• Department of Computer Engineering,
• Don Bosco College Of Engineering,
• Fatorda, Margao,
• Goa- 403 602.
• Tel No : (0832) 2741045/2743944
• Fax : (0832)2742648
• E-mail: gaurang.patkar@dbcegoa.ac.in, hod_comp@dbcegoa.ac.in

He is currently working as Professor and Head of Computer Engineering Department in Don Bosco College of Engineering from 2012. He has also worked as Assistant professor in Computer Engineering Department of Shree Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering & Information Technology, Shiroda- Goa for 4 years and after that Associate Professor for 2 years.

2015 :
1.
Best Paper Award at 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence held in Madurai, Tamil Nadu

2017 :
1. Best Professor in Computer Engineering by Dewang Mehta(Regional) & 25th Business School Affaire held in Taj Vivanta, Panaji Goa
2. Bharat Vikas Award by Institute of Self Reliance, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa.

2018 :
1. Young Leader(Engineering) by Venus International Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
2. Gold medal in World Invention and Innovation Contest at Seoul, South Korea.
3. Asia Invention Creativity Award in World Invention and Innovation Contest at Seoul, South Korea.
4. Finalist of International Competition on Oil Palm Mechanization (ICOPM 3) held at MPOB, Malaysia and received grants of RM 20000.

2019 :
1.“Best faculty of year in funded research” by Computer Society of India-Mumbai Chapter
2. Auropath Global Awards 2019 for “Excellence in Research” given by Sri. Aurobindo Society, Chhattisgarh

2021 :
1.Gold medal in the 6th International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada, iCAN 2021, Canada.
2. Macao Innovation and Invention Association (MIIA) award 2021.
3.Goa Technology Association award 2021.
4.Toronto Int’l Society of Innovation & Advanced Skills (TSIAS) Canadian special award 2021.

• Image Processing
• Computer Hardware & Design

• Patent Name : An Intelligent Grading System (Application Number : 201741018167) in Year 2017

• One week ISTE STTP workshop on “Fuzzy Logic & its Applications” conducted by Computer Engineering Department, Don Bosco College of Engineering on January 6^th to 10^th
• SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) held on 7^th February, 2015.
• One week ISTE Short Term Training program on “Recent Trends in Image Processing” organized by department of electronics & telecommunication engineering.
• One week ISTE Short Term Training program on “Computer Applications in Design & Manufacturing” organized by the department of mechanical engineering.

• Workshop on Fundamentals of PHP and MySQL for third year students.
• Workshop on Basics of HTML Language.
• Session in ISTE workshop on “fuzzy Logic”
• Conducted workshops on C, C++, Scilab, Netbeans through Spoken Tutorial Project- and IITB initiative.

• Gaurang S Patkar, Midhun Chakravarthy, (2023), Design And Analysis Of Machine Learning Algorithm For Wine Dataset, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp.1190-1195. DOI:20.18001.GSJ.2022.V10I3.23.40891
• Patkar, G. S. & Balaganesh, D. (2021). Smart Agri Wine: An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Predict Wine Quality. Journal of Computer Science, 17(11), 1099-1103. Doi:10.3844/jcssp.2021.1099.1103
• G. Patkar and S. Morajkar, “Feature Selection Approach for Oil Palm Fruit Grading Expert System,” 2021 International Conference on Recent Trends on Electronics, Information, Communication & Technology (RTEICT), 2021, pp. 670-674, doi: 10.1109/RTEICT52294.2021.9573633.
• Kanekar, S.A., Sharma, A., Patkar, G.S. et al. “Building semantically annotated corpus for text classification of Indian defence news articles”. Int. j. inf. technology. (2021). Doi:10.1007/s41870-021-00679-x
• Amey K. Shet Tilve, Gaurang Patkar et al. “Corpus Creation and Annotation Framework for Sentiment Analysis of Hindi News Articles”. In: Suma, V., Fernando, X., Du, KL., Wang, H. (eds) Evolutionary Computing and Mobile Sustainable Networks. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 116. Springer, Singapore. doi:10.1007/978-981-16-9605-3_53
• Gaurang S Patkar, G.S.G.N Anjaneyulu, Chandra Mouli P.V.S.S.R, “Execution of UML based oil palm fruit harvester algorithm: novel approach”, International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, Vol.12, No.1,pp.113-129, November 2019
• Gaurang S Patkar, G.S.G.N Anjaneyulu, Chandra Mouli P.V.S.S.R, “POFGURST: an expert intelligent system for mechanised oil palm fruit evaluating framework”, Int. J. Intelligent Engineering Informatics, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp.89-106, 2019.
• Gaurang S Patkar, G.S.G.N Anjaneyulu, Chandra Mouli P.V.S.S.R, ” Challenging İssues in Automated Oil Palm Fruit Grading  “, IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 111-118, September 2018. doi:10.11591/ijai.v7.i3.pp111-118
• Gaurang S Patkar, G.S.G.N Anjaneyulu, Chandra Mouli P.V.S.S.R, “Palm oil fruit – automated grading using image processing and fuzzy logic”, International Journal of Pharmacy & Technology (IJPT), Vol. 8, Issue No.4, pp. 21835-21846, December 2016.
• G. Patkar, G. S. G. N. Anjaneyulu and P. V. S. S. R. Chandra Mouli, “Palm fruit harvester algorithm for elaeis guineensis oil palm fruit grading using UML,” 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research (ICCIC), 2015, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICCIC.2015.7435700.
• Gaurang S. Patkar , “Study and Comparison of E-waste Disposal Solutions in Goa”, Challenges in Environmental Management: Mines and Industries (CEMMI 2017), 20-21 April 2017
• Gaurang Patkar, Amey Tilve “A Mechanized Harvesting and Automated Grading Technology for Oil Palm Fruit”, International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering ,Volume-06 , Issue-10, Page no. 45-52, Nov-2018.
• Gaurang S. Patkar , “A Case Study on Electronic Waste, Challenges in Environmental Management: Mines and Industries”, (CEMMI 2017), 20-21 April 2017
• Gaurang S. Patkar, Michelle Aroujo, “Prolonging the Lifetime of Visual Sensor Network using Coverage Preserving Algorithm” at International Conference on Emerging Technology Trends on Advanced Engineering Research (ICETT’12).
• Gaurang S. Patkar, Harish H. Kenchannavar, Umakant P.Kulkarni, “Modeling of Coverage Preserving Algorithm using Object Oriented Methodology with UML”, International Conference and Workshop on Emerging Trends in Technologies, ICWET-2010 Held at Thakur College of Engineering, Mumbai, February 2010.
• Gaurang S. Patkar, Harish H. Kenchannavar, Umakant P.Kulkarni , “Simulink Model for Frame Difference and Background Subtraction comparison in Visual Sensor Network” 3 rd International Conference on Machine Vision at Hong Kong, China.28-30 December 2010.
• Gaurang S. Patkar, Harish H. Kenchannavar, Umakant P Kulkarni, “Coverage Preserving Algorithm for Visual Sensor Network”, IMS Manthan, Journal of Innovation, Vol.5, Issue5, Page No. 21-26, ISSN: 0974-7141, 2010.
• Gaurang S Patkar, Sweta Morajkar, “Feature Selection Approach for Oil Palm Fruit
• Grading Expert System” accepted in 6th IEEE International Conference on recent Trends in Electronics, Information & Communication Technology, 27th-28th August 2021.
• Gaurang S Patkar, “Simulink model for background subtraction and frame difference” In Proceedings of National Conference on Electronic Technologies 2012, Goa, pp. 35-39, April 13-14 2012.
• Gaurang S Patkar, “Steganography with Least Significant Bit Insertion Algorithm”, In Proceedings of the 2nd National Conference on Computing for National Development (INDIACom-2008).
• Gaurang S Patkar, “P2P Intrusion Detection using Mobile Agents”, in the National Conference on “Emerging Trends in Information Technology”, organized by P.E.S College of Engineering, Aurangabad, 29th-30th January 2008.
• Gaurang S Patkar, J.Jaya, “Image Enhancement & Segmentation”, the National Conference on Trends in Advance Computing organized by Datta Meghe College of Engineering, Airoli, Navi Mumbai, 28th-29th December 2007.

9.00 am To 5.00 pm [on prior appointment]