Dr. Nikisha Bhadreshbhai Jariwala
Name: Dr. Nikisha Bhadreshbhai Jariwala
Qualification: Ph.D.
Designation : Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Institute Name : Smt. Tanuben & Dr. Manubhai Trivedi College Of Information Science
College Address : Wadia Womens Campus,
Athwalines, Surat-395001, Gujarat, India
Award For : Research Excellence Award
Publication Title: Conference
Paper Title : Transliteration Of Digital Gujarati Text Into Printable Braille
Conference Name : 2015 Fifth International Conference On Communication Systems And Network Technologies (Csnt-2015)
Publication Name: Ieee
Organizer : Mir Labs And Iete Gwalior Sub Center, Ieee, Sersc South Korea
Year : 2015
Page No. : 572-577
ISBN / ISSN No.: 978-1-4799-1797-6
About Dr. Nikisha Bhadreshbhai Jariwala
Since 2009, she is working as an Assistant Professor in Smt. Tanuben & Dr. Manubhai Trivedi College of Information Science, Surat Gujarat. She has completed Bachelor of Computer Application and Master of Computer Application from Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat with First rank in university.She has earned doctorate degree from Uka Tarsadia University. In 2013, she set out to combine her love for the technology with her passion for helping people and so the transliteration project was born.Her research topic was “Design and Development of the Model to Transliterate Digitalized Multilingual Text into Braille and Speech – An Aid for Visually Impaired People”. Visually impaired people are an integral part of the society. However, their disabilities have made them to have less access to literatures available in the form of e-content. Braille script is used by them for reading and writing. It will be beneficial to the visually impaired people of our society.Her research focuses on multilingual text of 3 languages: Gujarati – Regional Language, Hindi- National Language and English – an international language.
The Model is divided into 4 parts:
- Plain Multilingual text to Braille
- Mathematical Text to Braille
- Drawing shape to Braille
- Text to Speech
With the help of the model multilingual documents such as news articles, scientific literature, current trends, study literature etc available on the internet will be able to transliterate in Braille and speech. So that it can be used by blind children and people to enhance their knowledge and remain in touch with current affairs and can also be used in their education.It will help to generate Braille for Educational contents, story books, and news, etc. from Gujarati, Hindi and English text.It will encourage and inspire other citizens of our society to carry out the work and research that will be benefitted to the needed people of our society.The Andhjan Shikshan Mandal School for Blind in Surat has helped her to verify and test the veracity of her model and in doing so dropped her square in the spotlight. Currently, the model is deployed at the school and it’s a view validated by a student from the institute. The pupil was quoted by Indian news agency ANI (Asia News International) as saying “Earlier our teacher read out newspapers for us, now we will able to read them. Quoted by Zeel Rathod.Her research was recognized by GUJCOST and her project received grant for it in 2015. Her research was also recognized by GIS (Gujarat Innovation Society) established under the guidance of our honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and she received Trend Setter Award in April 2016.Among the plaudits she has won is the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Lifetime Achievement National Award, given to Dr. Jariwala for her contribution to the development of the nation and achieving outstanding excellence in the field of teaching, research and publication on August 2019 by International Institute for Social and Economic Reforms (IISER), Bengaluru.She received Award of Excellence for getting recognized as Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science from Alumni Association of Shrimad Rajchandra Institute of Management and Computer Application, Uka Tarsadia University, Bardoli on March, 2018.She received Outstanding Person of the Year Award from JCI (Junior Chamber International), Surat for an active citizen of Society for the year 2019.Shri Surat Leuva Patidar Punch honored her for the contribution towards the society for “The Model that transliterates digitalized multilingual text into Braille and Speech: An Aid for visually impaired people” in October, 2019.She has 4 books publications (ASP.NET, VB.NET, Introduction to Computers and Data Structure with C) and Chapters publications on her credit.She has authored and co-authored many research papers in International Journals and conferences in the area of Natural Language Processing, Digital Image Processing, Web Intelligence, Cloud Computing etc.She serves as a Technical Programme committee member and reviewer in no. of journals and international conferences. She has also served as a chairperson for the special session in the international conferences.She is life time member of computer society of India (CSI) and also the member of IEEE, ACM, Gyancity etc.She also runs YouTube channel with name “Dr. Nikisha Jariwala” were she provide tutorials and tips on various subjects of Computer Science and Information Technology.