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Department of Computer Science

About Department

In the year 1986, Berhampur University offered the one year P.G. Diploma in Computer Applications as a sponsored programme of the Department of Electronics (DOE), Government of India. It was a major initiative taken by DOE to popularize computer education across the country. Later, in the year 1991 the Master in Computer Application programme was introduced with the joint sponsorship of UGC and DOE. Subsequently, in the year 1994 the Department of Computer Science was established as an independent department in the University. Since then the Department has played a very important role in imparting Computer education in the state of Odisha in general, and South Odisha in particular. It has produced many computer professionals who have established themselves in the field of education, research and IT industry both within India and abroad. In the year 2006, the Department widened its scope by introducing the two years M.Tech. programme in Computer Science under self-financing mode. In all these years, the unrelenting services of the qualified and dedicated teachers and professionally motivated students have been the strength of the department in imparting quality education. Besides teaching the faculty members are also engaged in research activities in different frontier areas of computer science, and in interdisciplinary areas. About 30 students have received their Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the department in different areas of computer science. In order to inculcate a sound academic ambience the Department regularly organizes seminars, workshops, and invited talks.

The students of the Department are also involved in different outreach activities to popularize computer education among the school and college students who are underprivileged to have access to technology and recent developments in ICT. In order to equip the non-computer science students of the University, the Department offered Add-on Courses on Computer Applications during 2014-16 in collaboration with NIRD & PR, Hyderabad.

Vision

To be the front runner in Computer Education and to equip the students with the best possible skill set in software development to excel in their professional career in a globally competitive environment and contribute to the society by harnessing software technologies in finding solution to problems, that benefit humanity.

Mission

To train the students with state-of-the art technology and make them industry-ready and successful professionals
To educate students to be problem-solvers and life-long learners to remain competitive throughout their professional journey
To encourage students for research and higher studies
To inculcate ethical values among the students in their professional career and to be good citizens and be sensitive to the societal issues and challenges of the 21st century

Best Practices

Ensuring a conducive learning environment for professional development
Organizing varieties of academic activities in the form of tech talks, invited talks, webinars by our alumni on trending technologies to keep the students updated & industry-ready
Maintaining academic discipline at all levels
Providing all kinds of technical support to the University

List of External Mentors

Prof. Bhabani Sankar Panda, IIT, Delhi.
Prof. Siba Kumar Udgata, School of Computer & Information Sciences University of Hyderabad.
Prof. Somnath Tripathy, IIT, Patna.
Prof. Susmita Ghosh, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Prof. P. Radhakrishna, National Institute of Technology, Warrangal.
Narendra Rath, Senior Director, NOKIA, Bengaluru

Programme

Master Degree (M.C.A.)

About the Course

The MCA program spreads over a period of 2 years divided into four semesters. Each semester consists of theory as well as practical papers. The students have to undertake a major project work in the fourth semester. The MCA curriculum has been designed keeping in view the requirements of the IT industry and also to serve as a foundation for higher studies in computer science. It comprises of both theoretical and practical aspects of computer science and applications. The curriculum is a balanced blend of computer science, applications, mathematics, and management subjects. After successful completion of this course a student can join the IT industry as a system professional or pursue research in the core areas of computer science and applications.

How to get Admission into the Course

In order to seek admission into the MCA programme a student must be a graduate with a good academic back ground. Besides this a student should qualify in the Common Post Graduate Entrance Test (CPET) conducted by the Higher Education Department, Government of Odisha, details of which can be accessed at https://pg.samsodisha.gov.in

Class Schedule

The MCA programme comprises of Theory, practicals and software development projects. The classes are conducted between 10.30 am - 5.30 pm on all working days. The detailed time-table for the relevant semester can be obtained from the department office.

Ph.D

About Course

The Department offers Ph.D. in Computer Science in different frontier areas of research. After getting admitted to the programme a Ph.D. candidate has to undergo an one-semester course work as prescribed by the Department. The course comprises of two papers. The first paper is on research methodology which equips a student with the required knowledge to undertake serious research. The second paper emphasizes on some of the advanced areas of computer science namely, object oriented technology, database technology, network technology and service oriented computing. On successful completion of the course work a candidate has to submit a synopsis of the proposed research in consultation with his/her supervisor and complete other formalities for registration.

How to Enter into the Course Programme

Entry to the program is through University Research Eligibility Test (URET) conducted by Chairman PG Council, that is to be conducted once in a year, preferably in the month of November. Questions for the test include both objective and subjective type of questions covering the core areas of computer science at the Masters degree level.

D.Sc.

A candidate who already posses a proven track record of high quality research can register for the D.Sc. programme in Computer Science. He/She can carry out further research and submit a thesis with his/her research findings for adjudication.

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People

Professor Manas Ranjan Patra
Professor
Ph.D., Central University of Hyderabad
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Prof. Manas Ranjan Patra holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Central University of Hyderabad. Currently, he is the Head of the Department and Dean, Faculty of Science & Technology. He has been teaching Computer Science for the last 35 years and held additional assignments as Director of Computer Center, Director of HRDC, and Director of Internal Quality Assurance Cell.� He was a United Nations Fellow at the International Institute of Software Technology, United Nations University. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, and Applications of Data Mining. He has successfully guided 14 Ph.D. students and more than 100 Master theses. He has 200+ research publications in reputed journals and conferences. He has extensively travelled to many countries in USA, Europe, Australia, Africa, and South-East Asia for presenting research papers, chairing technical sessions, delivering invited talks, and for participating in panel discussions. He has been a member of Editorial boards and Programme committees of many International journals and conferences. He is a member of Association for Computing Machinery (USA) and life member of Computer Society of India & Indian Society for Technical Education.

Dr. Susant Kumar Das
Associate Professor and Head
Ph.D., Berhampur University
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Dr. Susanta Kumar Das joined the Dept. of Computer Science in 1993. He has teaching experience of 23 years in the department. He has attended no. of national & international conferences. To his credit, he has served as H.O.D for 2 years in the department. At present he is the coordinator of M.Tech(S.F) course & as coordinator of spoken tutorial project conducted by IIT Bombay & funded by MHRD, Govt of India. Fourteen no. of scholars are awarded Ph.D under his guidance. One D.Sc degree is awarded in Computer Science under his guidance. He has been felicitated award of honour by Dept. of Mathematics, Maharshi Dayanand University Rohtak, Haryana in the international conference on History & Development of Mathematical Science & Symposium on Nonlinear Analysis. His research are in Software Engineering & Network Security.

Dr. Satya Narayan Tripathy
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Berhampur University
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Dr. Satya Narayan Tripathy received his M.C.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Berhampur University, Berhampur, Orissa, India in the years 1998 and 2010, respectively. He has been teaching in the Department of Computer Science, Berhampur University since 2011. Currently, he as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Berhampur University. in addition to his normal duty he is assigned as the Web Administrator of Berhampur University web portal. Dr. Tripathy serves on the advisory boards of several organizations and conferences. He is an Life Member of Computer Society of India (LMCSI), Life Member of Orissa Information Technology Society (LMOITS) and Member of several professional bodies. His research interests are in computer network security, wireless ad hoc network, network security in wireless communication, data mining.

Dr. Bonomali Khuntia
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Tezpur Central University
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Dr. Bonomali Khuntia received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Tezpur Central University, Assam. He has been teaching in the Department of Computer Science, Berhampur University since 2011. His area of research is Machine Learning and Soft Computing. He has published 32�papers in various international and national journals and conferences. He has 14 years of teaching experience in different engineering colleges for graduate and post-graduate students. He has received AICTE Young Teacher's Career Award for the year 2007-10.

Mr. Bikash Ranjan Bag
Assistant Professor
M.Tech., IIT Bombay, UGC NET
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Mr Bikash Ranjan Bag has done B.Tech in IT from CVRCE, Bhubaneswar and M.Tech from IIT Bombay in Computer Science. He has qualified UGC-NET. He has been teaching in the Department of Computer Science, Berhampur University since 2016. He has 5 years of industrial experience in Embedded System. The companies he has worked on are Allgo Embedded System, L&T Tech Services and Robert Bosch. His areas of interest are Embedded System, Algorithm, Operating System and Automata Theory.

Facilities

Computing Facilities

The Department has a well-equipped laboratory with desktop computers, LAN and Internet connectivity. It has all the required software as per the need of the curriculum to carry out practical classes in C, C++, Java, and Database. Students are encouraged to use open source software as far as practicable.

Students at Programming Lab

Classrooms

The classrooms are equipped with LCD projectors, computers and smart boards to facilitate ICT enabled teaching and learning. Classes are quite interactive in nature. Students are also encouraged to make use of the ICT tools to prepare their presentation and demonstrate the results of their project assignments in the classroom.

Students attending the classroom teaching

Research

The broad areas of research being undertaken by the Department of Compute Science include Intelligent Systems, Data mining, Soft Computing, Network Security and Software Engineering. More than 300 research publications have been made by the faculty members and research scholars of the department in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. The faculty members and research students regularly present their research papers in conferences both within and outside India. The following is a list of students who have received their Ph.D. degrees in different areas from this department.

Sl. No.	Research Scholar	Supervisor	Topic	Year
1	Bipin Bihari Jayasingh	Prof. M. R. Patra	An Agent Based Approach to Cyber Forensics	2007
2	Narasimham Challa	Prof. J. Pradhan	A Comprehensive Evaluation of the performance of DES, RSA and NTRU cryptographic systems with and without grid	2009
3	Satya Narayan Tripathy	Dr. S. K. Das	A Study on the development of Ad hoc network models - an incremental approach	2010
4	S. Padma Priya	Prof. J. Pradhan	Some study on security in wireless personal network	2010
5	Mrutyunjaya Panda	Prof. M. R. Patra	A Data mining Approach to Anomaly based Intrusion Detection	2010
6	Ramakanta Mohanty	Prof. M. R. Patra	Application of Machine Learning & Soft Computing techniques to software engineering	2011
7	M.Santhi Sri Rukmini	Dr. S. K. Das	Performance Comparison of Communication Networks in a Distributed Industrial Environment	2011
8	K V S N Rama Rao	Prof. M. R. Patra	Modeling & Designing of Intrusion Detection Systems	2012
9	Rakesh Nayak	Prof. J. Pradhan	Lattice base crypto system	2012
10	Brojo Kishore Mishra	Dr. S. K. Das	An approach to generate complete information system from web mining using rough set and rough logic	2012
11	Raghunath Kar	Dr. S. K. Das	The study of clustering techniques to make feasible clusters from the high dimensional data sets in data mining	2012
12	E. Kusuma Kumari	Dr. S. K. Das	Study and development of knowledge based soft computing techniques for wireless applications	2012
13	N. Srinivasa Rao	Dr. S. K. Das	Decision support system for classifying herbal gardens of India using data mining	2012
14	Sasmita Padhy	Dr. S. K. Das	Computational Challenges in Multi Input and Multi Output(MIMO) based wireless networks	2012
15	Dr. P.Bhaskara Vijaya Kumar (D.Sc.)	Dr. S. K. Das	Complex network analysis on protein-protein interactions	2013
16	Jagadish Panda	Dr. S. K. Das	Network Administration with high level security policies	2013
17	Nilambar Sethi	Dr. S. K. Das	Study and development of complex fuzzy inference system and a systematic approach for its application to the real world problems	2013
18	Ramakanta Padhi	Dr. S. K. Das	Issues in optical burst switching : A switching paradigm for future telecommunication networks	2013
19	K Hemant Kumar Reddy	Prof. M. R. Patra	An Automated Performance Tuning Framework for Scheduling Computational Jobs in Desktop Grid Environment	2014
20	Bijay Kumar Rajguru Mohapatro	Dr. S. K. Das	A study of some applications of Rough sets on software engineering	2014
21	Rama Krushna Das	Prof. M. R. Patra	A Service Oriented Design Approach for Developing E-Governance Applications	2015
22	Rabi Prasad Padhy	Prof. M. R. Patra	Cloud Based Approach for Effective Utilization of Computing Resources in Large Enterprises	2015
23	Ashalata Panigrahi	Prof. M. R. Patra	Application of Soft Computing Techniques to Network Intrusion Detection	2015
24	V Mohan Patra	Prof. M. R. Patra	A Study on Knowledge Discovery using data Mining Techniques	2017
25	Jagannath Sahu	Prof. M. R. Patra	Design and Path Planning of Vision based Autonomous Mobile Robot using Image Processing Technique	2017
26	Parthasarathi Pattanayak	Prof. J. Pradhan	RFID Technology for Supply Chain Optimization: Inventory Management Applications	2018
27	Rajesh Kumar Sahoo	Prof. M. R. Patra	Application of Optimization Techniques to Model based Software Testing for Maximal Test Coverage	2019
28	Pabitrananda Patnaik	Prof. M. R. Patra	A Study on Software Quality Assurance for Electronic Governance Projects	2019
29	Sachikanta Dash	Dr. S. K. Das	Study of algorithms for character recognition of odia script	2019
30	Sunil Kumar Nahak	Prof. M. R. Patra	Development of Test Strategies for Service Oriented Systems	2021
31	Debasis Mohapatra	Prof. M. R. Patra	An Anonymization based Approach for Privacy Preservation in Social Networks	2021
32	Umashankar Ghugar	Prof. J. Pradhan	Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks: Some Study on Security Issues	2021
33	Santosh Kumar Sharma	Dr. B. Khuntia	Recommending Multilayer Security Approach for Internet of Things	2021
34	Om Prakash Samantray	Dr. S.N. Tripathy	A Study to Develop a Knowledge Domain Analyzer using Data mining Concepts for malware Analysis	2022

Events

UGC sponsored National Seminar on Advances in Information and Communication Technology (NSAICT-2013)

Workshop on Spoken Tutorial in collaboration with IIT Bombay

Invited Talks

Sl. No.	Topic	Speaker
1	Security and Privacy Challenges in Blockchains	Dr. N. Rukma Rekha, University of Hyderabad
2	WiSe-Tech: WiFi Sensing Environment for Technological and Societal Applications	Professor Siba Kumar Udgata,University of Hyderabad
3	Emerging Trends in Information Technology	Professor P. S. Avadhani, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam

Academic Outreach

Student Seminar

Alumni

The Department has very strong and vibrant alumni who have contributed to the development of the department. BUMCA is the alias for the alumni association and a common meeting point of all the former students of the department. The activities of BUMCA can be followed at: www.bumca.com . The alumni members meet every two years in the University and contribute in terms of sharing of knowledge, holding of seminars, workshops, technical sessions etc. They also discuss industry perspectives and provide valuable input to enhance the curriculum to keep pace with the requirements of the IT industry.

Activities of BUMCA Group