Department of Networking And Communications

(formerly Information Technology)

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About the Department

Department of Networking and Communications under School of Computing intend to meet the expectations of the aspiring students and to add more value to the degrees offered. The Department ensures to provide quality and value-laden education for students in the traditional and contemporary areas of Cloud Computing, Computer Networks, Cyber Security, Information Technology and Internet of Things.

The programs are introduced in partnership with reputed IT companies like Amazon Web services, K7 Security, Virtusa etc. The department consists of a medley of faculty members with industrial and academic experience. The Department’s keen focus is towards “networks”domain specific and specialization-based placement drives for its students. The department inculcates entrepreneurial skills in budding aspirants to pitch their innovative ideas through SRM Innovation and Incubation Center. Our International and alumni connect intrigue in bridging the gap between the trio: Academics-Industry -Research.

Department of Networking And Communications

1998

Established

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Faculty & Staff

3341

Students

1312

Publications

20

Funded Projects

191

Patent(Published)

62

Ph.D (Awarded)

Vision

To Nurture as globally recognisable department in imparting the students high quality education and providing high confidence, unique knowledge and research experience in the field of networking, cyber security, forensics, information technology, cognitive computing and internet of things.

Mission

To provide world-class IT professionals with appropriate industry and research-based curriculum.

To train the students, that leads to entrepreneurship and develop societal need-based industries.

To nourish the students as socially responsible professionals by providing them training in personality development, ethics, and leadership program.

Dr. M. Lakshmi

Professor & Head
hod.nwc.ktr.et@srmist.edu.in

Welcome message

It gives me an immense pleasure to welcome you all to the Department of Networking and Communications in School of Computing, SRM Institute of Science & Technology (SRMIST), Kattankulathur.

This department manifests various distinctive and contemporary flavours of Computer Science and Engineering making the unit unique and special. It encompasses Undergraduate Program in Computer Science and Engineering with five broad specializations – Cyber Security, Internet of Things, Computer Networking, Cloud Computing and Information technology. And five-year M.Tech. Integrated Program in Computer Science and Engineering with Specialization in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics. Our post graduate programs include Information Security & Cyber forensics, Internet of Things and Cloud Computing. And also we run PhD programs with more than 90 scholars contributing towards prospective researches and standard publications in referred journals and patents.

The vision and mission of the department is structured in such a way to equip the students to fulfil their aspiring dreams and reach the goals. The goals may range from placing in high package companies, entrepreneurship, start-ups to higher education, research, societal needs and so on. The courses are framed in such a way to bridge the gap between Industry and Academics. We strive to empower and encourage our students to pave their own path towards success.

Our former president and scientist Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam stated that the growth of India will only depend on proper grooming and nurturing of these young masses with the dreams kept high and alive. This is well taken care by our extremely dedicated teach force, an absolute live wire tying this whole system to be alive and sustained. The faculty of the department not only excel in teaching technical nuances but also skilled in research, publishing, tapping funding from external agencies, patents and more. We do excel at counselling and guidance to keep the students vibes up and roaring.

Moreover the department has strong bonds with industries and have specialized labs including Malware Analysis from K7 computing, Network Simulator with NETSIM from Tetcos, CISCO Networking, IoT Center of Excellence, Cloud Computing and many more. This has influenced our placements in turn and almost all our eligible students get placed in reputed companies with a very high package. We support the student activities that nurture them in organizing and take lead in our Networking and Communications Association and various student clubs namely SRM OWASP, SRM Team Hackathon, Hack the Box and so on.

With this short note, I am extremely proud to head such a well formulated task force comprising of students, teaching and non-teaching staffs and research scholars. There is no doubt that this department would be a remarkable place to start your journey. Also you may feel free to browse through our web page to know more about the achievements and laurels which will make you awe for sure.

If you are interested to join us and know more, feel free to contact us.

Programs

Undergraduate / Integrated Course

B.Tech. programmes with specialization provides graduates with the skills and knowledge to take on appropriate professional positions upon graduation. The programmes are designed in such a way that the graduate develops a practical understanding of the technologies and acquires expertise for a successful career.

Postgraduate

The various postgraduate programs offered by the department cover advanced topics of Networking and Communications courses leading to specializations in the areas of Information Security and Cyber Forensics, Internet of Things(IoT) and Cloud Computing. The courses are designed in such a way that the students are exposed to theoretical concepts complemented by related practical experiments.

Research

Research in the department focuses on creating and evaluating innovative learning experiences, inspired by educational principles and technical progress. Students are motivated to pursue multi-disciplinary research projects on long term basis jointly with other department students. Faculty members are provided with sabbatical to carry out their research work.

Certification Course

EC-Council’s Essentials Series is the first MOOC certification course series covering essential skills in network defense, ethical hacking, and digital forensics. The Network Defense Essentials (N|DE), Ethical Hacking Essentials (E|HE), and Digital Forensics Essentials (D|FE) are foundational programs that help students and early career professionals choose their area of competency or select a specific interest in cybersecurity.

Research & Consultancy

Research in the department focuses on creating and evaluating innovative learning experiences, inspired by educational principles and technical progress. The key areas of research of the faculty members include semantic web, data mining, software reliability, wireless sensor networks, network security, big data analytics and cloud computing.  Students are motivated to pursue multi-disciplinary research projects on long term basis jointly with other department students. Faculty members are provided with sabbatical to carry out their research work.

Placements

The top recruiters of students of our department includes many top software companies like TCS, Wipro, HCL, SAP Labs, Tech Mahindra, Mahindra Satyam, IBM, Honeywell, HP, Capgemini, Payoda, Musigma, etc. Around 90% of our students get recruited in the top companies through campus recruitment. For more details

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Marque

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Super Dream

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Dream

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Faculty

Teaching environment and quality are central to SRMIST’s capabilities profile. Our Professors are the reason for our continued ability to foster vibrant and value adding learning experiences for our students. The success of our students’ in terms of their learning and overall development enabled by our faculty members is an area of focus of Leadership at SRMIST. Many opportunities are provided to our faculty members to conduct research and engage with the industry in consultancy and other projects. This platform brings to our faculty members an opportunity to expand their knowledge contribution as well as bring those rich experiential inputs to the classrooms and labs therefore benefiting our students.

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Research & Consultancy

Research in the department focuses on creating and evaluating innovative learning experiences, inspired by educational principles and technical progress. The key areas of research of the faculty members include semantic web, data mining, software reliability, wireless sensor networks, network security, big data analytics and cloud computing.  Students are motivated to pursue multi-disciplinary research projects on long term basis jointly with other department students. Faculty members are provided with sabbatical to carry out their research work.

Collaborative Initiatives

The department plays a pivotal role in academic collaboration with NEC-Japan, Society of Electronic Transactions and Security (SETS). The department also has academic pacts with EMC2 through academic alliance program. Dell, Microsoft, CISCO, TCS, Symantec, Mahindra Satyam, IBM and ORACLE are other corporate giants with which our department has collaborations for the benefit of students to carry out internships and project work.

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Patents

Our faculty members had taken a step forward to achieve this by publishing patents on representing various societal issues like Smart speaker system for Agriculture, Smart pillow for Children Monitoring system, Smart watch for Virus detection etc. Nodal Centre for ISRO-IIRS, AICTE Internships initiated by Dr.L.Anand now Students and faculty members of SRMIST can apply for Internship and attend live & Interactive courses conducted by ISRO-IIRS and apply for more than 1,00,000/ internships which is offered by AICTE tie up with top notch companies. Exclusive Placement cell based on Department Specialization.

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Infrastructure

The department is well equipped with 500+ desktop systems in fourteen different laboratories spread out over four different floors of the Tech Park building, to support academic and research activities. Four laboratories are industry collaborative, and they are earmarked as ‘Research labs’ for carrying out project work and research work by interested students, research scholars and faculties. SRMIST and LaTrobe University, Australia have joined hands in setting up the “SRM-LaTrobe Joint Centre of Eminence on Next Generation Technologies” lab, for the promotion of research. The department also has “PearsonVUE Test Center”, a dedicated test center authorized to conduct global certification examinations.

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Department of Networking And Communications

Tech Park, SRM Institute of Science and Technology,
Kattankulathur – 603203

  • 044 27417821/044 27417861
  • hod.nwc.ktr.et@srmist.edu.in
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