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Dhaval K Patel, PhD

Associate Professor

Address:
Faculty office-210,
GICT Building, School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Gate 6, Oppo M G Science College,
Ahmedabad University,
Near Commerce Six Roads,
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009, India

Email: dhaval.patel@ahduni.edu.in

Office URL: https://ahduni.edu.in/

About Me

Professor Dhaval Patel is currently working as an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Science-Ahmedabad University, India. He was a visiting faculty at Olin School of Engineering, Massachusetts, United States. Professor Patel has published research papers in IEEE Journals and Tier-1 International Conferences. He has been awarded Ahmedabad University Chairman's Awards for “Outstanding Research Contributions” and “Experiment to Advance Active Learning” in 2019 and 2021. Furthermore, he has received research funding from DST- UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), DST- Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Gujarat Council on Science and Technology. Furthermore, he is a member of professional bodies like IEEE, ISTE and IETE.

His area of interest includes Intelligent Transportation System, Molecular Communication, Applied Machine Learning and Deep Learning, and xG Wireless Networks.

News

  • [January 2023] Received Best Paper Award, in IEEE 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2023) - Workshop on Connected Vehicles & Autonomous Driving (CVAD), Jan 3-8, 2023, Bengaluru - India

  • [December 2022] Our research paper entitled on “VeCEn: A Data Acquisition Framework for Heterogeneous Vehicular Networks” has been accepted in IEEE 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2023) - Workshop on Connected Vehicles & Autonomous Driving (CVAD), Jan 3-8, 2023, Bengaluru - India

  • [December 2022] Our research paper entitled on “Novel Crash Prevention Framework for C-V2X using Deep Learning” has been accepted as full paper in in IEEE 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2023) - Workshop on Connected Vehicles & Autonomous Driving, Jan 3-8, 2023, Bengaluru - India

  • [October 2022] Mr Yashraj Kakkad, a UGRP scholar @ MICxN Research Lab (currently @ Google) has received acceptance from IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology for a research paper entitled on “Optimal 3GPP Fairness Parameters in 5G NR Unlicensed (NR-U) and WiFi Coexistence”.

  • [October 2022] Our research paper entitled on “Restricting Passive Attacks in 6G Vehicular Networks : A Physical Layer Security Perspective”, has been accepted for publication in Springer Wireless Networks.

  • [October 2022] Mr Sagar Kavaiya has successfully defended his PhD (Doctoral) Dissertation. Congrtulations for doing good work!

  • [October 2022] Our research paper entitled on “Deep Learning aided Energy Efficient Band Assignment in Multiband Heterogeneous Networks” has been accepted as poster paper in IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2023) during 8–11 January 2023 in Las Vegas, NV-USA.

  • [September 2022] Our research paper entitled on “PU-DetNet: Deep Unfolding aided Smart Sensing Framework for Cognitive Radio” has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access.

  • [July 2022]: Mr Kashish Shah has joined as full time PhD Research Scholar @ MICxN Research Lab, SEAS - Ahmedabad University

  • [June 2022]: Mr Kashish Shah has joined as Junior Research Fellow under the 5G-ITS GUJCOST project.

  • [June 2022]:A Seed Grant is approved for a research project titled “Development of Cohda Wireless 5G Testbed for Intelligent Transportation” for one year (2022-2023).

  • [May 20222]: A GUJCOST Research Project Proposal on “Design and Development of 5G Enabled Intelligent Transportation System in Gujarat” submitted under GUJCOST STI Policy has been accepted for three years (2022-2025).

  • [April 2022]: Our research paper entitled on “EMED-UNet: An Efficient Multi-Encoder-Decoder Based UNet for Chest X-Ray Segmentation” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Region 10 Symposium - Asia Pacific (TENSYMP 2022) has been accepted and presented as full paper at IIT-Bombay during July 1-3, 2022.

  • [April 2022]: Our research paper entitled on “SplitGlass: A Splitting Based Deep Network for Efficient Human Pose Estimation” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Region 10 Symposium - Asia Pacific (TENSYMP 2022) has been accepted and presented as full paper at IIT-Bombay during July 1-3, 2022.

  • [April 2022]: Our research paper entitled on “Prognosis of Infection Spread Deploying Internet of Bio-Nano Things” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Region 10 Symposium - Asia Pacific (TENSYMP 2022) has been accepted and presented as poster at IIT-Bombay during July 1-3, 2022.

  • [April 2022]: Our research paper entitled on “Impact of Multiple Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines Using Molecular Communication” has been accepted for presentation at the National Conference on Communications (NCC 2022) and for publication in the conference proceedings at IIT-Bombay during May 23-27, 2022.

  • [January 2022]: Ms Ridima Verma has joined as PhD (full time research scholar) Machine Intelligence, Computing and xG Networking (MICxN) Research Laboratory - School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University.

  • [December 2021]: Our research paper entitled on “On the Performance of an Improved Energy Detector over Shadow Fading Channels for Vehicular Networks” is accepted for publication in the 14th IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2022) and has been presented under the poster track. COMSNETS 2022 (https://www.comsnets.org/poster_session.html)

  • [December 2021]: Our research paper entitled on “Impact of Primary User Activity Statistics in Cognitive Vehicular Networks” is accepted for publication in the has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

  • [November 2021]:My first PhD student Dr Brijesh Soni get a career breakthrough. He will be joining Boston College (Founded in 1863), 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 as a postdoc research fellow from January 2021. Congratulations, Dr Soni.

  • [October 2021]: Our research paper entitled on “On Sensing Performance of Multi-antenna Mobile Cognitive Radio conditioned on Primary User Activity Statistics” is accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

  • [July 2021]: UGRP scholar's research paper entitled on “Impact of Mobility on the Estimation of Primary Channel Activity Statistics” has been accepted to VTC Fall 2021.

  • [July 2021]: UGRP scholar's research paper entitled on “Weighted Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Vehicular Networks” has been accepted to VTC Fall 2021.

  • [February 2021]:Received Ahmedabad University - Chairman's Award for Experiment to Advance Active Learning. The award was given on the 12th foundation day of Ahmedabad University on February 27, 2021