Department of Computer and Information Sciences

The Department of Computer and Information Sciences offers high quality post-graduate teaching and research programmes in all major areas of Computing, Information Science and Artificial Intelligence. The department has the unique distinction of offering M.Tech. programmes in Artificial Intelligence, and in Information Technology with specialisation in Banking Technology and Information Security. The current research areas include Computer Networks and Distributed Processing, Data Base Management Systems, Software Engineering, Computer and Network Security, Mobile Computing, Logic, Decision Support Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning, E-Commerce, Geographical Information Systems, Data Warehousing and Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cognition, Natural Language Engineering, Speech Processing, Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Vision, Parallel & Grid Computing. The department has a verfy vibrant Ph.D programme with more than 50 registered students as on date and 40 scholars have completed their research till now.

The Department maintains active contacts with both industry and research labs and participates in developing state-of-art computing systems. Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India has recognized the Department’s research contribution by funding it under FIST programme. Research labs in the department are supported by various national and international funding agencies like DST, AICTE, MIT, Govt. of India, Verizon Inc. USA.

For strengthening research in Software Engineering and Business Process Re-engineering, it has initiated academic collaboration with United Nations University/International Institute of Software Technology, Macau and University of Trento, Italy. Recently, the Department has signed MoUs with IBM, ISTL, Sierra Atlantic and Pramati to promote research and teaching programme in Business Processes Re-engineering and Middleware Technology.