Dr. Pradnya H. Ghare

Brief Bio

Brief Bio
Pradnya Ghare received her PhD degree in the area of Body Area Networks from Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur in the year 2017. Her total teaching experience is more than 20 years and is working in the area of EEG signal processing and Wireless sensor networks. She authored many research papers in various conferences and SCI indexed journals. She worked as reviewer for various conferences and journals. Till now 02 students have completed PhD under her and 03 PhD students are working under her guidance. She has filed patents for two products namely saline level monitoring system and smart water bottle. She is member of various Technical societies – such as IEEE (senior member), IETE. She has delivered many guest lectures in the areas related to sensor networks, communication networks, Analog circuits etc. Involvement in Outreach activity - 1) Member of Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA)- An initiative of Govt of India to promote knowledge of science and technology related projects for students of Municipal corporation schools.2) Guidance to school teachers under ATAL Tinkering scheme organized by Vigyan Bharati.She has received a project under SERB POWER grant for 31 lacs. She has developed various prototypes such as1) Wireless saline level indicator (alert) system for hospitals.2) ‘Smart Water Bottle - an IoT product for healthcare’ 3) Automated sanitizer dispenser unit during COVID 19.

Pradnya Ghare received her PhD degree in the area of Body Area Networks from Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur in the year 2017. Her total teaching experience is more than 20 years and is working in the area of EEG signal processing and Wireless sensor networks. She authored many research papers in various conferences and SCI indexed journals. She worked as reviewer for various conferences and journals. Till now 02 students have completed PhD under her and 03 PhD students are working under her guidance. She has filed patents for two products namely saline level monitoring system and smart water bottle. She is member of various Technical societies – such as IEEE (senior member), IETE. She has delivered many guest lectures in the areas related to sensor networks, communication networks, Analog circuits etc. Involvement in Outreach activity - 1) Member of Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA)- An initiative of Govt of India to promote knowledge of science and technology related projects for students of Municipal corporation schools.2) Guidance to school teachers under ATAL Tinkering scheme organized by Vigyan Bharati.She has received a project under SERB POWER grant for 31 lacs. She has developed various prototypes such as1) Wireless saline level indicator (alert) system for hospitals.2) ‘Smart Water Bottle - an IoT product for healthcare’ 3) Automated sanitizer dispenser unit during COVID 19.

Education

Sr. No.	Degree	Year	Specialization	University
1	Ph.D	2017	Electronics and Communication	VNIT,Nagpur
2	M.E.	2012	Electronics and Communication	VNIT,Nagpur
3	B.E.	2000	Electronics and Telecommunication	Amravati university

Contact

Phone:	Email:	Address:
0712-2801022, 9423633401	phghare@ece.vnit.ac.in, ghareph22@gmail.com	Department of ECE, VNIt, Nagpur

Research Interest

Research Interest
Wireless sensor network
Body sensor Networks
EEG signal processing
Communication Networks

Sr. No.	Title	Funding Agency	Role	Year	Amount (in Lakhs INR)
1	Development of an EEG based Imagined Speech recognition system for augmentation of patient care communication	SERB POWER	Principal Investigator	2023	31 Lacs

Sr. No.	Title	Funding Agency	Role	Year	Amount (in Lakhs INR)

Description	Author(s)	Publisher	ISBN	Year

Sr. No.	Patent Title	Application No.	Date	Present Staus

Sr. No.	Title
1	Organized a 5 days international workshop under CoE, TEQIP-III on ‘ Role of localization in 5G, IoT and e-health’ from 15th -19th February 2021
2	Skill enhancement Course (02 weeks duration) on sensor networks under CoE (Combedded systems).
3	workshop on “Advanced digital system design using FPGA” organized for M.Tech and B.Tech students under III cell of CoE(on Combedded systems) during 26th March – 1st April 2015.
4	1) workshop on “Basic Pedagogy: Objective and Outcome based education system” for VNIT faculty during i) 5th – 7th September 2014 (Batch 1) ii) 25th – 27th September 2014 (Batch 2)

Sr. No.	Responsibility	Institute	Role	Year
1	Director’s nominee in Local purchase committee	VNIT, Nagpur		2021-2023

Sr. No.	Awards

S.No.	Paper Citation
1	P. H. Ghare, A.G. Kothari, “Interference analysis and mitigation techniques in Wireless Body Area Networks”, Wireless Personal Communications Journal, vol. 80, No.3, pp-4071-4081, 2017
2	· Mayur Katwe, Pradnya Ghare, Prabhat Sharma, Ashwin Kothari, “NLOS Error Mitigation in Hybrid RSS-TOA based Localization through Semi-Definite Relaxation”, IEEE Communication letters, September 2020.
3	Mayur Katwe, Pradnya Ghare, Prabhat Sharma,” Robust NLOS Bias Mitigation for Hybrid RSS-TOA based Source Localization under Unknown Transmission Parameters”, Accepted in IEEE Wireless Communication letters November 2020
4	Mayur Katwe, Prabhu babu, Pradnya Ghare, “A Majorization-Minimization Algorithm for Hybrid TOA-RSS based localization in NLOS Environment”, IEEE communication Letters, February 2022.
5	Ashwin Kamble, Pradnya Ghare, Vinay Kumar, “Machine-Learning-Enabled Adaptive Signal Decomposition for a Brain-Computer Interface Using EEG”, Biomedical signal processing and control, January 2022.
6	Suman Talla, Pradnya Ghare, Keshav Singh, “TBDRS: Threshold Based Data Reduction System for Data transmission and Computation Reduction in WSNs”, IEEE Sensors, June 2022.
7	Ashwin Kamble, Pradnya Ghare, Vinay Kumar, “Deep learning-based BCI for Automatic Imagined Speech recognition using SPWVD”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and measurement, November 2022.
8	Ashwin Kamble, Pradnya Ghare, and Vinay Kumar, Ashwin Kothari, A G Keskar, “Spectral Analysis of EEG Signals for Automatic Imagined Speech Recognition”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and measurement, July 2023.
9	Suman Talla, Pradnya Ghare, Keshav Singh, “Reliability Analysis of Selective Transmission Enabled Wireless Sensor System in IIoT”, IEEE Sensors journal July 2023.
10	Pradnya H. Ghare, A. G. Kothari, and A. G. Keskar,” Evaluation of scalability issue of 802.15.4 MAC for Body Area Networks”, 3rd International Conference on signal Acquisition and Processing (ICSAP), 2011
11	Pradnya H Ghare, A.G. Kothari,” “Interference issue in machine to machine communication for healthcare”, 4th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Networks, Beijing China, 2014
12	Niharika Pantawane,Pradnya H Ghare,” Comparative study of different backoff mechanisms in medical body area networks”, National conference on Advanced communication technologies and networks (ACTN) 2017, MNIT, Jaipur.
13	Vaishnavi D , P H Ghare , “ Path loss exponent estimation for wireless sensor node positioning: practical approach”, International conference on advanced networks and telecommunications (IEEE ANTs), Dec 2018.
14	Ankit, vaghmare, Pradnya Ghare, “Performance improvement for Multi-BAN Routing Protocol for Soccer Player Monitoring and Study of Factors Contributing towards Efficiency of the Protocol”, 9th ICCCNT,2018, IISc, Bangalore.
15	Ashwini Umre, Pradnya Ghare, “Optimization of Routing Algorithm for WBAN using Genetic Approach”, 9thICCCNT,2018, IISc, Bangalore.
16	Neha Pusalkar, Vaishnavi Dharmadhikari, Pradnya Ghare, “Firefighter Rescue System based on Indoor Localization of Wireless Sensor Network using Artificial Neural Network”, TENCON 2018.
17	Piyush Raut , P. H. Ghare , ” Analysis of Wireless Channel Parameters for the Different Types of Soil in the WUSNs”, SCEECS, Feb. 2020, MANIT, Bhopal.
18	.Saurav Suman, Vamsi Deekshit Kanakavety, Ajay Venkatesh kattoju, and Pradnya Ghare Classification of EEG Signals for Seizure Detection Using Feature Selection and Channel Selection Evolution in Computational Intelligence, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 267, Springer Nature 2022.
19	M. Katwe, P. Ghare, “ Sub-meter scale Node Positioning using Hybrid Time-Angle Measurements in an Asynchronous V2X Communication Network”, IEEE ANTS 2020
20	Jayant Rahate, Sai Naga Venkata Ramana, Udit Saroj, Ashwin Kamble, and Pradnya Ghare, “Silent Speech Recognition using EEG Signals, in proceedings of International Conference on the Paradigm shifts in Communication, Embedded Systems,Machine Learning and Signal Processing (PCEMS 2023), Nagpur, India
21	Ashwin Kamble, Pradnya Ghare, and Vinay Kumar, “Classifying Phonological Cat�egories and Imagined Words from EEG Signal, Biomedical Signal Processing for Healthcare Applications, 2021. 1: p. 29.

S.No.	Paper Citation
1	P. H. Ghare, A.G. Kothari, “Interference analysis and mitigation techniques in Wireless Body Area Networks”, Wireless Personal Communications Journal, vol. 80, No.3, pp-4071-4081, 2017
2	· Mayur Katwe, Pradnya Ghare, Prabhat Sharma, Ashwin Kothari, “NLOS Error Mitigation in Hybrid RSS-TOA based Localization through Semi-Definite Relaxation”, IEEE Communication letters, September 2020.
3	Mayur Katwe, Pradnya Ghare, Prabhat Sharma,” Robust NLOS Bias Mitigation for Hybrid RSS-TOA based Source Localization under Unknown Transmission Parameters”, Accepted in IEEE Wireless Communication letters November 2020
4	Mayur Katwe, Prabhu babu, Pradnya Ghare, “A Majorization-Minimization Algorithm for Hybrid TOA-RSS based localization in NLOS Environment”, IEEE communication Letters, February 2022.
5	Ashwin Kamble, Pradnya Ghare, Vinay Kumar, “Machine-Learning-Enabled Adaptive Signal Decomposition for a Brain-Computer Interface Using EEG”, Biomedical signal processing and control, January 2022.
6	Suman Talla, Pradnya Ghare, Keshav Singh, “TBDRS: Threshold Based Data Reduction System for Data transmission and Computation Reduction in WSNs”, IEEE Sensors, June 2022.
7	Ashwin Kamble, Pradnya Ghare, Vinay Kumar, “Deep learning-based BCI for Automatic Imagined Speech recognition using SPWVD”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and measurement, November 2022.
8	Ashwin Kamble, Pradnya Ghare, and Vinay Kumar, Ashwin Kothari, A G Keskar, “Spectral Analysis of EEG Signals for Automatic Imagined Speech Recognition”, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and measurement, July 2023.
9	Suman Talla, Pradnya Ghare, Keshav Singh, “Reliability Analysis of Selective Transmission Enabled Wireless Sensor System in IIoT”, IEEE Sensors journal July 2023.
10	Pradnya H. Ghare, A. G. Kothari, and A. G. Keskar,” Evaluation of scalability issue of 802.15.4 MAC for Body Area Networks”, 3rd International Conference on signal Acquisition and Processing (ICSAP), 2011
11	Pradnya H Ghare, A.G. Kothari,” “Interference issue in machine to machine communication for healthcare”, 4th International Conference on Electronics, Communications and Networks, Beijing China, 2014
12	Niharika Pantawane,Pradnya H Ghare,” Comparative study of different backoff mechanisms in medical body area networks”, National conference on Advanced communication technologies and networks (ACTN) 2017, MNIT, Jaipur.
13	Vaishnavi D , P H Ghare , “ Path loss exponent estimation for wireless sensor node positioning: practical approach”, International conference on advanced networks and telecommunications (IEEE ANTs), Dec 2018.
14	Ankit, vaghmare, Pradnya Ghare, “Performance improvement for Multi-BAN Routing Protocol for Soccer Player Monitoring and Study of Factors Contributing towards Efficiency of the Protocol”, 9th ICCCNT,2018, IISc, Bangalore.
15	Ashwini Umre, Pradnya Ghare, “Optimization of Routing Algorithm for WBAN using Genetic Approach”, 9thICCCNT,2018, IISc, Bangalore.
16	Neha Pusalkar, Vaishnavi Dharmadhikari, Pradnya Ghare, “Firefighter Rescue System based on Indoor Localization of Wireless Sensor Network using Artificial Neural Network”, TENCON 2018.
17	Piyush Raut , P. H. Ghare , ” Analysis of Wireless Channel Parameters for the Different Types of Soil in the WUSNs”, SCEECS, Feb. 2020, MANIT, Bhopal.
18	.Saurav Suman, Vamsi Deekshit Kanakavety, Ajay Venkatesh kattoju, and Pradnya Ghare Classification of EEG Signals for Seizure Detection Using Feature Selection and Channel Selection Evolution in Computational Intelligence, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 267, Springer Nature 2022.
19	M. Katwe, P. Ghare, “ Sub-meter scale Node Positioning using Hybrid Time-Angle Measurements in an Asynchronous V2X Communication Network”, IEEE ANTS 2020
20	Jayant Rahate, Sai Naga Venkata Ramana, Udit Saroj, Ashwin Kamble, and Pradnya Ghare, “Silent Speech Recognition using EEG Signals, in proceedings of International Conference on the Paradigm shifts in Communication, Embedded Systems,Machine Learning and Signal Processing (PCEMS 2023), Nagpur, India
21	Ashwin Kamble, Pradnya Ghare, and Vinay Kumar, “Classifying Phonological Cat�egories and Imagined Words from EEG Signal, Biomedical Signal Processing for Healthcare Applications, 2021. 1: p. 29.