Dr. Vatsal Shah

BVM Engineering College Professor

About

Experienced academician, technologist, and researcher with strong expertise in System Programming, Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS), Cloud Computing, IoT, and AI/ML. Passionately contributing to education and research with a goal to empower future engineers.

Dr. Vatsal H. Shah

Associate Professor | RTOS & Data Science Researcher

A passionate technocrat and educator dedicated to system-level research and innovation. My work bridges core engineering education with real-world technical implementations in AI, IoT, and Cloud ecosystems.

With over 53+ research papers (indexed in Scopus, IEEE, Springer), 3 patents, and numerous funded proposals, I have contributed to India’s academic and tech innovation ecosystem. Author of “Load Balancing in Distributed Operating System”, and recipient of national honors like “Gaurav Purushkar” and “NPTEL Domain Scholar”.

Google Scholar Profile: h-index: 8, i10-index: 7

Research Publications Scopus, IEEE, Springer Indexed

Patents Published RTOS, VR Simulation

Systems & Projects Web Portals, Apps, Automation

FDPs Attended AICTE, NPTEL, GUJCOST

FDPs Conducted Speaker, Coordinator

Awards & Certifications Gaurav Purushkar, NPTEL Elite+Gold

Resume

Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering with 15+ years of academic experience. Passionate about System Programming, RTOS, IoT, AI/ML, and Cloud. Strong research background with 53+ publications, patents, and national awards.

Summary

Dr. Vatsal H. Shah

Associate Professor at BVM Engineering College, VV Nagar. Technologist, researcher, and academic leader with active involvement in real-time systems, software development, student mentoring, and tech communities.

  • V. V. Nagar, Anand, Gujarat, India
  • +91 96012 90965
  • vatsal.shah@bvmengineering.ac.in

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering

2019

The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

Research in Real-Time Operating Systems and Distributed Load Balancing Algorithms.

M.E. in Computer Engineering

2012

Gujarat Technological University

Graduated with 8.76 CPI. Specialized in system-level software and network security.

B.E. in Computer Engineering

2010

Sardar Patel University

Graduated with 8.56 CPI. Focused on software development and embedded systems.

Professional Experience

Professor I/C, IT Cell

Oct 2025 – Present

BVM Engineering College, V.V. Nagar

Associate Professor

Jan 2024 – Present

BVM Engineering College, V.V. Nagar

  • Leading academic projects in RTOS, IoT, and Cloud Infrastructure
  • Guiding Ph.D. and postgraduate research scholars
  • Managing CodeChef Chapter, GDSC, and Red Hat Academy

Assistant Professor

July 2012 – Dec 2023

BVM Engineering College, V.V. Nagar

  • Taught subjects including System Programming, Operating Systems, AI/ML, and Data Science
  • Developed admission, training & placement, and research web portals
  • Organized 40+ workshops/FDPs and mentored student projects

Adhoc Lecturer

July 2010 – July 2012

BVM Engineering College, V.V. Nagar

  • Taught foundational computer science courses
  • Initiated early-stage technical student clubs and events

Skills

Proficient in a wide range of programming languages, system-level technologies, and cloud-based platforms with hands-on experience in education, development, and research.

Java 95%
Python 90%
C / C++ 85%
R Language 75%
PHP 80%
Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat) 90%
SQL / PL-SQL 85%
Assembly Language (8085/86, 8051) 70%

Awards & Certifications

Recognized for academic excellence, innovation, and continuous learning in technical education, system design, and software development.

Gaurav Purushkar Award

Awarded by CVM for securing Topper position in All India Examination.

NPTEL Honors

Received “Domain Scholar”, “Discipline Star”, “Enthusiastic”, and “Believer” from MHRD, SWAYAM.

Patents Published

Filed 3 patents on RTOS and VR: DmRT, PRAMS, and VRDrive Simulation System.

Book Author

Authored “Load Balancing in Distributed Operating System” published on Amazon & Lambert.

Academic Excellence

Received Best Development & Lifelong Learning Awards from BVM Engineering College.

Online Certifications

Certified in Google Cloud, Analytics, Python (Coursera), Web Dev (BitDegree, Pluralsight, Udemy).

Projects & Contributions

Major projects, initiatives, technical contributions, and leadership roles across academic, administrative, and technical domains.

Major Contributions

  • Established and Coordinating CodeChef Student Chapter.
  • Established and Coordinating Google Developer Students Club (GDSC).
  • Established and Coordinating Red Hat Academy.
  • Established and Coordinating Continuing Education Programme.
  • Configured BVM Identity Provider for remote access to e-resources including IEEE, Scopus, ASME, ASCE, and e-books.
  • Managing G-Suite for BVM Engineering College.
  • Designed and Developed MQ/NRI Admission Portal for 2020 and 2021.
  • Configured MS Teams (free tenant) for BVM Engineering College.
  • Designed Training & Placement Website.
  • Designed & Developed: PJC75 Website, IELS2020 EasyChair Module, IELS2020 Website.
  • Designed & Developed: Continuing Education Programme Website.
  • Designed and Developed Conference Websites: ICWSTCSC2018, ICWSTCSC2020, ICWSTCSC2023.
  • Designed and maintaining BVM Alumni Android Application.
  • Configured and maintaining NPTEL Local Server for BVM Engineering College.
  • Designed and Developed ICRISET-2017 Conference Website.
  • Designed, Developed, and Maintaining the Website of BVM Engineering College.
  • Developed Research & Development Data Collection Portal for Faculty.
  • Coordinated ATAL FDP on “Augmented & Virtual Reality” (June 2021).
  • Coordinated FDP on “R Programming” with IIT Bombay (May 2020).
  • Coordinated GTU-AICTE Sponsored FDP on “Android Programming and Mobile App Development” (Nov 2019).
  • Coordinated ISTE approved STTP on “Android Programming and Mobile App Development” (Dec 2017).

Other Contributions:

  • MS Teams Coordinator for BVM.
  • Configured SSL Certificate for BVM Website.
  • Team Leader: IELS2020, Women International Conferences (1st & 2nd Editions), ICRISET-2017.
  • Team Member: GUJCOST STTPs – Blockchain (2019), ML & IoT (2018), Android & Python (2018), Cyber Privacy (2017).
  • Technical Team Member: FOSSEA 2015 STTP organized by CP Dept, BVM.
  • Guided Ph.D. student at ISTAR on "Decision Support Tool" for natural spill remediation prediction (2014).

Publications & Research

Publications, patents, authored books, research output, and related academic achievements.

Book Publication

  • Title: Load Balancing by Process Migration in Distributed Operating System
    Authors: Dr. Vatsal Shah, Jayna Donga
    Publisher: LAMBERT & Amazon
    ISBN: 978-620-0-56517-4

Patent Publications

  • VRDRIVE: A Driving Simulation for RTO – Application No: 202221030867 (30 May 2022)
  • PRAMS for Scheduling in Real-Time Operating System – Application No: 202121019254 (2 July 2021)
  • DmRT for Memory Management in RTOS using MemSimRT – Application No: 202021040233 (23 Oct 2020)

International Publications (Recent First)

  1. Home Price Prediction using Machine Learning, Scopus, ISSN No: 0932-4747, July 2022
  2. A Real-Time Memory Management Simulator: MemSimRT, SSRN, ISSN 2277-7067, Feb 2022
  3. Hypervisor and Virtualization in Cloud Computing, Scopus, Grenze Int. Journal of Eng. and Tech., Jan 2022
  4. An Analysis of Different Computer Science Algorithms with Graph Theory of Mathematics, Scopus, Reliability: Theory & Applications, Jan 2021
  5. Overview for Creating mHealth Application, Springer, Scopus, May 2020
  6. Create EC2 Instance, Install Splunk and Configure using Ansible, Springer, Scopus, May 2020
  7. Biometric Door Lock using Mobile Fingerprint, Springer, Scopus, May 2020
  8. Performance Analysis of Real-Time Operating System, IJTIMES, April 2019
  9. Design and Implementation of Virtual Reality in Creating Car Driving Simulation, IJAERD, May 2019
  10. Memory Allocator for SMP & NUMA based Soft Real-Time OS, Springer (AISC), Mar 2019
  11. A Review on Memory Allocators for NUMA based RTOS, Springer, Dec 2018
  12. Review on Health Care Claim Processing Using Text Mining and NLP, IJRSCSD, Dec 2018
  13. Prediction of Promotion and Position of Employee in Company, IJTIMES, July 2018
  14. Review on Generative Adversarial Networks, IJTIMES, July 2018
  15. Proposed Memory Allocation Algorithm for NUMA based Soft RTOS, Springer (AISC), Feb 2018
  16. Critical Analysis for Memory Management Algorithm for NUMA RTOS, IEEE Xplore, Dec 2017
  17. Review on Tesseract OCR Engine and Performance, IJIERE, Dec 2017
  18. Review on Data Mining based Spider Bot, IJTIMES, Nov 2017
  19. Review on Distributed Cloud Storage through P2P Network, IJAERD, Oct 2017
  20. Time Based Data Compression: Clock Algorithm, IJAREST, Apr 2017
  21. Automated Web App Vulnerability Detection with Pen Testing, ICRISET, Kalpa Series, 2017
  22. Kernel and Device Driver Architecture for High Performance RTOS, ICRISET, 2017
  23. An Analysis and Review on Memory Management Algorithms for RTOS, IJCSIS, May 2016
  24. Home Automation System using Raspberry Pi and Arduino Board, IJAREST, June 2016
  25. A Critical Analysis on High Performance Real Time Operating System, IJAREST, June 2016
  26. Comparison of various data cleaning methods in mining, IJAREST, May 2016
  27. Installation of NS2 Application in Windows OS, IJRAE, May-June 2016
  28. A Survey on Hadoop Pig System, IJAREST, Feb 2016
  29. A Survey on Hadoop HBase System, IJAERD, Jan 2016
  30. SQL Injection and XSS Vulnerability Detection in Web Application, IJARCSSE, Dec 2015
  31. Different Process Migration Techniques for Load Balancing in Distributed OS, IJIERE, Feb 2015
  32. A Survey on Facial Expression Recognition from Video, IJARCSSE, Feb 2015
  33. Hadoop Hive Data Warehousing System – A Review, IJIERE, Feb 2015
  34. Image Based Steganography Review of LSB and Hash-LSB Techniques, IJAERD, Nov 2014
  35. A Survey on Hadoop File System, IJIERE, Nov 2014
  36. A Study on Process Migration Algorithms, IJAERD, Nov 2014
  37. Comparative Study on IPv4 and IPv6 Internet Protocol, IJAERD, Nov 2014
  38. An Overlook of Coin Word Virtualization and Snapshot, IJAERD, Nov 2014
  39. Improve Fingerprint Recognition Using Both Minutiae and Pattern-Based Method, OJCST, Aug 2014
  40. Leaf Disease Detection Using Image Processing and Neural Network, IJAERD, June 2014
  41. Effect of Small Disturbances on Inter-Connected System, IJAERD, Apr 2014
  42. Study of Recursive and Iterative Approaches of Fibonacci Algorithm, IJAERD, Feb 2014
  43. Review of Three Categories of Fingerprint Recognition, IJCSERD, Dec 2013
  44. Process Division and Migration Based Load Balancing for Distributed OS, IJARCSSE, Dec 2013
  45. Comparison of Various Association Rule Mining Algorithm on Frequent Item Sets, IJARCSSE, Nov 2013
  46. Image Processing Techniques for Detection of Leaf Disease, IJARCSSE, Nov 2013
  47. Implementation of Classification Using Association Rule, IJETCAS, 2013
  48. Load Balancing Algorithm by Process Migration in Distributed OS, IJCSITS, 2012
  49. Load Balancing by Process Migration in Distributed Operating System, IJSCE, Mar 2012

National Publications

  1. Load Balancing in Distributed OS based on Division & Migration of Process, NCML, Mar 2019
  2. A Survey of Load Balancing Algorithm in Distributed Operating System, NCAET-KALOL, Mar 2012
  3. A Survey Paper on Enhancing Functioning of Wireless TCP in Cellular Network, NCRTET, May 2011

Achievements & Awards

  • Received Gaurav Purushkar Award from CVM for all-India Topper position.
  • Multiple NPTEL recognitions: Domain Scholar, Discipline Star, Enthusiastic, Believer.
  • Best Paper Award at ICWSTCSC2023 Conference, BVM.
  • Academic Excellence Awards from BVM for Best Development & Life-Long Learning.
  • Certified in Google Cloud Computing, Google Analytics, Python (Coursera), and more.
  • Top scorer in numerous NPTEL courses (IoT, Java, Cloud, Big Data, etc.).
  • Worked as NPTEL Text Translator for “Data Science for Beginners” & “Introduction to OS”.

Contact

You can reach me at BVM Engineering College, Anand or via email or phone.

Address

IT Department, BVM Engineering College, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand, Gujarat 388120, India