Automata Theory and Formal Languages

Dr. Pallavi Vijay Chavan is Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology, RAIT, D. Y. Patil Deemed to be University, NERUL, Navi Mumbai, India. During her 20-year carrier, she has worked on a variety of research topics, including Visual Cryptography, Image Processing, Intelligent Systems, Machine Learning and Analytics. She has taught core subjects at the undergrad level including DBMS, Theory of Computation, Artificial Neural Networks, and Soft Computing. Dr. Chavan is the author of dozens of research papers in international journals and conferences, including Springer, Elsevier, Inderscience and IEEE. Dr. Chavan is recipient of research grants from Mumbai University and is a member of ACM and ISTE. Dr. Chavan is the author of Automata Theory and Formal Languages from Elsevier Academic Press. Dr. Ashish Jadhav is Professor and Head of Department of Information Technology at Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, D Y Patil Deemed to be University, Navi Mumbai, MH, India. He has over 34 years experience in industry, academia and research. He has industry experience in working on the technical track on projects related to Cybersecurity, Automotive software and Product Engineering Systems. He has contributed to the working groups for the development of international standard Autosar and other IEEE standards. In his academic engagement, he has published research work in the information theory, machine vision and machine learning domain with reputed publishers in journals, conferences and book chapters. Currently he is guiding 8 Ph.D. research scholars in similar domains. He completed his MS from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India in 1991, and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, U.P., India in 1999 in Electrical Engineering.