Dr. Harshal Arolkar

Dr. Harshal Arolkar

Professor & Head

Ph. D - Computer Applications, MCA, B.Sc. Electronics

Experience: 26+ years

Specialization: Networks

Research Area: Data Analytics, Cloud and Network Security, Natural Language Processing, Internet of Things, AI-ML and Its applications, Wireless Sensor Networks

About

Dr. Harshal A. Arolkar serves as the Professor & Head of the postgraduate programs at GLS University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. An ardent practitioner and passionate advocate of open source technology he possesses more than 26 years of teaching experience in Computer Science. He earned a B.Sc. in Electronics from Gujarat University and a Ph. D and MCA in Computer Science from Bhavnagar University's Department of Computer Science.

He is the co-author and convener of 13 Computer Science textbooks for the Gujarat State Education Board, Government of Gujarat. He is co-author of 6 books on the subject: Data Driven Managers: An Analytical Approach (SYBGEN Learning India Private Limited), Working with Personal Computer Software (Wiley India), Simplifying C (Dreamtech Press), Problem Solving Using Python and Machine Learning (Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University), and Data Structures (Atul Prakashan).

11 of his guided students have earned Ph.D.s in Computer Applications/Information Technology. He has published over 60 research papers in international and national journals and conferences. His research focuses on data analytics, cloud and network security, natural language processing, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and its applications, wireless sensor networks, and assistive technology.

He serves on the advisory board for the National Journals of Computer Science and Applications. He is a reviewer and member of the Editorial Board for a number of foreign publications in computer science and its applications. In addition, he has served in a variety of roles at national and international conferences.

He is associated with a number of professional organizations, including the Internet Society, the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT), and the Computer Society of India. He has been an active member of the Ahmedabad Chapter of the Computer Society of India, serving on the Managing Committee, as Honorary Secretary, Vice Chairman, Chairman, and Nomination Committee. The Computer Society of India gave him the Significant Contribution Award for the year 2009–2010, and he also won the Chapter Patron honor in 2019.

Jogi Goghari , Dr. Harshal A. Arolkar. Comparative Analysis of Deep Learning Based Models for Fresh Water Algae Identification. ES 2026, 22 (1(S)Feb), 219-225. https://doi.org/10.69889/6kcf8q83

Year: 2026

Jogi Goghari and Dr. Harshal Arolkar , "Identifying Algae Sample In Freshwater Using Yolov8", Journal of Informatics Education and Research (Volume: 5 , Issue: 3 , Pages: 3256 - 3265, ISSN: 1526-4726

Year: 2025

Dharmeshkumar Shah, Harshal Arolkar, Devika P Madalli and Ripal Ranpara, "Ontology-Driven Contextual Search And Recommendation System For Navigating Bibliographic Metadata In Intelligent Information Systems", ICTACT Journal on Communication Technology (Volume: 15 , Issue: 4 , Pages: 3405 - 3412, ISSN: 2229-6948)

Year: 2024

Dharmeshkumar Shah, Harshal Arolkar, Devika P Madalli, "GCXLONTO - A Tool for semantic integration of MARC 21 bibliographic data into GCONTO", ICTACT Journal on Soft Computing (Volume: 15 , Issue: 1 , Pages: 3373 - 3378, ISSN: 2229-6956)

Year: 2024

Sankalp Loomba, Madhavi Dave, Harshal Arolkar & Sachin Sharma. (2023) "Sentiment Analysis using Dictionary-Based Lexicon Approach: Analysis on the Opinion of Indian Community for the Topic of Cryptocurrency", Annals of Data Science

Year: 2023

Preeti Kathiria, Harshal Arolkar. (2022). "Trend analysis and forecasting of publication activities by Indian computer science researchers during the period of 2010–23", Expert Systems, 1– 24

Year: 2022

Poonam Dang, Harshal Arolkar,"Automatic Evaluation of Analog Circuits using e-Sim EDA Tool", International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (IJITEE), Volume-8 Issue-12, October 2019 (ISSN: 2278-3075)

Year: 2019

Arpit A. Jain, Harshal A. Arolkar, Chirag S Davda, "Recognition of Offline Gujarati Handwritten Disjoint Consonants using Pattern Matching", International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE), Volume-8 Issue-3, September 2019, Page No: 7849-7851 (ISSN: 2277-3878) DOI:10.35940/ijrte.C6543.098319

Year: 2019

Pooja Ajwani, Harshal Arolkar, "TubeExtractor: A Crawler and Converter for Generating Research DataSet from YouTube Videos." International Journal of Computer Applications 182(50):14-17, April 2019. doi 10.5120/ijca2019918738

Year: 2019

Poonam Dang, Harshal Arolkar,"Electronic Design Automation Tool: a Comparative Study", International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology (IJRASET), Volume 7, Issue III, (ISSN : 2321-9653)

Year: 2019

Arpit A. Jain, Harshal A. Arolkar, "A Survey of Gujarati Handwritten Character Recognition Techniques", International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology (IJRASET), Volume 6, Issue IX (ISSN : 2321-9653 )

Year: 2018

Pooja Ajwani, Harshal A. Arolkar, “Survey of Trending Techniques for Detection of Emerging Topics in Computer Science within Social Media”, International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication (IJRITCC), Volume 6 Issue 3 , March 18, PP: 218 - 222 (ISSN: 2321-8169)

Year: 2018

Urja Mankad, Harshal A. Arolkar, "Survey of IoT Frameworks for Smart Water Metering ", International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Volume 4, Issue 2, pp.104-111, January-February-2018, (Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099)

Year: 2018

Jyoti R. Dubey, Ankit R. Bhavsar, Harshal A. Arolkar, “Wireless Sensor Network based Accident Avoidance Architecture for the Fleet of Long Route vehicles”, EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems, DOI: 10.4108/eai.28-12-2017.153521

Year: 2018

Madhavi Dave, Dr. Jyotika Doshi, Dr. Harshal Arolkar, “Internet of Things Application Layer Protocol: Comparison of CoAP and MQTT”, International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, Volume 7, Issue 11, November 2017, (ISSN 2250-2459, ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal)

Year: 2017

Ankit R. Bhavsar, Disha J. Shah, Harshal A. Arolkar, “Distributed Data Storage Model for Cattle Health Monitoring Using WSN ”, Advances in Computer Science : an International Journal, Volume 2, Issue 2, May 2013, (ISSN: 2322-5157).

Year: 2013

Disha Shah, Harshal Arolkar, “Overview of Data Mining Techniques for Data Gathered using Wireless Sensor Networks”, published in ANVESHANAM, The Journal of Computer Science & Applications, Volume II Issue 1 August 2013 – July 2014, (ISSN Print: 2279 – 0101, ISSN Online: 2320-186X )

Year: 2013

Ankit R. Bhavsar, Harshal Arolkar, “Wireless Sensor Networks: A Possible Solution For Animal Health Issues in Rural Area of Gujarat”, published in International Journal of Enterprise Computing and Business Systems IJECBS India, Volume 2, Issue 2, July 2012, (ISSN: 2230 – 8849)

Year: 2012

Harshal Arolkar, Kashyap Dhamecha and Darshan Patel. "Simulation of WSN based Accident Monitoring and Avoiding System for BRTS Corridors using Ptolemy II" published in International Journal of Computer Applications 47(9):12-16, June 2012. Published by Foundation of Computer Science, New York, USA. (ISSN 0975 – 8887)

Year: 2012

Disha J Shah and Harshal A Arolkar, "Single Point Interface for Data Analysis in Wireless Sensor Networks" published in International Journal of Computer Applications 47(9):22-26, June 2012. Published by Foundation of Computer Science, New York, USA. (ISSN 0975 – 8887)

Year: 2012

Harshal Arolkar, Kashyap Dhamecha, Darshan Patel, “Architecture for Accident Monitoring in BRTS Corridors using Wireless Sensor Network”, published in International Journal of Enterprise Computing and Business Systems IJECBS India, Volume 2 Issue 1 January 2012, (ISSN: 2230 – 8849)

Year: 2012

Harshal Arolkar, Kashyap Dhamecha, Darshan Patel, “Simulation of WSN Based Vehicle Monitoring For BRTS Corridors Using Ptolemy II”, published in ANVESHANAM, A National Journal of Computer Science & Applications, Volume I Issue 1 August 2012 – July 2013, (ISSN: 2279 – 0101)

Year: 2012

Harshal Arolkar, Bhushan Trivedi, V. R. Rathod, “An Architecture for Obstacle Identification Tool for Visually Impaired Using Wireless Sensor Network”, published in International Journal of Computer, Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Vol. 1, No. 2-4, April-December 2007, pp. 363-367.(ISSN: 0972-754X)

Year: 2007

Raihan Patel, Harshal Arolkar, "Exploring Software Vulnerabilities in Smartwatch Security: A Comprehensive Review", in 10th International Conference on Smart Trends in Computing and Communication

Year: 2026

Raihan Patel, Harshal Arolkar, "SVAF: A Modular Framework for Comprehensive Smartwatch Vulnerability Assessment", in 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (ICTCS-2025), 15-17 December 2025, Jaipur

Year: 2025

Jogi Goghari, Harshal Arolkar, "A review of data collection technic in existing scenario for marine ROV", in 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (ICTCS-2025), 15-17 December 2025, Jaipur

Year: 2025

Raihan Patel, Harshal Arolkar, "Exploring Hardware Vulnerabilities in Smartwatch Security: A Comprehensive Study", in International Conference on Machine and Computing Technologies For Sustainable Development, 11 - 13 December, 2025, Manila, Philippines

Year: 2025

Aakansha Jain, Dr. Harshal Arolkar, "Multi-Noise Classification using Frequency Domain Features and Ensemble methods", in the 2nd International Conference on Computing and Machine Learning (CML 2025) held at Department of Computer Applications, Sikkim Manipal University, India during March 22-23, 2025.

Year: 2025

Tejashkumar V. Patel & Dr. Harshal Arolkar (2025). "RDBMS Vs. NoSQL: A Comparative Study Of Query Features And Operations In Oracle And Cassandra," In J. Padiya, J. Shah & D. Vyas (Eds.), Future-Ready Management Adapting to Industry 5.0 (pp. 240–252). GLS University. E-ISBN: 978-81-992284-8-1 [International Conference on Advances in Theory, Research & Practices in Management (ATRPM 2025)]

Year: 2025

Twinkle Krushankant Patel, Dr. Harshal Arolkar & Dr. Madhuri Chopade (2025). "Artificial Intelligence As A Service: A Systematic Review From The Educator’s Perspective," In J. Padiya, J. Shah & D. Vyas (Eds.), Future-Ready Management Adapting to Industry 5.0 (pp. 96–113). GLS University. E-ISBN: 978-81-992284-8-1 [International Conference on Advances in Theory, Research & Practices in Management (ATRPM 2025)]

Year: 2025

A. Jain and H. Arolkar, "Removal of Impulse Noise from Colour Image Using Different Variations of Non-Linear Filters," International Conference on Engineering and Technology (PICET), Vadodara, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PICET60765.2024.10716052.

Year: 2024

Vishal Narvani and Harshal Arolkar, "Text-to-Speech Conversion for Gujarati Language Using Deep Learning Technique". In: Mittal, H., Nanda, S.J., Lim, MH. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Paradigms of Communication, Computing and Data Analytics. PCCDA 2024. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-8669-5_13

Year: 2024

Raihan Patel, Dr. Harshal Arolkar, "The impact of Emerging threats on smart Watch Security and Countermeasure", in मंथन 2024-GLS University Doctoral & Faculty Research Colloquium

Year: 2024

Aakanksha Jain, Harshal Arolkar, "Multi Noise Classification in Images using Fast-Fourier Transform and Power Spectrum Density". Ninth International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development (ICT4SD 2024), August 8-9, 2024, Goa. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-97-8537-7_31

Year: 2024

Vishal Narvani and Harshal Arolkar, "Text to Speech Conversion Using Concatenative Approach for Gujarati Language", Smart Trends for Computing and Communication (SMARTCOM 2024), ISSN: 2367-3370, Series : https://www.springer.com/series/15179 Scopus Source ID: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100901469

Year: 2024

Vishal Narvani and Harshal Arolkar “Implementation of Text Pre Processing and Normalization in Gujarati Text-to-Speech Conversion”, International Conference on Mobile Computing and Sustainable Informatics (ICMCSI 2024), ISBN: 979-8-3503-9524-2

Year: 2024

Kartik Joshi, Harshal Arolkar, "Working of the Tesseract OCR on different fonts of Gujarati language". In 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (ICTCS-2023), Jaipur, India - 8 - 9 December 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0744-7_15

Year: 2023

Dharmeshkumar Shah, Harshal Arolkar and Ashish Kumar Chauhan, "Knowledge Extraction of Union Catalogue using Semantic and Ontology". In Joint Proceedings of Second International Workshop on Semantic Reasoning and Representation in IoT (SWIoT-2023) and Third International Workshop on Multilingual Semantic Web (MSW-2023), November 13-15, 2023, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3638/MSW_Short2.pdf

Year: 2023

Dharmesh Shah, Harshal Arolkar, Ronak Panchal, R. (2023). "A Novel Approach: Semantic Web Enabled Subject Searching for Union Catalogue". In: Jabbar, M.A., Ortiz-Rodríguez, F., Tiwari, S., Siarry, P. (eds) Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics. AMLDA 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1818. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34222-6_15

Year: 2023

Preeti Kathiria, Vandan Pandya, Harshal Arolkar, and Usha Patel, "Performance Analysis of Document Similarity-Based DBSCAN and K-Means Clustering on Text Datasets ", Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Innovations in Computing ICRIC 2022, Volume 1, ISSN 1876-1100, ISSN 1876-1119 (electronic), Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, ISBN 978-981-19-9875-1, ISBN 978-981-19-9876-8 (eBook), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9876-8

Year: 2022

Urja Mankad, Harshal A. Arolkar, "Smart Water Metering Implementation", Sixth International Conference on Smart Trends in Computing and Communications (SmartCom 2021), December 17-18, 2021. Published in Smart Trends in Computing and Communications, eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-9967-2, Print ISBN: 978-981-16-9966-5 (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-9967-2)

Year: 2021

Pooja Ajwani, Harshal A. Arolkar, "Classification of Domains in Computer Science Using Random Forest Algorithm for YouTube Dataset", in 2nd International Conference on Image Processing and Capsule Networks (ICIPCN 2021), May 27-28 2021, Bangkok, Thailand. ISBN978-3-030-84759-3, eBook ISBN978-3-030-84760-9, ISSN 2367-3370, E-ISSN 2367-3389, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84760-9

Year: 2021

Vishal Narvani, Harshal Arolkar, "Study of Text to Speech (TTS) Conversion for Indic Languages ", in Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies (ICTCS 2020) held during December 11-12, 2020, Jaipur India. Vol 190. Springer, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0882-7 Print ISBN 978-981-16-0881-0, Online 978-981-16-0882-7, ISSN 2367-3370, eISSN 2367-3389

Year: 2020

Madhvi Dave, Jyotika Doshi, Harshal Arolkar, "MQTT-CoAP Innterconnector: IoT Interoperability Solution for Application Layer Protocol", 2020 Fourth International Conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC), Palladam, India, 2020, pp. 122-127, doi: 10.1109/I-SMAC49090.2020.9243377. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9243377

Year: 2020

Urja Mankad, Harshal A. Arolkar, "A Study of the open source framework OSGP / GXF for implementing Smart Water Metering", 2020 Fourth World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability (WorldS4), London, United Kingdom, 2020, pp. 357-361, doi: 10.1109/WorldS450073.2020.9210291, Electronic ISBN: 978-1-7281-6823-4, Print on Demand (PoD) ISBN: 978-1-7281-6824-1 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9210291

Year: 2020

Dave M., Patel M., Doshi J., Arolkar H. (2020). "Ponte Message Broker Bridge Configuration Using MQTT and CoAP Protocol for Interoperability of IoT". In: Chaubey N., Parikh S., Amin K. (eds) Computing Science, Communication and Security. COMS2 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1235. Springer, Singapore DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6648-6_15 Print ISBN 978-981-15-6647-9 Online ISBN 978-981-15-6648-6

Year: 2020

Ajwani P., Arolkar H.A. (2021), "Semantic Enrichment Tool for Implementing Learning Mechanism for Trend Analysis". In: Kotecha K., Piuri V., Shah H., Patel R. (eds) Data Science and Intelligent Applications. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 52. Springer, Singapore, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4474-3_58, Print ISBN 978-981-15-4473-6 Online ISBN 978-981-15-4474-3, Pages 535-543, First Online: 18 June 2020

Year: 2020

Dang P., Arolkar H. (2021), "Automatic Evaluation of Analog Circuit Designs". In: Kotecha K., Piuri V., Shah H., Patel R. (eds) Data Science and Intelligent Applications. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 52. Springer, Singapore, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4474-3_58, Print ISBN 978-981-15-4473-6 Online ISBN 978-981-15-4474-3, Pages 553-563, First Online: 18 June 2020

Year: 2020

Kasudiya, J., Bhavsar, A., Arolkar, H. (2020). "Wireless Sensor Network: A Possible Solution for Crowd Management". In: Somani, A.K., Shekhawat, R.S., Mundra, A., Srivastava, S., Verma, V.K. (eds) Smart Systems and IoT: Innovations in Computing. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 141. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8406-6_3

Year: 2020

Arpit A. Jain, Harshal A. Arolkar, "A study of Gujarati Character Recognition", published in proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Communication & Computational Technologies (ICCCT 2019), RIET Jaipur 30-31 August 2019

Year: 2019

Ankit R. Bhavsar, Harshal A. Arolkar,"ZigBee Frame Structure for WAN based Animal Health Monitoring in Rural Area of Gujarat" published in proceedings of International Conference On Sustainable Computing in Science, Technology and Management (SUSCOM-2019), Amity University, Rajasthan 26-28 February 2019. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3351703

Year: 2019

Kathiria P., Arolkar H. (2019) "Study of Different Document Representation Models for Finding Phrase-Based Similarity. " In: Satapathy S., Joshi A. (eds) Information and Communication Technology for Intelligent Systems. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 106. Springer, Singapore (https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1742-2_45) Print ISBN 978-981-13-1741-5, Online ISBN 978-981-13-1742-2

Year: 2019

Ankit R. Bhavsar, Harshal A. Arolkar, “Simulation And Performance Evaluation Of WSN Based Architecture For Animal Health Monitoring Using Ns2”, published in proceedings of 4th International Conference On Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications, (ERCICA 2016) NMIT, Bangalore, 29-30 August 2016 (ISBN 978-981-10-4740-4, ISBN 978-981-10-4741-1 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4741-1).

Year: 2016

Ankit R. Bhavsar, Harshal A. Arolkar, “ZigBee Based Network Architecture for Animal Health Monitoring”, published in proceedings of 1st International Conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies (NGCT-2015), Dehradun (India), 4-5 September 2015, pp 300 - 305 (ISBN 978-1-4673-6807-0)

Year: 2015

Ankit R. Bhavsar, Harshal A. Arolkar, “Multidimensional Association Rule Based Data Mining Technique for Cattle Health Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Network”, published in proceedings of 8th INDIACom; INDIACom-2014 International Conference on “Computing for Sustainable Global Development”, 5th– 7th March, 2014, pp 931 - 935 (ISSN 0973-7529; ISBN 978-93-80544-11-3). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6828074&isnumber=6827395

Year: 2014

Harshal A. Arolkar, Shraddha P. Sheth, Vaidehi P. Tamhane “Ant Colony based Approach for Intrusion Detection on Cluster Heads in WSN" published in proceedings ICCCS2011, International Conference on Communication, Computing & Security, Odisha, India. pp. 523-526, Proceedings by ACM, ISBN-978-1-4503-0464-1 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1947940.1948048

Year: 2011

Harshal A. Arolkar, Shraddha P. Sheth, Vaidehi P. Tamhane, “Comparative Analysis of IDS algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks” published in the proceedings of INDIACom-2011 BVICAM New Delhi, March 10 and 11, 2011. (ISSN 0973- 7529 and ISBN 978-93-80544-00-7)

Year: 2011

Bhushan Trivedi, Harshal Arolkar, Ashok Patel, Dr. V. R. Rathod “Response mechanisms in IDS based on intelligent agents” published in proceedings of ICONS-2007, International Conference on Network Security, Erode. (ISBN No 10:0230-63055-0, 13:978-0230-63055-0)

Year: 2007

Harshal Arolkar, Bhushan Trivedi, V. R. Rathod, Dr. Ashok Patel, “Smart Campus For Visually Impaired”, published in proceedings of IAICM-2007, International Conference on Management, IBS Ahmedabad, pp. 48.

Year: 2007

Hardik Shah, Harshal Arolkar, Bhushan Trivedi, V. R. Rathod, “Enhancing campus wide learning experience using wireless technology” published in proceedings of IAICM-2007, International Conference on Management, IBS Ahmedabad.

Year: 2007

Bhushan Trivedi, Harshal Arolkar, Ashok Patel, V. R. Rathod “A Roadmap for enabling growth: from Intrusion Detection via Intrusion Prevention to Unified Threat Modeling” published in proceedings of IAICM-2007, International Conference on Management, IBS Ahmedabad

Year: 2007

Hardik Shah, V.R.Rathod, Bhushan Trivedi, Harshal Arolkar “Analysis of attacks in wireless networks and remedies to them” published in the proceedings of INDIACom-2007 BVICAM New Delhi, Feb 23 and 24, 2007. (ISSN 0973-7529, ISBN 978-81-904526-0-1)

Year: 2007

Harshal Arolkar, Bhushan Trivedi, V. R. Rathod, Ashok Patel, “Wireless Sensor Network: An Obstacle Identification Tool For Visually Impaired”, published in proceedings of ObCOM-2006, International Conference on Mobile, Ubiquitous & Pervasive Computing, Vellore, pp. 87-90. (ISBN 10:0230-63010-3, ISBN 13:978-0230-63010-9)

Year: 2006

Bhushan Trivedi, Harshal Arolkar, Ashok Patel, V. R. Rathod “Mobile Intelligent Agents in Intrusion Detection” published in proceedings of NCCC-2006, National Conference on Computing and Communications, Hyderabad.

Year: 2006

Harshal Arolkar, Hardik Shah, “Analysis of Security Issues in Wired and Wireless Networks”, published in proceedings of NCIIRP-2006, National Conference on Intelligent Information Retrieval & Processing at Bardoli, Surat. The paper got second prize, pp. 54

Year: 2006

Bhushan Trivedi, Harshal Arolkar, Ashok Patel, V. R. Rathod, “Issues in building a smart home using wireless sensor networks”, published in proceedings of NCIIRP-2006, National Conference on Intelligent Information Retrieval & Processing at Bardoli, Surat, pp. 50

Year: 2006

Harshal Arolkar, Bhushan Trivedi, V R. Rathod, “Network Topology Based Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks”, published in proceedings of NACCA-06, National Conference on Computing and Applications at Kovilpatti, pp. 170-176

Year: 2006

Harshal Arolkar, Bhushan Trivedi, “Security Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks”, published in proceeding of CONMICRO-2005, National Conference on Current Trends in IT & Bio Informatics, Lucknow

Year: 2005

Dr. Harshal A. Arolkar, Dr. Madhuri R. Chopade, Dr. Dulari N. Bhatt, Python for Data Driven Managers: An Analytical Approach, Publisher : SYBGEN Learning India Private Limited; First Edition (9 December 2025), ISBN-10: 8198480234, ISBN-13: 978-8198480231

Year: 2025

Rajkumar Buyya, Savita Gandhi, Nirbhay Chaubey, Harshal Arolkar, Prerna Agrawal (Eds.), Advances in Smart Computing and Applications: Proceedings of the First International Conference (ICASCA 2025), Ahmedabad, India, February 15–16, 2025. ISSN 1865-0929, ISSN 1865-0937 (electronic) Part of Communications in Computer and Information Science ISBN 978-3-032-00349-2, ISBN 978-3-032-00350-8 (eBook).

Year: 2025

Dr. Harshal A. Arolkar, Dr. Madhuri Chopade, Dr. Jenny Kasudiya and Ms. Shivangi Gandhi, "Machine Learning", Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University (ISBN: 978-81-986947-1-3)

Year: 2025

Dr. Harshal A. Arolkar, Dr. Vishal Narvani, Dr. Snehal Shukla and Dr. Rachana Chaudhari, "Problem Solving Using Python", Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Open University (ISBN: 978-81-982671-5-3)

Year: 2025

Dr. Harshal Arolkar, Jignesh Smart, Jyotika Doshi, Tripti Dodiya, Hardik Joshi, “Computer Studies”, Standard 12th, Gujarat State Education Board

Year: 2014

Dr. Harshal Arolkar, Dr. Sanjay M. Shah, Dr. Priti S. Sajja, Dr. Kuntal P. Patel, “Computer Studies”, Standard 10th, Gujarat State Education Board

Year: 2014

Dr. Harshal Arolkar, Dr. Sonal Jain, Dr. Nilesh Modi, Tripti Dodiya, “Computer Studies”, Standard 11th, Gujarat State Education Board

Year: 2013

Dr. Harshal Arolkar, Dr. Sanjay M. Shah, Dr. Priti S. Sajja, Dr. Jignesh Smart, “Computer Studies”, Standard 9th, Gujarat State Education Board

Year: 2013

Harshal A. Arolkar and Sonal Jain, “Simplifying C” Second Edition, Dreamtech Press (ISBN: 978-93-5004-049-2)

Year: 2011

R. P. Soni, Harshal A. Arolkar and Sonal Jain, “Working with Personal Computer Software, 2nd Ed.”, Wiley India, (ISBN13: 978-81-265-2727-4).

Year: 2010

Harshal Arolkar, Jyotika Doshi, S. G. Desai, Ajay Parikh, “Introduction to Computer Science”, Standard 12th, Gujarat State Education Board

Year: 2009

M T. Savaliya and Harshal A. Arolkar, “Data Structure Management”, Atul Prakashan

Year: 2008

R. P. Soni, Harshal A. Arolkar and Sonal Jain, “Working with Personal Computer Software”, Books India, (ISBN 819068170-4)

Year: 2008

Co-authored “Introduction to Computer Science”, Standard 11th, Gujarat State Education Board

Year: 2008

Co-authored “Introduction to Computer Science”, Standard 10th, Gujarat State Education Board

Year: 2006

Harshal Arolkar, Dr. D. B. Choksi, Sonal Jain, “Introduction to Computer Science”, Standard 9th, Gujarat State Education Board

Year: 2005

Dr. D. B. Choksi, Harshal Arolkar, Sonal Jain, “Introduction to Computer Science”, Standard 8th, Gujarat State Education Board

Year: 2004

Harshal Arolkar, Ajay Parikh, S. G. Desai, “Introduction to Computer Science”, Standard 12th Arts, Gujarat State Education Board

Year: 2003

Co-authored “Introduction to Computer Science”, Standard 11th Arts, Gujarat State Education Board

Year: 2002

Vansh Balyan, Dr. Harshal A. Arolkar, Twinkle K. Patel, "ECG IoT Device", Patent No: 460665-001

Year: 2025

Best paper award (second prize) for paper “Analysis of Security Issues in Wired and Wireless Networks”, published in proceedings of NCIIRP-2006, National Conference on Intelligent Information Retrieval & Processing at Bardoli, Surat.

Year: 2006

CSI Significant Contribution Award for year 2009-2010, Computer Society of India

Year: 2010

3rd Prize in the Best Research Paper Award Category for year 2022-23 - GLS University

Year: 2023

Received 1st price in Computer Application/ Computer Engineering/Information Technology Track for paper authored by Raihan Patel, Dr. Harshal Arolkar, "The impact of Emerging threats on smart Watch Security and Countermeasure", in मंथन 2

Year: 2024

2nd Prize - Best Research Paper Award in Computer Applications Category - Along with my PhD student Dr. Vishal Narvani

Year: 2025

2nd Prize - Best Research Paper Award in Computer Engineering Category - Along with my PhD student Aakanksha Jain

Year: 2025

1st Prize - Best Research Paper Award in Computer Engineering Category - Along with my PhD student Aakanksha Jain

Year: 2025

Best Book Award in Computer Science Category - Along with my co-authors Dr. Vishal Narvani, Dr. Snehal Shukla Trivedi, and Dr. Rachana Chaudhari

Year: 2025

Best Thesis Award in Information Technology Category - Thesis of my PhD student Dr. Kartik Joshi

Year: 2025

Student Research Title Status
Ms. Jain Aakanksha Vijaykumar Identification of Noise Types and De-noising of Distortions in Color Images using Frequency Domain Analysis and Machine Learning Approaches Completed
Mr. Dharmeshkumar A. Shah Redesigning of Union Catalogue for Efficient Searching Using Semantic Based Approach Completed
Mr. Kartik Manoj Amita Joshi Improving the Efficiency of Tesseract OCR Engine for Gujarati Language Completed
Mr. Vishal Narvani Text-to-Speech Engine for Gujarati Language Completed
Ms. Urja Thakar An Internet of Things Framework for Smart Water Metering System for India Completed
Ms. Preeti Vipul Kathiria Document Analysis for Trend Estimation of Research Scenario in Indian Universities Completed
Ms. Poonam J. Dang Automatic Online Evaluation of Electronic Circuit Designs Completed
Mrs. Pooja Hablani (Ajwani) Analyzing Trends in Computer Science Topics on Social Media Using Content Mining with YouTube as Case Study Completed
Ms. Madhavi Janardanbhai Thaker Analyzing and Enhancing Interoperability Protocols Used in Internet of Things Completed
Mr. Arpit Jain Recognition and Processing of Handwritten Gujarati Characters Completed
Mr. Ankit Bhavsar Wireless Sensor Network Based Architecture for Animal Health Monitoring in Rural Area of Gujarat Completed