Dr. Prashant Udawant

Area of Specialization

• Machine Learning with Image Processing

Work Experience: (17 Years) Since Feb 2008 (Teaching)

Major PortfolioHandled:

• Worked as a Department Head for the Department of Information Technology ( 2012 to 2014).
• Website Administrator MPSTME Shirpur ( 2015 to till date)
• InCharge Community Service MPSTME Shirpur ( 2021 to till date)
• InCharge Center of Excellence.
• Industrial Visit Co-Ordinator
• InCharge Pragati Social Cell
• InCharge NMMUN

Professional Membership

• CSI Membership 2016-17 (Membership no: F8000435)
• ACM Membership for year 2016-2017 (Membership no: 7840149)
• ISTE Membership Life time Membership (Membership no: 112662)
• Reviewer for Journal “Applied Soft Computing”

Certification: 

• Mission 10x Training on” Dale Cardenalie” from Wipro. Mission 10x Training composed of” Dale Cardenalie” and “High Impact Teaching Skills” from Wipro. 2011.

 Publications:

• Prashant Udawant and Pravin Srinath, “Cotton Plant Leaf Disease Detection Using Instance Segmentation”, Journal of Cases on Information Technology (JCIT), ISSN: 1548-7717, volume-24, Issue-04, 2022. (Web of Science, Scopus Indexed)
• Prashant Udawant and Pravin Srinath, “Leaf Diagnosis using Transfer Learning”, Applied Information Processing Systems, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1354, 2022, Springer, Singapore. (Scopus Indexed)
• Prashant Udawant, Anjali Chaliha, Saransh Goyal and Kritagya Gupta, “Cotton Plant Leaf Diseases: A Brief Survey”, International Journal of Recent Advances in Multidisciplinary Topics, Volume 2, Issue 10, October2021.
• Prashant Udawant, Tejaswi Pallapothu, Harshita Nangia, Manmeet Singh and Riya Sinha”, “Cotton Plant Disease Detection”, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, Volume 06, Issue 05, 2020.
• Prashant Udawant and Pravin Srinath, “Diseased Portion Classification and Recognition of Cotton Plants using Convolution Neural Networks”, International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT), ISSN: 2249–8958, Volume-8, Issue-6, pp 3492-96, August 2019.(Scopus Indexed)
• Nitin Choubey & Prashant Udawant, “Study Of Rose Plant Diseases And Its Identification With Modern Automation Techniques”, International Journal of Current Research, June 2017.  Volume 09; Issue 06; June 2017.
• J ,Ashish .S , Shreyash.A , Rishi.A ,Prashant.U, “Opinion Mining and Improvised Algorithm for Feature Reduction in Sentiment Analysis”, International Journal of Engineering Research and Application ( Part -2) April 2017. ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 7, Issue 4, pp.14-19
• Rishabh Sinha, Prashant Udawant. “ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATIONS FROM COMMON ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND ITS IMPLICATION ON HUMAN HEALTH”, International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), April 2017. ISSN:2321-9939, Vol.5, Issue 2, pp.220-224.
• Journal IJTEP, “Progressive SWOT Analysis of “E” – Textile Industries”, Vol.2 Issu.1, January 2016.
• ASEE International Forum, Seattle, Washington , “Analysis of Improved Pedagogy Applied for Teaching courses related to Computer Programming for First Year Engineering Programs ” Paper presented June 2015. https://peer.asee.org/17126
• International IEEE Conference at Nirma University, Ahmadabad. “Hybrid Genetic-Ant Algorithm Optimization for Continuous Functions”, 2012.
• Journal IJERIA, Pune, “A Study of Combined Genetic Ant Algorithm for Continuous Domain” Ascent Publication. 2012.
• International Conference ICWET at Mumbai, “A Novel Implementation of Artificial Intelligence in Distributed Systems Design.” 2012.
• International Conference I-CORT at Pune, “Object Oriented Programming A New Context in Modernization”.2012
• International Conference I-CORT at Pune, “Modern Approach to Reference Variable with Arithmatic Variable”. 2012
• “Go Programming” International Conference on Science Engineering & Spirituality, Navalnagar, Dhule (MS). 2009
• “Near field Communication” National Conference on Information Technology at KES Society’s College of Engg. & Information Technology, Jalgaon. 2009
• “Need of Spirituality in Modern Education” Avishkar- State level Inter-university Research Festival. 2010
• “Agile Process Model” National Level Paper presentation in Convergence’11 at R.C. P.I. T, Shirpur. 2011
• National Conference NCETCT at Shirpur, “A Study on Modern Way to Use Reference Variable with Arithmetic Variable” 2012.

Book Chapters published: Prashant Udawant, Akashdeep Singh, Ankit Agrawal, Pratik Patil, Priyanshu Pal, “A NEW WAY TO FIND WAY USING DEPTH DIRECTION A*” , Advances in Data and Information Sciences ,  in Springer Book Series “Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems” ,978-981-10-8359-4, Kolhe et al (eds.).

 Seminars/ Workshops/Conferences Attended

 International Conferences Attended: – 

• Preconference of IPSCON 2017, on Future Healthcare: ‘Sensing Disease and role of IoT in HealthCare’, On 14 feb 2018.
• Attended International Conferenceon Artificial Intelligence in Health care at SVKM’s NMIMS Shirpur campus, “Opinion Mining and Improvised Algorithm for Feature Reduction in Sentiment Analysis”, Dec 2016.
• AttendedNational Level Conference on Emerging Trends and Practices in Science, Humanities and Management, ETPSHM-17 , at MPSTME, Shirpur. Feb 2017.

Workshops/FDPs Attended: –

• One-WeekFDP on Pattern Recognition & Image Analysis at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. during 15 December 2017 to 19 December 2017.
• One-WeekFDP on Computational Intelligence& its Applications in Science and Engineering (CiASE) at Siddarth Institute of Engineering & Technology, vijaywada during 24 April 2017 to 28 April 2017.
• One weekSTTP “Innovations Towards Learner Centric Pedagogy – II” organized by SVKM’s NMIMS MPSTME, Mumbai. 21-25 Nov 2016.
• One week STTP “Introduction to design of Algorithms” Under the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India) at MPSTME, Shirpur. May 2015.
• Three days STTP “Pedagogy for Effective use of ICT in Engineering Education” Under the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India) at MPSTME, Shirpur. January 2015.
• Two week STTP “Control Systems” Under the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India) at MPSTME, Shirpur. Dec 2014.
• Two days ISTE e-seminar on “Step to Research” Organized by Department of CSI Amal Jyoti College of engineering Kerla. September 2014.
• One week STTP “Computer Networking” Under the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India) at MPSTME, Shirpur. July 2014.
• One week STTP “Computer Programming” Under the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India) at MPSTME, Shirpur. June 2014.
• Two week STTP “Database management System” Under the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India) at MPSTME, Shirpur. May 2013.
• Advanced Automation Training Program at BOSCH, Germany. 2013
• Automation Training Program at BOSCH Training Centre, Mysore. 2013
• One week STTP “Research Methodology” Under the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Govt. of India) at RCPIT, Shirpur. June 2012.
• Three Days STTP on “Effective Paper Writing” Organized by IIT Mumbai at RCPIT Shirpur. 2012.
• Mission 10x Training on” Dale Cardenalie” from Wipro. Mission 10x Training composed of” Dale Cardenalie” and “High Impact Teaching Skills” from Wipro. 2011.
• Workshop on “Research Methodology” at RCPIT, Shirpur. 2011.
• Completed course on Advance English Conversation organized by Indo- American Society. 2007.
• Certified Course in C
• Training at Videocon Appliances Ltd. Aurangabad.

 Coursera Certifications:

• Art of Negotiation
• Analysis of Algorithms
• Design Patterns
• Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for Personal & Professional Productivity