Faculty

Professor Jayendra Bhalodiya believes in holistic education covering academic, social, emotional, and spiritual intelligence that can contribute towards a healthy society and wealthy nation. Particularly in academic intelligence, Professor Bhalodiya believes in multidisciplinary problem-solving approach to add value to the society. Professor Bhalodiya did Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology at LD College of Engineering, Ahmedabad. Then, he pursued a Junior Research Fellowship at the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering in IIT Kharagpur. Professor Bhalodiya did Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) of the University of Warwick. After that, Professor Bhalodiya pursued a research fellowship as part of the Health Data Research UK project at the Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG, the University of Warwick.

Professor Bhalodiya addresses medical diagnostic tools and techniques research through computer science methods. His main clinical interests are cardiac and brain conditions. His technical interests are computer vision, image processing, and artificial intelligence methods. Professor Bhalodiya’s PhD research addressed developing a safe and accurate method to identify infarcted muscle in myocardial infarcted patients. For that, he developed a novel method that does not require harmful gadolinium-based contrast agent injection. Moreover, he introduced the local weighted mean transformation function to myocardial tracking and strain calculation problem-solving in 2D and 3D. Professor Bhalodiya’s post-doctoral research addressed efficient and accurate brain tumour diagnosis using multiple MRI sequences and artificial intelligence methods. Professor Bhalodiya employed various brain tumour segmentation methods to identify tumour areas. Moreover, he adopted radiomics features analysis to identify novel image biomarkers in brain tumour diagnosis. Professor Bhalodiya also has interests in arts. He depicts realism and expressionism through wildlife photography. His favourite subjects are birds. Professor Bhalodiya’s interview and photographs are published in internationally leading wildlife magazines. He encourages ethical wildlife tourism efforts.

1. FDP103 Water Studio (University Foundation)

2. ENR106 Introduction to Programming (Engineering Foundation)

3. CSE103 The World of Computer Science and Engineering (BTech CSE)

4. CSE602 Deep Learning (MTech CSE)

5. MGT301 Technology, Design and Business Models (Interdisciplinary)

• Chairperson of Ahmedabad University Students Events and Activities Committee (AUSEAC) in the Office of the Dean of Students at Ahmedabad University (2023-Present)
• Chairperson of MTech in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Ahmedabad University (2022-2023)

Engineering

• Cardiomyopathy teleconsultation app
  • Role: Project Investigator
  • A mobile application to help consultant cardiologists in diagnosing cardiomyopathy patients to recommend a patient-specific management plan. The app is empowered with robust assessment criteria practised over several decades by our collaborators. Moreover, it is easy for patients and clinical staff to use.
• AI tool for mugger crocodile conservation
  • Role: Technical Expert
  • AI-based tool development and mobile device deployment to track mugger crocodiles in the wild. The tool is based on drone imagery processed through convolutional neural networks.

Engineering

• Prajakta Rathod, Shefali Naik, and Jayendra M Bhalodiya. Performance Analysis of Explainable Artificial Intelligence Methods in Epilepsy Detection. The 22nd International Learning and Technology Conference (L&T), January 15-16, 2025, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2025). (Conference proceedings are yet to come online)
• Prajakta Rathod, Shefali Naik, and Jayendra M Bhalodiya. Epileptic Signal Classification with CNN Models and Explainable AI. 2025 19th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (IMCOM), pp 1-7, Bangkok, Thailand, January 3-5 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1109/IMCOM64595.2025.10857540
• Prajakta Rathod, Shefali Naik, and Jayendra M Bhalodiya. Epileptic signal classification using convolutional neural network and Shapley additive explainable artificial intelligence method. Neural Computing and Applications, Springer Nature, 36:36, pp 1-19, (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-024-10915-7
• Prajakta Rathod, Shefali Naik, and Jayendra M Bhalodiya. Epilepsy Detection with CNN and Explanation with Layer-wise Relevance Propagation. The 15th International IEEE Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT), June 24-28, 2024, IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India (2024). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCNT61001.2024.10726082  
• Snehal Rajput, Rupal A Kapdi, Mehul S Raval, Mohendra Roy, and Jayendra M Bhalodiya. Deriving and interpreting robust features for survival prediction of brain tumour patients. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, Wiley, 34:3, e23105, pp 1-18, (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/ima.23105
• Jayendra M Bhalodiya. Identification of MR image biomarkers in brain tumour patients using machine learning and radiomics features. Book chapter in Explainable AI in Healthcare: Unboxing Machine Learning for Biomedicine, pp 131-147, Chapman and Hall, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis group (2023). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003333425-7
• Prajakta Rathod, Jayendra M Bhalodiya, and Shefali Naik. Epilepsy detection using Bi-LSTM with explainable artificial intelligence. IEEE 19th India Council International Conference (INDICON) 2022, 24 to 26 November at Kochi, Kerala, India (2022). https://doi.org/10.1109/INDICON56171.2022.10039816
• Jayendra M Bhalodiya, Sarah N Lim Choi Keung, and Theodoros N Arvanitis. Magnetic resonance image-based brain tumour segmentation methods: A systematic review. Digital Health, 8, pp 1-19, (2022). https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076221074122
• Jayendra M Bhalodiya, Arnab Palit, Gerard Giblin, Manoj K Tiwari, Sanjay K Prasad, Sunil K Bhudia, Theodoros N Arvanitis, and Mark A Williams. Identifying Myocardial Infarction Using Hierarchical Template Matching–Based Myocardial Strain: Algorithm Development and Usability Study. JMIR Med Inform, JMIR, 9:2, e22164, pp 1-14, (2021). https://doi.org/10.2196/22164
• Jayendra M Bhalodiya, Arnab Palit, Enzo Ferrante, Manoj K Tiwari, Sunil K Bhudia, Theodoros N Arvanitis, and Mark A Williams. Hierarchical Template Matching for 3D Myocardial Tracking and Cardiac Strain Estimation. Scientific Reports, Nature, 9:1, 12450, pp 1-13, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-48927-2
• Jayendra M Bhalodiya, Arnab Palit, Manoj K Tiwari, Sanjay K Prasad, Sunil K Bhudia, Theodoros N Arvanitis, and Mark A Williams. A Novel Hierarchical Template Matching Model for Cardiac Motion Estimation. Scientific Reports, Nature, 8:1, 4475, pp 1-12, (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22543-y

Wildlife

• Jayendra Bhalodiya. National Bird Day - History, Importance and Awareness: Invited Discussion. Doordarshan (2025) https://www.youtube.com/live/02e7T-iiK90 
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Conservation of Endangered Species: Invited Talk for Paryavaran Cafe. DD News Gujarati (2024)   https://www.youtube.com/live/5uywQsCPhYI?si=H3bCBmwVeoEjKmJg
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Vishesh Charcha on State of India's Birds 2023 Report: Invited Talk. DD News Gujarati (2023) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2P8OtMR8tc  
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Sarus Crane and Demoiselle Crane: Photos. In Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) poster of Cranes of India (2023)
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Guest Columnist for Birds without Borders Column. The Indian Express (2023) 
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Birds without Borders: In Flamingo Land of Gujarat, Sarus Cranes Keep Singing their Love Songs. The Indian Express (2023)
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Birds without Borders: Indian Grey Hornbill, the Conjugal Love Birds that Love Gujarat Cities. The Indian Express (2023)
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Series Convener of #DDEcoFriends Photo Stories' Series. DD News Gujarati (2022-23)
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Sugari: Photo Story. DD News Gujarati, Doordarshan (2022)
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Lesser Flamingos and Ghudkhurs of Little Rann of Kutch, India. Wild Planet (2022)
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Indian Pond-heron Ardeola grayii Fights for Freedom at Mangalajodi. BUCEROS, Environmental Information System (ENVIS) Newsletter, Vol 26, No 2&3, Pp 19, Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) Estd. 1883 (2022) 
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Spectacular Mornings in Little Rann of Kutch. Wildlife Photographic Magazine, Issue 54, pg 86-87 (2022)
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Playful Puffins: Tale from the Bush. Commisioned by BBC Wildlife Magazine (2021)
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Lesser Flamingo: Photo. In Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) poster of Central Asian Flyway-India's National Action Plan Priority Species (2021) 
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Photo Challenge: Colour. Purple Sunbird. Wild Planet Photo Magazine, Issue 90, pg 80-81 (2021)
• Jayendra Bhalodiya. Five Minutes With: Interview. Wild Planet Photo Magazine, Issue 84, pg 222-231 (2020)

• Classcombinator.com - An EdTech tool for liberal education universities to enhance the student experience in efficiently selecting courses for an upcoming semester. Have a look at the project video. It is live at https://classcombinator.vercel.app/ for Ahmedabad University students. The project was developed by the first-year students, Zeel Rajodiya, Tanisha Kanade and Vinisha Kankariya, in my Programming course.
• IndianSignLanguageTranslator - There are only 250 trained/untrained individuals for Indian sign language (ISL) translation, and the need is about 18 million people. There are tools for British and American sign language translation but limited tools for ISL translation. My first-year UG students Siya Dhaduk, Charmi Goyal and Priscilla R developed an ISL translation tool using AI and ML. It can perform text to sign and sign to text conversion. Have a look at the project video.

• Club Mentor at the Photography Club of Ahmedabad University (2022-23)
• Faculty Mentor at Ingenium 2023, the annual technical festival of Ahmedabad University (2023)

• WINGS - Birds of India Gujarat 2025: We conducted a state-wide systematic survey of bird species in Gujarat as part of the WINGS - Birds of India program. It is a citizen science-based approach to raise awareness and document avian biodiversity and natural history. The exercise was sponsored by HSBC and Tata Chemicals. The event was coordinated by the Pranidhi trust and Yuhina Eco Media. Major birding sites from 30 (out of 33) districts of Gujarat were surveyed during the event with 225+ birders. The event was widely covered by various media. Survey outcome: https://ebird.org/tripreport/314448/
• Pan-Gujarat Bird Race 2024: We conducted a systematic bird species survey as part of the HSBC IndiaBird Races 2024 in Gujarat with a citizen science approach to raise environmental awareness and support conservation efforts. The collected data were shared on the eBird platform. The exercise was coordinated by the Bird Conservation Society, Gujarat (BCSG) and sponsored by HSBC.