The faculty in the department are involved in research activity such as HCI, Software engineering, HPC, Cloud computing, Computer Networks, Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining. Interested students are encouraged to work with the faculty on various problems. Faculty research papers are published frequently in journals with high impact factor.

Grants

• The Department of MCA is sanctioned with a grant of Rs.20 Lakh under K-FIST (L1) VGST, Government of Karnataka. for the proposal "Collaboration of Internet of Things (IOT) and High-Performance Computing (HPC) for Data Integration and Analytics for Healthcare and General Applications."
  Program Coordinator : Dr. Suma S, Associate Professor, Department of MCA

 

List of Guides and Area of Specialization

Guide Name	Specialization
Dr. Samitha Khaiyum	Embedded Systems
Dr. Suma S	High Performance Computing
Dr. Vindhya P Malagi	Computer Vision and Machine Learning

List of Faculty Members with Doctorates

Name	Area Specialization
Dr. Samitha Khaiyum	Software Engineering for Embedded Systems
Dr. Suma S	Parallel Computing
Dr. Vibha M B	Cloud Services

List of Research Scholars

Sl. No	Name of the Research Scholar	Area of Specialization	Year of Registration	Status
1	Prof. Mahendra Kumar	Remote Sensing Applications on Agriculture	2009	Thesis Submitted
2	Prof. Alamma B H	Data Mining	2017	Course Work
3	Prof Chandrika M	Data Mining	2014	CV Completed
4	Prof. Rakshitha Kiran	Machine Learning	2016	CV Completed

Research scholars Details

Sl.No.	Candidate Name	Course|Ph.D	Candidate USN	Year of Registration	Research Topic	Status
Guide: Dr. Y S Kumaraswamy
1.	Dr. Samitha Khaiyum	Ph.D	1DS10PEN12	November 2010	A Modified FMEA Approach to Enhance Quality of Software of Real Time Embedded Systems	AWARDED
Guide: Dr. Manjunath
2.	Senan Ali Abd	Ph.D	1DS13PEN10	December 2013	An Improvement Image Transport protocol using Cross-Layer Technique for Mobile Ad- Hoc Network	AWARDED
Guide: Dr. K C Gouda
3.	Nagaraj Bhat	Ph.D	1DS13PEN13	November 2013	Weather Informatics Using Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System in High Performance Computing Environment	AWARDED
Guide: Dr. Samitha Khaiyum
4.	Bishwajit Pal	Ph.D	1DS13PEN11	November 2013	Software Models and Computing Techniques for Self Driving Vehicles	Thesis Awarded
5.	Maisnam Niranjan Singh	Ph.D	1DS15PEJ21	February 2015	Study of Real Time Predictive Analytics algorithms for streaming data using Apache Spark on Distributed systems.	Completed Comprehensive viva
6.	Bharathi M P	Ph.D		July 2017	A Viable Approach for Heterogeneous Data Processing using Machine Learning	Completed Comprehensive Viva
7.	Sangamesh M Magi	Ph.D		December 2017	Cognitive Vision Approaches for Identification and Analysis of  Diseases in Greenhouse Crops	Course Work
Guide: Dr. Suma S
8.	Srivatsala V	Ph.D	1DS16PEJ17	June 2015	Design and Development of Optimized Framework for Digital Branding in Healthcare using Big Data Analytics	To take up Comprehensive Viva
9.	Pushpa J	Ph.D	1DS15PEJ28		An Enhanced Security Framework for Next Generation SDN Open flow	Completed Comprehensive Viva-Voice
Guide: Dr. Vindhya P Malagi
10.	Suma S N	Ph.D	1DS16PEJ13	June 2015	Computer Assisted Cognitive Modeling of Healthcare Diagnostics	Comprehensive Viva Completed

Funded Projects

Sl No	Name of the Granting Authority	Name of the Faculty	Grant Amount	Year of Sanction	Title	Status
1	VTU-VGST	Dr. Kumaraswamy and Mrs. Vibha M B	Rs. 1,60,000	2011	Faculty Development Programme on Cloud Computing	Completed