Academics
Faculty Profile
B.Tech (Information Technology)
Dr. Deepali Vora,
Ph.D.(CSE),
Associate Professor and Head,
Computer Science Engineering
Overview
The department endeavours to impart quality education to students in the areas of computer science and information technology with exposure to industrial problems and application development through specialization programmes, student workshops, industry internships, Value-added courses and Projects.
The department has very competent faculty certified and trained to teach advanced areas in computer science like cloud computing, software quality, cyber security, artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain technology, Internet of Things and so on.
The faculty is actively engaged in research and publications and has recognised projects to their credit in collaborations with industry, international universities and research labs of high repute. The students are actively engaged in application based projects as well as research projects with industry, R&D labs, research centres as well as international universities.
Highlights of the department:
- Industry-led Flexi courses
- Global Immersion program with renowned foreign universities
- Opportunity to acquire a diploma in business management from SIBM
- Department-organized tech fests and hackathons
- Mentor-Mentee system to facilitate the progress of the students
- Academic Curricula benchmarked with International Universities
- Industry-visits, guest lectures, seminars, and workshops by eminent researchers and industry practitioners
- Six months industry internship
- Tinker lab to inculcate creativity
- Active student clubs and bodies
- Project-based Learning
- Multi-cultural and vibrant teaching environment
Department Laboratories
- High performance computing lab with Nvidia GPU
- Data Analytics lab
- IOT research lab
- Computer Centre with machines in high configuration and licensed software required for teaching and research.
Intake
B Tech Information Technology Program : NA
Lateral Entry: 6
| B.Tech First Year | Indian Students Passed 10+2 examination with Physics and Mathematics as compulsory subjects along with one of Chemistry/ Computer Science/ Electronics/ Information Technology/ Informatics Practices/ Technical Vocational subject/ Engineering Graphics Obtained at least 45% marks (40% marks in case of candidates belonging to reserved category) in the above subjects taken together. OR Passed D.Voc. Stream in the same or allied sector. (The Universities will offer suitable bridge courses such as Mathematics, Physics, Engineering drawing, etc., for the students coming from diverse backgrounds to prepare Level playing field and desired learning outcomes of the programme |
| B.Tech First Year | International Students International Students' eligibility as per SCIE norms. Please follow link www.scie.ac.in |
| Lateral Entry | Passed Minimum THREE years/ TWO year (Lateral Entry) Diploma examination with at least 45% marks (40% marks in case of candidates belonging to reserved category) in ANY branch of Engineering and Technology.
OR Passed B.Sc. Degree from a recognized University as defined by UGC, with at least 45% marks (40% marks in case of candidates belonging to reserved category) and passed 10+2 examination with Mathematics as a subject. OR Passed B. Voc/3 –year D.Voc. Stream in the same allied sector. (The Universities will offer suitable bridge courses such as Mathematics, Physics, Engineering drawing, etc., for the students coming from diverse backgrounds to achieve desired learning outcomes of the program |
* Subject to AICTE guidelines.
B.Tech (Information Technology)
Dr. Deepali Vora,
Ph.D.(CSE),
Professor
& Head,
Computer Science Engineering & Information Technology
Overview
The department endeavours to impart quality education to students in the areas of computer science and information technology with exposure to industrial problems and application development through specialization programmes, student workshops, industry internships, Value-added courses and Projects.
The department has very competent faculty certified and trained to teach advanced areas in computer science like cloud computing, software quality, cyber security, artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain technology, Internet of Things and so on.
Education here prepares students for an exciting career in industry, Government jobs, and universities. They also are given platform to form startup companies. The department has well equipped laboratories and our faculty is dedicated to excellence in teaching. It has a fine blend of well experienced faculty and young & dynamic faculty. The Students get an opportunity to work on projects to groom them for professional life. There is plenty of opportunity to interact with faculty and to receive individual attention. Students are also engaged in Internship of six months because of which they become industry ready.
The faculty is actively engaged in research and publications and has recognised projects to their credit in collaborations with industry, international universities and research labs of high repute. The students are actively engaged in application based projects as well as research projects with industry, R&D labs, research centres as well as international universities.
Along with the core degree, the Department of Computer Science Engineering also offers the following additional Honours in line with the industry's latest trends.
- AI and Machine Learning
- Data Science
- Computing
- Game Design & Development
- Security and Privacy
- Internet of Things
- BTech Program Intake : 60 seats
Honours & Minors Programs
PFA Honours
| Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning |
| Computing |
| Data Science |
| Game Design and Development |
| Security and Privacy |
| Internet of Things |
Minor
| Automobile Engineering with Hybrid and Autonomous Technology |
| Embedded Systems (E&TC) |
| Smart Cities and Urban Analytics (CE) |
Outcome-Based Education
Vision
To evolve as a centre of excellence in Computer Science and Engineering to produce skilled and proficient global professionals to build the society.
Mission
- To provide the conducive environment for establishing students in the global platform of research and innovation.
- To educate students on cutting edge technologies with problem solving capabilities, leadership and teamwork skills.
- To inculcate the professional values with lifelong learning through curricular and co-curricular activities and create globally-aware disciplined citizens.
- To commence various initiatives for motivating students to work for the betterment of society.
Program Educational Objectives (PEOs):
- PEO1: Apply their skills with research orientation and establish themselves globally.
- PEO2: Apply problem solving and emerging technology skills for designing solutions.
- PEO3: Apply technical and leadership skills to be a successful entrepreneur.
Program Outcomes (POs):
Engineering Graduates will be able to:
- Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineeringfundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.
- Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, review research literature, and analyze complexengineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.
- Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems anddesign system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
- Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and researchmethods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.
- Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modernengineering and IT tools including prediction and modeling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
- The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assesssocietal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.
- Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional engineering solutionsin societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.
- Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms ofthe engineering practice.
- Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader indiverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.
- Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineeringcommunity and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.
- Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of theengineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
- Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage inindependent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.
Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs):
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Engineering and Practical Knowledge: To apply the concepts of computer engineering and practical knowledge in analysis, design and development of computing systems and applications to multi-disciplinary problems.
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Cutting Edge Technology: To provide a concrete foundation to the students in the cutting edge areas of Computer Science Engineering and further help them in excelling in the chosen areas of advanced computer science areas like Machine Learning, Algorithms, Data Science, Internet of Things, Computing and Data Security and privacy.
Best practices/ Innovative Teaching Learning practices by the Department of CSE
| Sl. No | Name of the Innovations | Description | Impact of Activity | Courses Mapped |
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| 1 | Concept map and mind map | Students were asked to hand-draw the concept map for one of
the following points.
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This evaluation helped us to assess comprehension, and it was found interesting by students | Object Oriented Programming with Java |
| 2 | Infographics | Activity to draw details in the soft format about the given point | Learning made easier | Theory of Computation, Flexi-Agile Methodology, DBMS, Advanced Algorithm |
| 3 | Crossword/Puzzle | Crossword or a Puzzle on a specific unit or units and evaluation related to it. | Learning made more interesting through such an activity | Compiler Construction |
| Crosswords on specific units are designed which helps the students to assess the students by an organized way | This assessment encourages students to represent the knowledge in an organized way | Programming Paradigms | ||
| 4 | Treasure Hunt | The activity included segments of the 8086 Assembly language code, which the students were supposed to arrange in the correct order. The entire program was to be debugged for errors, and corrections were to be suggested. | The students found the evaluation interesting and enjoyed working on this task. | Microprocessor Techniques |
| 5 | LinkedIn post Writing | In this activity, a topic is assigned to students from the network security course, and students are asked to present their understanding of the topic on a professional networking platform. A small post with relevant topic knowledge helps students connect with professionals interested in similar domains. | This activity motivates students to communicate with professionals in a similar domain. It allows students to professionally present their understanding of the topic before the people for suggestions and review. | Network Security |
| 6 | Open Book Test | In this open book test, students were asked to bring a reference book during the CA component and to prepare a question paper with 10 MCQs on the assigned topic. Then randomly exchanged pieces amongst themselves and were asked to solve. | To be aware of how Questions and multiple choices options can be prepared from any topic, where multiple-choice has only one correct answer but other options also have slight differences in the right option. This activity motivated students to understand any concept with deep evaluation. | Fundamentals of Data Structure |
| 7 | Buddy Session | In this activity, first, the students were asked to attend the online MOOC course for at least 5 hours; then, they were given small topics to teach to their peers in 10 to 15 minutes. | This activity motivates students for lifelong learning through the self-learning process. Students found the evaluation process exciting, and they enjoyed the task. | Operating Systems, Data Structures |
| 8 | Live case study (Industry Based Projects) | Industry-Related projects are assigned to a group of students and monitored/evaluated with the help of industry experts. | The case studies implemented as projects are presented in the TIAA hackathon. Students got the opportunity for summer and semester internships and won prizes in hackathons. | Web and Mobile Application Development |
| 9 | Muddiest Point | In this technique, students are asked to take some time to solve the confusing concepts from the lesson. This is a simple technique to resolve the confusion. | This activity helps students clarify in which they are simply finding confusion. This technique motivates the students to use their analytical skills to learn the concept. | Programming Paradigms |
| 10 | Translational Research | We use research tools among students like Posters, Latex Overleaf, Google Scholar, and Scopus. | Presentation, case study, Project Exhibition, state-of-the-art methods used in innovations, Research paper including literature review of the latest articles from reputed Journals/Conferences | B.Tech Project |
| 11 | Technical assessment through a competitive coding platform | This evaluation was taken by assigning challenging, average, and manageable levels of SQL statements on the HackerRank platform. This platform has in-built databases, and students can directly brainstorm on solving given queries. | The students learned to practice online with the help of this platform and understood concepts and applications. | Database Management Systems Lab |
| 12 | Storytelling | In the innovative way of storytelling, students have to work with a dataset and assign problems. Based on the given dataset and problem statement, students must identify and present various AIML algorithms. It helps to understand how the customers are retained and access the internet service by using the statistical data analysis of customers associated with the Telecom industry. | Students could understand and apply basic engineering knowledge to solve the data analysis problem. | Data Science |
Labs and Infrastructure
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Graduate Attributes
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GA 1 |
Scholarship: research, inquiry and lifelong learning |
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GA 2 |
Global citizenship: ethical, social and professional understanding |
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GA 3 |
Eco-literate: sensitivity towards a sustainable environment |
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GA 4 |
Employability: equipped with skills, attributes, leadership and entrepreneurial qualities that society needs; being capable of making a contribution to society through earning a living |
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Program Highlights
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Student Achievements
Rohi Bindal recently attended the 2nd International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (INCOME-2023) at Netaji Subhas University of Technology, Delhi. She has presented papers titled:
- Heat Transfer Study on an Octagonal Solar PV Collector Using CFD.
- Theoretical and Computational Investigation on Aerospike Nozzle equipped with exhaust plumes for Supersonic Flow Regimes.
The conference proceedings will be available soon in Scopus.
Department student Maharshi Jani has successfully completed the CEHv12 certification with 98.4% exam score. He has completed all the requirements of a Certified Ethical Hacker.
Heartiest congratulations to Abdulrazaq Chubado (2019-23 batch) for his appointment as Managing Director of Guruji AIR Nigeria with the package of ₹ 37 LPA. Best wishes for all your future endeavours.
Industry expert lecture series
Expert on 'HOW TO SUCCEED IN INTERVIEWS' by ,
Mr. Dinesh Anantwar- Training consultant, Former head, Education and Research.
Expert on 'HOW TO SUCCEED IN INTERVIEWS' by Mr. Dinesh Anantwar- Training consultant, Former head, Education and Research.
Hands-On Workshop was organized by Artificial Intelligence Club on “NLP and its Engineering Applications” by Mr. Dipanjan Sarkar.
Expert Session organized by Artificial Intelligence Club on “Keep Calm and Learn ML” by Mr. Akhil Raju.
International Collaboration:
Project - India-Serbia Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperationd
Development of real-time traffic control algorithms for unconventional intersection designs using artificial intelligence methods: Dr. Ketan Kotecha, Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Symbiosis International University, Pune with Dr Aleksandar Jovanovic University of Kragujevac.
Fellowship Award: Dr. Ketan Kotecha received the 2020 DUO-India Professor Fellowship Award
International Workshop: International Online workshop on “Cyber Safety” was conducted by Dr. Pritam Shah
Youngest India Ambassador for Harvard University: Sidhant Mathur B.Tech IT 2020-24 batch student selected as Ambassador for Harvard University.
Joint Aston-SIT AI/ML Hackathon
Joint Aston-SIT AL/ML Hackathon was successfully completed from 16th – 18th May 2022 at Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Lavale, Pune. This Hackathon is part of the Industry-inspired Transnational Education in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning project. This Hackathon is part of the Industry-inspired Transnational Education in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning project. Dr. Amit Chattopadhyay from Aston was present for this event at SIT. Dr. Swati Ahirrao from the CSE department visited Aston during the duration of the Hackathon event.
Research Scholar Lecture Series
The department of CSE, IT, and AIML arranged sessions of research scholar lecture series.
Ms. Shraddha Deshmukh conducted a session flourish tool - which is a data visualization and storytelling tool. Data visualization is a niche area related to any research activity. So this session is found to be useful for undergraduate as well as PhD scholars also.
Mr. Mayur Gaikawd conducted a session on UI for Machine Learning activities. In his session, he showed sample projects using StreamLit which is found to be an effective tool for UI related to ML. Audience for this session is from B.Tech and PhD scholars also.
Techela 2022
Department of Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology hosted a fun-filled technical festival, which the student staff and faculty thoroughly enjoyed. It was a jam-packed event with both technical and fun activities.
An annual TechFest(The sixth edition of TECHELA 6.0), organized by the CS/IT department was held on the 23rd and 24th of April 2021. The inauguration ceremony was conducted on 23rd April 2021. For this inauguration function, DyDirector, Academics Dr. Warke Madam, HOD’s of various departments, faculties and students of all department were present.
This year, we have organised 7 pre-techfest events, and 13 TechFest events in online mode. Pre-TechFest events were organised from 16th April 2021 to 22nd April 2021. For this Pre-TechFest 2021, we had Technical and Gaming events. In Technical events, students from many colleges participated for events like Bug Detection, Coding-Decoding, Hand and Brain Coding. Also for Gaming events, student shown their interest for events like The Knights Open Chess Challenge, Scribble, Bollywood/Hollywood quiz, and Open Mic. In TechFest, we had series of events organised from during 23rd and 24th April 202. These events were of Gaming, Technical, and Workshops types. In technical events, we had events like Treasure hunt, Tech Quiz, Bollywood fun/Chain reaction (Faculty event), Hackathon, Tech Project Poster Making, and in Gaming events, we have events like Among Us, CS GO, Valorant, COD, and Clash Royale. Digital Marketing, Graphic Designing, and Game Development were the workshop led by industry professionals.
For this year, we have received 1200+ registrations over 220+ colleges. Techela's Instagram handle (@techela.csit) had a total of 40,196 account look-ups, and 1,934 content interactions, and have done live streming for these videos over YouTube channel. Link for the same is (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCWzAl2aHLxyOcApa--cmBw).
Ms. Grishma Jena an alumni of Computer Science Engineering batch gave a lecture on "Data Scientist as a career" on 6th of January, 2020. Ms Grishma is a Data Scientist at IBM, San Francisco . She discussed the technical details of the python projects .
Program Educational Objectives (PEOs):
- Apply their skills with research orientation and establish themselves globally.
- Apply problem solving and emerging technology skills for designing solutions.
- Apply technical and leadership skills to be a successful entrepreneur.
PROGRAM OUTCOMES (PO):
Engineering Graduates will be able to:
- Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineeringfundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.
- Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, review research literature, and analyze complexengineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.
- Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems anddesign system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
- Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and researchmethods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.
- Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modernengineering and IT tools including prediction and modeling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
- The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assesssocietal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.
- Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional engineering solutionsin societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.
- Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms ofthe engineering practice.
- Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader indiverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.
- Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineeringcommunity and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.
- Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of theengineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
- Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage inindependent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.
Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs):
-
Engineering and Practical Knowledge: To apply the concepts of Information Technology engineering and practical knowledge in analysis, design and development of computing systems and applications to multi-disciplinary problems.
-
Cutting Edge Technology: To provide a concrete foundation to the students in the cutting edge areas of Information Technology Engineering and further help them in excelling in the chosen areas of advanced computer science areas like Machine Learning, Algorithms, Data Science, Internet of Things, Computing and Data Security and privacy.