ADANI UNIVERSITY - Key Persons

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• V.P.

A. Pandey, R. Prasad, V.P. Singh, S.K. Jha, K.K. Shukla, Crop parameter estimation by fuzzy inference system using X-band scatterometer data, Advances in Space Research, 51 (5), 905-911, 2013, Impact factor 2.177 (Q1)

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• Associate Dean ( Academics ) & Associate Professor FEST

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. Education PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, 2014, KSV Gandhinagar

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• Director, Adani Ports & SEZ Ltd

Dr. Malay Mahadevia has worked in the areas of Ports & Logistics, Railways, Healthcare & Medical Education, Infrastructure Engineering & Management Education, and Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives of the Group. He is the Director of Adani Ports and SEZ Ltd. He is a Trustee in the Adani Foundation, which is a Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the Adani Group. He is a Trustee at Adani Institute for Education and Research, which is a Not-for-Profit Organization to promote quality education in India. He was the President of the Ahmedabad Management Association. He has been awarded the "Outstanding Manager of the Year" by AMA in the year 2002. In 2008, Dr. Malay Mahadevia was conferred upon Ph.D. by Gujarat University for his research and study in the field of "Coastal Ecology".

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• Trustee & Director, Academy of Traumatology, India
• Trustee and Director at the Academy of Traumatology

Dr. Pankaj Patel is a Trustee and Director at the Academy of Traumatology [India], and is also a former Dean of NHL Municipal Medical College, Ahmedabad. Furthermore, he serves as Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Ph.D. Guide at Gujarat University, as well as being a former Trustee and Treasurer at the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation Medical Education Trust. Dr. Patel is also Past President of the Gujarat Orthopedic Association and the Gujarat Spine Association. In addition to this, he has served as faculty for AO Advanced, Masters and AO Spine courses, as well as for the ATLS course. He has published over seventy-five papers in indexed international and national journals.

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• President
• President of the Board of Management
• Chairman of the Adani Foundation

Dr Priti G Adani is the Chairperson of the Adani Foundation, one of India's largest and most well-known organisations in the non-profit social sector. The Adani Foundation is the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of India's Adani Group of companies. A doctor by qualification and an educationist by passion, Dr Adani has been spearheading nationwide social development initiatives through the Adani Foundation since 1996. Choosing social work over a medical career, Dr Adani has led the Foundation from its beginnings as a rural initiative in Mundra, Gujarat, into one of the world's most wide-reaching non-governmental non-profit organisations in community welfare. Working with a team of nearly 650 development professionals, Dr Adani has focused on uplifting the less privileged and the underserved in the remotest villages of India through a variety of transformative programmes in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Dr Adani believes that, given the opportunity, every individual can learn and prosper - and that a woman is every family's binding strength. This personal philosophy drives her to design, implement and sustain empowerment and livelihood programmes customised to meet the needs of rural communities in the hinterland, with an enhanced focus on improving the status of women. Under Dr Adani's guidance, the Foundation has made consistent progress in serving and strengthening four critically important social sectors: education, health, sustainable livelihood development and community infrastructure. Today, the Foundation serves over 7.3 million people annually across 19 states of the country. If India is to take advantage of the opportunities present before us, the single most requirement is to educate and scale up our human capital and make it ready to thrive in a volatile and uncertain world. We intend to achieve that with Adani University.

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• Associate Professor in Physics
• Dean in - Charge, Associate Dean ( Research ) & Associate Professor, FoS

Dr. Sunil Jha is Associate Professor in Physics and Machine Learning and Associate Dean (Research) at Adani University. His expertise is in the area of Applied Physics and Machine Learning for Health, Energy, and Agriculture. He has over 11 years of experience in academia. He has been teaching Physics, Basic Electronics, Computer Programming, Signals and Systems at Adani University using hands-on practice, simulations, case methods, projects, and in-class activities. In past, he taught Machine Learning, Project management, Server-Side Programming, Software Engineering, Non-Linear Waves, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, etc. His current research areas include Soil Physics, Quantum Machine Learning, Nano-informatics, Health-informatics, Agro-informatics, and Renewable Energy. He is the author of two book chapters, two patents, one textbook, and more than 80 SCI articles in the journal of repute. He is actively working as a reviewer of several prestigious journals (IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, MDPI). He worked as publication chair and program committee member of several international conferences. He worked as a leading guest editor of two SCI journals. He presented keynote speeches at several international conferences in Chia, and Czech Republic. Prior to joining Adani University, he worked as Associate Professor at the School of Computer and Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China between 2017-2021. He worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszow, Poland between 2016-2017 and at the University of Information Science and Technology, Ohrid, North Macedonia between 2015-2016. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea between 2014-2015 and at Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan between 2012-2014. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree, a Master of Science degree in Physics from VBS Purvanchal University, India, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Banaras Hindu University, India. Education Ph.D. in Physics, Banaras Hindu University, 2011 M.Sc. in Physics, VBS Purvanchal University, 2005 B.Sc., VBS Purvanchal University, 2003 Work Experience Associate Professor at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China (October 2020 - September 2021) Assistant Professor at the University of Information Technology and Management, Rzeszow, Poland (September 2016-September 2017) Assistant Professor at the University of Information Science and Technology, Ohrid, North Macedonia (February 2015-August 2016) S.K. Jha*, J. Bilalovic, A. Jha, N. Patel, H. Zhang, Renewable energy: present research and future scope of artificial intelligence, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 77, 297-317, 2017, Impact factor 16.80 (Q1) S. Andleeb, S. Bao, Z. Ahmad, S.K. Jha*, A hybrid machine learning approach in modeling the impact of chromium concentration in blood and gonads on the concentration of the reproductive hormones of Urva auropunctatus, Measurement, 2021, Impact factor 5.131 (Q1) S. Andleeb, Z. Ahmad, T. Mahmood, S. Bao, A.A. Saeed, S.K. Jha, Evaluating toxicity impacts of environmental exposed chromium on small Indian mongoose (Urva auropunctatus) hematological, biochemical and histopathological functioning, Chemosphere, 259, 2020, Impact factor 5.778 (Q1) J. Wang, Q. Ni, G. Liu, X. Luo, S.K. Jha, Image splicing detection based on convolutional neural network with weight combination strategy, Journal of Information Security and Applications 54 (2020) 102523, Impact factor 2.327 (Q2) X. Zhang, J. Duan, W. Sun, S.K. Jha, A tumour perception system based on a multi-layer mass-spring model, International Journal of Sensor Networks, 31 (1), 2019, 24-32, Impact factor 1.428 (Q2) E. Elahi, C. Weijun, S.K. Jha, H.K. Zhang, Estimation of realistic renewable and non-renewable energy use targets for livestock production systems utilizing an artificial neural network method: a step towards livestock sustainability, Energy, 183, 2019, 191-204, Impact factor 6.081 (Q1) M. Imahashi, M. Watanabe, S.K. Jha, K. Hayashi, Olfaction inspired sensing using a sensor system with molecular recognition and optimal classification ability for comprehensive detection of gases, Sensors, 14, 5221-5238, 2014, Impact factor 3.275 (Q1) R. Prasad, A. Pandey, S.K. Jha, K.P. Singh, G.S. Yadav, Classification of fields having different soil moisture content by SVM technique using bistatic scatterometer, Recent Research in Science and Technology, 3 (1), 105-113, 2011

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• Principal, AIIE & Professor, FEST
• Professor in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering at Adani University Ahmedabad

Dr.-Ing. Anupam Kumar Singh is Professor in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering at Adani University Ahmedabad. His expertise is in Infrastructure planning, water & environmental management, and system sustainability. He has over 30-years of experience in academia, research, and industry both in India and Abroad. Prof Singh taught courses in infrastructure planning and management, geospatial modeling, building information modeling, sustainable buildings, environmental impact assessment, health safety and environmental sustainability. He is well versed with outcome-based education, and uses project based experiential learnings, case study methods, and active in-class activities as pedagogical tools. His current research and consulting include sustainability of civil infrastructure, project planning and appraisals, water and environment engineering, and applications of emerging technologies such as AI &ML, IoT, BIM, and Geo-spatial analysis for decision making. Prior to joining Adani University, Prof Singh was associated with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT Germany), Nirma University, Pandit Deendayal Energy University (formerly PDPU), JK Lakshmipat University, Indus University, and institutions CGIAR- International Water Management Institute Colombo Sri Lanka, University of Karlsruhe (TH) Germany, Technical University of Szczecin Poland, School of Planning and Architecture New Delhi, and Government of Madhya Pradesh- Ministry of Housing and Environment. Prof. Singh was awarded with Indian Science Congress Association- Platinum jubilee lecture award in Engineering sciences, Institution of Engineers India, Rajasthan state centre Jaipur- Outstanding engineering services to society award, Indian Society of Technical Education- Best engineering college teacher award Gujarat State, Institution of Engineers India Kolkata- Prof Jai Krishna memorial lecture award in Civil Engineering, IEEE-ACM Udaipur & CSI Jaipur Chapter- Star Ikon award, Institution of Engineers India, Gujarat state centre Ahmedabad- Prof VJ Joni memorial lecture award, Stockholm International Water Institute Sweden- Best poster award, and Association of Agro-meteorologist Best paper/ poster award. In addition, he received fellowships from Germany (DAAD & DFG), Poland (NAUKA), Japan (MEXT) and India (GATE- MHRD) during various professionals stages. Prof Dr.-Ing. Singh holds a B.Tech. in Civil engineering, MS in Resources engineering, and a PhD (Dr.-Ing.) in Water and environmental engineering. Education Dr.-Ing. (PhD) in Water and Environment Engineering, 2004, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (formerly University of Karlsruhe), Germany MS in Resources Engineering, 1998, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (formerly University of Karlsruhe), Germany, PG Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning, 1994, Technical University of Szczecin, Poland B.Tech in Civil Engineering, 1989, RML Avadh University, Faizabad, India

J. Niu, Q. Hu, Y. Niu, T. Zhang, S.K. Jha, Real-time recognition and location of indoor objects, Computers, Materials & Continua 68(2), 2021, 2221-2229, Impact Factor 3.772 (Q1)

J. Wang, T. Li, X. Luo, Y. Shi, R. Liu, S.K. Jha, Identifying Computer Generated Images Based on Quaternion Central Moments in Color Quaternion Wavelet Domain, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 29(9), 2018, 2775-2785, Impact factor 4.133 (Q1)

J. Wang, Y. Li, J. Li, X. Luo, Y.Q. Shi, S.K. Jha, Color image-spliced localization based on quaternion principal component analysis and quaternion skewness, Journal of Information Security and Applications, 47, 2019, 353-362, Impact factor 2.327 (Q2)

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• Registrar
• Secretary

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• Human Resources

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• Hostel Administration

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• Finance & Accounts -

Darshna Patel and Hitesh Chhinkaniwala, Fuzzy logic-based single document summarisation with improved sentence scoring technique, International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, Volume 5, No. 1-2, Pages 125-138, 2018. Paresh Solanki, Sanjay Garg and Hitesh Chhinkaniwala, Heuristic-based hybrid privacy-preserving data stream mining approach using SD-perturbation and multi-iterative k-anonymisation, International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, Volume 5, No. 4, Pages 306-332, 2018.

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• Vice President
• Vice President of the Board of Management

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• Director, IIM Bangalore & Prof. Centre for Public Policy

Dr. Raghuram has been Director, of IIM Bangalore, since February 2017. Before taking over as Director of IIM Bangalore, he was a Professor and Chairperson of the Public Systems Group at IIMA. He has been Dean (Faculty), IIMA, Vice-Chancellor of the Indian Maritime University, and Indian Railways Chair Professor. He specializes in infrastructure and transport systems, and logistics and supply chain management. He researches the railway, port, shipping, aviation, and road sectors. He has published over 35 refereed papers in journals and written over 160 case studies. He has published six co-authored books. He was awarded (i) ‘Life-time Achievement Award' for Transport Excellence, by Mahindra and Mahindra, supported by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in 2018 (ii) ‘MC Puri Memorial Award' for contribution to Operational Research in India in 2016 (iii) ‘Lifetime Achievement Award' for contribution to Logistics and Infrastructure by EXIM News in 2014 and (iv) ‘Academician of the Year' by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in 2012. He is a Fellow of the Operational Research Society of India, and Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. He has teaching experience at universities in India, USA, Canada, Yugoslavia, Singapore, Tanzania, UAE and Japan. He is a member of the Board of Directors of three companies in the fields of infrastructure and logistics. Overall, he has been on the Board of 14 companies. He is on the Board of four educational institutions, one NGO and on the Advisory Board of a few other educational institutions. He has offered consultancy services to over 100 organizations including multilateral agencies. He has been part of various government policy-making and advisory committees for the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Ministry of Shipping, Cabinet Secretariat, Comptroller and Auditor General, the Planning Commission and various State Governments. Raghuram has a BTech from IIT, Madras; a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad; and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, USA.

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• Member of the Board of Management
• Provost

Prof. Singh is an accomplished higher education leader. He has completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Gold Medal) in Physics from Banaras Hindu University and received his Ph.D. and post-doctoral training in condensed matter physics from the University of Western Ontario. He brings with him extensive experience in higher education and the public sector which includes Secretary General, the Quality Council of India, Director and Senior Regional Director of IGNOU, Vice Chancellor of Sharda University, Dean at Punjab Technical University, and Assistant/Deputy Director of AICTE. He has received a D.Sc. (Honoris Causa) from Sharda University and Quality Award from the Institution of Engineers, India.

Q. Li, L. Zhang, L. Zhang, S.K. Jha, Exploring multi-level motivations towards green design practices: a system dynamics approach, Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020, Impact factor 5.628 (Q1)

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• Chairman, Adani Group

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• Member of the Indian Administrative Service

Shri Mukesh Kumar is a respected member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and has served in the government at senior positions for the past 26 years. He is currently acting as the Principal Secretary for Higher & Technical Education (H&TE) in the Government of Gujarat.

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• Managing Director
• Managing Director of Adani Transmission Limited

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• CEO
• Board Member for Adani 's Data Centre
• CEO of Adani Defence & Aerospace

He is the member of Adani's Group Executive Council. Ashish is a Board member for Adani's Data Centre business AdaniConneX. Ashish is on the Board of Adani Gas & IOC joint venture. Ashish has served as a Board member for Adani Wilmar Limited.

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• Director
• Founder

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• CEO
• CTO
• Group 's Chief Technology Officer and the Chief Executive Officer

As CTO, Mr. Bhattacharya leads the Group's digital transformation and is responsible for digital businesses and functions that span Information Technology, Analytics, Operational Technology, Cybersecurity and Next Generation Data Centers. The technology team at Adani is also building the world's largest industry cloud platform, setting up an AI Lab to expand the group's foray into adjacent technology businesses.

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• Founder
• Managing Trustee

X. Zhang, X. Sun, X. Sun, W. Sun, S.K. Jha, Robust Reversible Audio Watermarking Scheme for Telemedicine and Privacy Protection, Computers, Materials & Continua 71(2), 2022, 3035-3050, Impact Factor 3.772 (Q1) X. Zhang, X. Sun, W. Sun, T. Xu, P. Wang, S.K. Jha, Deformation Expression of Soft Tissue Based on BP Neural Network, Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 32(2), 2022, 1041-1053, Impact Factor 1.647 (Q3)