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The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) was the first department in India to start Computer Science education. It started in August 1963 with an IBM 1620 system - a novelty then, even in many North American and European universities. The department runs BTech, MTech, MS and PhD programs and is engaged in cutting edge research with sponsored projects and consultancies. Many of the nation's leading experts, educationists and consultants in computer science today are the alumni of this department.

Latest News

  • Prof. Pravesh Kothari, currently a faculty at Princeton University, has joined the department as an adjunct faculty. Prof. Kothari is an alumnus of IITK and recently received the Young Alumnus Award. 
  • The paper titled "Security Implications of Approximation: A Study of Trojan Attacks on Approximate Adders and Multipliers" by Vishesh Mishra and Prof. Urbi Chatterjee has received the Best Student Paper Award at 37th IEEE Conference of VLSI Design 2024. Congratulations!
  • Pranjal Dutta has won the ACM India 2023 Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2023. Pranjal did his research work under the supervision of Prof. Nitin Saxena, working jointly with IITK and CMI. Congratulations! 
  • A paper titled 'scDREAMER for atlas-level integration of single-cell datasets using deep generative model paired with adversarial classifier' by PhD students, Ajita and Krishna, and Prof. Hamim Zafar has been published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!
  • A poster paper by Akshay Kumar Sharma (MS-R student), Depanshu Sahu (BTech student), and Prof. Preeti Malakar has been awarded the Best Poster Paper at the Student Research Symposium in the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) 2023. Congratulations!
  • The CSE Department congratulates the graduating batch of 2023. See the convocation brochure here [link].


Events / Seminar Corner

  • Talk on "Multi-Robot Communication-aware Cooperative Belief Space Planning with Inconsistent Beliefs" by Tanmoy Kundu, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, on March 15th, 2024 (Friday) at 11:00 Hrs in KD-101. [ Abstract ]
  • Talk on "Creating a Quantum-Safe Internet" by Charles Clancy, a senior vice president at MITRE and heads MITRE Labs, on February 29th, 2024 (Thursday) at 16:00 Hrs in RM-101. [ Abstract ]
  • Talk on "Towards Secure, Interpretable, and Scalable Machine Learning Applications in Cyber-Physical Systems'" by Dr Shailja Thakur, a postdoctoral fellow currently at New York University in the Tandon School of Engineering, on February 16th, 2024 (Friday) at 14:30 Hrs in RM-101. [ Abstract 
  • Talk on "How Indians Won Silicon Valley" by Prof. Shivanand Kanavi, an alumnus of IITK, on February 12th, 2024 (Monday) at 17:15 Hrs in RM-101. [ Abstract ]
  • Invited talk on "Outlier Oblivious Robust Online Optimization'" by Dr. Adarsh Barik, a research fellow at NUS, on February 7th, 2024 (Wednesday) at 16:00 Hrs in KD-101. [ Abstract 
  • Invited talk on "Multimodal Problems in Computational Social Sciences'" by Prof. Rajiv Ratn Shah, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (jointly with the Department of Human-centered Design), on February 5th, 2024 (Monday) at 15:30 Hrs in KD-101. [ Abstract 
  • Seminar on "A Look into the Future: Circuits and Systems for a Distributed Network of Wearables and Implants utilizing Human Tissue Conductivity" by Prof. Baibhab Chatterjee, an Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, on January 23rd, 2024 (Tuesday) at 15:30 Hrs in RM-101. [ Abstract ]
  • Mentorship Session on "A Look into the Future: Circuits and Systems for a Distributed Network of Wearables and Implants utilizing Human Tissue Conductivity" by Prof. Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill, on January 11th, 2024 (Thursday) at 16:30 Hrs in RM-101. [ Abstract ]
  • Talk on "C3iHub DISTINGUISHED TALK" by Prof. Yuvraj Agarwal, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, and the director of SynergyLabs, on January 8th, 2024 (Monday) at 11:00 Hrs in RM-101. [ Abstract ]


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