Since I am from CSE dept so I will be able to comment on the ongoing research in the CSE & IT dept.Some of the areas are: Multistage interconnection networks(in which I am involved),network on chips, voice response system,Ant colony optimization,image processing, compilers(not yet started), particle swarm optimization(I am again the part of last two). Apart from this more research is going on which students can be part of. Now I would like to suggest “how to start research”(I suppose many would like to know that)

1) Research is something which requires learning of some advance courses like Software Engineering, Computer Networks, Aritificial Intelligence,Theory of Computation, Data Mining, Cryptography, Distributed and parallel systems ,high performance system architecture to name a few.So its virtually not possible until you have a penchant for these and you learn them in your sophomore years.

2)Once you have Identified your area of interest, its time to seek some help from the faculty.It’s always advantageous to consult seniors first.believe me when I say this, ” Faculties are more than interested in bright and enthusiastic students working for them”.Now unlike US it will not fetch you extra credits or count to your final year project, yet it may fetch you an all important research paper.

3) Reseach is something which requires perfection.If there is something in this world which is perfect,its definitely a reseacrh paper.So,obviously requires loads of reviews and iterations until it is finally ready.Meanwhile, it is a regular process to consult tens of related research material available with IEEE, ACM or other conferences.

4) Faculty will help you towards selection of conference.All in all it’s a 6 month process on an average starting from selection of topic to publishing of the paper.

Any queries,feel free to ask me,though I am not an expert.
-Utkarsh Shrivastava

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Author has published 2 research papers so far and is currently working on many more papers!