Dr. Jatin Patel

Project Director I/c (Projects and Training) & Associate Professor (Information Technology)
Ph.D.(Computer Engineering), M.E. – Computer Science & Engineering, B.E. – Information Technology

Email – jatin.patel@rru.ac.in

Research Area – Image Processing, Network Security

About Dr. Jatin Patel

Dr. Jatin Patel is Project Director I/c (Projects and Training) & Associate Professor (Information Technology) in School of Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence & Cyber Security, RRU Ministry of Home Affairs, and a cybersecurity expert with experience in cyber defense, and Network Security. He leads national and international projects with NSCS, NCIIPC, and MEA, designing advanced training, cyber exercises, and capacity-building programs. His work bridges research and practice, focusing on secure networks, cyber range simulations, and strengthening India’s cyber resilience.

Academic qualifications
  • Ph.D, Rashtriya Raksha University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India.
  • Master of Technology (Computer Science & Engineering) –64.04% Rajasthan Technical University, Rajasthan, India.
  • Bachelor of Engineering (Information Technology) – 67.72% Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Gujarat, India.
Expert Lectures/Papers presented in Conferences/Seminars/Workshops:
  • Panel discussion on “Guardrails for responsible adoption of AI in securities market” at Global Fintech Fest 2025, Mumbai on 9th October 2025.
  • Panel discussion on “Building India’s Digital Resilience: Infrastructure, Capacity Building and Forensics” at BSides Ahmedabad on 12th September 2025.
  • Technical Session on “Safeguarding Operational Resilience and Industrial Cybersecurity” organized by Chennai Petroleum Corporation Limited (CPCL) at Chennai on 11th July 2025.
  • Committee member for the development of the Oil Sector Cybersecurity Reference Framework (OSCRF).
  • Delivered expert talk in ITEC Programme, Development Partnership Administration, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India on 6th March organized by Rashtriya Raksha University, Gandhinagar.
  • Delivered webinar on “Introduction to Cyber Security and Cyber Attacks” hosted by BBIT,Vidhyanagar-Gujarat on 21st July 2020.
  • Delivered webinar on “Introduction to Cyber Security and Cyber Attacks” hosted by RNGPIT,Bardoli-Gujarat on 14th May 2020
  • Delivered webinar on “Investigation of Cyber Crime Cases” Hosted by RNGPIT, Bardoli-Gujarat on 29th April 2020
  • Delivered expert talk on “Introduction to Cyber security” at RSU, Gandhinagar on 12th March 2020.
  • Delivered expert talk on “Basics of Cyber Security” at Gujarat Police Training Center for the Wireless Police Inspector Induction Course 2nd-3rd March 2020.
  • Delivered expert talk on “Hacking Phishing and Network Security” at RSU Gandhinagar on 4th March 2020.
  • Delivered expert talk on “Network Analysis and Information Gathering” at RSU Gandhinagar on 4th March 2020.
  • Delivered expert talk on “Hacking-cracking” at INFLIBNET, Gandhinagar, Gujarat (India) on 27th November 2019.
  • Delivered expert talk on “Hacking-cracking” at INFLIBNET, Gandhinagar, Gujarat (India) on 11th October 2019.
  • Presented a paper titled ‘Smart License Plate Recognization system based on Image Processing’ during International Conference on Innovative Technology in Engineering & Science at VVP ITES Conference – 2012 on 22-23 December, 2012.
Conference / Seminar / Workshop participation:
  • Participated in the Faculty Development Program on “Innovative Teaching and Learning Pedagogy” jointly organized by Research Foundation of India & RFI-CARE from 20th-24th May 2024.
  • CEH certification through examination administered by EC Council.
  • CCNA certified trainer through examination administrated by Cisco.
  • Attended 1 week Faculty Development Program on “Network Security” organized by GTU from 28 th September to 2 nd October 2020.
  • 6 week course on “IT- security: Defense against the Digital dark arts” authorized by Google and offered through coursera.
  • webinar on “Cyber Security and Forensics” held on May 23-24 2020”
  • Webinar on “Ethical hacking and Cyber Security” on 19th may 2020”
  • STTP on “EF-IoT Recent Advance in Edge and Fog Computing for Internet of Things” on 10th -16th June 2019 at ADIT Vidhyanagar, Anand, Gujarat (India).
  • International workshop on “Research Methodology in Criminology” on 13th -14th July 2018 at RSU, Gujarat (India).
  • 24th All India Forensics Science Conference on 10th -12th February 2018 at Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, (India).
  • One day Workshop on “Challenges in Cyber Security” on 27th November 2017 at Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad, (India).
  • International Workshop on “IoT with Cloud” on 11th August 2016 at FETR, Bardoli (India).
  • National workshop on “Implementation of 5S” on 5th August, 2016 at FETR, Bardoli, (India).
  • Seminar on “ATTITUDE AND SOFT-SKILLS” held on 16th July 2016 at SCET-Surat (India).
  • Workshop on “Latest trend in Wireless Communication” on 22nd – 23rd January 2016 at CGPIT, Bardoli, Gujarat (India).
  • Workshop on “Introduction to Android Application Development” on 18th -20th July 2014.
  • Workshop on “Wireless Sensor Network” held on 25th January 2014 at FETR, Bardoli (India).
  • Workshop on “Wire & Wireless Network Simulation using NS2” on 5th – 6th April 2013 under SCET and IEEE Gujarat section.
  • Workshop on “Virtual Lab” on 2nd March 2013 sponsored by National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, MHRD, Govt. of India.
  • “Faculty Development Program” of new curriculum for the degree engineering program on 19th October 2013 at GTU, Gujarat (India).
  • Introductory workshop on “Linux Programming Concepts” on 21st March 2009 at SCET Surat (India).
  • Workshop on “Employability Enhancement program” on 4th -5th March 2011 at SCET Surat (India).
  • Completed training on HP Quality Center for various types of Software Testing like regration testing, black box testing etc.
Capacity Building Training Programmes (Organized):
  • Conduct the Sector Specific training for the government Sector from 6-15 October at RRU Gandhinagar.
  • Conduct the Sector Specific training for the Railway and Metro from 22nd September to 1st October at RRU Gandhinagar.
  • Conduct the Sector Specific training for the IRDAI from 11-20 September at RRU, Gandhinagar.
  • Conduct the Sector Specific training for the Aviation and Port from 3-12 September at RRU, Gandhinagar.
  • Conduct the Sector Specific training for the SEBI from 5th to 14th August at NISM Mumbai.
  • Conduct the Sector Specific training for the DRDO from 24th to 31st May at RRU, Gandhinagar.
  • Conduct the Sector Specific training for the SLDC under Ministry of Power from 5th to 10th May at RRU, Gandhinagar.
  • Conduct the Sector Specific training for the SLDC under Ministry of Power from 10th to 15th February at RRU, Gandhinagar.
  • Conduct eCourts Capacity building training programme for “Cybercrime and Cyber Hygiene Awareness” for the technical teams of District courts from 5th to 6th May 2025 at RRU Gandhinagar.
  • Conduct a training Program on “Cyber Security, for the technical teams of the High Courts” from 28th April to 7th May 2025 at RRU Gandhinagar.
  • Conduct a Training Workshop on “Cyber Security Essentials” for the Eastern Command officers from 10th February to 14th March 2025.
  • Organized One Day Workshop on “Cyber Crime Investigation and Cyber Forensics” at RSU, Gandhinagar on 27th September 2020.
  • Coordinator of One day National Level Cyber Awareness Seminar on “Cyber security and Cyber Law” at RSU, Gandhinagar on 12th March 2020.
  • Coordinator of 5 days training on “Investigation of Cyber Crime cases” sponsored by BPR&D at RSU Gandhinagar on 3rd – 7th March 2020.
  • One day National Level Cyber Awareness Seminar on “Cyber Forensics and Cyber Law” for the Police officers of Gujarat at RSU, Gandhinagar on 7th January 2020.
  • Organized Three Days Tech-Fest with Cyber Awareness Program on 15th – 17th October 2019 at RSU Gandhinagar.
  • Member of Organizing Committee in the International Conference on Police Science (ICPS-2019) organized by RSU, Gandhinagar on 6 th – 7 th September 2019.
  • Organized Two days workshop on “Internet of Things: A hands-on Approach” on 15th -16th September 2018 at RSU, Ahmedabad.
  • Organized Two days workshop on “Ethical Hacking & Network Security” on 12th -13th April 2018 at RSU, Ahmedabad.
  • Organized Two days workshop on “Python Fundamentals” on 10th – 11th March 2018 at RSU, Ahmedabad.
  • Organized Three days workshop on “Introduction to Android Application Development” on 7th – 9th August 2015 at FETR, Bardoli.
Contribution to Research Journals and Magazines:
  • Presenting paper titled “Stock Price Prediction using Liquid State Machine” in International Conference on Intelligent Signal Processing and Effective Communication Technologies, held on 07 – 08 December, 2024, at ABV-IIITM Gwalior.
  • “Potato Leaf Disease Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network” paper accepted in the in the world Conference on Information Management on Business Management-ISBM Bangkok-2023
  • “BLS based authentication and token-based authorization for Smart Home” published a paper in the 13th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT) on 26th Dec 2022.
  • “Analysis of Inter Frame Video Forgery Detection Through Passive Techniques Secretary” present a paper at the International Conference on Engineering & Technology – ICET-2016 held in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India on 17-18 January 2022
  • ”Passive Video Forgery Detection Techniques to Detect Copy Move Tampering through Feature Comparison and RANSAC”, Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, ISSN 2367-4512, http://www.springer.com/series/15362
  • AN OPTIMIZED CONVOLUTION NEURAL NETWORK BASED INTER-FRAME FORGERY DETECTION MODEL: A MULTI-FEATURE EXTRACTION FRAMEWORK” published in ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing ,Volume: 12, Issue:2 in November 2021. (UGC Care Listed)
  • International paper on “Smart License Plate Recognization system based on Image Processing” on 22-23/12/2012 at VVP ITES Conference, Rajkot, Gujarat.
  • Paper on “Security in Wireless Sensor Network” on 17th-18th September 2010 at SCET Surat.
Project and Consultancy:
  • Co-Principal Investigator for the University’s Data Centre and Disaster Recovery project, the Campus Area Network project and Indian Army Hackathon 1.0 and 2.0 in collaboration with MCTE Mhow.
  • Principal Investigator – BHARAT National Cyber Security Exercise 2024-25 (NSCS), managed a grant of INR 12.9 Cr.
  • Principal Investigator – “Conduct of comprehensive sector-specific cybersecurity training (NSCS), managed a grant of INR 7.31 Cr.
  • Principal Investigator – “Establishment of Advance Test Bed for Emulation of National Cyber Infrastructure and Adversarial Simulation Phase – II (Cyber Range), NSCS, managed a grant of INR 35.4 Cr.
  • Conducted National Level Cyber Security Exercise ‘CII SECEX’ for NCIIPC (11–20 April 2025), managing a grant of ₹1.96 Cr.
Research Guidance: (UG/PG/Ph.D.):
  • Guided several undergraduate and postgraduate students in their final year research projects at Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU), Gandhinagar.
  • Guided various UG level students for the final year project of B.Tech in CSE at FETR Bardoli.