Faculty

Ms. Manjiri Pathak (Karandikar)

Associate Professor at Vasantdada Patil Pratishthan’s College of Engineering & Visual Arts

COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Vasantdada Patil Pratishthan’s College of Engineering & Visual Arts

Sion - Mumbai

mpathak@pvppcoe.ac.in

Designation: Associate professor in the Department of Computer Engineering.  

Experience: 25 years in the teaching profession  

Career objective:

  • to contribute in the field of education &  academic research by continuously upgrading her knowledge & skills in the latest technologies.  
  • to teach, guide the Engg. students & take the efforts for giving them a competitive edge in the higher education or a job market.

She has strong desire to learn new things & acquire more  knowledge. She has worked for various activities & played a major role in some of the committees. She has also handled the responsibilty of the HOD & worked as a convener of the International conference organized in VPPCOE & VA earlier. She has received minor research grant for the project from University of Mumbai in 2015-16. She is working as a criteria head for NAAC & also NBA. She is very sincere in her work, and is commited to complete the work within a deadline. Her notes are appreciable and helpful to students in understanding the concepts in an easy & better way. 

  • M.S.(Software Systems), BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan
  • B.E. (Computer Sc. & Engg.),  Shivaji University.
  • Vasantdada Patil Pratishthan’s College of Engineering & Visual Arts, Associate Professor 
  • Experience in teaching the subjects from old & new courses like Discrete  Structures & Graph Theory, Operating Systems, Distributed Computing, Computer Organization & Arch., Java Programming,  C++, Computer Networks, etc. 



  • Operating System
  • Distributed Computing
  • Discrete Structures



She has attended various FDPs/ STTPs, courses organized inside & outside Vasantdada Patil Pratishthan’s College of Engg. & Visual Arts. Some of them are:

  • ATAL FDP on ‘Cyber Security : Storage System Architecture and File System Forensics’ at Siddhangana Institute of Technology. 
  • ATAL FDP on ‘Data Sciences’  at National Power Training Institute. 
  • ATAL FDP on Robust & Scalable Web Application Development using Python at Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College (Autonomous).
  • FDP on Spoken Tutorial on Android app using Kotlin organized at VPPCOE & VA, Mumbai.
  • FDP on AI & Data Sc.- Future of Tomorrow at RGIT, Mumbai.
  • a course on Introduction to Cybersecurity by CISCO Networking Academy
  • MOOC course on Digital Forensics organized by Uttarakhand Open University, Haldwani
  • a course on  AI for Everyone by Coursera.
  • Spoken Tutorial courses on R programming, Kotlin, PHP MySQL.
  • Faculty program on NBA organized by Bharati Vidyapeeth College Of Engineering, Navi Mumbai.
  • Digital Era of Teaching organized by Diksoochi College, Mysuru.
  • a course on Machine Learning by Pantech E-learning
  • courses on Ethical Hacking for beginners & Introduction to Data Sc. on SimpliLearn platform. 
  • STTP on Applied Data Sc. & Machine Learning at VPPCOE & VA, Mumbai.



Some of the research Papers published:

  • ‘IoT Based Fire Manipulation System and Fire Analysis Using Decision Tree and Fuzzy Inference’ in 7th International Conference ICIRTE-2022 in Association with Elsevier.
  • ‘COVID-19: The Awareness of coronavirus symptoms and preoccupying the preventive measures using doctor’s consultancy’ in 7th International Conference ICIRTE-2022 in Association with Elsevier.
  • ‘Cyber Investigation Portal’ in International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, Vol 09, Issue 03, 2022. ISSN 2395-0056
  • ‘An approach to the Overlapping fields of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence to improve the healthcare’ in 4th International Conference ICIRTE-2017
  • ‘Mulit-use wearable device for visually impaired’ in Imperial Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, Vol-2, Issue-4, 2016
  • Issues in Security & Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networking in ICATRPD-2012 organized by Kathir College of Engg., Koimbatore
  • ‘OS design challenges & research opportunities in real-time WSNs & approach for real time support in Nano-RK’ in COMPUSOFT, An International Journal of advanced computer technology, 2 (7), (Volume-II, Issue-VII) (2011)