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Ketaki Ghawali

Assistant Professor
Information Technology

Qualification

Pursuing Ph.D

M.Sc.(IT), University of Mumbai
2012

B.Sc.(CS), University of Mumbai
2010

Experience

12
Teaching Experience

04
Technical Papers Published

MY LIFE

When I was a child, I used to love playing the teacher-student game so much that I made my mother buy a blackboard, duster and a bunch of white and other coloured chalks. I had probably imbibed this from my mother who used to tutor kindergarten and primary school children despite not having pursued her higher education.

I saw her nurturing these little minds in all possible ways throughout my childhood and that developed a love towards teaching. I did my graduation in Computer Science from Wilson College and decided not to take up any placements and instead go for post-graduation. I faced the same confusion that most of the students come across and that was selecting between M.Sc., MCA and MBA. Somewhere in the back of my mind I had my career decision made and hence chose M.Sc. IT over all the other options. I started taking tuitions while I was pursuing my post-graduation. This gave me confidence to get into the teaching field. Finally, after many years of waiting, I began my career as an Assistant Professor at Wilson College, where I worked for two years. Along with being a full-time professor in Wilson College, I was also taking visiting lectures at colleges like Lala Lajpat Rai, K.P.B Hinduja and Siddharth. I joined Vidyalankar School of Information Technology in the year 2015 and since then I’ve learned that being a teacher is not only about knowing your subject but also about a versatile improvisation of oneself.

My current designation is Assistant Professor, but along with this I’m also the Convener of Corporate Communication Committee which handles our website and different mediums of LMS provided by our institute. I’m also the Branch Mentor of IEEE – VSIT Student Branch through which we organise various activities, sessions, workshops etc. One most important activity that we conducted through IEEE was the “Digital Literacy Program”, where we collaborated with Angel Express Foundation NGO and taught the kids registered with them the Basics of Computers. This activity had given us a deep sense of understanding that why and how should we be selfless for our society.

The next most important role according to me is being a “Mentor”. I remember when I was in college, a lot of students including me used to come across different problems. The problems could be as small as having a fight with a friend to as big as not being able to adjust to the college environment. We never had anyone to go to and discuss these problems and calm ourselves down. With VSIT, we teachers have been given this opportunity to mentor students so that they don’t really get stuck and feel clueless about what to do next.

Since the time I’ve joined Vidyalankar, I have been able to groom myself in various ways by taking up different types of roles and responsibilities. I’ve learnt quite a lot on the professional front which has changed my notion towards being a responsible teacher and I am looking forward to learning more in future too!

MY WORK

  1. Received a certificate of appreciation from ICT Academy for excellent coordination of Honeywell Student Empowerment Program.
  2. Received a certificate of appreciation from ICT Academy for excellent coordination in the execution of Bajaj Finserv Employability Skill Training Program.
  3. Receive certificate of appreciation from ICT Academy for excellent coordination in execution of “Capgemini Student Transformation Program” 
  1. ICT Academy
  1. Resource person for Value Added course on Introduction to Linux for F.Y.B.Sc.IT students from 02nd September 2023 to 14th October 2023.
  2. Resource person for Value Added course on Website Development & Hosting for First Year students from 9th May 2023 to 13th May 2023.
  3. Resource person for Value Added course on Open Source Tools – Linux for F.Y.B.Sc.IT students from 14th January 2023 to 4th February 2023.
  4. Resource person for Value Added course on My Brand, My Website for F.Y.B.Sc.IT students from 12th May 2022 to 18th May 2022.
  5. Resource person for Value Added course on Open Source Tools – Linux in Easy Steps for B.Sc.IT students of VSIT and non – VSIT students, from 15th January 2022 to 5th March 2022
  6. Resource person for Workshop on Logic Building for First Year B.Sc.IT students on 18th & 20th December 2021.
  7. Resource person for Coding Club organised by CSI – VSIT for the B.Sc.IT students on 31st July 2021.
  8. Resource person for Value Added course on Open Source Tools – Shell Scripting for B.Sc.IT students of VSIT and non – VSIT students, from 19th March 2021 to 24th April 2021.
  9. Resource person for Training Session on Oracle Certified Associate Java Programmer for B.Sc.IT students of VSIT and non – VSIT students, from 8th March 2021 to 17th March 2021.
  10. Resource Person for Value Added Course on Logic Building for all B.Sc.IT students of VSIT from 13th October 2020 to 16th October 2020 & 11th,12th Nov 2020.
  11. Resource person for Value Added Course on Website Designing and Hosting for S.Y.B.Sc.IT students of VSIT, from 12th September 2020 to 31st October 2020.
  12. Guest Speaker for guest lecture on “Website Creation using WordPress” for B.M.S department students on 5th February 2020.
  13. Resource person for Workshop on Website Development and Hosting for S.Y.B.Sc.IT students of VSIT, from 7th June 2018 to 19th June 2018.
  14. Resource person for Value Added course on Mastering React: Building Dynamic Web Applications for F.Y.B.Sc.IT students from 10th June 2024 to 15th June 2024. 
  1. Attended VCMT – International Multidisciplinary Conference organised by VSIT on 11th February 2023.
  2. Attended the Inauguration of ICT Academy’s “Employability Skill Training Program” powered by Bajaj Finserv at Pune on 12th December 2022.
  3. Attended a 5 – day STTP on “Enhancing Quality Education Through Capacity Building for GEN Z” offered by VSIT from 2nd May to 8th May 2023.
  4. Attended a 5 – day FDP on “Data Analytics using Power BI” offered by G Narayanamma Institute of Technology and Science from 20th March to 24th March 2023.
  5. Attended a 5 – day FDP on “Data Science using Machine Learning” offered by Pravara Rural Engineering College in collaboration with Excel R from 2nd January to 6th January 2023.
  6. Attended a 1 – week PDP on “Data Communication & Networking” offered by NITTTR from 9th May to 13th May 2022.
  7. Attended a 3 – day FDP on “Bringing Learner Centricity to Teaching – Learning Process” organised by Internal Quality Assurance Committee, VSIT on 8th, 15th & 22nd January 2022.
  8. Attended a 1 – week FDP on “Academic Research Writing” organised by Ramanujan College, Delhi from 31st December 2021 to 6th January 2022.
  9. Attended a 2 – day conference “International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering & Technology” organised by Institute for Engineering, Research & Publication on 29th & 30th December 2021.
  10. Attended VCMT – International Multi – Disciplinary Conference organised by VSIT on 4th December 2021.
  11. Attended an 8-week FDP on “Introduction to Machine Learning” offered by SWAYAM NPTEL from October to December 2020.
  12. Attended a STTP on Current Trends in Computing organised by VSIT, from 23rd Nov 2020 to 28th Nov 2020.
  13. Attended a 6 – Day FDP on Emerging Technologies followed by Project Build – a – Thon offered by IBM India University Relations from September 2020 to October 2020.
  14. Attended a Webinar on Docker, organised by Patkar – Varde College in May 2020.
  15. Attended a Faculty Development Program on Python Programming at VSIT from 27th April 2020 to 2nd May 2020.
  16. Attended VCMT – International Multi – disciplinary Conference at VSIT on 8th February 2020.
  17. Attended a One Day Pre – Conference Workshop for VCMT at VSIT on 7th February 2020.
  18. Attended a session on User Security at VSIT on 12th October 2019.
  19. Attended a 3 – day conference organised IEEE Bombay Section – IEEE Bombay Section Signature Conference 2019 at IIT Bombay from 26th July to 28th July 2019.
  20. Attended a Faculty Development Program on Cross Platform Mobile Application Development at VSIT from 2nd May 2019 to 9th May 2019.
  21. Attended a session Digital Marketing at VSIT on 9th March 2019.
  22. Attended the 2 – day conference organised by CSI – TechNext India 2018 Conference & Awards at IIT Bombay from 10th – 11th February 2018.
  23. Attended a One Day Workshop on Drupal at IIT Bombay on 24th June 2017.
  24. Organized a 5 day Value Added Course for F.Y.B.Sc. IT students on HTML5,CSS & PHP.
  25. Attended NAAC Sponsored National Seminar on “Challenges faced by the Private/ Permanently Unaided Colleges in getting NAAC Accreditation” on 24th March, 2017.
  26. Participated in Two Day National Multidisciplinary conference:V-CMT-“India 2025-A Vision for the Next Decade” held in VSIT on 3rd & 4th March,2017
  27. Participated in the “Android Development Workshop” in October 2016.
  28. Participated in the F.Y.B.Sc.IT Syllabus Revision Workshop for Operating Systems in 2016.
  29. Attended Two Day National Multidisciplinary conference:V-CMT-“India 2025-A Vision for the Next Decade” held in VSIT on 22nd and 23rd January, 2016.
  30. Workshop on Practicals of Linux Administration at N.M College, Vile Parle.
  31. Participated & presented paper in “International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Emerging Technologies and Smart Systems” organised by School of Engineering, RK University on 28 & 29 March 2025 
  32. Attended 5th Global Education Conclave on “AI in Higher Education”: Impact & Challenges” on 25th OCtober 2024 
  33. .Attended CII SPARK Women in STEM Programme Launch at Taj Palace on 26th June 2024 .

SPOKEN TUTORIAL

  1. Bootstrap on 20th November 2023.
  2. CSS on 11th May 2023.
  3. GIMP on 7th May 2022.
  4. Android App Using Kotlin on 7th May 2022.
  5. HTML on 24th May 2021.
  6. Java Business Application on 11th November 2019.
  7. PostgreSQL on 4th November 2019.
  8. Advanced CPP on 30th November 2018.
  9. Scilab on 7th April 2018.
  10. Python on 20th May 2018.
  11. Drupal on 17th October 2017.
  12. Linux on 17th October 2017.
  13. PHP & MySQL on 19th August 2017.
  14. C Language on 31st May 2017.

OTHERS

  1. Attended Career Edge – Knockdown the Lockdown course offered by TCS ION for two weeks in May 2020.
  2. Attended Matlab OnRamp course offered by Matlab for 2 hours on 4th April 2020.
    1. Attended R Programming course offered by DataCamp on 7th April 2018.
RESEARCH PAPERS
  1. Published a Paper titled “Fraud Detection Alert and Funds Management” in a Peer Reviewed Journal – International Journal Of Creative Research Thoughts, ISSN: 2320-2882.
  2. Published a Paper titled “Personalized Online Storage Terminal” in the journal Stochastic Modeling and Applications, ISSN – 0972-3641 (UGC Care journal). .
  3. Published a Paper titled “A Review of the Pros, Cons, and Future Electrical Vehicles” in International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering & Technology organised by Institute for Engineering, Research & Publication.
  4. Published a Paper titled “Gamification- A Constructivist Learning Technique” in V-CMT 2017.
BOOKS
  1. Published an e-book titled “Object Oriented Programming using Core Java” – Publisher – RRRNA, ISBN – 978-93-5627-212-5 .

Being born in a family where both of my parents were doctors, I was expected to take up medicine as my career. So just like every middle class family my career was decided even before I could learn to speak. During my school and college days I was an above average student but when it came to giving my entrance test for medical somehow I could not manage to get admission in Mumbai and again due to family restrictions I could not go to Yavatmal where I managed secure an M.B.B.S seat. But life does not stop right? So I was expected to prepare for medical entrance one more time. I wished to go for Engineering and brought my admission form as well but was persuaded against it. So to not waste my year I was made to take admission to B.Sc. in the same college where I completed my HSc and that was a turning point for me.

During graduation I was lucky enough to be taught by teachers who inspired me not just to understand what I like but also to take a stand for what I like. So I decided to complete my education in Electronics even after getting B.D.S. seat in a college in Navi Mumbai after my second attempt of the medical entrance. This time I was persistent and confident enough to do what I like and was ready to take all the responsibility of that. So I continued my education while working part time as tutor, because if the choice is yours, so is its responsibility.

During my graduation I realized that, it is more important to know various opportunities around us than to be stuck with a single choice. Unlike our parents’ time, these days we have large number of opportunities, but we lack is proper guidance to explore them. Also one needs to make his own decisions and not just that should be able to work hard to achieve their goal. This thought inspired me to become a teacher and I did my Masters in Electronics and completed B.Ed. I wished to be the torch that today’s kids need in the world full of opportunities. I wanted to tell them that career does not end only because you missed one opportunity, but this also does not mean that we stop taking our career seriously. We can be more alert and grab the next opportunity that comes in our way and again make a comeback in the race of life. So what are we waiting for? ON YOUR MARK. GET-SET-AND GO….

Professional Memberships →
1. IEEE Annual Membership October 2018 to October 2019
Professional Memberships →
2. IEEE Annual Membership October 2018 to October 2019
Professional Memberships →
3. IEEE Annual Membership October 2018 to October 2019
Professional Memberships →
4. IEEE Annual Membership October 2018 to October 2019
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5. IEEE Annual Membership October 2018 to October 2019
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6. IEEE Annual Membership October 2018 to October 2019
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