DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Introduction The Computer Science and Engineering department at IIT Bombay is the largest Computer Science and Engineering department in the country with a vibrant teaching and research program. The department consists of 36 faculty members and one adjuct faculty, 80 Ph.D. students, 200 M.Tech. students, 168 undergraduates and 25 office staff members. One new faculty member, Prof. Ganesh Ramakrishnan, joined the department this year. The year saw more that 25 researchers visting the department to give talks and interact with faculty, students and research groups. Faculty members of the deparment were involved with hosting two international conferences and a workshop at IIT Bombay. Thirteen students of the department were recepients of different fellowships for their academic programs. Two new research groups took shape over the last year, GRC (GCC Research Centre) and SynerG (Systems and Network Researcg Group). Various research activities of the department were recognised nationally and internationally at conferences and workshops and through awards and press coverage. Academic Programmes Degrees Awarded B.Tech. : 34 M.Tech. : 51 Ph.D. : 5 Dual Degree : 18 Fellowship Details 1. Infosys fellowship for Ph.D. students: 6 Bell Labs fellowship for Ph.D. students : 1 2. Vijay Vashee fellowhip for M.Tech & DD students M.Tech. :2 Dual Degree:3 Total: 5 3. Microsoft Research India Felloship for PhD students: 1 R&D Activities Sponsored Research Projects Sponsored Research Projects : 94 New : 14 Ongoing : 68 Completed : 12 Faculty Involved : 28 Project Title Agency Name Status(New/Ongoing/ Complete) “Development of North East Wordnet” Ministry of IT New “Evolution and development of Sanskrit WordNet” Ministry of Human New Resource Development “Enhancement of Integrated Logistics Management Ongoing Systems (ILMS), Its adaptation to Linux based J2EE Aeronautical architecture and the Development of a Generalized Development Agency K” “Development of tool for formal verification of Ongoing Board Of Research In VHDL based data and control dominated designs Nuclear Sciences used in safety critical systems” “Tetherless Human Interface for Simulators Defence Research & ongoing (THISS)” Development Organisation “Euro-India ICT Co-Operation.” European Commission Ongoing “Research and Deployment of Next Generation Agilent Technologies, metro Networks ? Roadmap for Carrier Ethernet and Ongoing Usa 100 Gigabit Ethernet “ “Semantic Linkage Between The Web, Intranet And Wikipedia: Discovery And Exploitation In Search HP Labs. And Aggregation.” Ongoing “Context-Sensitive Query Redressal Service using Nokia Mobile Process Work flow.” Ongoing “Open - Source Code for 3D Visuals.” Defence Research & Ongoing Development Organisation “Research Collaboration on Mobile and Wireless Microsoft Research Lab Ongoing Systems, with Microsoft Research India (MSRI)” India pvt. Ltd. “Real Time Multiple Sensors To Track Multiple Defence Research & Ongoing Targets Projected on a Screen.” Development Organisation “Information Aggregation from tables on the Web” Yahoo Inc Ongoing “2008 IBM FACULTY AWARD.” Intenational Business Machines Corporation. Ongoing “Analyzing programs manipulating recursive data Microsoft Research Lab Ongoing structures.” India pvt. Ltd. "Development & Evolution of Sanskrit Word-Net" Central Institute of Ongoing Indian Languages Project Title Agency Name Status(New/Ongoing/ Complete) “Rural Connectivity and applications,Wireless Tata Teleservices Ltd., Ongoing Communications and Networking” Mumbai “Design and development of a real time operating Ongoing BARC system (RTOS) for safety critical application” “Extending Framework for WFS-based Department of Science & Interoperability of GIS Sources.” Technology Ongoing “Re-Designing the farmer-extension-agricultural Indian council of research/education continuum in India with ICT- Ongoing Agricultural Research mediated knowledge management” “IBM FACULTY AWARD / Building a self-aware and self-tuning distributed system using queuing IBM Corporation Ongoing theoretic and control theoretic approaches” “IBM FACULTY AWARD/ Iburg based instruction Ongoing IBM selection in GCC” “IBM FACULTY AWARD, Prof. P Bhattacharya/ Ongoing Integrating Indian Language processing resources IBM Corporation, New and tools and semantic search capabilities with the York. UIMA,..” “IBM Faculty Award/ Supratik Chakraborty/ Ongoing Approximate search and coverage based verification IBM Corporation., USA techniques for flattened circuits with locally specified…” “Microsoft Award/Soumen Chakrabarti/ Scalable Ongoing annotation, search & aggregation of semistructured Microsoft Corporation graph and text data models.” “MEDIA LAB ASIA/GALLA - LOW COST Ongoing Media Lab Asia RETAIL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.” “aAQUA Mini-Context sensitive information to Ongoing Nokia India Pvt. Ltd farmers.” “Microsoft India Distinguished Research Award / Ongoing Microsoft Research Linguistic Data Management of Indian Language India, Bangalore Resources.” “Large Scale Application Development and Ongoing Knowledge Dissemination in Natural Language HP Labs, Bangalore Processing and Text Mining (HP Labs, Bangalore)” “Setting up a TePP web portal at IIT Bombay” Technology Info. Ongoing Forecasting & Assesment Council “INTELLIGENT POWER GRID INITIATIVES IN Ongoing IBM INDIA.” “Formal verification of Akash onboard process.” Defence Research & Ongoing Development Organisations “Research Support for INAE Young Engineer Indian National Ongoing Awardees” Academy of Engineering “CROSS LINGUAL INFORMATION ACCESS Ministry of (CLIA) SYSTEM” Communications & Ongoing Information Technology Consortium Leader: IIT Bombay Project Title Agency Name Status(New/O ngoing/Comp lete) “Development of Indian Language to Indian Ministry of Communications & Language Machine Translation System (IL-IL MT) : Information Technology Consortium Leader : IIIT Hyderabad.” Ongoing “English to Indian Languages Machine Translation Ministry of Communications & Ongoing (E-IL-MT) - Consortium Leader - CDAC , PUNE.” Information Technology Book on “Data Flow Analysis : Theory and Practice” Taylor and Francis Group, LLC., Ongoing USA. “Entity and Relation Types in Web Search: Microsoft Corporation Ongoing Annotation, Indexing and Scoring Techniques Award Number: 15196” “Integrating Entities, Types and Relations into Search: International Business Machines Annotation, Indexing and Scoring Techniques.” Corporation Ongoing “IBM Faculty Award for Research Work in the area of International Business Machines Autonomic Computing” Corporation, USA Ongoing “Crop disease forecasting services and expert crop PAN ASIA ICT advisory to farmers over information kiosk networks.” (Asian Media for Information & Ongoing Communication Center, Singapore) “IBM Faculty Award of Prof. S. Sudarshan” IBM Corporate Technology, Ny Ongoing “Architectural Information Extraction From Object IBM INDIA PVT. LTD., PUNE Ongoing Oriented Sources in R/O. SHRI. SHAKEB SAGHER, B.TECH. Student” “PH.D Proj. of Dharamendra Yadav "CCS & Its IBM India Pvt. Ltd., Pune Ongoing Application. Modelling" “Metamodelling & Architecure “ Ongoing IBM India Pvt. Ltd., Pune “Formal Verification of Software Systems “ Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt.Ltd., Ongoing Hyderabad “Formal Verification of Large State Transition General Motors India Pvt. Ltd., Ongoing Systems” Bangalore “E-Outreach” Technology Info. Forecasting & Ongoing Assesment Council “TCS-IIT BOMBAY Laboratory for Intelligent Tata Research Development & Ongoing Systems.” Design Centre, Pune “Analysis and Design of Wireless, Mobile and MHRD Multiservice Communication Networks.” Ongoing “Special Manpower Development Programme for Department of Electronics Ongoing VLSI Design and related Software (SMDP-II)” “Building Check-Dams for Drinking Water: A DONATION Ongoing Teaching and Research Initiative.” “Improving GCC Ports of ABACUS and DRDO Ongoing ANUPAMA” “Financial Assistance For Research Project Entitled DST Ongoing "Ontology Based Framework For Integration Of Geographic Information". Agency Name Project Title Status(New/O ngoing/Comp lete) “Association For Computing Machinery -International IBM Canada Ltd Ongoing Collegiate Programming Contest -IBM Canada Ltd” “Time category in Computer Science and Engineering Donation Ongoing Sept., 03DT004” “Partial redundancy elimination” Indo-US Collaboration Ongoing “A Service-Oriented Architecture for Anonymous Indo-US Collaboration Ongoing Remote Computing (ARC) on Internet” “Centre for formal Design and Verification of BRNS Ongoing software “ “Network security lab (m/s.nevis neworks india pvt. Sponsored by Private Ongoing Ltd., pune)” Organisations “Developmental informatics” Sponsored by Private Ongoing Organisations “Multimodal Participatory Content Repository for the Sponsored by Private Ongoing Education of Rural Children” Organisations “Ibm faculty awards-ibm global services india pvt.ltd” Sponsored by Private Ongoing Organisations “Financial Assistance for research project entitled Department of Science & Ongoing “Enabling Web-based workflow over object oriented Technology GIS Models for NRDMS”. “Open source software” IBMglobal services india Ongoing pvt.ltd.,b'lore “Ekalavya project” Sponsored by Private Ongoing Organisations “A Methodology and Tool to Determine Application Topology and Component Resource Needs of Intel Corporation Ongoing Distributed Enterprise Applications-Intel Corporation” “Exchange of Ideas on Data Mining and Data Ongoing Cleaning Projects-Microsoft Resaerch” Microsoft Research “Methodology