Computer Science and Engineering – Defence Institute of Advanced Technology : Pune

Academic Programms Offered By the Department

Programmes	Title of the Programme	Course Structure	Accreditation
M.Tech	Cyber Security	Download	AICTE
M.Tech	Computer Science and Engineering	Download	AICTE
	Specialization in Artificial Intelligent
Ph.D	–

Customized and Short Term Cources

Date	Particular	Department	More details
20.09.2021	Customized Course on Cyber Security for Sailors of Indian Navy	Computer Science and Engineering	Report
04.10.2021	Customized Course on Cyber Security for Officers of Indian Navy	Computer Science and Engineering	Report
25.10.2021	Cyber Security Awareness Webinar, as celebrating Global Cyber Security Awareness	Computer Science and Engineering	Report
13.10.2021	“Cyber Security and Career Guidance” for the M.Tech. Students & Ph.D Scholars	Computer Science and Engineering	Report

History and Growth of the Department

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering was established in 1987. Initially, it was conducted short term courses. The M.Tech programme was introduced in the year 2010. Currently, it has seven experienced faculty members. The department offers M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering for officers from DRDO, the services, and the general public, MS by Research and Ph.D. programme. The current plan is outlined to understand, assimilate & use the advanced technologies to design and develop software and hardware. Department started M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering with a specialization in Cyber Security from July 2011.

The programme’s objective is to develop human resources in the field of Cyber Security with a thrust on defense-related problems. Advanced technologies from four different domains like wired and wireless networking, Cryptography, Digital Forensic techniques have been selected. The course also introduces the concepts of Network Centric Warfare and Information Security Management Systems. After the end of the course, the student can understand various advanced technologies related to Information Security, Incident Responses, Digital Evidence Analysis, Cyber Attacks, Design, and Development of secure systems.

Vision: To be a center of excellence of international repute to provide high quality education, research and training in the area of Cyber Security (CS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to promote innovation and entrepreneurship skills amongst the students with a view to strengthen national security and self-reliance.

Mission:

M1: To build strong education, teaching and research environment in the field of Cyber Security (CS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to meet requirements from defence, specially related to national security.

M2: To strive for continuous learning, innovation, entrepreneurship and quality research culture amongst the student community through effective government, industry & academia collaboration.

M3: To encourage ethics, team work and technological leadership skills amongst students to solve complex engineering problems collaboratively by imparting strong theoretical foundation complemented with extensive practical training.

M4: To develop high quality indigenous technological solutions catering defence and civil needs by carrying out multidisciplinary collaborative research.

Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)

PEO1:The MTech Computer Science and Engineering aims at developing skilled Human Resources in the field of Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence by providing two different specializations, catering the emerging multidisciplinary problem solving needs of defense, civil and DRDO sectors.

PEO2:The MTech Computer Science and Engineering with specialization in Cyber Security(CS) programme aims at developing skilled Human Resources in the field of Cyber Security with a thrust on solving defence and society related problems. The present programme is conceived to understand, assimilate & use the advanced technologies such as Network security, Cryptography, Ethical Hacking, Digital Forensic, Malware Analysis, Information Security Management and Trusted Computing techniques. After completing this course, students are expected to understand and practice the essential CS concepts along with developing secure systems.

PEO3:The MTech Computer Science and Engineering with specialization in Artificial Intelligence programme aims at developing skilled Human Resources in the field of AI with a thrust on solving defence and society related problems. The present programme is conceived to understand, assimilate & apply the advanced technologies such as deep learning, robotics, machine learning, computer vision, video surveillance, text analytics, speech analytics etc. After completing this course, students are expected to understand and practice the essential AI concepts along with developing AI based systems to solve society/defence related problems, carry out research and innovation.

Faculty Members

Sr. No.	Name of Faculty	Designation	Contact Information	Email ID	Profile Picture	View Profile
1	Dr. Manisha J Nene	Assistant Professor and HoD	02024604533	mjnene@diat.ac.in		view
2	Dr. CRS Kumar	Professor	02024604534	suthikshnkumar@diat.ac.in		view
3	Dr. Arun Mishra	Assistant Professor	02024604539	arunmishra@diat.ac.in		view
4	Dr. Sunita Dhavale	Assistant Professor	02024604536	sunitadhavale@diat.ac.in		view
5	Dr. Upasna Singh	Assistant Professor	02024604537	upasnasingh@diat.ac.in		view
6	Dr. Deepti Vidhyarthi	Assistant Professor	02024604538	deepti @diat.ac.in		view

Research Areas

Cyber Security
Wired and Wireless Networking
Cryptography
Digital Forensic Techniques
Network Centric Operation
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
High-Performance Computing
Digital Watermarking and Steganography
Biometrics
Mobile Computing
Malware Analysis
Program Analysis
Verification & Validation
Operating Systems

Description of Laboratories

Sl No	Lab Name	Faculty	Details
1	Augmented Reality Lab	Dr CRS Kumar	Link
2	Secure Systems Lab	Dr Arun Mishra	Link
3	AI for Cyber Data Analytics Lab	Dr Sunita Dhavale	Link
4	Digital Forensics Lab	Dr Upasna Singh	Link
5	Malware Analysis Lab	Dr Deepti Vidyarthi	Link
6	Cyber Security Lab
7	Cyber Physical Systems Lab	Dr Manisha Nene	Link

Infrastructure

The department has marvellous computing facilities which include Pentium based computer systems, scanners, laser printers, software as well as hardware.
The department is well equipped with fully centralised air conditioned aboratory and Advanced Computing Laboratory with the Internet connection to all the system. All systems are connected to the departmental Local Area Network is a part of the institute CROWN Network.

Achievements

Department has started to offer M.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering with the Specialization Cyber Security in the year 2011.
Conducted many short term target courses
Department has started to offer M.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering with the Specialization Artificail Intelligence in the year 2020

Collaborations

SL NO	Collaborating Organization	Research Topics	Faculty
1	CAIR	Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning	ALL
2	ADA	Fighter Air craft Maintenance	Dr CRS Kumar
3	DYSL	Quantum Computing, AI	Dr CRS Kumar, Dr Manisha Nene
4	SETS	Cryptography	Dr Arun Mishra

Departmental Awards & Recognition

SL No	Faculty	Awards and Recognition’s
1	Dr CRS Kumar	Received the Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert ( MIEE 2019-20) award ( Fourth year consecutively) Achieved a new record in the most number of Ph.D. theses submissions in a year ( 05) ( appreciation certificate by India Book of records) Received Hon Doctorate from Los Angeles Development Institute ( LADC), USA Distinguished HOD Award at TechNext India 2017 at IIT Mumbai Distinguished Associate Professor Award at TechNext India 2017 at IIT Mumbai Best Individual for creating Cyber Security Awareness at CSI IT2020, IIT Mumbai Certified Chartered Engineer from Institution of Engineers(India) 2018 Awarded “Best Faculty of the Year” from Computer Society of India Mumbai Chapter during TechNext 2019 Selected as IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor Program ( DVP) Speaker 2019-2021 MIEExpert Project Showcase Award Winner at Microsoft Edu Days, 2018 Two IEEE International Conference Best paper awards( ICETECH 2016, ICACCS 2016) Microsoft Community First Answer Award L&T Infotech Icube award for Innovation Elected Fellow of Institution of Engineers(India) Elected Senior Member, Computer Society of India Life Member, Indian Society for Technical Education(ISTE) Elected Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers(IETE) Infineon 3i Award for InnovationIEEE Spectrum Interview for ArogyaKshema App Elected Senior Member of IEEE Australian Government Scholarship for PhD studies GATE Scholarship for MTech studies at IIT Madras Award for contribution to quality activities at Philips IEEE Spectrum Interview for ArogyaKshema App Co-ordinator, ATAL online FDP on Virtual Reality, October 2020 sponsored by AICTE Oorganized conferences and workshops such as NCSDAQ 2017 (sponsored by DRDO), NCECE 2016 (Sponsored by BEL). Served as Chairman of DIAT Datacenter and has contributed to initiating the procurement of Computing equipments and softwares.. Served on Audit review boards of leading engineering institutions, promotion board of C-DAC, Recruitment board of IITM, Ph.D. thesis reviewer for Indian and Foreign Universities, Chairman, Technical Evaluation Committee, Core Switches for DIAT Network. External Expert for CWPRS( procurement of Wave rider buoy)
2	Dr Sunita Dhavale	Dr.Sunita V. Dhavale Mentored DIAT team “Age_of_Ultron” comprising six students of CSE Department – Mr. Sudhir Deshmukh, Ph.D. student (Team Leader), and other MTech Students whose entry is selected for the prestigious Smart India Hackathon-2020 (an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) grand finale – software edition. Dr.Sunita V. Dhavale received the best paper award for her authored a paper titled “C-ASFT: Convolutional Neural Networks based Anti-Spam Filtering Technique”, presented in INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS (ICCSA) 2019, MIT, WPU, Pune, 7-9 Aug 2019, Proceeding of International Conference on Computational Science and Applications is published in Springer AIS (Algorithms for Intelligent Systems) series Book, Pages49-55 (Dhavale S. (2020) C-ASFT: Convolutional Neural Networks-Based Anti-spam Filtering Technique. In: Bhalla S., Kwan P., Bedekar M., Phalnikar R., Sirsikar S. (eds) Proceeding of International Conference on Computational Science and Applications. Algorithms for Intelligent Systems. Springer, Singapore) Dr. Sunita V. Dhavale selected as Mentor of Change’ for the Government of India’s flagship program of Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs), established by the Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog. May 18, 2019. Mentor of Change Program is a strategic nation building initiative to engage leaders who can guide and mentor students in thousands of Atal Tinkering Labs that Atal Innovation Mission has established/is in the process of establishing across India. Dr.Sunita V. Dhavale Mentored DIAT team “DCSE_AVENGERS1” comprising six students of CSE Department – Mr. MainakChakraborty, Ph.D. student (Team Leader), AlikPramanick, Tanveer Mustafa, NitinMundhe, Chinju Shaji and GunamoniPhukan who won the prestigious Smart India Hackathon-2019 (an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) grand finale – software edition, Mar 2019. Dr. Sunita V. Dhavale received an NVIDIA hardware research grant (GPU TITAN V) costing approximately Rs. 3,67,000/- by NVIDIA Coorporation to support her research work in the application of deep learning techniques for video-based human activity detection, Dec 2018. Dr. Sunita V. Dhavale completed an online 8-weeks NPTEL MOOC course on Introduction to Machine learning, IIT Madras, Aug 2018 to Oct 2018, and is in the top 5% of the performers (with Elite Tag) in this course by securing 78% marks in the final evaluation. 8 weeks online is equivalent to 1-week AICTE approved FDP. Dr. SunitaDhavale is selected as one of the top performers in Four Week online FDP titled“FDP301x : Mentoring Educators in Educational Technology”, organized by PanditMadan Mohan Malaviya National Mission for Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT), MHRD, GoI, IIT Bombay, during May 17th, 2018 to June 27th, 2018. Dr. Sunita Dhavale is selected as one of the top performers in Four Week AICTE approved online FDP by IIT Bombay on – Use of ICT in Education for Online and Blended Learning, May 2nd, 2016 to July 10th, 2016 Dr. Sunita Dhavale authored a research paper titled, “State Transition Based Embedding in Cepstrum Domain for Audio Copyright Protection” published in IETE Journal of Research Vol 61 No 1, Jan-Feb 2015 issue, received IETE-M N Saha Memorial Award -2016as Best Application Oriented Paper, 25thSeptember-2016. The co-authors of the paper are Dr. R. S. Deodhar, Prof. L. M. Patnaik, and Dr. DebasishPradhan. Dr. SunitaDhavale Received Outstanding Women Achiever Award for Engineering Category by VENUS International Women Awards (VIWA-2016), March 2016. LSRB research project grant of Rs. 38,85,894/- for a project entitled “ Intelligent Video-based Human Activity Analysis”, 1.5 years duration, In association with DIPR, DRDO, 2021 ISTE, ACM, ISACA, IETE, IEEE, International Association of Engineers (IAENG), AAAI(Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence),
3	Dr Arun Mishra	Organizing Chair in International Conference SPACE 2014. DRMC member in Computer Engineering Department from Jan 2013 to till date. DRMC member in the Electronic Engineering Department OIC of MTech Programme (2016-2018) ‘’Software Engineering & Intelligent Systems’’ from Jan 2017 to till date Datacenter In charge (OIC) from Jan2015 to date. Member PGC Committee from January 2017 to date. BoS Member Nov 2017. Member Secretary in Incubation Committee (Jan 2017 to continue till date) Coordinator in Digital Initiative task force from July 2017 to till date (Smart Class room/ Virtual Class room) Member in written test & Interview committee for the admission of Ph.D. Program June/July 2017 Screening committee member in May-June 2017 for Admission in M Tech in Electronics and communication engineering Allied department member in Master of Science thesis evaluation at Department of Electronics Engineering (11 May 2017) Servers In charge External Expert in Selection Committee of Kendriya Vidvlaya on 7th Mar 2017 Subject Expert for selection of candidate for the post of Assistant Professor at PICT college, Pune (12 Apr 2017) Allied department member in Progress seminars of Ph.D. students in Applied Mathematics (11th Jan 2017) Member in API verification Committee (Jan 2017) Coordinator for AICTE Smart India Hackathon Programme-2017 Member in publicity and Media committee (6th International Conference on PLMSS(Oct 2017- Dec 2017) DRMC member in Computer Engineering Department from Jan 2018 to till date. OIC of MTech Programme (2016-2018) ‘’Software Engineering & Intelligent Systems’’ from Jan 2017 to till date Member PGC Committee from January 2018 to till date BoS Member Member Secretary in Incubation Committee (Jan 2018 to continue till date) Allied department member in Progress seminars of Ph.D. students in Applied Mathematics (Jan 2018) Technical Expert in committee for the purchase of Smart Projectors (2018) in DIAT Expert for RAC Interview for M Tech admissions at DIAT Coordinator for NPTL course on Software testing ‘ DRDL Hyderabad’’ External Expert in M Tech Project evaluation at CoEP, Pune on 25th June 2018 External Expert in M Tech Project evaluation at CoEP, Pune on 29th June 2018 Allied department member in Progress seminars of PhD students in Applied Mathematics (1st Aug 2018) DRMC member in Computer Engineering Department from Jan 2019 to till date. Member Secretary in Incubation Committee 2019 Member in written test & Interview committee for the admission of PhD Programme June/July 2019 External Expert in SRICS 2019 Project evaluation at CoEP, Pune on 27th March 2019 Allied department member in Progress seminars of Ph.D. students in Applied Mathematics July 2019 Coordinator INS HAMLA Member of CNC committee Member in TCEC for DIAT website design & Development Organizing Committee Member in ISQIT 2019 Member of CAS Verification Committee Coordinator for Online course on Cyber Security Coordinator for Cryptology course for NTRO
4	Dr Manisha Nene
5	Dr Upasna Singh
6	Dr Deepti Vidyarthi

Other Information

SL No	Topic	Details
1	Dept has conducted Online Certification Course on Cyber Security in collaboration with DRDO	link
2	Dept has conducted Online Certification Course on AI and ML in collaboration with DRDO	Link
3	Mr Sanket Mohanty, JRF, ERIPR Sponsored Project has won the third Prize in WAVR Hackathon at IIT -Bhubaneswar	Pdf
4	Maj Vivek Pandey has won a prize at Ideas and Innovation Competition conducted by Indian Army	Link