GIET University, Gunupur (formerly known as Gandhi Institute of Engineering and Technology) was established by “Vidya Bharati Educational Trust,” Gunupur, Odisha, India in the year 1997. Since inception, the Trust promotes Technical Education in India with a motto of providing Quality Education in a highly disciplined and conducive environment with International Standards.
The School of Computer Engineering at GIET University has been conducting high quality, innovative research for both Under Graduate and Post Graduate students. The School of Computer Engineering has been engaged in frontier research areas through the establishment of various research groups. The faculty members work on various research areas which are aligned with both academic and industry needs. The university works in many established as well as many emerging research areas. Some of the major research areas of the Computer Science and Technology Department are as follows:
Data Science and Machine Learning
Areas of research: databases, data mining, data science, enterprise computing, machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, data analytics.
Information and System Security
Areas of research: Cryptography, network security, system security and privacy.
Parallel Computing and Networked System
Areas of research: Distributed systems, enterprise computing, high-performance computing, cloud computing, computer architecture, networks, internet architecture and operating systems.
Software Engineering
Areas of research: compilers, domain-specific languages, performance optimization, program synthesis, testing, tools and verification.
Visual Computing
Areas of research: animation, computer graphics, computer vision, game development, digital geometry processing, fabrication, human-computer interaction, imaging, video processing and visualization.
Human-Computer Interaction
Areas of research: Assistive Technology, Brain Computer Interface, Human Factors Analysis, Sound & Audio Display and User-Interface Toolkits.
Computer Graphics and Geometry
Areas of research: Virtual reality (VR), Augmented reality (AR), Volume visualisation, 3D reconstruction.
Image Analysis and Biometrics
Areas of Research: Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Biometrics.
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Areas of research: Internet of things, Motion Planning, Computational Geometry, Computer assisted surgical and medical analysis, planning and monitoring and Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs).
Software Engineering & Programming Languages
Areas of Research: Software quality, programmer productivity, software maintenance, mining software process data for knowledge extraction, static and dynamic program analysis and specification mining.
Wireless Systems
Areas of Research: Wi-Fi Network Optimization, Small Cell Networks, White Spaces, Localization, Vehicular Networks, Software Defined Radio and Cellular Radiation Measurement.
Advanced Electronic Systems
Areas of Research: Software Defined Radio, Multiband and Broadband RF Circuits, Smart Antenna Systems, Biomedical Electronics and Applications, Wireless Network on Chip, Biomedical System and Sensor Development, Radar Sensor Design and Signal Processing, Ground Water Sensor Design and Signal Processing.
Information Security and Privacy
Areas of Research: Digital Forensics, Cryptography, Cryptanalysis, Theory and Practice of Cryptography, Cyber Crime, Privacy, Human Computer Interaction, Network Security, Traffic Analysis, Anonymity, Complex Networks, Privacy and Security in online Social Media (PSOSM), Usable Security.
Information Management and Data Analytics
Areas of Research: Databases, Data Mining, Mobile-P2P data management using economic models, Information Retrieval, Business Intelligence, Data Privacy and Access Control.
Theoretical Computer Science
Areas of Research: Logic, Process Algebra, Reactive Systems, Verification, Cryptology, Cryptography, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Complexity Theory, Quantum Computation, Algorithms.
Geoinformatics
Areas of Research: Geo-spatial Data Management, Data Warehousing, Database System Implementation.
Signal Processing
Areas of Research: Compressed Sensing, Low rank matrix recovery, Biomedical Imaging, Information Hiding, Image & Video Forensics, Computer Vision, Image and Scene Understanding, Robust Statistical Methods, Pattern Recognition.