Worthy Principal Dr Rajesh Kumar, Dr Parteek Bhatia Resource Person of the E-workshop, Staff members of the college, a very good Afternoon to all of you.
PG Dept. of CS & IT under the star college scheme of DBT is organizing an E-workshop on “Development of own MOOCs: A new norm of Education post covid-19” for the faculty members of the college. The objective of this workshop is to aware all of you about MOOC, which is a very effective online tool to upgrade your ICT skills in the current pandemic environment for delivering quality education to the masses. The resource person of the E-workshop is Dr. Parteek Bhatia, who is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of CS and Engineering and Associate Dean of Student Affairs at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. On behalf of all the staff members of the college, I extend a warm and hearty welcome to Dr. Parteek Bhatia ji, and we are thankful to him for sparing valuable time for this E-workshop. He has more than 20 years of academic experience, including six years at DAV College, Amritsar. He is a doctorate in the field of NLP from Thapar University. He has published more than 100 research papers and articles in Journals, Conferences, and Magazines of repute. He is the winner of the gold medal at international competition UNL Olympiad II, III, and IV conducted by UNDL foundation in the years 2013 and 2014. He is passionate about teaching masses through modern platforms like MOOCs. He has more than 12,000 students on his very popular Udemy Course on “Learning SQL: A Simplified Approach.” He is also running his YouTube Channel “Parteek Bhatia: Simplifying Computer Education” for sharing video sessions on Machine Learning, Big Data, DBMS, SQL, PL/SQL, and NoSQL. He has research interest in the area of NLP, Machine Learning and Assistive Technologies. He is also acting as principal investigator in one DST funded research project. He is a well-known author and published textbooks in the field of Databases and Data Mining. His latest book titled “Data Mining and Data Warehousing: Principles and Practical Techniques” Published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.
We are indeed fortunate to have you among us.