Faculty Profile

Dr. Akbar Ahmad
Director

Office: Engineering Block, First floor, Room – E-108, Meeting Hours – 10 am to 1 pm or on appointment
Educational Details:
  • B.Tech. (Electronics and communication engg.)
  • M.Tech (Power Electronics and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) Design), Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad.
  • PhD in PV Converter topologies and control for shade tolerance and optimal energy harvest efficiency, from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad .
Profile: Dr. Akbar Ahmad is a senior member of IEEE , Life Member IEI and working as a Director and Professor in the School of Mechatronics Engineering, Symbiosis Skills and Professional University, Kiwale, Pune, India. His work summary includes a blend of national and international arena in academia and industry for around 14 years. He worked on TEQIP-II sponsored research project. His research profile includes around 50 Publications and books of national and international reputed journals and conferences.

 He won the Typhoon HIL 10 for 10 international awards for designing SPV microgrid in the form of HIL 402 device worth 25 lakh INR. He is the mentor to some successful startups working in the area of Lithium ion battery pack development for HEV and power electronic converters. His research interest includes Power electronics converters and Applications, Sustainability, Renewable energy, digital control and implementation of Embedded controllers for Solar power plants.

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Dr.Vaijayanti Deshpande

Office: Cabin No:4, E310
Educational Details: B.E. (Electrical and Electronics), M.E.(Electrical) (Control Systems), College of Engineering Pune, and PhD in Instrumentation and Control Engineering, from College of Engineering Pune, Savitribai Phule Pune University
Profile: Prof Vaijayanti Deshpande has 28 years of experience in Academics and Industry. In her academic career, she has worked as Head of Electrical Engineering Department for 7 years.. She has developed many laboratories for academic purpose. She worked as NAAC Steering Committee Head for the NBNSSOE Institute in 2017. She worked in many committees at university level. She is SPOC of Smart India Hackathon at SSPU. She has guided many students for competitions and projects.

She has 14 publications in reputed archival international journals published by IEEE transactions,    ASME, IMechE, Elsevier and Taylor and Francis and in International Conferences. Google citation score for her publication is 328, h-index 7 and I10 index 7, and Scopus citation score  is 274. She had worked as Reviewer for scholarly international journals published by IEEE Industrial Electronics, IEEE Mechatronics,           Elsevier, Vehicle System dynamics Taylor and Francis, NODY, Inderscience etc. Her area of interest includes Uncertainty  and Disturbance estimation, Active suspension, Sliding Mode control

Mr. Ganesh V. Lohar

Office: Engineering Block, First floor, Room – E-108, Meeting Hours – 10 am to 1 pm or on appointment
Educational Details:
  • Ph.D. Pursuing
  • M.E. (Electronics), T.K.I.E.T. Warananagar, University of Kolhapur, (2008)
  • B.E. (Electronics), S.G.G.S.C.E&T Nanded, Dr. B.A.M. University Aurangabad, Maharashtra, (1997)
  • Diploma in Electronics & Communication, Government Polytechnic. Pune, Board of Technical Education, Mumbai, Maharashtra, (1993)
Work Experience: Total Experience: 25 Years Academic: 23 Years Industry: 02 Years
Research Areas: Microprocessors and Microcontrollers, Vehicle Electronics, Embedded Systems and RTOS, Optical Fiber Communication, Mobile Communication

Jahida J. Subhedar

Office: Engineering Block, First floor, Room – E111, Extension No.-7760, Meeting Hours – 10 am to 1 pm or on appointment
Educational Details:
  • Ph.D. Pursuing
  • M. E. (VLSI and Mechatronics)
Work Experience:s
  • 15 year
Research Areas: Power electronics, Signal processing, Deep learning, Image processing

Mr. Sarang Laxmikant Joshi

Office: E108, Cabin No. 13 appointment
Educational Details:
  • Ph.D. (E&TC) pursuing
  • M.Tech. (Signal Processing) from V.I.T. Pune (2013)
  • B.E. E&TC, PVG’s COET, Pune (2011)
Work Experience: 7+ years
Research Areas: Signal Processing, Image processing, Speech synthesis

Mrs. Rupali Devidas Rode

Office: Engineering Block, First floor, Room – E108, Extension No.-7765, Meeting Hours – 10 am to 1 pm or on appointment
Educational Details: M. E. (Electronics)
Work Experience:
  • 7 Years
Research Areas: Speech Signal Processing, Power Electronics.

Dr. Poonam Nakhate

Office: Engineering Block, First Floor, Room No. E-111 Cabin No. 04
Profile: Dr. Poonam Nakhate has 13 years of teaching experience, totally in the engineering college only.  She has 8 international publications during her Ph.D.Received “late prof Dnyaneshwar Kothawale” prize for standing 1st in physics F.Y.B.Sc. Received  three prizes in M.Sc. from Nowrosjee Wadia College i.e. “jadkar prize”, “Dr. H.V. Modak prize” and “1st in M.Sc physics exam”

 Conferences: attended 8 international conferences

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Mr.Vishnupant Potdar

Office: Engineering Block, First floor, Room – E111, Extension No.-7760, Meeting Hours – 10 am to 1 pm or on appointment
Educational Details: MSc. Mathematics
Ph.D.(Pursuing)
SET Qualified
Work Experience:  6.5
Research Areas: Spectral Graph Theory, Ordinary differential equation, Partial differential equation, Linear Algebra
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Dr. Hrushikesh B. Kulkarni

Office: Engineering Block, First floor, Room – E111, Extension No.-7760, Meeting Hours – 10 am to 1 pm or on appointment
Educational Details: B.E. (Mechanical Engineering) from Dr. BAMU Aurangabad. M. Tech (Mechanical-Energy Technology) from Shivaji University, Kolhapur and Ph.D. (Mechanical- Material Science and Engineering) from Vellore Institute of Technology (Deemed to be University), Vellore
Profile: Dr. Hrushikesh B. Kulkarni 14 years of experience in Academics and Research. In his academic career, he shouldered many responsibilities of Coordinator for Higher studies and carries counselling, Examinations like UG, PG, UGC (SET-NET), skill courses, and national competitions like E-yantra, Innovation, and Convener of faculty and students development program at Institute/University level.

He has published more than 50 research papers, 2 book chapters in journals/books having international repute. He has participated in more than 20 faculty development program and online courses conducted by NPTEL/ATAL/AICTE/Udemy. He is reviewer of many SCOPUS/UGC indexed journal.

He has received Best Teacher and Special achievement award for excellent work during his academic career. He has delivered guest session/technical talks in student and faculty development program organized by polytechnics and junior colleges in Maharashtra region.

He is life member of various professional bodies like International Society of Research and Development, London, UK, International Association of Engineers, Hong Kong, Indian Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering, India and Institute for Engineering Research and Publication (IFERP) Association, India

               His area of interest is in the field of Design and development of renewable energy systems, thermal systems, nanomaterials, polymer composites etc.

Prof. Bharati Nalawade

Office: Management Block, First floor, Room – M 109, Meeting Hours – 10 am to 1 pm or on Appointment
Educational Details:
  • Ph. D. (Organic Chemistry), Department of Chemistry, University of Pune (2009).
  • M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry), Department of Chemistry, University of Pune (2000).
  • B. Sc. (Chemistry), New Art, commerce & Science College Shevgaon, Ahmadnagar (1998).
  • SET Qualified in 2000 Conducted by UGC & University of Pune.
  • Diploma in Patent Law, from World Intellectual Property Organization.(2006)
Work Experience:
  • Total Experience: 20 Years ; Academic: 10 yrs Industry & Research: 10 yrs
Research Areas:
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Method Development for Biologically active Compound, preferably in asymmetric synthesis and total synthesis of natural product, Cheminformatics etc

Mrs. Megha Mahesh Patil

Office: Engineering Block, First Floor, Room No. E-111 Cabin No. 04
Educational Details: B.E. (Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering) from Shivaji University, Kolhapur. M.E. (Electronics Engineering) from RIT, Rajaramnagar, Shivaji University, Kolhapur and Ph.D. (Electronics – Biomedical Signal Processing) from Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed to be University College of Engineering, Pune
Profile: Mrs. Megha Patil has 11 years of experience in Academics and Research. She worked as a NAAC Steering Committee member for Criteria VII SPPU affiliated Institute in 2018. In her academic career, she shouldered many responsibilities of Coordinator for NIRF, NBA, Higher studies and carrier counseling, and national competition coordinator for students at the Institute level.

She has successfully completed the NPTEL Certification course on “Python for Data Science”, and also completed training on Arduino and Scilab offered by the spoken tutorial project, IIT Bombay. She attended various syllabus settings and revised syllabus faculty orientation workshops at Savitribai Phule Pune University. Also participated in more than 40 faculty development programs and online courses conducted by NPTEL/ATAL/AICTE/Udemy.

She is a member of IEEE for the Pune Section. she has received the Best Teacher and Special achievement award for excellent work during her academic career. She has guided many students in competitions and projects.            She presented her research work at the Academia industry consortium, Wenzow Kean University China in 2021, and her work was published in the book Advances in intelligent systems and computing, Springer Singapore. She has published more than 5 quality research papers in reputed SCI, Scopus Indexed Journals, and Conferences. Her area of interest is in the field of Neural Signal Processing, Medical Image Processing, Machine learning, Deep Learning, etc

Dr. Sagar V. Wankhede

Office: Engineering Block, First Floor, Room No. E-111 Cabin No. 04
Educational Details:
Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering.), M.E. (Mechanical-Design Engineering),
B.E. (Mechanical Engineering)
Work Experience:  

Dr. Sagar Wankhede has 9+ years of experience in Academics. In his academic career, he has worked with Savitribai Phule Pune University for 9 years and served as Assistant Professor. His research interests are in Renewable Energy Sources, Energy systems, and Composite Materials. He has presented his research work at 06 International and 04 National Conferences. He received the Excellent Paper Award and Best Paper award in International conferences. In his name, there are 10 Research papers, 02 Text Books, and 02 Patents Publications. Also, He is a life member of the International Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and Solar energy Society of India (SESI).

 

Research Areas:
  • Renewable Energy Sources, Energy systems, Composite Materials

Prof. Nikhilesh S. Pawar

Office: Engineering Block, First Floor, Room No. E-111 Cabin No. 04
Educational Details: B.E. in Automobile Engineering from Shivaji University, Kolhapur. M-Tech CAD/CAM/CAE from Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Pursuing a Ph.D. from Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune.
Work Experience:  

Prof Nikhilesh Pawar has more than 7.5 years of experience in Academics and Industry. In his academic career, he has worked with Shri Savitribai Phule Pune University for 4 years and served as Assistant Professor.  In his name, there are 2 Research papers published. Subjects like CAD/CAM/CAE, Mechatronics, and Automobile engineering are some areas of his expertise.

He worked with HCL Technologies, Bangalore, and TAL manufacturing solutions Pvt. Ltd, Pune with contributions in CAE analysis and product development activities for automotive and mechanical assemblies of multi-national manufacturers.

Mr. Pradeep Jadhav (Lab Assistant)

Office: Engineering Block, First Floor, Room No. E-111 Cabin No. 04
Educational Details: B.E (Electrical and Electronics Engg) from Karnataka University- Dharwad
Profile: Total 22+ years of experience in Industry and Academics.

Industry experience :  

  • 8+ years of experience in Power Project Management ,worked for Asea Brown Boweri  (ABB) ,Bangalore.
  • 3+ years of experience in Electrical project design and consultancy (Low and Medium voltage)

Academic experience :

  • 3+ year of experience as a Lecturer in Diploma Engineering College
  • 8+ years of experience in Technical Support role for Degree Engineering programs.

Ms. Aarati Jadhav (Lab In Charge)

Office: Engineering Block, First Floor, Room No. E-111 Cabin No. 04
Educational Details: Diploma in Electronics and communication Engineering
Profile: Ms. Arati Jadhav has 22Yrs of experience in Academics. In her academic career she has worked in Engineering colleges affiliated to Dr. BAMU, Aurangabad & Savitribai Phule Pune University. She has expertise In Electronics & Computer hardware, Software & Networking. Currently working for Luccas Nulle Labs as Lab In charge.