Register hereKiran Trivedi
Dr. Kiran Trivedi is the Head of Discipline and Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wollongong, GIFT City campus, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. Before joining UoW India, he served as an Associate Professor for Data Analytics Engineering at Northeastern University, Seattle, Washington, USA, and as a Professor at Gujarat Technological University for over two decades. Dr. Trivedi holds a Ph.D. in Human Brainwave Analysis and the Development of Communication Devices and has 30 years of experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in India and the USA.
Dr. Trivedi has organized numerous workshops on wireless and mobile technologies in India and has delivered expert talks on Artificial Intelligence, Edge Computing, and Deep Learning. He is involved in developing AI-enabled embedded device applications for health and ICT. He has been invited to speak at various prestigious venues, including UNESCO in France for SDG 3 and 4, SEE 2010 in the Netherlands, ICTP in Italy, Symbian in the UK, Nepal, and the Georgia Tech Research Center in the USA. He contributed to a free book on mobile learning published jointly by ICTP Italy and UNESCO and participated in the MIT Media Lab and LVPEI RedX Hackathon in 2014. Dr. Trivedi has collaborated with the research team at ICTP Italy for training workshops and demonstrated the Emergency Messenger System to the Honourable President of India, Dr. Abdul Kalam. He was the global winner of the Hackathon on Designing a Sustainable Future using ICTs organized by the ITU WSIS Forum and TDRA UAE.
From 2007 to 2011, he was recognized as a Nokia Developer Champion for his contributions to mobile technologies. He has received NVIDIA Artificial Intelligence Research grants in 2018 and 2022 and TinyML kits grants from EdgeImpulse in India and the USA. In recognition of his contributions at the University of Wollongong, he was awarded the Passion Award in 2024 and the Courage Award in 2025. Dr. Trivedi has been awarded the Best Professor for Broader Outlook Learner Teacher and the AIR INDIA “Rank & Bolt Award” in 2003. He was the global winner of Nokia’s Ovi App Wizard contest in 2010 and received the Dr. APJ Kalam Innovation Award at the IABS 2017 Conference on Biomedical Sciences. He has published over 40 papers in various conferences and journals, and his two patents were published in the Indian Patent Journal. He enjoys speaking on AI and Intellectual Property Rights.
Dr. Trivedi has organized ITU’s “Girls in ICT” Day and was invited to promote Girls in ICT on India’s leading FM Radio station, AIR. His student teams have won state-level hackathons, and he has published science and technology articles in leading newspapers. He has served on the board of studies for curriculum development and participated in various government committees, including TEQIP Research Coordinator and Student Start-up Innovation Policy Coordinator.
Recently, his course on “Data Mining for Engineering” was launched on Coursera by Northeastern University’s MS program in Data Analytics Engineering, and he was invited to speak at the “Women in Tech Regatta” in Seattle on AI sniffers using TinyML. In 2024, he served as a jury member for the City of Seattle Data Hackathon. Besides his professional achievements, Dr. Trivedi is an avid cyclist, having ridden over 27,000 km, and he loves music.
