Computer Science and Engineering

Global Excellence and Local Relevance in research, teaching, and technology development is the vision of the Department. The Department was started as the Computer Centre in 1973 with the acquisition of an IBM 370, perhaps the most powerful computer in India at that time. It offered M.Tech, M.S and PhD degree programmes. In 1983, the B.Tech degree programme was started. Today the Department has a vibrant student body numbering about 400. Over 60% are postgraduate students, mostly supported by scholarships. The Department also offers several attractive industry-sponsored Fellowships for outstanding PhD scholars and liberally supports participation in top-ranking international conferences. Over 50 full-time engineers work on R&D projects enriching the academic environment. Reflecting the vision of the Department, the faculty are engaged in R&D in several areas. Theoretical Computer Science: Unconventional models of computational geometry, algorithms, cellular automata, graph theory. computing, cryptography,

Hardware Systems: Reconfigurable hardware design, design for testability, software aspects of VLSI design Networks & Distributed Systems: Wireless networks, optical networks, network security, network management systems, grid computing, distributed/mobile object systems, traffic modeling, web based software systems. Human Computer Interaction: Speech recognition and synthesis, multi-modal interfaces including keyboard/display for Indian languages, image processing, computer vision. Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering: Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, XML and semi-structured databases, semantic web, ontologies, data mining, information retrieval, and memory based reasoning. Entrepreneurship is the key to India's growth. An effective vehicle for bringing the fruits of our technical research to the masses of India is starting of companies by our students and alumni, many of which work in partnership with faculty of the Department. Over 25 of our alumni are important figures in the IT industry in India. The most prominent of these is Kris Gopalakrishnan (MTech), CEO and a cofounder of Infosys. Other very successful start-ups are Midas Communications, specialising in wireless access products, in which Prakash Khawas (MTech) and Rolland Enoch (MS) are founding Directors, and Laser Soft Infosystems, founded by B. Suresh Kamath (MTech), which has cost-effective products in the banking segment.

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Faculty
Shankar Balachandran shankar University of Texas, Dallas CAD algorithms, reconfigurable computing, computer architecture Sutanu Chakraborti sutanuc Robert Gordon University, UK Information Retrieval, memory-based reasoning, machine learning C. Chandra Sekhar chandra Indian Institute of Technology Madras Speech recognition, neural networks, kernel methods, computer architecture Sukhendu Das sdas Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Visual Perception - Computer vision, digital image processing, pattern recognition; computer graphics, neural networks, soft computing, visualization T. A. Gonsalves tag Stanford University Computer Networks, distributed systems, telecom software, performance evaluation D. Janakiram djram Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Object oriented systems, software engineering, parallel and distributed computing, distributed systems, databases V. Kamakoti kama Indian Institute of Technology Madras Software aspects of VLSI design, cluster computing, high performance computing, algorithms, data structures, computational geometry Deepak Khemani khemani Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Artificial intelligence, knowledge based systems, case based reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, logic and natural language processing R. Kalyana Krishnan rkk Yale University Computer architecture, computer system design, microprocessors, digital electronic systems, computer graphics, statistical signal processing Kamala Krithivasan kamala University of Madras Fellow INAE Theoretical computer science, computational geometry, formal languages and automata theory, unconventional models of computing P. Sreenivasa Kumar psk Indian Institute of Science Database systems, semi-structured data and XML, data mining, graph algorithms, parallel computing Anurag Mittal amittal University of Maryland, College Park Computer vision, multi-camera vision systems, sensor planning, computer graphics, surveillance Hema A. Murthy hema Indian Institute of Technology Madras Speech processing, speech recognition, computer networks, multimodal interfaces to a computer, computer graphics C. Siva Ram Murthy murthy Indian Institute of Science Fellow INAE Ad hoc wireless networks, Parallel and distributed computing, real-time systems, computer networks Madhu Mutyam madhu Indian Institute of Technology Madras Computer architecture, CAD systems for VLSI design N. S. Narayanaswamy swamy Indian Institute of Science Analysis of algorithms, complexity theory, artificial intelligence S. V. Raghavan svr Indian Institute of Technology Madras Computer networks and protocols with emphasis on high speed and multimedia; security, electronic commerce, data warehousing; role of IT in education, culture and heritage C. Pandu Rangan cpr Indian Institute of Science Fellow INAE Algorithms, parallel and VLSI algorithms, graph theory, computational geometry, randomized algorithms, computational learning theory, cryptography B. Ravindran ravi University of Massachusetts, Amherst Machine learning, reinforcement learning, information filtering, data and text mining Krishna Sivalingam skrishnam State University of New York, Buffalo Wireless networks, Sensor networks, Optical networks, Network security Visiting Faculty Gaurav Raina gaurav University of Cambridge Communication and Transport Networks, Stochastic Processes, Congestion control Shailesh Vaya vaya University of California, Los Angeles Analysis and design of algorithms, theory of cryptography, secure computation Email: user@cse.iitm.ac.in
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Research Laboratories
Artificial Intelligence and Databases: Knowledge management with case based reasoning, Planning and
constraint satisfaction, Machine learning, Semantic interoperability using ontologies, XML data handling storage indexing and query languages, Online and Exact algorithms.

DONlab: Indic Computing and Communication Systems: Advanced network management and planning,
Multimodal interfaces to the computer, Speech synthesis and recognition, speaker recognition, speech recognition for Indian languages, spoken language identification, DSP virtual machine, Network planning and security, wireless and optical networks, sensor networks, traffic modeling.

Distributed Object Systems: Distributed Systems Cluster

Computing, Concurrency Control, Parallel Programming; ObjectOriented Systems Component Customization, Role Modeling, Cost Estimation; Software Engineering Pattern oriented Software design, Refactoring design.

High Performance Computing and Networking:

Wireless Networks Protocols for hybrid wireless networks, Ad-hoc wireless networks, Wireless sensor networks; WDM Optical Networks Routing and wavelength assignment, traffic grooming, survivable multicast.

Network Systems: Understanding ultra-high speed computing, Developing universal learning space, Establishing an
integrated computing environment, Studies in information technology management, Understanding the interaction between society, IT development, law, enforcement, disputes settlement, electronic forensics and judiciary.

Reconfigurable and Intelligent Systems Engineering: VLSI

Design and testing of reconfigurable architectures, Fault tolerant architectures, modern FPGA architectures, Design and verification of VLSI systems; Intelligent Systems Reinforcement Learning, Data Mining, Text and Web Mining, Autonomous Agents.

Speech and Vision: Speech Signal processing, Speaker verification,

recognition and segmentation, Speech enhancement, Spoken language identification; Content-based information retrieval, Applications of artificial neural networks, kernel methods, and support vector machines; Multi-camera vision systems, Surveillance under occlusion.

System Development: Interfaces for the differentlyabled, multi-lingual interfaces, Technology and Society.

Theoretical Computer Science: Unconventional

models of computing, Optimal secure multiparty computations and communications, basic research in all aspects of algorithms, automata theory, graph theory, cryptography, randomized computations, computational biology and computational geometry.

Audio-Video based Person Authentication

Visualization and Perception: Multi-modal biometry using face, fingerprint and video, Texture analysis and
classification, Shape from texture, Digital video analysis, Modeling of soft objects, Event analysis, Aerial image exploitation, Shape representation, Super-resolution mosaic.

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Highlights of R & D Activities
The Department is engaged in basic research, industry-oriented development, and socially relevant projects. Some representative activities from each domain that highlight our commitment to Global Excellence and Local Relevance

Online Tutorials
TeNeT OnlineTT is an Internet-based Education Program, launched 4 years ago in rural areas for 10th and 12th Std students. Teachers from seven districts in Tamil Nadu have participated. The use of OnLineTT has nearly doubled the pass percentage of students. Results of OnlineTT students has steadily increased from 82% (110 students, 2005) to 89% (1000 students, 2008). http://www.lantana.tenet.res.in

Open Source RTL Library of x86 Core

The Reconfigurable and Intelligent Systems Engineering Group has designed a synthesizable RTL model for the Intel x86 core. The x86 architecture is one of the most popular computer architectures and is also one of the most successful Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) available in the market. This design is publicly available at: http://vlsi.cs.iitm.ernet.in/x86_proj/x86HomePage.html

Simultaneous Digital Signature + Encryption

Secure message transmission is a fundamental problem in both cryptography and distributed computing. One of our major contributions is a protocol that is simultaneously optimal in all parameters namely, number of rounds, connectivity and communication complexity. Besides significant results in provable security of group signcryption schemes, optimal protocols for Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS) and the best known protocol for asynchronous Multi Party Computation (MPC) are our other major contributions. http://theory.cs.iitm.ernet.in

Knowledge Management with Case Based Reasoning

A Case Based Reasoning (CBR) approach to Knowledge Management builds an Organizational Memory of past experiences for knowledge sharing and problem solving. The AIDB lab has developed CBR Engines for trouble shooting in manufacturing at Carborundum Universal and Tube Products of India, for satellite health monitoring for ISRO, and for a novel inexpensive approach to determining soil properties with the Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre. http://aidb.cs.iitm.ernet.in

Head: Prof. Timothy A. Gonsalves; Ph: +91-44-2257 4351; E-mail: head@cse.iitm.ac.in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600 036 Ph: +91-44-2257 4350; Fax: +91-44-2257 4352; E-mail: csoffice@iitm.ac.in; Web: http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in