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The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) was the first department in India to start Computer Science education. It started in August 1963 with an IBM 1620 system - a novelty then, even in many North American and European universities. The department runs BTech, MTech, MS and PhD programs and is engaged in cutting edge research with sponsored projects and consultancies. Many of the nation's leading experts, educationists and consultants in computer science today are the alumni of this department.

Latest News

  • Amit Bhasita, Khushwant Kaswan and Tippireddy Yashwanth (class of 2026) have been conferred the Best Software Award for developing the DAVi platform for secure, robust and collaborative data visualization and analysis tasks at organizations dealing with sensitive data, enabling air-gapped installations and avoiding vendor lock-in [link to paper]. 
  • The guest of honour for Convocation 2026, Rajnish Kumar, is the co-founder and Group Co-CEO of ixigo, India's leading AI-powered travel platform. He is an alumnus of CSE and was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2023. [ Details ]
  • We are proud to announce that Dr. Madhavan Venkatesh, a recent doctoral graduate of the CSE department, has been selected for the prestigious Outstanding PhD Thesis Award for his doctoral research on Algorithmic Arithmetic Geometry, completed under the supervision of Prof. Manindra Agrawal and Prof. Nitin Saxena. The department extends its warmest congratulations to Dr. Venkatesh and his supervisors on this well-deserved achievement. @Convocation 2026
  • We are proud to announce that Dr. Utsav Singh, a recent doctoral graduate of the CSE department, has been selected for the prestigious Manas Mandal BEST PhD Thesis Award for his doctoral research on Learning to Solve Complex Control Tasks via Hierarchical Strategies, completed under the supervision of Prof. Sunil Simon and Prof. Vinay P. Namboodiri (currently a faculty member at the University of Bath and formerly a faculty member of CSE IITK). The department extends its warmest congratulations to Dr. Singh and his supervisors on this well-deserved achievement. @Convocation 2026
  • Prof. Priyanka Vijay Bagade has been awarded the 2026 PK Kelkar Young Faculty Fellowship. This fellowship is given in the honour of IIT Kanpur's founding director Prof. P. K. Kelkar and is awarded to young faculty members who are under 40 years of age and are conducting path-breaking research in their fields. Prof. Priyanka leads the IoT Vision lab and works in the field of IoT and computer vision.


Events / Seminar Corner

  • Talk on "Multiplicative Compound Operator Inversion for Dynamical Systems" by Dr. Debojyoti Dey (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), 21 Aug (Fri) 5PM, RM101. [ Abstract ]
  • Talk by Prof. Mrinmaya Sachan, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, on "Large Language Models for Math Education: From Problem-Solving to Teaching Problem-Solving​" on 19th June 2026 at 15:00 Hrs in RM-101. [ Abstract ]
  • Talk by Dr. Jivnesh Sandhan, an assistant professor at the Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Kyoto University, on "From Constrained Learning to Human-like Large Language Models​" on 15th June 2026 at 11:00 Hrs in RM-101. [ Abstract ]


Recent Publications