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The Department of Computer Science & Engineering was established in 1980. Every year, the Department admits about 60 BTech students, 60 Dual Degree students, and 70 MTech students. Currently there are 40 faculty members, 14 staff members, 108 PhD students and 38 MS students.
The department has a thriving research environment with active research groups in the areas of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Complex and Social Networks, Machine Learning, Data and Web Mining, Natural Language Processing, Formal Methods, Cryptography and Network Security, Software Engineering, and Systems and Networking.
We have a vibrant body of research students. Our students have been very successful and have won many accolades in the recent past. Many of them have obtained prestigious external fellowships, various best paper and best thesis awards. The Department is engaged in many significant research projects sponsored by the government and industry engaged in high end research and development activities.
Graduates from the department at all levels secure excellent placements. A large number of our Alumni have made their mark in different careers. Many of them occupy top positions in both academia and industry all over the world, and quite a number of them have founded successful enterprises.
Prof. Arobinda Gupta
Head of the
Department
Contact (Head)
Phone: +91-3222-282256
Fax: +91-3222-278985
Email : agupta@cse.iitkgp.ac.in
The Department of Computer Science & Engineering welcomes potential students, faculty, collaborators, sponsors and well-wishers to engage with us. We are dedicated to excellence in research and teaching. We focus on doing basic research and solving important problems in the core and emerging areas of computer science and computer engineering, as well as important problems of the world. We provide our students a challenging and well-rounded training, and prepare them to be able to innovate, solve problems, and take on an important role in the career of their choosing.
We are looking to grow our Department to have high impact by attracting bright minds at all levels.
Prof. R S Chakraborty was awarded the IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Award, 2015.
Dr. Animesh Mukherjee received the IBM Faculty Award, 2015.
Prof. Sudip Misra selected as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Prof. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay was named as Associate Editor of Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility.
Prof. Sudip Misra was awarded the Best paper award in CITS 2015, Gijon, Spain.
Tanmoy Chakraborty received the Xerox Best PhD Thesis Award, 2016.
Aritra Hazra bagged the IESA Techno-Inventor award for his PhD work.
Aritra Hazra received the ACM India Doctoral Dissertation award 2015.
Kunal Banerjee received the Best PhD Forum Paper award in the conference ISVLSI.