The Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST)

Sponsored

One Week Faculty Development Program

on

“Research Applications in Artificial Intelligence and

Machine Learning”
(24th – 28th June, 2019)

(GUJCOST/Seminar Grant/2415/2019-20/813)

Organized By

in Association with
Computer Society of India (CSI)
Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE)

Program Coordinator
Mr. Vishvajit Bakarola
Assistant Professor,
Computer Engineering & Information Technology Department,
C. G. Patel Institute of Technology, Bardoli

Convener
Ms. Purvi Tandel
Head of Computer Engineering & Information Technology Department
C. G. Patel Institute of Technology, Bardoli

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About Program

The primary objective of this one-week Faculty Development Program (FDP)

on Research Applications in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning was
to enrich faculty members of Computer Science stream with preliminaries of
artificial intelligence and its modern applications in machine learning and
deep learning. The FDP was divided into several modules falling under the
umbrella of Artificial Intelligence including Machine Learning, Deep Learning,
Data Science, Natural Language Processing and Digital Image Processing.
The objective was to address modern trends in the field of Artificial
Intelligence with real time problem solving. This FDP focused on hands-on
implementation of various algorithms to deliver practical skill to participants.

Date: 24th– 28th June, 2019

Time: 09:30 AM to 04:00 PM (Monday – Friday)

Venue: M.Sc (IT) LAB, 1st Floor, D-Wing (103), CGPIT

Coordinator: Mr. Vishvajit Bakarola (Department of Computer Engineering &

Information Technology)

Organizing Committee:
1) Mr. Sapan Naik (Assistant Professor)
2) Ms. Mithila Sompura (Assistant Professor)
3) Ms. Krishna Patel (Assistant Professor)
Technical Committee:
1) Mr. Fenil Khatiwala (Assistant Professor)
2) Mr. Parth Shah (Assistant Professor)
Targeted Audience:
1) Faculty members from various academic
institutes/universities
2) Research Scholars
3) Industry Personnel
No. of Participants:
1) Academician – 22
2) Industry Person - 02

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FDP Banner

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Speaker Profile

Prof. Amit Ganatara has more than 20 years of experience in

academics. He is currently working as a Professor and dean in
C. S. Patel Institute of Technology, Charusat, Changa. He is
having wide experience in the field of data science and
Prof. (Dr.) Amit machine learning. His research interest covers vast range of
Ganatara domains including Data mining, Cloud computing, Artificial
Intelligence, Machine Learning, Soft computing.

Prof. Mukesh Zaveri has vast experience in the field of

computer science and electronics engineering. He has pursued
his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay. His research interest covers
Computer vision, Image processing, Audio-speech processing,
Machine learning, Wireless sensor networks and Internet of
Things. He is currently working as a Head at Department of
Prof. (Dr.) Mukesh
Computer Engineering, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National
Zaveri
Institute of Technology, Surat.

Prof. Mehul Raval has more than 15 years of experience as a

researcher. Prof. Raval is Joint secretary of IEEE Gujarat
section, Senior member of CSI. He has pursued his Doctorate
from Pune University, Maharashtra. He is currently working as
a Professor at Pandit Dindayala Upadhyay University,
Prof. (Dr.) Mehul S.
Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Raval

Prof. Mayuri Mehta has more than 10 years of experience as an

academician. She pursued her doctoral research from SVNIT,
Surat. She is currently working as a Professor in Department
of Computer Engineering, Sarvajanik College of Engineering
and Technology, Surat. Her major research interests are in
High performance computing, Data science, Machine learning,
Prof. (Dr.) Mayuri
Deep learning, Algorithms and Genetic algorithms.
Mehta

Dr. Brijesh Bhatt has more than 16 years of experience and

currently working as an Associate Professor, in department of
computer engineering, Dharamsinh Desai University, Nadiad.
He has pursued his Ph.D. from IIT, Bombay. His major
research interest is in Natural Language Processing and
Prof. (Dr.) Brijesh S.
Artificial Intelligence.
Bhatt

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 Dr. Devang Pandya is an Assistant Professor in Information and
Communication Technology at AIIE since April 2018. He has 18
years of academic experience. He has been invited as an
expert/Resource person at various Engineering colleges. He is
a life time member of ISTE and IETE. His major research
interest is in Artificial Intelligence, Image Processing, Statistics,
Prof. (Dr.) Devang
Algorithm Analysis, Information Security, and Information
Pandya
Retrieval.

Day 1 – 24th June 2019: Prof. (Dr.) Amit Ganatra

Session 1: Hands on - Programming with Python

Python is a general purpose and high level programming language. We can use
Python for developing desktop GUI applications, websites and web applications.
Also, Python, as a high level programming language, allows you to focus on core
functionality of the application by taking care of common programming tasks. The
simple syntax rules of the programming language further makes it easier for us to
keep the code base readable and application maintainable.

To make audience aware with python programming, hands-on session was

arranged on first day of FDP. The session was conducted by Assistant Prof. Kinjal
Mistree and Assistant Prof. Fenil Khatiwala, CE & IT Department, CGPIT. They
covered basic functionalities and libraries of python.

Session 2: Research Scopes and Recent Trends in Artificial Intelligence and

Machine Learning

In the session on Research Scopes and Recent Trends in Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning, Dr. Amit Ganatra sir covered overview and applications of deep
learning. He explained that the exponential growth of business data, low-cost data
storage, and Artificial Intelligence reaching maturity will lead to more businesses
outsourcing their data center enter activities to cloud service providers. Also, the
future of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence explains that while cloud
brings agility to businesses, AI and ML will leave a major impact on business
outcomes.

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 Dr. Amit Ganatra delivering session

He explained significance of easy availability of both live and dead business data
that will contribute towards the creation of better Machine Learning models and
algorithms. Also, wearable devices and the development of intelligent apps will rise
in tandem, with the increasing rise of mobile consumers. The use of Natural
Language Processing (NLP) will rise significantly in customer-service functions that
require text processing at scale.

Session 3: Foundation of Machine Learning

Machine learning can be broadly defined as computational methods using

experience to improve performance or to make accurate predictions. Here,
experience refers to the past information available to the learner, which typically
takes the form of electronic data collected and made available for analysis. This
data could be in the form of digitized human-labeled training sets, or other types of
information obtained via interaction with the environment. In all cases, its quality
and size are crucial to the success of the predictions made by the learner.

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 Dr. Amit Ganatra with Dr. R V Patil

In the post lunch session Dr. Amit Ganatra sir briefed about basics of Neural
networks. The speaker also covered layers of NN, with functioning of all the
individual layers. He gave the information about preliminary need of hidden layer
and the change in result by varying input of hidden layer. Moreover the speaker
had shown working of different functionalities in Oragne and WEKA tools. At the end
of session he discussed various research applications with the participants.

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 Dr. Amit Ganatra with Dr. R V Patil and FDP organizing team

Day 2 – 25th June 2019: Prof. (Dr.) Devang Pandya

Session 1 & 2: Machine Learning algorithms for Data Science

Machine learning is used to predict, categorize, classify, finding polarity from the
given datasets and concerned with minimizing the error. It uses training data for
artificial intelligence.

Since there are many algorithms like SVM, Bayes algorithm, logistic regression, etc.
which use training data to match with input data and then they provide conclusion
with maximum accuracy.

To make participants aware with various popular machine learning algorithms, Dr.
Devang Pandya conducted session with introduction of image processing, various
tools and techniques to work with image processing. After introduction, he
explained how to work with NumPy with basic calculations. The participants

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performed hands on NumPy. Moreover the speaker taught how to solve real time
problems efficiently using machine learning algorithms.

Dr. Devang Pandya with participants

Dr. Devang Pandya delivering session

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 Dr. Devang Pandya with participants and FDP organizing team

Dr. Devang Pandya with Dr. R V Patil and FDP organizing team

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Day 3 – 26th June 2019: Prof. (Dr.) Mukesh Zaveri, Prof.
(Dr.) Mayuri Mehta
Session 1: Machine Learning Classifiers

In machine learning and statistics, classification is a supervised learning approach

in which the computer program learns from the data input given to it and then uses
this learning to classify new observation. This data set may simply be bi-class (like
identifying whether the person is male or female or that the mail is spam or non-
spam) or it may be multi-class too.

After giving introduction to all types of machine learning classifiers, Dr. Mukesh
Zaveri summarized mathematical representation of linear classification, regression
with applications.

Dr. Mukesh Zaveri delivering session on Support Vector Machines

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 Dr. Mukesh Zaveri with Dr. R V Patil

Session 2: TensorFlow: A Platform to Build ML/DL Models

Google's TensorFlow is an open-source and most popular deep learning library for
research and production. It covers basics to advance topics like linear regression,
classifiers, create, train and evaluate a neural network like CNN, RNN, auto
encoders etc.

In the second session of third day, Dr. Mayuri Mehta started with basics of Machine
Learning. She explained how TensorFlow and NumPy are used with research
applications. She explained how to define rank and shaper of tensor.

After introduction to Tensorflow, she conducted practical session on steps of

installing anaconda software in Linux OS. She covered commands to create private
virtual environment with a specific package and version. The basic examples to
work with TensorFlow with Regression and Tensorboard were also covered.

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 Dr. Mayuri Mehta delivering session on Tensorflow

Dr. Mayuri Mehta with Dr. R V Patil and FDP organizing team

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Day 4 – 27th June 2019: Prof. (Dr.) Brijesh Bhatt
Session 1: Natural Language Processing for Machine Learning

Natural language processing is a field in machine learning with the ability of a

computer to understand, analyze, manipulate, and potentially generate human
language.

To introduce research scope and recent trends in NLP, in the first session of fourth
day, Dr. Brijesh Bhatt adumbrated basic preliminary of intelligence computing,
belief and reasoning. He also covered different stages of NLP and their use in real
time applications.

Dr. Brijesh Bhatt delivering session on NLTk

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 Dr. Brijesh Bhatt with participants and FDP organizing team

Session 2: Hands On with NLTK

NLTk provides practical introduction to programming for language processing.

Written by the creators of NLTK, it guides the reader through the fundamentals of
writing Python programs, working with corpora, categorizing text, analyzing
linguistic structure, and more.

In post session, Dr. Brijesh Bhatt had shown practical demonstration of statistic
translation and syntax processing stage.

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 Dr. Brijesh Bhatt with Dr. R V Patil and FDP organizing team

Day 5 – 28th June 2019: Prof. (Dr.) Mehul Raval

Session 1: Soft biometrics for person retrieval in unconstrained

surveillance videos

In this session, Dr. Mehul Raval covered a practical demonstration of how to divide
frame from live video. He also explained the efficiency of recognizing human with
and without artificial intelligence. As a result after applying artificial intelligence
algorithm the result outperforms.

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 Dr. Mehul Raval delivering session

Session 2: Soft biometrics for person retrieval in unconstrained

surveillance videos
In post session Dr. Mehul Raval demonstrated real time project of recognizing
human from live video.

Group photo with expert, coordinators and participants

The day ended with certificate distribution to the participants. Dr. Rajkumar Patil,
Director, of C. G. Patel Institute of Technology and Dr. Mehul Raval, resource
person of fifth day distributed certificates to participants. Participants gave oral and

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written feedbacks about overall conduction and usefulness of course content. The
programme concluded with thanksgiving note by Dr. R V Patil.

Certificate distribution to participants

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 Feedback Analysis

Very
Questions NA Poor Fair Good
Good Excellent
Information imparted in
- - - 5 7 12
the program

Course Contents - - - 3 11 10
Usefulness of Course
Contents in practical - - - 2 8 13
use
Knowledge about subject

Prof. (Dr.) Amit

- - - - 4 18
Ganatra

Dr. Devang Pandya - - - 2 7 15

Prof. (Dr.) Mukesh
- - - - 10 14
Zaveri

Prof. (Dr.) Mayuri Mehta - - - - 5 19

Dr. Brijesh Bhatt - - - 3 3 18

Prof. (Dr.) Mehul
- - - 1 9 14
Raval

Presentation Methods

Prof. (Dr.) Amit

- - - - 8 6
Ganatra

Dr. Devang Pandya - - - 1 12 11

Prof. (Dr.) Mukesh
- - - 5 6 13
Zaveri

Prof. (Dr.) Mayuri Mehta - - - - 5 19

Dr. Brijesh Bhatt - - - 2 7 15

Prof. (Dr.) Mehul
- - 1 1 7 15
Raval

Level of Instructions
Prof. (Dr.) Amit
- - - 5 5 14
Ganatra

Dr. Devang Pandya - - - 3 6 13

Prof. (Dr.) Mukesh
- - 1 3 5 15
Zaveri

Prof. (Dr.) Mayuri Mehta - - 1 4 4 15

Dr. Brijesh Bhatt - - 1 4 4 15

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Prof. (Dr.) Mehul
- - 1 5 7 11
Raval

Relevance of training to
- - - 3 9 12
participants

Quality of food - - - 4 7 13
Overall Grading of the
- - - 2 6 16
program(Timeliness)

Overall Grading of the

- - - 1 6 17
program(Relevance)

Overall Grading of the

- - - 3 5 16
program(Effectiveness)

Note: The feedback analysis count shows the number of participants evaluated
various questionnaire.

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