligence and Cognitive Informatics ICDICI 2021, pp 181–192, 16-17 July 2021.
• Sachin Bhandari, Dharmendra Dangi, Amit Bhagat, and Dheeraj Kumar Dixit "Nature Inspired Classifier Based on Binary Neural Network and Fuzzy Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm” Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education, Vol.12 No.7 (2021), 2427-2438, 16 April 2021.
• ShivangiPandey, AditiShrivastava, RuchitVijay, & Sachin Bhandari," A Review on Smart Irrigation and Crop Prediction System”International Conference on Sustainable Computing in Science, Technology & Management (SUSCOM-2019), at Amity University Rajasthan(February 24, 2019)., doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3358108.
• Dharmendra Dangi, Sachin Bhandari and Amit Bhagat, "Analysis of Shared Memory in Distributed and Non Distributed Environment”, IEEE, ICECCS-2016
• Sachin Bhandari "An Android Application For face Recognition Based Authentication On Incoming Call,” Global journal of advance engineering technology and science, CS & IT et al., pp. 1–5, April 2014.
• Sachin Bhandari And Dr. Aruna Tiwari, "Design and Implementation of Binary Neural Network Learning with Fuzzy Clustering,”Advance Computer Science and Information Technology, CS &IT06,2012.

Book Chapters published:

• Sachin Bhandari, Radhakrishna Rambola, Rajani Kumari, "Swarm intelligence & Evolutionary Algorithms for Diabetic retinopathy detection” in Sandeep Kumar, Anand Nayyar, Anand Paul (eds) Swarm Intelligence and Evolutionary Algorithms in Healthcare and Drug Development. CRC Press Taylor and Francis, Nov 2019.

ATAL FDP Attended

• One week AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Online Elementary FDP on "Overview of Speech Processing" from 20/12/2021 to 24/12/2021 at Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad.
• One week AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Online Elementary FDP on "Biowaste to Bioenergy: A future sustainable energy source" from 14/12/2021 to 18/12/2021 at Motilal Nehru National institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj.
•  One week AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Sponsored Online FDP on "Internet of Things (IoT)" Organized by G H PATEL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY from 4 Jan, 2021 to 8 Jan, 2021. 
• AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Online FDP on "SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES" from 2020-11-2 to 2020-11-6 at Dr. S. & S. S. Ghandhy Government Engineering College.
• One week AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Sponsored Online FDP Advances in Nature Inspired Algorithms, Organised by Rajasthan Technical University, Kota from 21 Nov, 2020-25 Nov, 2020.

STTPs/Workshops Attended

• Attended FDP on "Recent Advances in computer Vision: Applications and Implementation” organized by NIT Rourkela, Odisha, India from 6-10 DEC 2024.
• Attended FDP on "Problem and Project based Learning: A comprehensive workshop”, organized by NMIMS, Shirpur, India from 12-13 Dec 2024.
• Attended FDP on "Empowering Educators with Generative AI: Transforming”, organized by NMIMS, Shirpur, India from 16-20 Dec 2024
• Attended FDP on "Empowering Excellence –Two days hands on workshop on soft skills on academia”, organized by NMIMS, Shirpur, India from 23-24 Dec 2024
• Teach the Trainer (T3) workshop on, "Pattern Recognition and Anomaly Detection” conducted online by the IBM ICE Team, 7-11 June 2021.
• One Week AICTE Sponsored Online Short Term Training Program on "Medical Healthcare for Betterment of Humanity via Non Invasive Techniques”, Organised by Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Panimalar Institute of Technology Chennai during 19th -24th April 2021.
• AICTE Sponsored One Week Online Short Term Training Program Phase - III on "Machine Learning and Its Applications in Data Analytics”, Organised by Department of Computer Science & Engineering, SSGMCE, Shegaon during 21st -26th Dec 2020.
• AICTE-AQIS sponsored One Week Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on Image
  Processing and its Application organized by Department of Computer Engineering, Poornima Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jaipur, held from September 21-26,Sep 2020.
• AICTE sponsored One Week Short Term Training Programme (STTP) on "Trends and challenges in Medical Image Analysis Through Deep Learning Algorithms” organized by Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddharth Engineering college, Vijayawada held from 26- 31, Oct 2020.
• Faculty Development Program on "Why and What is Deep Learning?” organised by the Computer Engineering Department MPSTME in collaboration with the NOW Mozilla Club from 27th July - 4th August 2020.
• One week FDP on Advances in Network Modelling and Optimization Techniques(FDP), Organised by Jaypee University at NOIDA (June 03-08, 2019).
• One week FDP on Neural Network and Deep Learning using python, Organised by School of computing and information technology, Reva University, Bengaluru (June 01-05, 2020).
• One week FDP on Machine Learning using python, Organised by Poornima Institute of Engineering and Technology under Indian society for technical Education (May 19-22, 2020).
• One week FDP on Redifining the Role of Educator in Covid-19 Outbreak Era, Organised by Gujrat Technical university Ahmedabad (May 11-16, 2020).
• One week FDP on Innovation to Academics, Organised by National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board(NSTEDB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi (May 11-16, 2020).
• One week FDP on Python 3.4.3(FDP), Organised by Adhiparasakthi Engineering College, Melmaruvathur in association with spoken tutorial project, IIT Bombay (April 16-22, 2020).
• Fundamental Digital Skills for 21^st Century Teachers(FDP), Organised by MPSTME, Shirpur (January 06-09, 2020).
• Two days AICTE approved FDP on "Machine Learning” under the National Mission of Education through ICT in MPSTME Shirpur June 2018.
• Four week AICTE approved FDP by IIT Bombay on "use of ICT in education for online and blended learning” under the National Mission of Education through ICT (MHRD Govt. of India) June 2016.
• One-day workshop on "Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques and their Applications" held on 3 June 2016 at IIT Indore. 
• Two week ISTE STTP on Introduction to Design of Algorithms workshop conducted by IIT Kharagpur funded by National Mission on education through ICC, MHRD, Govt. of India, held on May 2015 at SGSITS, Indore.
• Computer Programming workshop conducted by IIT Bombay funded by National Mission on education through ICC, MHRD, Govt. of India, held on June 2014 at SGSITS, Indore.
• DBMS workshop conducted by IIT Bombay funded by National Mission on education through ICC, MHRD, Govt. of India, held on May 2014 at SGSITS, Indore.
• Linux workshop conducted by IIT Bombay funded by National Mission on education through ICC, MHRD, Govt. of India, held on June 2013 at SGSITS, Indore.
• Latex workshop conducted by IIT Bombay funded by National Mission on education through ICC, MHRD, Govt. of India, held on June 2012 at SGSITS, Indore.

 Conferences Attended

• Attended 3^rd International Conference on Advances in Data-Driven Computing and Intelligent Systems (ADCIS 2024) organised by Bits pilani, KK Birla, Goa campus and National Forensic Science University, Goa, held during September 20-21, 2024.
• Attended 2024 IEEE International conference of contemporary computing and Communication(InC4) Organised by the department of computer science and engineering, CHRIST(Deemed to be university), Kengeri campus, Bangalore- 560074 during march 15-16 2024.
• Attended International conference of on computing and Machine learning (CML2024) held at department of computer applications, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim Manipal University, India during 29-30 Mar, 2024.
• Attended 3^rd International Conference on Intelligent Vision and Computing (ICIVC 2023) organized by National Institute of Technology, Agartala, from Nov 25-26, 2023.
• Attended 4th International Conference on Computational Intelligence (ICCI 2023) organized by Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, from Nov 04-05, 2023.
• Attended 7th International Joint Conference on Advances in Computational Intelligent (IJCACI 2023) organized by SAU Center for Research and Innovative Learning (SCRIL), South Asian University, India and Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, from October 14-15, 2023.
• Attended International conference on Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Applications (AITA 2023) Organized by ICFAI Business School (IBS) Bangalore, Offcampus Centre of ICFAI foundation for Higher Education (IFHE) Univeristy, India during August 11-12, 2023.
• Attended International Conference on advances in Data-Driven Computing and Intelligent Systems (ADCIS 2022), Organized by BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus in Association with Soft Computing Research Society from September 23-25, 2022.
• Attended 3^rd Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2022), Organized in Virtual Format by Christ University, Bangalore in Association with Soft Computing Research Society from  September 05-06, 2022.
• Attended IEEE World Conference on Applied Intelligence and computing (AIC 2022), Jointly Organized in Virtual Format by Rajkiya Engineering College, Sonbhadra in Association with Soft Computing Research Society from  June 17  to June 19, 2022.
• Attended "International Conference on Paradigms of Communication, Computing and Data Science (PCCDS 2021)” held online during May 07-09, 2021 in India, Organised by National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra and Soft Computing Research Society.
• Attended "International Conference on Communication and Computational Technologies” held online during February 27-28, 2021 in India, Organised by RIET, Jaipur and RTU Kota in association with Soft Computing Research Society.
• Attended International Conference on Communication and Intelligence Systems (ICCIS 2020), RTU TEQIP-III Sponsored, Jointly Organized in Virtual Format by Global Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan Technical University Kota and Birla Institute of Applied Science in Association with Soft Computing Research Society from  December 26  to December 27, 2020
• Attended "Congress on Intelligent Systems (World Conference in Virtual Format)” held online during September 05‐06, 2020 in India, Organised by Soft Computing Research Society.
• Attended "International Conference on Communication and Intelligent Systems” held online during December 26-27, 2020 in India, Organised by GIT, Jaipur and RTU Kota in association with Soft Computing Research Society.
• Attended an International conference on Sustainable Computing in Science, Technology and management(SUSCOM-2020) in Jan, 20-22, 2020 at Amity University Jaipur, Rajasthan.
• Attended an International conference on Sustainable Computing in Science, Technology and management(SUSCOM-2019) in Feb, 26-28, 2019 at Amity University Jaipur, Rajasthan.
• Attended Fifth International conference on Eco-Friendly computing and Communication Systems (ICECCS-2016)

Expert Talks/ Invited Lectures / Seminars / Workshops / Conferences Organized/Conducted

• Delivered a talk on "Application of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Research and Innovations in One Week International Faculty Development Programme (FDP) dated 2^nd May to 6^th May 2023 organised by Regional college of Education Research and Technology, Jaipur.

Extra/Co-Curricular Activities

• Convener of "Institution’s Innovation Council NMIMS Shirpur”.
• Faculty Coordinator of "Entrepreneur Cell NMIMS Shirpur”.

NPTEL Certification:

• NPTEL Certificate in Twelve week FDP Operating System Fundamentals from July-October 2019.
• NPTEL Certificate in Eight week FDP on Introduction to Roadmap for Patent Creation, from January-March 2019
• NPTEL Certificate in Eight week FDP Introduction to DBMS, from August-September 2018

 Coursera Certifications:

• Tools for Data Science
• Data Science Methodology
• What is Data Science?
• Databases and SQL for Data Science with Python
• Real-time OCR and Text Detection with Tensorflow, OpenCV and Tesseract
• Detecting COVID-19 with Chest X-Ray using PyTorch
• Dimensionality Reduction using an Autoencoder in Python
• Introduction to HTML5
• Image Compression and Generation using Variational Autoencoders in Python
• Image Noise Reduction with Auto-encoders using TensorFlow
• Learning to Teach Online
• Linear Regression with Python
• Process Personal Details using Methods in Java, Duration and date
• Understanding Deepfakes with Keras
• Assessment for Learning
• Image Processing with Python
• Java Primitive Types to Calculate Expenses
• Real-time OCR and Text Detection with Tensorflow, OpenCV and Tesseract

Guide Projects:

• Design and Implementation of Binary Neural Network Learning with fuzzy clustering”
• Pattern Recognition system based on improved EBPA algorithm
• Design and implementation of Retina image classifier using SVM and Random Forest.
• Vision Assistant
• IOT based forest monitoring System and prediction of Forest fire
• Smart Irrigation and Crop Prediction System
• Designing ChatBot and provide Equity Derivatives recommendations.
• Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
• Customer Relationship Management
• Course Management System
• Performance analysis of Routing Algorithms in Vanet
• Secure Data transmission in Mobile Ad-hoc Network
• Online Medicine Delivery System
• Mobile Tracking Android Application
• Smarter Space Management system
• Web application on Online Job Portal
• Quest Eduventures
• File Protector System
• Email client software

Official Email Id

sachin.bhandari@nmims.edu

LinkedIn Profile:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachin-bhandari-sb/