Department Profile • Faculty Members: 33 – All have completed Ph.D. Degree from Premier Institutions in India or abroad • Technical and Administrative Staff Members: 12 • Ph.D. Students: 97 • M.S. Students: 80 • M.Tech. Students: About 120 • B.Tech. and Dual Degree Students: About 270 2
• MS (by Research) – Full-time MS (HTRA and Project) – External MS (for industries certified by IITM/DSIR) – Part-time MS (for industry) – within commuting distance of IIT Madras • PhD – Direct PhD (after B. Tech) will get both MS and PhD – Regular PhD (Master’s degree required) • Full-time PhD (HTRA and Project) • External PhD (for industries certified by IITM/DSIR) • Part-Time PhD (for industry) – commuting distance of IITM • AICTE/QIP PhD – Upgraded PhD (from MS and M Tech programs at IITM) 3
Application Statistics Program No. of Seats for No. of Applications Received Academic Year 2020-2021 PhD/ 20 HTRA 559 – Regular PhD Direct PhD 93 – Regular Direct PhD Project, 10 – External PhD External, 14 – Part-Time PhD Part time 1 – Project Staff PhD 1 – Project Staff Direct PhD MS 17 HTRA 917 – Regular MS 6 – External MS ISEA, 6 – Part-Time MS Project, 5 – Project Staff MS External, Part time 4
Progress in Program Thesis & Viva-Voce Research Work and Seminar Coursework Entrance Number of Months 0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60 6
MS Requirements • Minimum of 5 courses • M.S. Thesis: – Proposal and Seminar (around 1.5-2 years) – Synopsis and Thesis • Publications (Conference and Journal) from thesis • Thesis is reviewed by 2 experts outside or within IIT Madras 7
MS Scholarship Support • HTRA Scholarship – Provided by Government of India – Initially up to 2 years, based on regular performance review and recommendation by GTC. An additional 6 months of support may be granted by IITM – One international conference travel during MS study – Two national conferences per year • Information Security Education Awareness (ISEA) Fellowship – Same as HTRA, plus additional Rs.40,000 for domestic conference travel – Research thesis must be in Information Security area – Interested students can opt for both HTRA and ISEA (OR) HTRA-only – Department will assign either HTRA or ISEA based on availability • Project – Supported on a CSE Faculty Member’s Funded Research Project – Government or Industry funded – Several faculty have active research projects: Please visit their webpages or email them. 8
Upgrading to PhD • Students in MS degree program can upgrade to Dual MS+PhD degree program, before end of second year • Dual Degree (MS/PhD) students will receive 2 International conference travel grants • Students in M.Tech. degree program can upgrade to Dual M.Tech+PhD degree program, after first year in M.Tech. program 9
Thesis & Viva-Voce 2 PhD Seminars Research Work Progress in Program Research Proposal Comprehensive Exam Coursework Entry Number of Months 0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48 54 60 10
Ph.D. Requirements • Minimum of 4 courses for PhD • Minimum of 8 courses for Direct PhD • Ph.D. Thesis: – Proposal and Two Seminars – Synopsis and Thesis – Viva Voce Exam • Publications (Conferences and Journals) from Thesis • Thesis is reviewed by 2 experts outside IIT Madras • IIT Madras has signed 17+ Joint Doctorate programs with foreign institutions – Australia, Germany, NUS, US, France, Finland 11
PhD Scholarship Support • HTRA – Provided by Government of India – Maximum of 5 years, based on regular performance review and recommendation by Doctoral Committee – One international conference travel during PhD study – 2 national conferences per year • Project – Supported on a CSE Faculty Member’s Funded Research Project – Several faculty have active research projects: Please visit their webpages or email them. • External Fellowships (after joining program) – TCS, IBM, Google India, Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship 12
Research Areas • Hardware Systems (Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, Secure Systems) • Human-Computer Interaction (Computer Vision, Image Processing, Speech Processing) • Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning) • Networks and Distributed Systems • Programming Languages, Compilers and Software Engineering • Theoretical Computer Science and Algorithms (including Cryptography) • Computational Brain Research (CBR) • Bioinformatics 13
• ACT Lab (Algorithms and Complexity Theory) • AIDB Lab (Artificial Intelligence and Databases) • BIRDS Lab (Bioinformatics and Integrative Data Science) • DAWN Lab (Distributed and Adaptive Wired/Wireless Networks) • SMT Lab (Speech and Music Technologies) • PACE Lab (Programming, Architecture and Compilers Engineering) • RISE Lab (Reconfigurable and Intelligent Systems Engineering)
• DOS Lab (Software Systems Research) • Speech and Vision Lab • Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Group • Cryptography, Cybersecurity and Distributed Trust (CCD) Group • HPCN Lab (High Performance Computing and Networking) • Computer Vision Lab • VP Lab (Visualisation and Perception)
Faculty Ph.D. Degree Institutions 16
John Augustine Shweta Agrawal Distributed Cryptography, Algorithms, Information Randomized Theory Algorithms Sukhendu Das Sutanu Chakraborti Visual perception, Machine learning, Image Intelligence , Case Based Graphics, Reasoning Visualization Kartik Nagar Harish Guruprasad Automated Formal Machine Learning Verification, Learning Theory Program Analysis, Optimization Programming Languages
D. Janakiram V. Kamakoti Large Scale Distributed Software for VLSI Systems, Cloud and Design, High- Grid Computing, Big Performance Data Systems Computing Mitesh Khapra Deepak Khemani Statistical Machine Artificial Intelligence, Translation, Case-based reasoning, Text Analytics, Knowledge Deep Learning, Representation, Crowd-Sourcing Planning, Logic P. Sreenivasa Kumar Manikandan Semi-Structured Narayanan Data , Semantic Web Bioinformatics, Technologies, Computational Ontologies network biology, Data science.
C. Siva Ram Murthy Anurag Mittal Ad hoc Wireless Computer Vision, Networks, Multi-Camera Vision, Real-Time Systems, Sensor Planning, Parallel and Surveillance Distributed Computing Hema A. Murthy Madhu Mutyam Speech Technology, Computer Music Analysis, Architecture, Computational Brain Network-on-Chip Research Architectures V. Krishna Nandivada N.S. Narayanaswamy Compilers, Program Analysis of algorithms, Analysis, Programming Parameterized Languages, Multicore Complexity theory, Systems Artificial Intelligence
Rupesh Nasre Meghana Nasre Compilers, Graph Theory, Parallelization, Algorithms, Matching Program Analysis with Preferences C. Pandu Rangan L. A. Prashanth Cryptography and Reinforcement Security Protocols, Learning, Stochastic Graph theory, Optimization, Multi- Randomized and armed Bandits Parallel Algorithms Pratyush Kumar B. V. Raghavendra Rao Cyber Physical Computational Systems, Machine Complexity Theory, Learning Algebraic Complexity, Combinatorial Commutative Algebra
B. Ravindran Chester Rebeiro Machine learning, Hardware Security, Deep Networks, Operating System Reinforcement Learning, Security, Side-Channel Social Network Analysis, Analysis, Cryptography Data and Text Mining Jayalal Sarma M.N. C. Chandra Sekhar Computational Speech Recognition, Complexity Theory, Machine Learning, Circuit Complexity, Deep Learning, Algebra and Kernel Methods Computation Arun Rajkumar Krishna Moorthy Machine Learning, Sivalingam Rank Aggregation, Wireless Networks, Statistical Learning Sensor Networks, Optical Networks
K.C.Sivaramakrishnan Yadu Vasudev Programming models, Sub-linear Algorithms, Compilers, Static Computational Analysis, Schedulers, Complexity Theory, Threading Systems, and Memory Management Nishad Bharat Kothari Graph Theory, Matching Theory, Combinatorial Optimization
Ravishankar Manikantan Srinivasan Krishnaswamy Veryx Technologies Microsoft Research Data communication India, Bangalore networks, Network Approximation virtualization and Algorithms, softwarized cellular Online Algorithms mobile communication networks, Wireless LANs, Cybersecurity
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