The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at BITS Hyderabad strives to produce engineers of tomorrow by imparting instruction with advanced curriculum, and research methodologies in modern areas of computer science and engineering. The Computer Science and Information Systems department at BITS Hyderabad started admitting students in the year 2008 in B.E (Hons) Computer Science, M.Sc(Tech) Information Systems, M.E(Computer Sc), and PhD(CSE) degrees. The department has vibrant student strength of about 600. The department has a good mix of faculty having experience in reputed academic institutes and industry. The department offers a wide range of courses spanning areas like Algorithms & theory of computing, Architecture and organization, Systems and networks, Databases, Software engineering, and Soft computing. The department lays emphasis on the hands on aspects through laboratories, computer oriented projects, research presentations to make the students industry ready. The department consistently attracts top BITSAT scorers every year. The Department is committed to achieving high standards of excellence in academic and research activities over next few year.

 

The department has faculty expertise at PhD level with research focus on data mining, information retrieval, information security, distributed systems, software engineering, object oriented database design, and algorithms. The department has 8 students and scholars at PhD level pursuing their research in these areas with funding support from BITS, TCS, UGC and other agencies. Faculties from the department have research collaborations with several universities in India and abroad. 

Since inception, the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems has been arranging guest lectures from Industry and academia. Many eminent professionals from Industry have delivered talks in entrepreneurship, challenges & rewards in software engineering, quantum reality and objective semantic information etc. As the students entered their final year of graduation, the department organized seminars and workshops in business challenges in data warehousing and data mining, lean for leadership: lessons from corporate jungle, challenges in animation industry, network design and development strategies for sensor networks etc. to make them Industry ready. The faculty members from the department supervise the activities of two student associations, CSA, and ISA. The department also helps students from all other streams of engineering and science in honing their programming skills by conducting hands on training programs and certificate courses from time to time on topics like web programming, data structures, object oriented design, Android programming etc. The department helps student members managing the activities of ACM Student Chapter at Hyderabad Campus.

Our faculty have extensive experience in industry, research as well as teaching. Our strength is a reflection of their skills, innovation and drive.