The future of computing and IT systems rests here. The department's mission is to advance, evolve and enhance computer science and computing engineering fundamentals to build the intellectual capital of research and students. The CSE Department endeavours to be an important regional, national, and international resource center for the development of computing and IT systems and applications. The department is witnessing a period of exciting growth and opportunity propelled by the top ranking it achieved recently. CSE boasts a vibrant student body of about 1000 undergraduate and 150 postgraduate students and a stellar faculty of professors and lecturers.

Academics

Undergraduate

The B.Tech. in CSE is a broad and flexible degree program with the curriculum specifically designed to reflect the depth and breadth of computer science. To further enhance the quality of the programs, the department has entered into an academic collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, USA.

Postgraduate

The postgraduate program prepares scholars to become leaders in knowledge-driven professions by providing a learning environment strongly focused on collaborative, interdisciplinary research. Students learn to reach across traditional academic boundaries, to seek the knowledge and resources needed to solve important technological problems. The educational experience helps students choose from a number of challenging paths to reach their goal of a degree in a particular discipline. Apart from the M.Tech. program in CSE, a second program in software engineering is also offered.

Faculty

The department has well-qualified and experienced faculty who are specialists in the areas of databases, wireless networks, artificial intelligence, operating systems and programming languages etc. There are a sizable number of senior faculty members with over 10 years of experience in the stream.

Research & Consultancy

The research areas in the department include pattern recognition, neural networks, wireless and mobile data mining and image processing. A project entitled "SRM-PURA" (Providing Urban amenities for Rural Areas) - IT enabled services for villages, aims to create a network with a multi-purpose community information center in the campus, linking around 15 villages. There are around 8 part time Ph.D scholars doing their research here.

There are 14 research groups in the department comprising soft computing, pattern recognition, computer vision, robotics, image processing, database, data warehousing & mining, software engineering & testing, wireless & mobile distributed system, network & network security, embedded systems, programming languages, computer architecture, system software & natural language processing.

Major Events & Achievements

The CSE Department holds national conferences, seminars, student symposia, short-term training program and value added courses. This provides a wide range of opportunities for faculty and students to bring out their potential and innovative skills in a variety of fields. The department has conducted a national conference on current trends in computer technology and another on computer vision AI & robotics. A national level student symposium named 'Seventh Sense' received wide publicity and response.

Students are also sponsored to attend seminars abroad. Six of our students have been sponsored by the management to attend and present papers in international conferences held at Korea, Austin (USA), San Diego (USA), New Zealand and Muscat. A few students and faculty have published international papers in countries like Germany, Spain and Italy. One of the students is a SUN Certified Java Programmer. The department received a grant from The Institution of Engineers for the Project on 'Non-invasive Brain Computer Interfacing'. Under the 'Semester Abroad Program', 19 students have been sent to different universities like Massachusetts Institute of Technology-USA, Carnegie Mellon University-USA, University of California-Davis USA, University of Wisconsin-USA and University of Western Australia-Australia.

Industrial connection

The CSE Department works closely with several related industries of repute. These relationships facilitate joint research, funded projects, and the opportunity to learn the latest technologies. Experts from industries and leading institutions are invited every fortnight for technical lectures under the association activities. The department Corporate Advisory Board includes senior executives from IBM, Microsoft, Wipro, Infosys and CISCO. Students are sent on industrial visits to companies and they also undergo in-plant training at industries.

Careers

The CSE Department effectively prepares students to pursue leadership, technical, and management positions in a variety of industries. Students have obtained successful placements at leading companies like IBM, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, TCS, Satyam, Microsoft etc. Some of the alumni are successful entrepreneurs abroad.