DEPARTMENT OF

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

VISION
To be a Centre of Excellence in the Discipline of Computing

MISSION
To develop human resource with sound knowledge - theory and practical -
in the discipline of computing and the ability to apply the knowledge to the
benefit of the society at large

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CALICUT

NIT CAMPUS P O, KOZHIKODE, KERALA,
INDIA, PIN 673601 http://www.cse.nitc.ac.in
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ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

From its inception about a century ago, computing has become the defining
technology of our age. The study of computing is the study of the process of
abstraction and its power, the practice of design and implementation, mathematical
theory of computation and its implications. Undergraduate programme in Computer
Science and Engineering started in the year 1985 in the then Electrical Engineering
Department. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) was
established as an independent entity in the year 1997 as a result of trifurcation of the
Department of Electrical Engineering.

The CSE Department currently offers two MTech programmes, MCA programme and
PhD programme in addition to the BTech programme in Computer Science and
Engineering. The fast changing scenario in Information Technology necessitates the
department to actively extend its research and development activities. The
department also strives to fulfil its social responsibility by extending technical support
to government and non-governmental organisations through community outreach
programmes.

UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES

Year of
Name of the Degree Duration Specialization Total intake
Commencement

BTech 4 years Computer Science and Engineering 1985 200

MCA 3 years Computer Applications 1988 50

MTech 2 years Computer Science and Engineering 1998 23

Computer Science and Engineering

MTech 2 years 2006 22
(Information Security)

PhD PROGRAMME PROGRAMME COORDINATORS

Year of
BTech Dr. Vinod Pathari
Ongoing Completed
Commencement
MTech Dr. Priya Chandran

2002 85 48
MCA Dr. Arun Raj Kumar P
PhD Dr. Vineeth Paleri
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FACULTY AND SPECIALIZATION

Professors
Dr. Vineeth Paleri [MTech (IITK), PhD (IISc)] Programming Languages, Compilers
Dr. Priya Chandran [MTech (IITR), PhD (IISc)] Computer Architecture, Algorithms
Dr. S D Madhu Kumar [ME (IISc), PhD (IITB)] Middleware, DBMS, Software Engineering
Dr. K A Abdul Nazeer [MTech (IITM), PhD (NITC)] Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, DBMS

Associate Professors

Dr. K Muralikrishnan [MTech (IITK), PhD (IISc)] Algorithms and Complexity, Coding Theory
Dr. Saidalavi Kalady [ME (IISc), PhD (NITC)] Data Mining, Operating Systems
Dr. Vinod Pathari [MTech (IITK), PhD (IITB)] Information Security Management
Dr. N Saleena [MTech (IITM), PhD (NITC)] Program Analysis, Compilers
Dr. M Subhasree [ME (IISc), PhD (IITM)] Computational Geometry
Dr. R Subashini [MTech (IITM), PhD (IITM)] Algorithms and Data Structures
Dr. Jimmy Jose [MTech (KU), PhD (IIT KGP)] Cryptography and Security
Dr. G Gopakumar [MTech (CUSAT), MPhil (KU), PhD (KU)] Bioinformatics, Data Mining

Assistant Professors

Mr. T A Sumesh [MTech (CUSAT), Pursuing PhD (IITK)] Computer Networks, Computer Vision
Mr. B Sreenu Naik [MTech (Andhra Uni.), Pursuing PhD (IIT(ISM))] Network Security, Cryptography
Mr. T M Srinivasa [MTech (VTU), Pursuing PhD (TUHH, Germany)] Bioinformatics
Dr. A Lijiya [MTech (CUSAT), PhD (NITC)] Image Processing
Dr. Anu Mary Chacko [MTech (ABV-IIITMG), PhD (NITC)] Computer Security
Dr. P N Pournami [MTech (KU), PhD (NITC)] Image Processing, Machine Learning
Dr. P B Jayaraj [MTech (CUSAT), PhD (NITC)] High Performance Computing
Dr. Arun Raj Kumar P [MTech (NITT), PhD (NITT)] Computer Networks, Internet of Things
Dr. M Prabu [ME (Anna Uni.), PhD (Anna Uni.)] Network Security
Dr. Vasudevan A R [MTech (AVV Uni.), PhD (NITT)] Computer Security, Network Security
Dr. T Veni [MTech (Anna Uni.), PhD (NITT)] Cloud Computing, Fog Computing
Dr. Hiran V Nath [MTech (AVV Uni.), PhD (IDRBT)] Cyber Security and Forensics
Dr. Jay Prakash [MTech (DAVV Indore), PhD (ABV-IIITMG)] Data Mining, Soft Computing
Dr. Anil Pinapati [MTech (JNTU), PhD (NITW)] Cryptography and Information Security
Dr. Pranesh Das [MTech (NIT Rourkela), PhD (NIT Nagaland)] Data Mining, Machine Learning and Optimisation
Dr. Raju Hazari [MTech(IIEST, Shibpur), PhD (IIEST, Shibpur)] Cellular Automata, Machine Learning
Dr. Renjith P [MTech (KU), PhD (IIITDM Kancheepuram)] Graph Theory & Algorithms, Complexity theory
Dr. S Sheerazuddin [MSc (IMSc Chennai), PhD (IMSc Chennai)] Theoretical Computer Science (Logic & Verification)
Dr. Manjusha K [MTech (AVV Uni.), PhD (AVV Uni.)] Document Analysis, Machine Learning
Dr. Sudarshan Chakravarthy [MTech (NITK), PhD (NITW)] Cloud Computing

Technical Staff
Mr. Abdul Sathar V M Technician (SG I)
Mr. Ajayachandran V R Technical Assistant (SG I)
Mr. Biju Francis Technician (SG II)
Ms. Sreeja V Technician (SG II)
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HEADS OF THE DEPARTMENT FACILITIES AVAILABLE

SO FAR

350+ Computers – available 24 hours

Dr. M N Neelakantan 1997 - 2000
High performance computing cluster
Dr. V K Govindan 2000 - 2005
Unique Digital Library support
Dr. M P Sebastian 2005 - 2008 Department Eduserver running on
Dr. Vineeth Paleri 2008 - 2010 Moodle Platform
Excellent round the clock Internet
Dr. Priya Chandran 2010 – 2012
connectivity
Dr. S D Madhu Kumar 2012 - 2014 APJ Abdul Kalam Conference Hall with
Dr. K A Abdul Nazeer 2014 - 2016 Video Conferencing facility
CSED Seminar Hall, Committee Room &
Dr. Saidalavi Kalady 2016 - 2018
Discussion Room
Dr. Saleena N 2018 - 2020 Class rooms equipped with audio-visual
Dr. Muralikrsihnan K 2020-2022 systems

Dr. Subhasree M 2022- Smart Classroom in NLHC 102

LABORATORIES

Hardware and Embedded Systems Lab Secure Computing Lab

Formal Methods and Algorithms Lab Image Processing & Multimedia Lab

Cloud Computing Lab Machine Learning Lab

Big Data and Biocomputing Lab Software Systems Lab

Network Systems Lab

COMMUNITY SERVICES

Spearheaded the IT literacy programmes at Nadapuram assembly constituency as part of

the ‘Growing Nadapuram’ project
Organized IT awareness programmes for the public at the Koduvally and Chathamangalam
Grama Panchayaths
As part of a Community Learning Initiative, 2-day Workshop was conducted on Essence of
Computing for high school students
Launched IT@Niravu, a project in collaboration with NIRAVU, a progressive residential
forum (NGO) based at Calicut excelling in the field of organic farming
Our students developed an agricultural information web portal named ‘Krishippura’ to help
the organic farmers
Imparted IT training to the rural youth, as part of IT@Niravu
Our students developed an Online Mess Management System for the CISF Unit of Calicut
Airport
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MAJOR EVENTS ORGANISED

1. The Computer Science and Engineering Association (CSEA) organised an interactive session about
"Career Options After BTech CSE" by Mr. Muhammed Yazar Y, Software Engineer at Facebook, USA
on 5 November 2022.
2. CSEA organised 12th edition of Prof. M.N. Neelakantan Memorial Lecture Series. Mr. Biju Thomas,
Manager at Tata Elxsi and alumnus of NIT Calicut talked about the redefinition of broadband
experiences and the future of Residential Broadband Gateways on 16th September 2022 .
3. CSEA organised the 11th Lecture in the Prof. M.N. Neelakantan Memorial Lecture Series by Mr. Abins
Jose, Senior Solutions Architect in the “Consumer, Media and Technology” vertical of Mindtree on 21st
March 2022.
4. CSEA organised technical talk by Devika S, Software Engineer, Digital experience, Adobe on
November 2021.
5. Dept. of CSE and AI Club, NIT Calicut organised 3-day Workshop on Generative Adversarial
Networks (GANArt 2021), from 20-05-2021 to 22-05-2021.
6. Interactive Webinar on ReactJS concepts and component creation with Shahda Sayed, Microsoft on
October 2021
7. 10th Lecture in the Prof. M.N. Neelakantan Memorial Lecture Series organised by CSEA in August
2021 on “Be Relevant. Cloud, Open source, and More - An Industry Perspective", by Mr. Manoj N.
Palat, Open Source Lead and Committer, IBM.
8. CSEA, Institute Innovation Council, and the AI Club conducted "Introduction to Object Detection", a 2-
day workshop on Artificial Intelligence from 28th to 29th November, 2021.
9. AI Club of NITC conducted a 2-day workshop on transformers titled "The Transformer Epiphany"
from 18th to 19th December, 2021.
10. FOSSCell NITC, in association with the Computer Science and Engineering Association, oraganised
Code.init(), the first of its kind DevSprint at NITC in January 2020.
11. 9th Lecture in the MN Neelakantan Memorial Lecture Series conducted on 9th September 2020 with
a talk on "Leadership in the 'New Normal" by Mr. Sunil Plavians, Senior Director - Global Services and
Site Head,Finastra.
12. CSEA activities of 2019-20 inaugurated by Mr. Raveendran Kasthuri, CEO of ULCCS Group, Calicut on
18th September 2019, with a panel discussion on the topic “Industry Institute Collaboration: An
Opportunity” and a keynote address on “Tips for takeoff – to a successful IT career” by Mr.Kasthuri.
13. Department of Computer Science & Engineering jointly with the Department of Radiation Oncology
and Medical Physics, MVR Cancer Centre and Research Institute Calicut organised 6-day Faculty
Development Programme on “Geometry, Imaging and Parallel Computing Techniques for Cancer
Treatment (GIPCAN 2019)”, under TEQIP-III from 10th to 15th June 2019.
14. Smart India Hackathon (SIH-2019), with support from MHRD and AICTE oraganised in March 2019.
15. Department of CSE jointly with the Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai organised an NCM-
ACM India Summer School on “Graph theory and Graph Algorithms”, from 17th June to 5th July 2019.
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A FEW DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI

Nithin Varma - 2011 Shahda Sayed - 2012 Muhammad Yazar - 2014 Dr. Ayush Jaiswal - 2014
Assistant Professor Microsoft Facebook, USA Amazon
Chennai Mathematical Institute

Dr. Preethi Jyothi - 2007 Srishti Chandra - 2015 Glen Martin - 2015 Vinay Damodharan - 2017
Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay Google, India Truecaller, India Cisco, USA

Meera Sudharman - 2014 Amruthlal - 2019 Ivan Biji - 2020 Sajan Skaria - 1996
LinkedIn, India Amazon, USA Microsoft, India Character Supervisor for
"Inside Out", Academy
Awards 2016
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MAJOR AREAS OF RESEARCH PLACEMENT STATISTICS OF STUDENTS

(2019-2022)
Algorithms and Complexity
Artificial Intelligence PROGRAMME 2021-22 2020-21 2019-20
Bioinformatics BTech 100% 100% 100%
Cloud Computing
MTech (CS) 100% 95.24% 88.89%
Compilers and Programming Languages
Computer Architecture MTech (CS-IS) 100% 100% 100%

Computer Networks MCA 95.65% 90.62% 93.94%

Cyber Security and Forensics
Database Management Systems & Information INDUSTRY / RESEARCH
Retrieval COLLABORATIONS
Data Mining TCS
Distributed Computing SAP Labs
Fog Computing JMR Infotech
IBM
High Performance Computing Aryaka Networks
Internet of Things Sree Chithra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and
Image Processing Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala
MVR Cancer Centre and Research Institute, Calicut, Kerala
Information Management and Security Govt. Medial College Calicut, Kerala
Intelligent Systems
Machine Learning FACULTY RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
Middleware
Network Security Year 2021-22 2020-21 2019-20 Total
Operating Systems
Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems Publications by Faculty 97 48 91 236
Programme Analysis

ABOUT NIT CALICUT

National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC) is set up by an act of Parliament named

the NIT Act 2007, under the erstwhile Ministry of Human Resources Development
(MHRD), Government of India (Home page: http://www.nitc.ac.in). NITC was initially
established as Regional Engineering College Calicut (REC Calicut) in 1961 as a joint venture
of the Government of India and the Government of Kerala with the objective of fostering
technological empowerment and national integration. NITC has 10 departments, 13 multi-
disciplinary centres, 11 thematic centres and 3 schools, offering 11 undergraduate and 30
postgraduate programmes apart from PhD. The institute has good infrastructure in
computing, information technology and a well-stocked central library including digital
library.

Set in a picturesque landscape at the foothills of the Western Ghats, National Institute of
Technology Calicut is located about 22 kilometres north-east of the Calicut city, also
known as Kozhikode. Calicut, "the city of virtues", located in the Malabar region of the
Kerala State, found a place in world history with the discovery of a sea route to India in
1498 by the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama. Basking in the idyllic setting of the
Arabian Sea on the west and the proud peaks of the Wayanad hills on the east, Calicut is
known for its serene beaches, lush green countryside, historic sites, calm backwaters,
wildlife sanctuaries, rivers, waterfalls and ayurvedic treatment.
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NIT CAMPUS P O, KOZHIKODE, KERALA,
INDIA, PIN 673 601