IIT Madras Department of Computer Science

Hello sir would you please tell me when was Department of Computer Science of Indian Institute of Technology Madras established? And who is the head of this department??

[Kiran Chandar]

Indian Institute of Technology Madras was established in 1959, it is an autonomous public engineering and research institution and it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India.

Department of Computer Science was started in 1973, it offered M.Tech, M.S and PhD degree programs.

Prof. Sreenivasa Kumar is a head of this department
Telephone number: +91 44 2257.

Some other persons of this department:
Anurag Mittal
Ph. 4372
Chandra Sekhar C
Ph. 4363
Chester Rebeiro
Ph. 4350
Deepak Khemani
Ph. 4365
Gonsalves T A
Ph. 4353
Hema A Murthy
Ph. 4364
Janakiram D
Ph. 4354
Jayalal Sarma M N
Ph. 4357
John Ebenezer Augustine
Ph. 4383
Kamakoti V
Ph. 4368
Krishna M Sivalingam
Ph. 4378
Krishna Nandivada V
Ph. 4380
M Rajsekar
Ph. 4360
Madhu Mutyam
Ph. 4379
Meghana Nasre
Ph. 4350
Narayanaswamy N S
Ph. 4369
Pandu Rangan C
Ph. 4358
Raghavan S V
Ph. 4359
Raghavendra Rao B V
Ph. 4381
Ravindran B
Ph. 4370
Rupesh Nasre
Ph. 4350
Sayan Ranu
Ph. 4350
Shankar Balachandran
Ph. 4371
Siva Ram Murthy C
Ph. 4361
Sreenivasa Kumar P
Ph. 4366
Sukhendu Das
Ph. 4367
Sutanu Chakraborti
Ph. 4376

Contact detail;
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Beside Adyar Cancer Institute, Opposite to C.L.R.I
Sardar Patel Rd
Adyar
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036

Map;
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[sumit]

The Department offers the following acedemic programs:

Course-work oriented programs
4-year B.Tech. program
2-year M.Tech. program
5-year Dual Degree program

Research programs
M.S. program
Ph.D. program

Course

B.Tech. program: The B.Tech. program is a four-year course oriented undergraduate program. The course work is spread accross all the semesters. See here for the detailed curriculum. The courses include a set of core courses offered by the department, a set of departmental electives and some free electives. In total, the academic activities include 7 department electives and 8 free electives. A B.Tech project is optional and the student can take 2 additional department electives in lieu of the B.Tech project.

M.Tech. program: The M.Tech. program is a two-year course oriented graduate program. The student has to take a set of core courses and a set of electives. The course work is spread accross the first two semesters with an option of taking one elective in the third semester. This is followed by a project in the third and fourth semester in which the student can take up a project of his or her interest, supervised by a faculty member.

Dual Degree program: The Dual Degree program is a five year program. At the end of five years, the student is awarded both a B.Tech. and M.Tech. degree.

Faculty Members

Shweta Agrawal (Associate Professor)
Office : BSB 347 | Phone : 4384
Email : shwetaag [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in
Research Interests : Cryptography and Information theory

Sutanu Chakraborti (Associate Professor)
Office : BSB 304 | Phone : 4376
Email : sutanuc [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in
Research Interests : Information retrieval, Memory-based reasoning, Machine learning.

Harish Guruprasad (Assistant Professor)
Office : BSB 350 | Phone : 4385
Email : hariguru [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in
Research Interests : Machine Learning, Learning Theory and Optimisation

V. Kamakoti (Professor)
Office : BSB 311 | Phone : 4368
Email : kama [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in

Deepak Khemani (Professor)
Office : BSB 306 | Phone : 4365
Email : khemani [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in

P. Sreenivasa Kumar (Professor)
Office : BSB 309 | Phone : 4366
Email : psk [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in

Anurag Mittal (Professor)
Office : BSB 347 | Phone : 4372
Email : amittal [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in

C. Siva Ram Murthy (Professor)

John Augustine (Associate Professor)
Office : CS12 | Phone : 4383
Email : augustine [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in

Sukhendu Das (Professor)
Office : BSB 312 | Phone : 4367
Email : sdas [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in

D. Janakiram (Professor)
Office : BSB 310 | Phone : 4354
Email : djram [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in

Mitesh Khapra (Assistant Professor)
Office : BSB 348 | Phone : 4371
Email : miteshk [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in

Ravishankar Krishnaswamy (Adjunct Faculty Member)
Office : | Phone :
Email : ravishan [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] edu

Fabrice Mouhartem (Young International Faculty)
Office : | Phone :
Email : fmouhart [at] cse [dot] iitm [dot] ac [dot] in