Information Technology Faculty

GRINAL MERWIN TUSCANO
 

GRINAL MERWIN TUSCANO

  • Assistant Professor

  • Unique ID :1-419717555

  • Qualification : ME in Information Technology

  • Email : grinaltuscano@sfit.ac.in

  • Phone : 02228908585-3051

  • Area of Interest : Cloud Computing , Automata Theory, Software Testing, IoT


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Academic Background

 ME IT AUG 2013 Vidyalankar Institute of Technology 71.29%

BE IT MAY 2005 St Francis Institute of Technology 61.86%

Diploma Summer 2002 Navel Institute of Technology 64.98

SSC MARCH 1999 St Joseph High School 76.66

Research Interests

Resource allocation in Xen Hypervisor.

Authentication system using Pass faces

IoT based applications

Cloud Computing

Work Experience

  • Assistant Professor at the St. Francis Institute of Technology, Mumbai, for 14 years  (From 1st July 2010 - till date)
  • Lecturer at the St. Francis Institute of Technology, Mumbai, for 4 years (From 16th June 2006 – 30th June 2010)

Affiliations with Professional Bodies

  1. Steve Correia , Nathen Carneiro *, Royce Barboz , Dheeraj Naik , Grinal Tuscano, "Sign Language Translator Using KNN", Indian Journal of Computer Science (IJCS), Volume 9, Issue 3, 16-22, June, 2024.

  2. Nishar Bafna, Melvin Tauro, Rinsey Menezes, Caroline Miranda , Ms. Grinal Tuscano, "Visualization of Data Structures Algorithm and Virtual Learning Test Portal", ICTACT Journal on Soft Computing, vol 14 issue 5, 13, May, 2024.

  3. Hemant Mistry, Rangel Anselm Koli, Deep Kotian, Rushi More, Grinal Tuscano, "Find X: Track Down Missing People Using MTCNN and FaceNet", Indian Journal of Computer Science (IJCS), Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 19-26, March, 2024.

  4. Hitanshu Parekh, Niyati Agarwal, Pranav Bangera, Roger D’souza, Grinal Tuscano, "Drishti : Real-Time Object Recognition for the Visually Impaired", Indian Journal of Computer Science, Vol 8, No 2 (2023) DOI: 10.17010/ijcs/2023/v8/i2/172774, 8-18, April, 2023.

  5. Meet Popat, Aayush Doshi, Yashraj Rai, Deep Vakharia, Grinal Tuscano, ""Alexis : A Voicebased Chatbot Using Natural Language Processing"", International Journal Of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), Vol. 11 Issue 04, ISSN: 2278-0181, p, April, 2022.

  6. Grinal Tuscano, Tanvee Jamsandekar, Pawan Karkal, Roneel Govekar, "Smart Traffic Signal with Motorbike Safety", INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY (IJERT), NTASU – 2020 (Volume 09 – Issue 03), pp-11, February, 2021.

  7. Grinal Tuscano, Meet Shah, Mohammedhasan Shaikh, Vishwajeet Mishra, "Decentralized Cloud Storage Using Blockchain", 2020 4th International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICOEI). / https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9143004, doi: 10.1109/ICOEI48184.2020.9143004, 384-389, July, 2020.

  8. Silviva Dmonte, Grinal Tuscano, Leena Raut, Snehal Sherkhane, "Rule generation & prediction of anxiety disorder using logistic model trees", 2018 International Conference on Smart City and Emerging Technology (ICSCET), NA, 1 - 4, January, 2018.

  9. Ms. Grinal Tuscano, Ms. Humairah Kotadiya, Mr. Vikrant Bhat, Mr. Rollan Fernandes, Mr. Amod Panchal, "A Survey On Data Leakage Detection", Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications, ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 5, Issue 4, ( Part -6), 153-158, April, 2015.

  10. Ms Grinal Tuscano, Aakriti Tulasyan, Akshata Shetty, Malvina Rumao, "Graphical password authentication using Pass faces", Int. Journal of Engineering Research and Applications, ISSN : 2248-9622, Vol. 5, Issue 3, ( Part -5), 60-64, March, 2015.

  • Minor Research Grant of Rs. 35000/- procured from Mumbai University for research project on 'Automatic Dam Shutter Mechanism for Flood Controlling and Irrigation using IoT', for duration of 1 year in the academic year 2018-19.
  1. Conducted a session on, " MONGODB ", in 3HRS Workshop on 30 Hours VAC on "Advances in Web Technology organized by SFIT, 12th December,2022.
  2. Conducted a session on, " LATEX ", in 3 HRS Workshop on LATEX organized by SFIT, 04th October,2022.
  3. Conducted a session on, " Cloud Fundamentals and AWS cloud account setup_HandsOn ", in 1 DAY Workshop on Fusion of DevOps and Advanced DevOps Tools organized by ONLINE, 27th June,2022.
  4. Conducted a session on, " LATEX ", in 3 HRS Workshop on LATEX organized by SFIT, 23rd April,2022.
  5. Conducted a session on, " MongoDB_HandsOn ", in 1 day Workshop on ISTE approved one week STTP on "Web X.0" organized by St. Xavier College of Enginnering, Mahim, 05th January,2022.
  6. Conducted a session on, " MongoDB-HandsOn ", in 1 day Workshop on ISTE approved one week STTP on "Recent Trends in Web Technologies" organized by SFIT_Online, 10th December,2021.
  7. Conducted a session on, " HandOn_Latex Workshop ", in 2 Days Workshop on SKC_SFIT organized by Google Meet-Online, 10th April,2021.
  8. Conducted a session on, " AWS Lambda : Serverless computing Platform ", in 1.30 hrs Seminar on R & D Lecture Series organized by organized by INFT Department of SFIT, 13th February,2021.
  9. Conducted a session on, " IoT Cloud Platforms , Demonstration of Cloud platform and Blynk App ", in 2 days Workshop on IOT Simulation Platforms Workshop organized by Online, 20th August,2020.
  10. Conducted a session on, " Drupal Hands on ", in 2 days Workshop on Conducted a workshop under Information Technology Student association-ITSA organized by St. Francis Institute of Technology (SFIT) Borivali Mumbai- 400 103, 06th October,2018.
  11. Conducted a session on, " Internet Of Things - Applications of IoT ", in 1 day Seminar on Knowledge sharing sessions - Faculty webinar organized by Infosys-Campus Connect organized by Pune, 10th August,2015.
  12. Conducted a session on, " Automata Theory-Three complete lectures (divided into total of 6 concepts of 15 mins each) using InPods(for each of the 6 concepts - one video recording, one MCQ, one assignment and solutions to assignments). ", in 1 Month Workshop on Phase II of project GENTLE (Global Education Network for Teaching and Learning Engineering) organized by IUCEE (Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education),honorarium of Rs 10,000 for the best job of successful completion of Phase II., 05th December,2014.
  13. Conducted a session on, " Automata Theory - An Introductory lecture using Inpods platform ", in 2 Weeks Workshop on Phase I of project GENTLE(Global Education Network for Teaching and Learning Engineering) organized by IUCEE (Indo-US Collaboration for Engineering Education), honorarium of Rs 2,000 successful completion of Phase I, 10th October,2014.
  14. Conducted a session on, " For developing courses online using InPods. ", in 2 weeks Workshop on IUCEE 2 project GENTLE 3 organized by Remote Center - SFIT, 14th September,2011.

PG Level

Storage Area Network 

UG Level

Digital Logic Design

Automata Theory

Internet Technology and Application 

Software Testing and Quality Assurance

Cloud Computing

IoT

Advanced DevOps

DevOps

Web X.0

 

Workshop / Seminar / STTP Attended

  • Attended 6 Days "IEEE-BS sponsored collaborative hybrid capacity building program on "Becoming IOE Ready: Recent Trends in Sensing, Security and Data Analysis" from 24th June to 29th June 2024. " organized by Department of Information Technology, St. Francis Institute of Technology in collaboration with Thakur College of Engineering and Technology from 24th Jun - 29th Jun, 2024 at SFIT CAMPUS AND ONLINE MODE.
  • Attended 1 week "Building Advanced Data Analytics Applications with Cloud" organized by ATAL, Next Gen Employability Program from 08th Jan - 12th Jan, 2024 at Online.
  • Attended 1 WEEK "MICROSOFT,SAP, AICTE LED Applied Cloud Computing for Full Stack Web Development" organized by TECHSAKSHAM from 04th Dec - 08th Dec, 2023 at ONLINE.
  • Attended 2 WEEKS "NEXT GENERATION SOLUTIONS: HARNESSING THE POWER OF BLOCKCHAIN AND AI" organized by SFIT, XIE, SJCEM from 19th Jun - 01st Jul, 2023 at SFIT CAMPUS.
  • Attended 1 WEEK "CYBER SECURITY AND FORENSIC" organized by K J SOMAIYA from 19th Jun - 24th Jun, 2023 at ONLINE MODE.
  • Attended 7 DAYS "CLOUD COMPUTING COURSE" organized by TURNIP from 04th May - 10th May, 2023 at VIRTUAL.
  • Attended one week "ISTE approved one week STTP on Web X.0" organized by ISTE from 03rd Jan - 07th Jan, 2022 at XIE, Mahim (ONLINE).
  • Attended 1 WEEK "Insights and Methodologies towards Research and Research Outcomes" organized by ISTE APPROVED from 21st Jun - 26th Jun, 2021 at SFIT-CMPN DEPT.
  • Attended 1 WEEK "Faculty Development Program on Core Java" organized by E & ICT Academy, IIT Kanpur from 21st Jun - 26th Jun, 2021 at ONLINE.
  • Attended 1 WEEK "Faculty Development Program on Cloud computing" organized by E & ICT Academy, IIT Kanpur from 12th Apr - 17th Apr, 2021 at ONLINE.
  • Attended 1 WEEK "Faculty Development Program on Python" organized by E & ICT Academy, IIT Kanpur from 05th Apr - 10th Apr, 2021 at ONLINE.
  • Attended 1 DAY "IEEE Author Workshop" organized by SFIT LIRC and IQAC on 20th Feb, 2021 at SFIT- VIRTUAL.
  • Attended One Week "FDP under TEQIP-III program- Network & IoT Simulation Platforms" organized by Government College of Engineering, Karad organized under TEQIP-III program from 27th Aug - 31st Aug, 2020 at Online .
  • Attended 4 Weeks "AWS Machine Learning - Coursera" organized by Coursera from 23rd Apr - 08th Jun, 2020 at Coursera online.
  • Attended 12 Weeks "Successfully completed NPTEL online certification course on Introduction to "Automata, Languages and Computation" organized by IIT Kharagpur from 28th Jan - 20th Apr, 2019 at Remote center.
  • Attended 12 Weeks "NPTEL Online Certification course on "THE JOY OF COMPUTING USING PYTHON" organized by IIT Madras from 23rd Jul - 20th Oct, 2018 at Remote Center.
  • Attended 1 week "Open Data Science with IoT " organized by AICTE-ISTE from 25th Jun - 30th Jun, 2018 at conducted by VIT, wadala.
  • Attended 1 Week "Cloud Computing and Security" organized by AICTE-ISTE Sponsored from 11th Jun - 16th Jun, 2018 at K J Somaiya College of Engineering, Vidyavihar..
  • Attended 12 weeks "Successfully completed with Distinction NPTEL online certification course on Internet of Things" organized by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, from 22nd Jun - 22nd Oct, 2017 at Remote center.
  • Attended 12 weeks "Successfully completed with First class NPTEL online certification course on Cloud Computing " organized by Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur from 02nd Jun - 22nd Oct, 2017 at Remote Center.
  • Attended 2 Weeks " ISTE STTP on "INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN OF ALGORITHMS" organized by IIT Bombay from 27th Apr - 30th May, 2015 at SFIT.
  • Attended One day "FIP on "CLOUD COMPUTING, BIG DATA & VIRTUALIZATION" organized by TATA Consultancy Services on 10th Apr, 2015 at SFIT.
  • Attended Two weeks "ISTE Workshop on "COMPUTER NETWORKING" organized by IIT Bombay from 28th May - 05th Jul, 2014 at SFIT.
  • Attended Two weeks "AICTE Approved FDP on "VIRTUALIZATION CLOUD COMPUTING AND BIG DATA" organized by VIT from 09th Dec - 20th Dec, 2013 at VIT Campus , wadala.
  • Attended Two days "ISTE Workshop "RESEARCH METHODS IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY" organized by IIT Bombay from 02nd Feb - 09th Feb, 2013 at SFIT.
  • Attended One Week "ISTE approved STTP on PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TECHNICAL TEACHERS (ILLUME 2010)" organized by SFIT -ISTE from 04th Jan - 08th Jan, 2010 at SFIT.
  • Attended Two Weeks "ISTE approved STTP on ADVANCE LINUX PROGRAMMING" organized by Vidyavardhini's College, Vasai from 22nd Jul - 03rd Jul, 2009 at Vidyavardhini's College campus, Vasai.
  • Attended One Week "ISTE approved STTP on SOFT COMPUTING TECHNIQUES [SCT-2008] " organized by SFIT from 15th Dec - 19th Dec, 2008 at SFIT, Borivli..
  • Attended One Week "Course on JAVA WITH OPEN SOURCE & IBM TOOLS" organized by SPIT from 11th Jul - 14th Jul, 2007 at SPIT, Andheri.
  • Attended 2 Weeks "FACULTY INDUCTION PROGRAMME at From 19th June to 1st July 2006." organized by SFIT from 19th Jun - 01st Jul, 2006 at SFIT, Borivli.

Workshop / Seminar / STTP Conducted

  • Conducted "Becoming IOE Ready: Recent Trends in Sensing, Security and Data Analysis" " from 24th Jun - 29th Jun, 2024 organized by Department of Information Technology, St. Francis Institute of Technology in collaboration with Thakur College of Engineering and Technology an IEEE-BS sponsored.
  • Conducted "Colloquium 2023: IT in Wellness-Tech" from 12th Apr - 13th Apr, 2023 organized by DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.
  • Conducted ""30 Hours VAC on "Advances in Web Technology""" from 08th Dec - 12th Dec, 2022 organized by SKILL DEVELOPMENT CELL SFIT.
  • Conducted "VAC on Fusion of DevOps and Advanced DevOps Tools" from 27th Jun - 01st Jul, 2022 organized by Skill Development Cell SFIT.
  • Conducted "30 Hours VAC on "Advances in Web Technology"" from 13th Dec - 17th Dec, 2021 organized by Department of Information Technology in association with Skill Development Cell.
  • Conducted "Colloquium 2021 : IT for Gaming (Worked as Registration and Printing Convener)" from 26th Feb - 27th Feb, 2021 organized by INFT Dept_SFIT.
  • Conducted "I.T. for Society: A Colloquium (Worked as Registration and Printing Convener)" on 17th Jan, 2020 organized by Department of Information Technology.
  • Conducted "IT For Society : Colloquium 2019 (Worked as Registration and Printing Convener)" from 18th Jan - 19th Jan, 2019 organized by INFT Department of SFIT.
  • Conducted "I.T. for Society: Collquium 2018 (Worked as Registration and Printing Convener)" from 19th Jan - 20th Jan, 2018 organized by INFT Department of SFIT..
  • Conducted "I.T. for Society: Collquium 2017 (Worked in Registration and Printing Committee)" from 20th Jan - 21st Jan, 2017 organized by INFT Department of SFIT.
  • Conducted "MINDS EYE" from 16th Apr - 17th Apr, 2007 organized by SFIT.