Shivani Pandya holds an M.Tech in Computer Science from BVM, Vidhyanagar. In 2021, she began her PhD, specializing in Explainable AI (XAI) techniques in healthcare, focusing on autism detection and intervention. By 2024, she transitioned into a faculty role at the university, blending her passion for teaching with her ongoing research in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and XAI. Her work is dedicated to developing transparent and trustworthy AI models. During her PhD, she authored two SCIE-indexed publications and participated in several conferences.