Dr. Pranali Kashinath Kosamkar

Bio

Dr. Pranali Kosamkar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Technology at Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University, Pune. Prof. Pranali is well known for her fundamental and impactful contribution to the field of computing education, elevating every student she has mentored through a consistent, selfless teaching service for more than 20 years. Her research interests are in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Information Retrieval, and Quantum Computing. Prof. Pranali is also a well-respected technologist. She has delivered sessions on Big Data Analytics with Python to selected officers of the Indian Armed Forces at Military Institute of Training, Girinagar Pune. She has guided many undergraduate and graduate projects and has national and international paper publications to her credit. Her innovative teaching of basic courses like compiler design, database management system, data mining and principles of programming languages has built a high recognition among the student community in the institute MIT-WPU, Pune.

Specialisation: Computer Science and Engineering

Area of Expertise: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence

Teaching Experience: 21 years

Industry/Research Experience:

MTech Student Project “Prediction and Analysis of Gross Primary Productivity using Deep Learning Techniques” in collaboration with Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune under the guidance of Dr. Pramit Kumar Deb Burman, Scientist D, IITM Pune.

Education:

Ph.D: Ph.D. In Computer Engineering -Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University, Pune

M.Tech: M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering -Dr. D. Y. Patil College of Engineering , Pune ,Savitribai Phule Pune University

B.Tech: B.Tech. In Computer Technology, Nagpur University

Publications and Research Work:

1. Kosamkar, P., Kulkarni, V. (2026). Forecasting Influencing Parameter for CO2 and CH4 Emission from Agriculture Using Lasso and Ridge Regression. In: Vyas, S., Jawak, S.D., Deb Burman, P.K., Patel, H., Kandekar, A., Sawant, S. (eds) Application of Machine Learning in Earth Sciences. Earth and Environmental Sciences Library. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-11426-6_21

2. Agarwal, G., Deb Burman, P.K., Kulkarni, V.Y. et al. A comparison of machine learning algorithms for predicting gross primary productivity of the Western Ghats region in India using reanalysis and satellite data. J Earth Syst Sci 134, 86 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-025-02525-1

3. A. Pargaonkar, S. Konjerla, A. Pansare and P. P. Kosamkar, "Remote Landslide Detection Using Semantic Segmentation," 2023 IEEE 11th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC), Rajkot, India, 2023, pp. 1053-1059, doi: 10.1109/R10-HTC57504.2023.10461895.

4. S. Gavas and P. Kosamkar, "Comprehensive Approaches to Agricultural Intelligence: U-Net, YOLO, and Random Forest in Practice," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communication, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CCIS), Mathura, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CCIS63231.2024.10932072.

5. G. Agarwal, P. K. Deb Burman, V. Y. Kulkarni and P. K. Kosamkar, "Prediction of Gross Primary Productivity using Hybrid LSTM-GRU Neural Networks and ERA5-Reanalysis Data," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication, and Intelligent Systems (ICCCIS), Greater Noida, India, 2023, pp. 94-99, doi: 10.1109/ICCCIS60361.2023.10425755.

6. P. Udatewar, A. Desai, G. Godghase, A. Nair and P. Kosamkar, (2021) Personal Protective Equipment Kit Detection using Yolo v5 and TensorFlow, 2021 International Conference on Smart Generation Computing, Communication and Networking (SMART GENCON), Pune, India, 2021, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/SMARTGENCON51891.2021.9645811.

Awards and Recognitions:

1. Best Paper award at International Conference on Convergence of Smart Technologies (IC2ST-2021)

2. Best Paper award at IEEE International Conference on Innovating Technology for Humanity PuneCon 2019

3. Best Paper award at 4th IEEE International Conference on Computing Communication Control and Automation-2018

Subjects Taught:

Database Management System, System Software and Compiler Design, Data Visualization using Python Programming, Principles of Programing Languages, Data Warehouse and Data Mining

Scopus Link:
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=55356706800

Google Scholar Link:
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=LzxefCcAAAAJ&hl=en

Orcid Id:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3393-462X

Linked In:
https://in.linkedin.com/in/dr-pranali-kosamkar-b618b623