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Ph. D. in Computer Science & Engineering is a doctoral program offered by the School of Computing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri and Bengaluru campuses.

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About the Program

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Amritapuri

The Computer Science and Engineering doctoral program prepares you to solve complex, long-term and contemporary research problems. The proposed curriculum helps in systematically developing enhanced skills and understanding in the area of research. The course work followed by a thorough research work during the doctoral program result in heightened technical and conceptual understandings in the related area.  It will accelerate and further the career of individuals in their enterprises or academic institutions.

 

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The mission of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering is to train the next generation of CSE leaders who will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to tackle complex problems in various fields such as healthcare, agriculture, education, networking, energy, etc. The doctoral program focuses on hands-on learning, interdisciplinary collaboration, and also collaborations with faculty members from reputed foreign universities. You can expect to graduate in four to five years and to work on a research project, culminating in a dissertation along with two or more papers in top quality journals.

 

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The vision and mission of the department align with the overall theme of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, which is to provide education that is rooted in values and aimed at holistic development. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham believes that education should go beyond academics and focus on the individual’s overall development.

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Bengaluru

In the era of digitization, computing has become the backbone of modern society. Amrita School of Computing is a leading institution at the forefront of innovation and research, nestled in vibrant technological hub of Bangalore. As we witness that AI is emerging as the potential interdisciplinary field and revolutionize industries, advance scientific research, improve healthcare outcomes and contribute to economic growth and societal well-being, Amrita School Computing is committed in providing world-class education, research and innovation.  Our campus has research laboratories and collaborative spaces, providing Ph.D. students with the access to cutting-edge technology and resources to support their research endeavours in various domains.

 

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The mission of the School of Computing is to strive for continuous learning, instil innovation and curiosity, and inculcate research culture. The school also aims to inculcate team work to solve science and engineering problems collaboratively. Further, the school strives to mould next generation citizens to use emerging technologies for betterment of the society and prepare them to solve real-world problems.

 

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The vision of School of Computing aligns well with overall of theme of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, which is to set high standards in teaching and learning, to enable a bright career path for the students, create a culture that fosters excellence and creativity, and inspire the next generation of computer scientists to be visible to computing communities and unleash their human potential in service to science and society; and to establish internationally recognized state-of-the-art centres of excellence in thrust areas of research in Computer Science and Engineering and inter disciplinary fields through innovation and collaboration.

Important Note

2025 January Intake Admissions Open
Eligibility

Eligibility

Amritapuri

BTech/MTech in CSEEE, ECE, MCA 

 

 

Faculty for Guideship

Amritapuri
Dr. Prema Nedungadi
Dr. Prema Nedungadi
Associate Dean
Director

Dr. Swaminathan J.
Dr. Swaminathan J.
Chairperson
Professor

Dr. Geetha M.
Dr. Geetha M.
Chairperson
Assistant Professor (Sl. Gd.)
Research Head

Dr. Jyothisha J. Nair
Dr. Jyothisha J. Nair
Vice Principal
HoS
Professor

Dr. M. R. Kaimal
Dr. M. R. Kaimal
Professor

Dr. Vivek Menon
Dr. Vivek Menon
Professor

Dr. Shivsubramani Krishnamoorthy
Dr. Shivsubramani Krishnamoorthy
Associate Professor

Dr. Don S.
Dr. Don S.
Associate Professor

Dr. Thushara M.G.
Dr. Thushara M.G.
Assistant Professor (Sr. Gd.)

Dr. Jinesh M. K.
Dr. Jinesh M. K.
Assistant Professor (Sr. Gd.)

Dr. S. Subbulakshmi
Dr. S. Subbulakshmi
Assistant Professor (Sr. Gd.)

Dr. Simi Surendran
Dr. Simi Surendran
Assistant Professor (Sr. Gd.)

Dr. Manjusha Nair M.
Dr. Manjusha Nair M.
Associate Professor

Dr. Divya Udayan J.
Dr. Divya Udayan J.
Assistant Professor (SG)

Dr. Jayakumar P.
Dr. Jayakumar P.
Assistant Professor (SG)

Dr. Gopakumar G.
Dr. Gopakumar G.
Assistant Professor (SG)

Dr. Indulekha T. S.
Dr. Indulekha T. S.
Assistant Professor

Dr. Nimmy K.
Dr. Nimmy K.
Assistant Professor

Dr. Aiswarya S. Kumar
Dr. Aiswarya S. Kumar
Assistant Professor

Dr. Akshara P. Byju
Dr. Akshara P. Byju
Assistant Professor

Dr. Remya S.
Dr. Remya S.
Assistant Professor

Dr. Namitha K.
Dr. Namitha K.
Assistant Professor

Bengaluru
Dr. Supriya M.
Dr. Supriya M.
Vice Chairperson
Associate Professor

Dr. Deepa Gupta
Dr. Deepa Gupta
Professor

Dr. Amudha J.
Dr. Amudha J.
Professor

Dr. Suja P.
Dr. Suja P.
Associate Professor

Dr. Beena B. M.
Dr. Beena B. M.
Associate Professor

Dr. Tripty Singh
Dr. Tripty Singh
Associate Professor

Dr. Rimjhim Singh
Dr. Rimjhim Singh
Assistant Professor (Sr. Gd.)

Meena Belwal
Meena Belwal
Assistant Professor (SG)

Radha D.
Radha D.
Assistant Professor

Dr. B. Uma Maheswari
Dr. B. Uma Maheswari
Assistant Professor

Dr. Thangam S.
Dr. Thangam S.
Assistant Professor

Dr. S. Santhanalakshmi
Dr. S. Santhanalakshmi
Assistant Professor

Dr. Kumaran U.
Dr. Kumaran U.
Assistant Professor

Dr. Nidhin Prabhakar T. V.
Dr. Nidhin Prabhakar T. V.
Assistant Professor

Dr. Apurvanand Sahay
Dr. Apurvanand Sahay
Assistant Professor

Dr. K Dinesh Kumar
Dr. K Dinesh Kumar
Assistant Professor

Dr. Manju Venugopalan
Dr. Manju Venugopalan
Assistant Professor

Dr. Gurupriya M.
Dr. Gurupriya M.
Assistant Professor

Dr.  A. A. Nippun Kumaar
Dr. A. A. Nippun Kumaar
Vice Chairperson
Assistant Professor (Sr. Gd.)

Manju Khanna
Manju Khanna
Associate Professor

Dr. Nandu C. Nair
Dr. Nandu C. Nair
Assistant Professor

Dr. Vineet Nair
Dr. Vineet Nair
Assistant Professor

Dr. Abhinav R. Dehadrai
Dr. Abhinav R. Dehadrai
Assistant Professor

Dr. Vasavi  C. S
Dr. Vasavi C. S
Assistant Professor (Sr. Gd.)

Dr. Ritesh Raj
Dr. Ritesh Raj
Assistant Professor

Research Areas

Amritapuri

Computer Vision and Robotics 

AI and Distributed Systems 

Computational Biosciences 

Algorithms and Computing Systems 

Computational Linguistic and Indic Studies 

AI and Disability Studies 

Deep Learning 

Computational Neuroscience 

Complex Networks 

Performance of Edge Networks

Cloud Network Infrastructure

Machine Learning

Medical Image Analysis

Computer Vision

Data Science

Awareness Computing

Pattern recognition  

Text mining

Robotics 

Program Analysis

Text Analytics

Optimization -Numerical Computation Software Engineering

Social Networks  

Graph Mining 

Computer Vision   

Video Surveillance

Video Synopsis

Artificial Intelligence

Edge learning

Networking in Extreme Environments

Reinforcement Learning

Web Security

Cryptographic Protocols

Authentication

Scene Understanding and Image Retrieval

Assistive Technologies and Learning with Disabilities

Smart Farming

Probability Theory

Gaussian Processes

Smart Grid

Data Science

Power System

AI/ML applications in Interdisciplinary areas

Composites

Materials Informatics

Computational Materials Science

FEM Modelling

Fatigue and Fracture

Algorithm Design

Graph theory

Bioinformatics

Natural Language Processing

Algorithms

Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Text Mining

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Knowledge Graph

Graph Representation Learning

Amaravati

cryptography

IOT

Health care domain

Cyber security

Explainable AI 

Machine Learning.  

Recommendation systems 

NLP

Bengaluru

Complex Systems 

Time Series Analysis 

Healthcare Data Analytics 

Financial Data Analytics 

Speech Processing 

Power System Dynamics 

Data Driven Modelling and Control  

Natural Language Processing, text data modelling using ML and Deep learning 

AI in Healthcare

AI for Bioinformatics & Systems Biology 

AI for Agriculture  

AI for Signal and Image Processing.  

Emotion recognition, robotics – HRI and image and video processing  

AI for Signal and Image Processing.  

Renewable energy 

Intelligent Agents in Agriculture, IoT 

Theoretical and Experimental Machine Intelligence 

Remote sensing 

Image processing   

Computer Vision 

Image and video processing with Machine learning and deep learning   

Cloud and Fog computing 

Green Computing

Machine learning and Deep learning 

Text mining and analytics  

Clinical Data mining  

Chennai

Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Computer Vision

NLP

Image Processing

IoT

Gen.AI

Cloud Computing

Fundings / Projects

Amritapuri

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri

Title of the Project Funding Agency
Sign Language Accessibility for e-Governance Services Meity
OLabs NextG: Next Generation Online Labs (OLabs) for schools Meity
Digital Literacy Orientation for teaching STEM Skills for Teachers, and STEM skills for girls. UNICEF
RISE VCARE: Virtual Cases for Critical care U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) For Reaching Impact, Saturation, and Epidemic Control (RISE) Project JHPIEGO
Bengaluru

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru

Title of the Project Funding Agency
Neural Machine Translation for zero-resource Indic languages using semi-supervised and unsupervised learning-based approaches DRDO
Drift Design – Anomaly Detection for Time Series Data Semantic Classification Intellectyx Data Science Pvt Ltd

Facilities / Research Infrastructure

Amritapuri

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri

Name of the Research Lab Major Facilities / Equipment Details
Video analytics lab 1 Specim IQ hyper spectral camera

2 Thermal camera

3          Peizo camera

4          Network camera

IOT & Robotics Lab 1        Social robot

2 GO1 PRO

3 DOBOT magician basic kit

4 Ricoh theta

5 Leap motion Controller

HPC Lab
  1. High Performance Computing Facility
  1. NVIDIA DGX STATION
  1. 16X NVIDIA Tesla V100; 512GB;2.1 petaflops
Bengaluru

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Bengaluru

Name of the Research Lab Major Facilities / Equipment Details
Natural Language Technology Lab Basic computing facility Two workstation, 5 i7 desktops, and two GUP based workstation, two printers
Robotics Lab Mobile Robot Platform Differential Drive, ARM based mobile robot, Quantity – 10, Assembled micro mobile robot powered. by Arduino Uno, Quantity – 5
Humanoid Robot Bioloid premium Kit, Quantity – 1
LEGO Mindstorms Set Lego base kit and educational resource kit, Quantity-2
Servos Motors Dynamixel 12A, Quantity – 12
Regulated Power Supply 36V, 10A, Quantity – 6Nos
Oscilloscope 200Mhz, Digital Storage Oscilloscope, Qualtity-1
Database CMU and BU Emotion Database
Edge AI Lab Lenovo ThinkCenter Desktop Quantity = 1
Core i5 Processor 8GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, Keyboard, Mouse
Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin Quantity = 1
Development kit 32GB SBC 1105-DEV
Dell Monitor Se2422h Quantity = 1
24” Monitor
Jetson Nano Modules Carrier Board Quantity = 1
SBC 2067
Eye Tracking Lab Eye Tribe Quantity – 2, cross platform cost effective eye tracker
SMI REDn Professional Quantity –1, reliable screen-based eye tracker that enables researchers to conduct fixation-based studies with a sampling rate of 60Hz.

The SMI REDn Professional eye tracker is compatible with the iMotionsScreen-based Eye Tracking Module.

VT3 Mini Quantity –1, Powered by AEye 1.0 eye-tracking-on-a-chip technology,

featuring a large head motion box and hardware-based time-stamped data that ensures data integrity and accuracy.

5MP IR Network Dome Camera – 30Mt (CP-UNC-DA51L3C-0280) Quantity-5
HP All-in-One PC 13th Gen Intel Core i7 22″ FHD 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD 2 Desktop PC
AWS DeepRacer car and AWS DeepRacer sensor kit Quantity-1
Humanoid Robo Nao Quantity-1
Dell 34-inch LED monitor On screen Control with 4 screen split & Dual Device connectivity for multitasking

Contact Us

Ph.D. Coordinator (Amritapuri)

Dr Subhasri Duttagupta DS
Professor
subhasrid@am.amrita.edu  

Ph.D. Coordinator (Amaravati)

Dr. M. Rajasekhar Reddy
Associate Professor,
School of Computing, Amaravati
m_rajasekharreddy@av.amrita.edu

Ph.D. Coordinator (Bengaluru)

Dr. Thangam S
Assistant Professor (Selection Grade),
Amrita School of Computing, Bengaluru,
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India.
s_thangam@blr.amrita.edu

Ph.D. Coordinator (Chennai)

Dr.Suthir Sriram
Assistant Professor (SG),
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
School of Computing,
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Chennai
s_suthir@ch.amrita.edu

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