Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Research Activities

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is actively involved in research in various fields of Computer Science. The major research areas include Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, Interconnection Networks, Cryptography & Network Security, Wireless Networks, Image & Video Processing, Soft Computing Applications and Information Retrieval.

In addition to regular academics the department undertakes R&D and consultancy projects. Major R&D projects funded by various organizations (including Ministry of Information & Technology, UGS, and CSIR) are on-going/completed in the areas of Network & Information Security, Parallel & Distributed Computing, Ad Hoc Networks, and Data Mining.

List of the Ongoing R&D Projects:

SL NO	Project title	Sponsored agency	Status Completed/Ongoing	Name of the PI
1	Development of Lizard-like Robotic Spy Surveillance System	DST (SERB) [Department of Science & Technology (Science and Engineering Research Board)]	Ongoing	Dr. Ansuman Bhattacharya, (PI Institute level) (Co-PI)
2	Secure and dynamic privacy-preserving public auditing schemes for IOT enabled data in clouds	Cyber Security Centre, PMU, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	Ongoing	Dr. Dharavath Ramesh, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad (PI)
3	ML based Agriculture Advent for Farmer Activity Development in India: An Application Approach	DST (SERB) [Department of Science & Technology (Science and Engineering Research Board)]	Ongoing	Dr. Dharavath Ramesh, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad (PI)
4	Precision Agriculture Model to Increase Crop Productivity in India using Big Data	DST (SERB) [Department of Science & Technology (Science and Engineering Research Board)]	Completed	Dr. Dharavath Ramesh, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad (PI)
5	Enterprise solution constructs for CMPF portal. (Consultancy)	Coal Mines Provident Fund, Govt. of India	Completed	Dr. Sachin Tripathi, (CI), Dr. Dharavath Ramesh, (Co-CI) Dr. Dipankar Ray, (Co-CI),
6	An Atomic Transaction Scenario for Heterogeneous Distributed Databases – A Synonym Application Approach for Reservation System	MHRD, Govt. of India - Under TEQIP-II	Completed	Dr. Dharavath Ramesh, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad (PI)
7	Design and Implementation of Multiple Strategies to Identify Handwritten Forgery Activities in Legal Documents	SERB, Govt. of India	Completed	Soumen Bag (PI)
8	To Strengthen the Research Facilities in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering	FIST, Govt. of India	Ongoing	Prasanta K Jana (PI) Arup Kumar Pal (Co-PI) Soumen Bag (Co-PI)
9	Design of Reliable and Energy Efficient Transport Layer Protocols for Ad-hoc and Sensor Network	DST (SERB)	Completed	Dr. Sachin Tripathi(PI)
10	ISEA (Information Security Education and Awareness) Phase-II	MeitY	Ongoing	Dr. Sachin Tripathi (CI), Dr. Arup pal (Co-CI)
11	AI/ML Driven Intrusion Detection Frameworks for IoT enabled cold storage monitoring system	DSCI	Ongoing	Dr. Sachin Triapthi (PI)
12	Design of Group Key Generation Protocol and Its applications for secure multicast	UGC	Completed	Dr. Sachin Triapthi (PI)
13	Development of Content-based Image Filtering Approach to Prevent Objectionable Image Retrieval from the Internet	CSIR	Ongoing	Dr. Arup Kumar Pal (PI)
14	Distributed Cognitive System for Healthcare	MeitY	Ongoing	Dr. H. Banka IIT(ISM) Ddanbad
15	To develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based machine learning solutions to enable prediction of occurrence of fire in Open cast mines extracting locked coal pillars with safety	CMPDI, Ranchi	Ongoing	Dr.. H. Banka, PI IIT(ISM) Ddanbad, Prof. SS Rai, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, Prof. S. Sinha, Adani
16	Development of QoS Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks	UGC, New Delhi	Completed	Prof. Chiranjeev Kumar (PI)
17	Node Mobility Techniques for Tactical IP Networks	DRDO (CAIR Lab), Bangalore	Completed	Prof. Chiranjeev Kumar (PI)
18	Energy-Efficient Intruder Detection Schemes for WSN using Learning-based Techniques	DRDO, New Delhi	Completed	Prof. Chiranjeev Kumar (PI), Prof. Haider Banka (Co-PI)
19	WSN based Disaster and Environmental Monitoring System for Safety of Miners working in Underground Coal Mines	CSIR, New Delhi	Completed	Prof. Chiranjeev Kumar (PI)
20	Development of Virtual Reality Mine Simulator (VRMS) for improving Safety and Productivity in Indian Coal Mines	Coal India Limited	Ongoing	Prof. Chiranjeev Kumar (Co-PI)