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Dr. Sanjeev Rao
Assistant Professor
Computer Engineering/ STME



Education
  • Ph.D. (CSE) from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala.
  • M.Tech (CSE) from Punjab Technical University, Punjab
  • B. Tech. (IT) from Punjab Technical University, Punjab

Certifications

  • OCP (Oracle Certified Professional)- Oracle Forms Developer from Oracle University
  • OCA (Oracle Certified Associate)- Oracle PLSQL Developer from Oracle University


  • Assistant Professor (Computer Engineering) in STME, SVKM's NMIMS, Chandigarh (Mar, 2026  Till Date)
  • Assistant Professor (CSE) in Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala (Aug, 2017 to Mar, 2026)
  • Assistant Professor (CSE) in Chandigarh University, Mohali (Jun, 2014–Aug, 2017)
  • Assistant Professor (CSE) in RIMT-MAEC, Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab (RIMT University) (Jan, 2011–May, 2014)
  • Oracle Consultant/Developer in Compass Multiplier Projects Pvt Ltd, Chandigarh (Mar, 2008–Aug, 2009)
  • Software Engineer in Compare Infobase Limited, Gurgaon (Jul, 2007–Mar, 2008)
  • Databases, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Rao, Sanjeev, Anil Kumar Verma, and Tarunpreet Bhatia. "Hybrid ensemble framework with self-attention mechanism for social spam detection on imbalanced data." Expert Systems with Applications 217 (2023): 119594. [SCIE Indexed, IF: 8.5] #Citations- 72
  • Rao, Sanjeev, Anil Kumar Verma, and Tarunpreet Bhatia. "A review on social spam detection: Challenges, open issues, and future directions." Expert Systems with Applications 186 (2021): 115742. [SCIE Indexed, IF: 8.5] #Citations- 277
  • Brar, Sandeep Singh, and Sanjeev Rao. "Optimizing workflow scheduling using Max-Min algorithm in cloud environment." International Journal of Computer Applications 124.4 (2015).
  • Brar, Sandeep Singh, and Sanjeev Rao. "Proposal of Max-Min Algorithm for Scheduling of Workflows in Cloud Environment." International Journal of Computer Science and Network (IJCSN), Vol-4, pp-638-642 (2015).
  • Singh Maninder and Sanjeev Rao. "Proposed Approach for Intrusion Detection on KDD Dataset by Hybrid Classifiers.” International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering, Volume - 5, pp. 1451-1454 (2015)
  • Singh Maninder and Sanjeev Rao. "Enhanced Intrusion Detection Using Feature Extraction and Adaptive Boost with SVM-RBF Kernel.” International Journal of Computer Science and Technology (IJCST), Volume-6, pp. 101-104 (2015)
  • Arora Jyoti, Sanjeev Rao, and Nidhi Bhalla. "A Review on Association Rule Mining Algorithms.” International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering, Vol 1, pp. 1246-1251 (2013)
  • Arora Jyoti, Sanjeev Rao, and Shelza. "An Efficient ARM Technique for Information Retrieval in Data Mining.” International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), Volume-2, pp. 1079-1084. IJERT (2013)
  • Rao Sanjeev and Priyanka Gupta. "Implementing Improved Algorithm over APRIORI Data Mining Association Rule Algorithm.” International Journal of Computer Science and Technology (IJCST), Volume-3, pp. 489-493 (2012) #Citations- 142
  • Aadya, Prarthana Aggarwal, Aditya Jha, Sneha, Sanjeev Rao, Nitin Arora, Himanshu Shekhar, Ayush Srivastava, and Sanjeev Kumar "GenAI Video Search: A Dual-Stage Semantic Retrieval Approach," 10th International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP-2025), at IIT Ropar, Punjab, India [Scopus, SCImago, DBLP  Indexed] [Accepted]
  • Aarush Aggarwal, Piyush Taneja, Vinay Arora, Sanjeev Rao, "HeartSense: Machine-Augmented Intelligence for Predicting Cardiovascular Disease from Structured Clinical Data with Patient Diagnostic Profiles," Fourth International IEEE Applied Sensing Conference (APSCON) at IIT Delhi from 23 to 25 February 2026 [Scopus Indexed].
  • Sanjeev Rao, Reyan Singh, Kanishk Jagya, Hirdyansh Mahajan, "Harmony in Biometrics: Voice Identification Using Musical Transformation through Pop2Piano” IEEE International Conference on Modelling, Simulation, and Intelligent Computing (MoSICom 2025), BITS Pilani, Dubai campus [Scopus Indexed] [Accepted]
  • Sanjeev Rao, Reyan Singh, Kanishk Jagya, Sahil Sharma, "Small Language Models in Healthcare: Capabilities, Challenges, and Future Directions," Seventeenth International IEEE Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2025) JIIT, Noida, and University of Florida, USA. [Scopus Indexed]
  • Sanjeev Rao, Arshjeet Singh, "Hybrid Framework for Hinglish to English Machine Translation using Multilingual Transformers for Social Media Discourse," Seventeenth International IEEE Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2025) JIIT, Noida and University of  Florida, USA. [Scopus Indexed]
  • Sanjeev Rao, Jasmeet Singh, Prathamjyot Singh, Moksh Sharma, "AI-Driven Legal Summarization: A Hybrid Framework Integrating Automatic Speech Recognition, Diarization, and BART for Courtroom Proceedings," Seventeenth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2025) JIIT, Noida and University of Florida, USA. IEEE Conference [Scopus Indexed]
  • Sanjeev Rao, Reyan Singh, Kanishk Jagya, "Enhancing Multilingual Sarcasm Detection with Fine-Tuned Multilingual Bert Transformer," 7th International Conference on Information Systems and Management Science (ISMS 2024), organized at NIT Kurukshetra in collaboration with University of Malta, Msida, Malta  [SCOPUS Indexed SPRINGER LNNS]
  • Sanjeev Rao, Jaismeen Kaur, Ekleen Kaur, "Skin Cancer Detection using EfficientViT-L1 fused with Cascaded Atrous Group Attention," 7th International Conference on Information Systems and Management Science (ISMS 2024), organized at NIT Kurukshetra in collaboration with University of Malta, Msida, Malta [SCOPUS Indexed SPRINGER LNNS]
  • Sanjeev Rao, Prathamjyot Singh, Moksh Sharma, "A Review of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in Healthcare," 28th Punjab Science Congress (PSC)-2025 and National Conference on Current Trends in Science and Technology, organized by Faculty of Sciences, Khalsa College Amritsar, Punjab.
  • Sanjeev Rao, Prathamjyot Singh, Moksh Sharma, Yugan Dhar, "Early Detection of Forest Fire Using Fine-tuned MobileNetV2: A Lightweight Deep Learning Approach”, 7th International Conference on Information Systems and Management Science (ISMS 2024), organized at NIT Kurukshetra in collaboration with University of Malta, Msida, Malta [SCOPUS Indexed SPRINGER LNNS]
  • Sanjeev Rao, Nitin Arvind Shelke, Harshita Bansal, Aditya Goel, "Deepfake Creation and Detection Using Ensemble Deep Learning Models," Fourteenth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3) - Intelligent Computing- 2022, JIIT, Noida. ACM, New York, NY, USA [Scopus Indexed]
  • Sanjeev Rao, Nitin Arvind Shelke, Anil Kumar Verma, Singara Singh Kasana, "Autism Spectrum Disorder Detection Using AI and IoT," Fourteenth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3) - Intelligent Computing- 2022, JIIT, Noida, ACM, New York, NY, USA [Scopus Indexed]
  • Sanjeev Rao, Anil Kumar Verma, and Tarunpreet Bhatia, "Online Social Network: Challenges, Combating Techniques, and Future Research Directions," ICCIDA-2018, Springer, at GIFT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. [Accepted]

Book Chapters

  • Nitin Arora, Sanjeev Rao, Shekhar Karanwal, Kaushal Kumar, "Introduction to generative intelligence in healthcare” in book Smarter Healthcare through Generative Intelligence, 2025 , CRC Press, Taylor & Francis [Scopus Indexed]
  • Jasminder Sandhu, Bhawna Singla, Meena Pundir, Sanjeev Rao and Anil Verma, "Software-Defined Networking: Recent Developments and Potential Synergies” in book "Software Defined Networking: Architecture and Applications" (2022), Wiley [Scopus Indexed]
  • Sanjeev Rao, Anil Kumar Verma, Tarunpreet Bhatia, "Online Social Networks Misuse, Cyber Crimes, and Counter Mechanisms” (Reprinted) in Research Anthology on Combating Cyber-Aggression and Online Negativity, (2021) IGI Global, USA, and Information Resources Management Association (USA)
  • Sanjeev Rao, Anil Kumar Verma, Tarunpreet Bhatia, "Online Social Networks Misuse, Cyber Crimes, and Counter Mechanisms” in Analyzing Global Social Media Consumption (2021) IGI Global, USA [Scopus Indexed]
  • Sanjeev Rao, Anil Kumar Verma, Tarunpreet Bhatia, "Evolving Cyber Threats, Combating Techniques, and Open Issues in Online Social Networks” in Handbook of Research on Cyber Crime and Information Privacy, (2021) IGI Global, (USA) [Scopus Indexed]

Patent 

  • Indian Patent Published - "Real-Time Audio Analysis System with Multi-dimensional Bias Detection” 

Honors & Awards

  • Stood 2nd in B.Tech and 3rd in M.Tech (CSE) all semesters.
  • Received appreciation letters for delivering expert talks and FDP sessions to students as well as to faculty in various engineering colleges/universities.
  • Won prizes for mentoring project activities under the Experiential Learning Centre (ELC)- "Robotic Arm” for making projects- WALLe-The Robo-Cleaner, ROBOWASH, and Robotic Titration organized at TIET Patiala.
  • My mentored teams won prizes in ELC activities- "Text Summarization System for COVID-19” for their text summarization projects at TIET, Patiala

Reviewer in many peer-reviewed Journals/Conferences [Indexed in SCI/SCIE/SCOPUS/DBLP, etc

Expert lectures/sessions delivered:

  • Delivered one-day Expert lecture on "System Implementation Techniques”  (Database Concurrency Control Schemes and Database Security) on 3-11-2011 at BFCET, Bathinda (Punjab)
  • Delivered one-day Expert lecture on "Database Normalization, Recovery, and Concurrency Control techniques” at BFCET, Bathinda (Punjab)
  • Delivered an expert lecture on "Introduction to RDBMS, Data Warehousing, and Data Mining” on 17-04-2015 at CPC, Gharuan, Mohali (Punjab)
  • Delivered two-day workshop on "Programming with SQL in IBM-DB2 " on 22nd April 2016 at Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali
  • Delivered a one-day workshop in FDP on "SQL Programming using IBM-DB2" on 13th July 2016 at Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali.
  • Delivered a one-day session on "Practice on R and Rattle” held on 17th April 2019 at the P.G. department of Computer Science & applications, Khalsa College, Amritsar.
  • Delivered a one-day expert talk on "Hands-on R programming language” in FDP "Data Analytics-Trends and Applications” held on 24th June 2019 at CSE department, Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana.
  • Delivered an expert talk on "Introduction to Arduino UNO and Arduino Programming" on 3rd Dec 2021 at TIET, Derabassi Campus.
  • Delivered a session on "Arduino Programming-based ELC Activity” on 16th Sep 2022 at TIET, Derabassi Campus.
  • Delivered a session on "Cyber Security, Cyber Crime, and Countermeasures" on 6th Oct 2022 at Govt. Bikram College of Commerce, Patiala.
  • Delivered a two-day workshop on "Introduction to Python” on 17-18 March 2023 at DAV College, Bathinda.
  • Delivered a workshop on "Machine Learning and Data Preprocessing Techniques" on 18 July 2023 at Gulzar Group of Institutes, Mandi Gobindarh.
  • Delivered a one-day session on "Arduino Programming-based Experiential Learning Activity” on 02nd Aug 2023 at TIET, Derabassi Campus.
  • Delivered a session on "Machine Learning for NLP” on 17 Jan 2025 at the School of Applied Sciences & Technology, University of Kashmir, Kashmir.
  • Delivered a 7-day workshop on "AI for All: Exploring the Power of Machine Learning” on 24 Jan 2025 to 31 Jan 2025 at Govt. Bikram College of Commerce, Patiala.

Technical workshop/FDPs attended:

  • Faculty Development Programme conducted by NITCON, Chandigarh at RIMT-MAEC, Mandi Gobindgarh, July 12-19, 2011
  • Workshop on "Application of Data Mining in Software Fault Prediction” organized by Chitkara Institute of Engg. & Technology at Chitkara University, Punjab.
  • Workshop on "Lotus Notes and Domino” by IBM organized at RIMT-IET, Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab.
  • Two-week FDP on "Orientation and Faculty Development Programme" at UITTR, Chandigarh University, Mohali, July 01-12, 2014
  • Workshop on "Cloud Computing” at Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali., Oct 27, 2014
  • Four-week FDP on "IBM CE-Enablement Program” covering courses like Advanced Database Management using DB2, Cognos BI Administration using IBM Cognos BI, Big Data using IBM Infosphere BigInsights, and Application Security Management using IBM Rational Appscan, at Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali in collaboration with IBM, May 12-June 6, 2015.
  • One-week FDP on "Technology-Oriented Outcome-Based Teaching-Learning Process ” at Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali , July 1 to 7, 2015
  • One week FDP on "Recent Advances in Computer Sciences and Information Technology” organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali. July 8-14, 2015.
  • One-week workshop on "Research Methodology through ICT” by NITTR, Chandigarh at Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali. September 14 -18, 2015
  • One-week workshop on "Cloud Computing through ICT” by NITTR, Chandigarh, at Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, October 12-16, 2015.
  • One-Week Short-Term Course on "Wireless Networks through ICT” conducted by NITTR, Chandigarh at Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, May 02-06, 2015
  • Two-week FDP on "Orientation and Faculty Development Programme” organized by Chandigarh University, Gharuan, Mohali, July 4-16, 2016.
  • One week Oracle-sponsored FDP on "Programming with PL/SQL” organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CCET (Degree Wing), Sec-26, Chandigarh, July 10-14 , 2017
  • Two-day workshop on "Development of MOOCs” sponsored by Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and TIET, Patiala, September 9-10, 2017.
  • One week "Induction and Orientation Program” organized by the Centre for Training & Development at TIET, Patiala, September 18-22, 2017.
  • Four-week online course on "Beginning SQL: A Simplified Approach” authorized under the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and Thapar University, sponsored by a research project offered through the FutureLearn platform.
  • Four-week online course on "MOOC LIFE CYCLE” authorized under the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) and Thapar University, sponsored by a research project offered through the FutureLearn platform.
  • Three-day workshop on "FICE - INTEL Workshop under Intel(R) Intelligent System Lab” at TIET, Patiala November 28-30, 2017
  • Two-day FDP on "Emotional Intelligence & Team Dynamics /Collaboration” at TIET, Patiala, December 14-15, 2017.
  • Two-day FDP on "Strength finder and Knowing yourself” at TIET, Patiala , March 12-13, 2018
  • Two-day FDP on "How to write a research paper” and "Enhancing Personal Effectiveness” at TIET, Patiala, May 15-17, 2018.
  • Two-day training program on "AI, ML, and DL on GPU architecture” provided by NVIDIA at TIET, Patiala, May 27-28, 2019.
  • Completed online certification courses on Python, machine learning, and Deep Learning from Kaggle, 24 April 2020
  • Completed online certification Courses on the fundamentals of R, Python, Deep Learning from Amity Future Academy, 12-27 April 2020
  • Five-day online FDP on "Blockchain” organized by ATAL Academy at NIT Warangal, 25 May 2020 to 29 May 2020.
  • Five-day online FDP on "Introduction to Deep Learning” organized by ATAL Academy at University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, 20 Dec 2021 to 24 Dec 2021.
  • Five-day online FDP on "Data Science with Statistical Methods using R Programming: Basic Course” organized by ATAL Academy at Amity University Uttar Pradesh, 10 Jan 2022 to 14 Jan 2022.
  • Five-day Online FDP on "NyAI: Seventh 5-day Hands-on Workshop on Semantic Intelligence (AI-Powered Justice)” organized by NIT Kurukshetra and IIT, Guwahati, May 26-30, 2025.
  • Five days offline FDP/bootcamp on "Exploring Drone Technology, Assembly & Flying” organized in collaboration with Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, sponsored by TIET & NITJ (MeitY), May 26-30, 2025, on August 04-08, 2025.
  • One-week FDP on "Quantum Computing” organized by Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (TIET), Patiala, in collaboration with the Electronics and ICT Academy, PDPM IIITDM Jabalpur, 17th to 22nd November 2025.
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