Year of Establishment: 2000

Vision:

The Department of Information Technology of this institute envisions itself to be in the top tier departments of the country that will be recognized for its technological advancement in teaching, learning, research, and innovation and serve to address evolving global needs.

Mission:

• To give high-quality education to educate future leaders and contribute to the professional workforce in engineering and technology.
• To inspire learners to excel in research and innovation, collaborative activities, technologies, and systems with a positive contribution to society.

Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) of the B.Tech Course in Information Technology have been established through a continuous consultation and feedback process as stated in Sec..

PEO 1: To make a mark as a technocrat in the profession and/or in higher education in Information Technology by acquiring sound knowledge in mathematical, computational, and technological skills.

PEO 2: The ability to analyze real-life technical issues and to design adept computing systems having economic viability and social acceptability.

PEO 3: To be able to adapt to the changing trends in the industry, exhibit ethics, good communication skills, and teamwork in the profession.

Programs offered:

1. B.Tech in Information Technology
2. M.Tech in Information Technology
3. Ph.D. in Information Technology
4. Certificate Course

Number of teaching posts Sanctioned/Filled:

Details of Research Project:

Journal / Conference Publication (Last 5 years):

Book Chapters (Last 5 years):

No. of Students who have cleared GATE and other competitive examinations (Last 5 Years):

Ph.D. Program:

Ph.D. completed:

Mr. Kamarujjaman (UGC-MANF) – Supervisor: Prof. M. Maitra (GCECT) and Prof. S. Chakraborty (IIEST, Shibpur)) under MAKAUT.

Ph.D. Program started in 2023. Enrolment of Ph.D. students:

Seminars/Conferences Organized (Last 5 Years):

List of teachers undergoing online/face-to-face Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs)/Management Development Programmes (MDPs):

Students admitted in Academic Year 2023-24: B.Tech

Students admitted in Academic Year 2023-24: M.Tech

Community Development Program (Certificate Course):

Journal Publications

1. Dey, Paramita and Dey, Soumya “SENTIMENT ANALYSIS OF TEXT AND EMOJI DATA FOR TWITTER NETWORK,”
Al-Bahir Journal for Engineering and Pure Sciences: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 1(2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55810/2313-0083.1034

2. Dey, Paramita and Dey, Soumya “SENTIMENT ANALYSIS OF TEXT AND EMOJI DATA FOR TWITTER NETWORK,”
Al-Bahir Journal for Engineering and Pure Sciences: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 1. (2023)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55810/2313-0083.1034

3. S Chakraborty, K Chatterjee, P Dey, Detection of Image Tampering Using Deep Learning, Error Levels & Noise Residuals,
https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2174562/v1,
Accepted in Neural Processing Letters, Springer, (2023).

4. A. Chattopadhyay, M. Maitra MRI-based brain tumor image detection using CNN based deep learning method
Neuroscience informatics, Vol.2, Issue 4, Elsevier, (2022)

5. Chakravortty, S., Bhondekar, A. Spatial and Spectral Quality Assessment of Fused Hyperspectral and Multispectral Data.
In: Hemanth, J., Balas , V. (eds) Biologically Rationalized Computing Techniques For Image Processing Applications.
Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, vol 25. Springer, (2018).
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61316-1_7

Conference Publications

1. Ganguly, M., Dey, P., Chatterjee, S., Roy, S. Influential Node Detection in Online Social Network for Influence
Minimization of Rumor. In: Basu, S., Kole, D.K., Maji, A.K., Plewczynski, D., Bhattacharjee, D. (eds)
Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 404.
Springer, Singapore. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0105-8_58

2. Chakraborty, S., Dey, P., Chatterjee, K. Digital Image Tampering Detection Using Deep Learning: A Survey.
In: Sarkar, D.K., Sadhu, P.K., Bhunia, S., Samanta, J., Paul, S. (eds)
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Communication, Devices and Computing. ICCDC 2023. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1046.
Springer, Singapore. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2710-4_17

3. Dey, P., Roy, S., Roy, S. Ego-Based Community Detection in Online Social Network.
In: Negi, A., Bhatnagar, R., Parida, L. (eds) Distributed Computing and Internet Technology. ICDCIT 2018.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10722. Springer, Cham. (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72344-0_16

4. Mondal, R., Biswas, A., & Sardar, B. Effect of Mobility and Receive Window on TCP in Device to Device Communication.
In 2018 Fourth International Conference on Research in Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (ICRCICN) (pp. 182-187). IEEE. (2018).

5. Dey, P., Ganguly, M., Sengupta, P., Roy, S. Small World Network Formation and Characterization of Sports Network.
In: Satapathy, S., Bhateja, V., Udgata, S., Pattnaik, P. (eds) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications.
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 515. Springer, Singapore. (2017).
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3153-3_61

6. Paramita Dey, Saikat Pyne, Sarbani Roy, Information spreading in Online Social Networks: A case study on Twitter network,
Mobihoc ’17: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and ComputingJuly 2017, Article No.: 34, Pages 1-2,
https://doi.org/10.1145/3084041.3084071 (2017).

7. Chakravortty, S., Das, S. Integration of High Spectral and High Spatial Resolution Image Data for Accurate Target Detection.
In: Mandal, J., Dutta, P., Mukhopadhyay, S. (eds) Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics.
CICBA Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 775. Springer, Singapore. , (2017).
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6427-2_15

Placement of Students

Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Challenges (SWOC) Analysis

• Departmental Strength
  • NBA accreditation granted to B.Tech. program in IT
  • Departmental Infrastructural facilities augmented hugely through implementation of TEQIP-I project (Rs. 7.36 crores), a World Bank assisted program.
  • The institute was conferred ‘A’ Grade in the first cycle of accreditation by NAAC.
  • The department enjoys academic autonomy since 2012. Hence there is ample scope for revision/updation of syllabus to suit the latest needs of industry and research.
  • B.Tech. with Honours conferred upon students acquiring 20 extra credit points through MOOCs.
  • Dynamic elective papers in emerging fields offered to students to fulfill the upcoming needs of industry.
  • Mentors take regular care of various needs of students.
  • Substantial number of publications in peer-reviewed journals.
  • Active collaboration with industry and reputed institute through formal memorandum of understanding (MoU).
  • Availability of plenty of free ship and scholarship schemes for meritorious and financially weaker students.

• Weakness
  • No Technical Assistant in the labs
  • Lack of Faculty Members with a Doctorate degree
  • Senior faculty positions are vacant.
  • Very limited scope of sending faculties for industrial training as per AICTE norms and new CAS guidelines.
  • Campus Placement Record not up to mark
• Opportunity
  • A consistent healthy working atmosphere and cooperation amongst faculty.
  • Expertise of illustrious alumni, having experience in Multi-National companies in the fields of IT industry can be utilized to enhance employment opportunity and academic development.
  • Being centrally located in Kolkata, it offers the students and faculties the scope of exploring collaborative research activities with Jadavpur University, IIEST, Indian Statistical Institute, C-DAC (Kolkata) in the vicinity
  • Existence of IT-hub of Kolkata, only 3 km away at Salt Lake (Sector V) offers excellent opportunity for exposure to the most updated knowledge bank for training and internship work of the students

Future Plans

1. NBA accreditation for B.Tech and M.Tech courses
2. More research publications and sponsored projects from DST, UGC, AICTE, etc.
3. Collaboration with peer institutes
4. Collaboration with Ceramic Technology and Computer Science Departments
5. More focus on employability (based on feedback from employer and alumni)
6. Organizing international conferences with IEEE/Springer
7. More publication of B.Tech and M.Tech projects
8. Generating more higher-end computing facilities for Ph.D and M.Tech students
9. Implementation of NEP