• 2004 - 2010 Software Developer in Reputed Company.

• 2010 - Present ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, L. J. Institute of Computer Applications, Gujarat University, Gujarat, India.

Subjects taught : Undergraduates

• Basic mathematics (1st sem),

• Fundamentals of web(1st sem.),

• Software Project - I (1st sem.),

• User defined project-II (2nd Sem.) ,

• Data Structures (3rd sem.) ,

• UML and Object- Oriented Language(4th sem),

• Python (4th sem),

• Fundamental of Computer Applications(1st sem),

• WDT (3rd sem),

• SE (5th sem)

Subjects taught: Postgraduates

• Data Science Project(9th sem),

• Data Structures(L-3rd sem),

• SEO(5th sem),

• AN(5th sem),

• User Define Project (10th sem and 6th sem),

• Operations research (4th sem)

• Syllabus as per GTU MCA/IMCA

Journal/Conference Publication

• Urja Mankad and Harshal A. Arolkar. "A Study of the open-source framework OSGP/GXF for implementing Smart Water Metering." 2020 Fourth World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability (WorldS4) (pp. 357-361). IEEE, 27th July, 2020.

• Mankad, U., Arolkar, H. (2023). Smart Water Metering Implementation. In: Zhang, YD., Senjyu, T., So-In, C., Joshi, A. (eds) Smart Trends in Computing and Communications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 396. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9967-2_68

• Urja Mankad and Harshal A. Arolkar. "Survey of IoT Frameworks for art Water Metering." International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, 2018 IJSRSET, Volume 4, Issue 2, 3530, Print ISSN: 2395-1990, Online ISSN: 2394-4099, 22nd January, 2018

• Urja Mankad and Harshal A. Arolkar, "IoT Based Framework Design Proposal for Smart Water Metering in India". Journal of Information and Computational Science, DOI:10.12733. JICS.2021.V11 13.535569.31006, Volume 11, Issue 4, page No. 48-56, April 2021,

• Thomson Christain, Lalit Sengunthar, Oneel Christian, Urja Mankad, "RFID based Security in Internet of Things: A Study" International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, 2018 JSRSET, Volume 4, Issue 2, 3530, Print ISSN: 2395-1990, Online ISSN: 2394-4099, January-February 2018

• Urja Mankad, "A Study of the open source framework OSGP / GXF for implementing Smart Water Metering" in Fourth World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability (WorldS4), London, United Kingdom, 2020,pp. 357-361, DOI: 10.1109/WorldS450073.2020.9210291.

• Urja Mankad, "Survey of IoT Frameworks for Smart Water Metering" in National Conference on Advanced Research Trends in Information and Computing Technologies(NCARTICT-2018), Indian association with International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, IJSRSET | Volume 4 | Issue 1 | Print ISSN: 2395-1990 | Online ISSN : 2394-4099.

• Urja Mankad, "RFID based Security in Internet of Things: A Study" in Christain, Thomson et al. “RFID based Security in Internet of Things: A Study.” International journal of scientific research in science, engineering and technology 4 (2018): 87-92.

• 2019 Conducted a one day workshop on Web design technology(PHP) at LJICA, Ahmedabad

• 2019 Participated in FDP on Cloud based web application development using python (Django + MongoDB) at LJICA, Ahmedabad.

• 2019 Participated in 5days conference: 7th International Conference on Big Data Analytics at Ahmedabad University.

• 2019 Attended one day FDP on Data Science and Code optimization at GTU, Ahmedabad.

• 2014 Participated in the How to write workshop at GTU, Ahmedabad

• 2013 Attended the workshop on Research Methodology at LJMCA campus