Currently working as a Lead Research Engineer at REDX Innovation Lab & Assistant Professor – Research & Business Analytics at Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai, India.

Experienced Assistant Professor with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Strong education professional with a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD focused in Computer Science from University of Mumbai, India.

1. Gawade A., Pandharkar R., Deolekar S. and Salunkhe U., "Early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease using LSTM: A Deep Learning Approach". 12th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2020)
2. Gawade A., Pandharkar R. and Deolekar S., "GANtoon: Creative cartoon art using Generative adversarial network". 5th International Conference, Information, Communication & Computing Technology, Scopus Indexed Springer CCIS Conference Proceeding of ICICCT 2020.
3. Deshpande A., Deolekar S. and Pandharkar R., "Speech Coach: A framework to evaluate and improve speech delivery" IEEE ICCCSP 2020: 4th International Conference on Computer, Communication and Signal Processing. 
4. Deolekar S., Godambe N., Abraham S. Genetic Algorithm to Generate Music Compositions: A Case Study with Tabla. In: Abraham A., Muhuri P., Muda A., Gandhi N. (eds) Hybrid Intelligent Systems. HIS 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 734. Springer, Cham.
5. Deolekar S., Abraham S. "Tree based classification of tabla strokes". Current Science., Volume 115, No. 9, pp. 1724-1731. (Impact Factor: 0.843) (2018)

1. Conducted Faculty Development Program on Training Teachers for AI in Schools. Machine Intelligence Research Labs (USA), 18th – 21st November, 2020. Subject: “Getting started with Machine Learning”. (Online)
2. Mentor and Organiser at the MIT India Initiative “DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIAL INNOVATION WORKSHOP 2020” held at Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai, India from 21st-25th Jan, 2020.
3. Talk on “Machine learning for music composition” at Computer Assisted Music and Dramatics: Possibilities and Challenges (CAMAD:PAC’19) An International workshop on February 25 to 27, 2019 at Department of Computer Science, University of Mumbai, India.