Computer Science

About us

The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at BITS Hyderabad strives to produce engineers of tomorrow by imparting instruction with advanced curriculum, and research methodologies in modern areas of computer science and engineering. The Computer Science and Information Systems department at BITS Hyderabad started admitting students in the year 2008 in B.E (Hons) Computer Science, M.Sc(Tech) Information Systems, M.E(Computer Sc), and PhD(CSE) degrees. The department has vibrant student strength of about 600. The department has a good mix of faculty having experience in reputed academic institutes and industry. The department offers a wide range of courses spanning areas like Algorithms & theory of computing, Architecture and organization, Systems and networks, Databases, Software engineering, and Soft computing. The department lays emphasis on the hands on aspects through laboratories, computer oriented projects, research presentations to make the students industry ready. The department consistently attracts top BITSAT scorers every year. The Department is committed to achieving high standards of excellence in academic and research activities over next few year.

Research

The department has faculty expertise at PhD level with research focus on data mining, information retrieval, information security, distributed systems, software engineering, object oriented database design, and algorithms. The department has 8 students and scholars at PhD level pursuing their research in these areas with funding support from BITS, TCS, UGC and other agencies. Faculties from the department have research collaborations with several universities in India and abroad.

Activities

Since inception, the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems has been arranging guest lectures from Industry and academia. Many eminent professionals from Industry have delivered talks in entrepreneurship, challenges & rewards in software engineering, quantum reality and objective semantic information etc. As the students entered their final year of graduation, the department organized seminars and workshops in business challenges in data warehousing and data mining, lean for leadership: lessons from corporate jungle, challenges in animation industry, network design and development strategies for sensor networks etc. to make them Industry ready. The faculty members from the department supervise the activities of two student associations, CSA, and ISA. The department also helps students from all other streams of engineering and science in honing their programming skills by conducting hands on training programs and certificate courses from time to time on topics like web programming, data structures, object oriented design, Android programming etc. The department helps student members managing the activities of ACM Student Chapter at Hyderabad Campus.

Faculty

Our faculty have extensive experience in industry, research as well as teaching. Our strength is a reflection of their skills, innovation and drive. Click here for faculty Personal pages.

Recent talks / workshops

Prof. (Ms) Magda from UC Irvine, and presently on sabbatical at IIT B, had an interaction with the Dept. faculty on 18-01-13. Later she delivered a talk on Game Technology.

Prof. Jukka K Nurminen, Professor at Aalto Univeristy, Finland delivered an invited talk on Energy efficient distributed computation on mobile devices on 9th Feb 2013.

Guest lecture on Web Security: Recent threats and Counter measures by Dr. Venkat Venkatakrishnan, Director, IGERT program on Electronic Security and Privacy, University of Illinois at Chicago.

CDAC, Hyderabad conducted an awareness workshop on Information Security as part of ISEA programme of DIT, NewDelhi on 23rd August, 2012. Click here for image.

Dr. Daniel M, Xerox Corp., USA, Delivered an Invited talk on Cyber wars on 21st August, 2012 in the Department. Click here for image.

Mr. Lee Chuk Munn, ORACLE Corporation, Singapore delivered a talk on "Importance and Future of Java" at Depertment of Computer Science and Information Systems on 4th May 2012.

Dr. Amit Sheth, LexisNexis Ohio Eminent Scholar at the Wright State University, Dayton OH, "Computing for Human Experience: Semantics empowered Cyber-Physical, Social and Ubiquitous Computing beyond the Web", 20th Mar 2012.

Dr. Srini Ramaswamy, ABB Research, Bangalore, "The Future of Engineering and Automation: Opportunities and Challenges", 27th Feb 2012.

Dr. Siba Kumar Udgata, Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Sc., University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, "Wireless Sensor Networks based Health Care System", 28th Jan 2012.

Dr. Vijaya Kumari, Professor, JNTU, Hyderabad, "Advances in Artificial Intelligence", 27th Jan 2012.

International Workshop on Information Security (IWIS-2012)

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus organized a 5-day International Workshop on Information Security – IWIS 2012 during December 15-19, 2012.

For further details please visit the workshop website

http://sites.bits-hyderabad.ac.in/iwis

Guest Lecture on Web Security by Prof. Venkat Venkatakrishnan

The Department of CSIS organized a Guest lecture on Web Security: Recent threats and Counter measures by Dr. Venkat Venkatakrishnan, Director, IGERT program on Electronic Security and Privacy, University of Illinois at Chicago. The lecture covered basics of web security and common threats like SQL injection etc. He also discussed about the counter measures that he worked on these common threats.

Intel Funding

Intel funds the department for pursuing teaching and research in Embedded Systems area. As part of the funding department receives USD10000 and 15 Embedded Systems kits. KCS Murti and Tathagata Ray will drive research in this area.

Recent Research Grant

"Automated Detection of Security and Privacy Threats in Peer-to-Peer Networks", 61.95 lakhs INR, funded by Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi, Grant received in March 2012. (PI: C.R. Hota, Co-PI: Abhishek Thakur)

TCS Research Fellowship

D. Jagan Mohan awarded TCS Research Fellowship for the period 2011 - 2015 on P2P overlay security research.

Conference Presentations by Faculty & Students

Vikram Nunia, M.E (Computer Science) presented his paper titled "Adaptive Task Scheduling in Service Oriented Crowd using SLURM" at the 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technologies (ICDCIT 2013) at Bhubaneswar, India, during 6th-8th Feb 2013.

Rakhee, " Evaluation of WSN Protocols on a Novel PSoC-Based Sensor Network", ICECCS-2012, August 9-11, Springer LNCS, Cochin, Kerala( Best Paper Award Nomination).

Digambar Powar, "Digital Evidence Detection in Virtual Environment for Cloud Computing", SECURIT2012, Amrita University, Kollam, Kerala, August 2012.

Jagan Mohan Reddy " Approaches for Measuring P2P Classification Efficiency for Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems", NCCS 2012, Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune, India, June 2012.

Chittaranjan Hota, "A Resilient Voting Scheme for Improving Secondary Structure Prediction”, MIWAI 2011, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Dec 2011.

Prafulla K, “Smart Playlist Generation using Data Mining Techniques”, ADCONS 2011, NITK, Surathkal, Dec 2011.

Abha Belorkar, Student 3rd year Computer Sc., "Regeneration of events using system snapshots for cloud forensic analysis", IEEE INDICON 2011, BITS Hyderabad, Dec 2011.

BITS Pilani

Dept. of Computer Science and Information Systems