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Department Post-Graduate Committee

• Liaison with the Institute regarding the PG program.
• Welfare of PG students of CSE, including monitoring and advising weaker students.
• Scheduling of PG activities.
• Initiatives to improve the PG program.
• New programs, e.g. integrated M.Tech., M.S. by research.

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Debadatta Mishra	Convener, Counselling advisor	deba	2004
Surender Baswana	Head	sbaswana	6074
Nitin Saxena	Member	nitin	7588
Piyush Rai	Ex-DPGC Convener	piyush	6894
Shaijal Tripathi	Student Representative - 1	tripjal	-
Foram Paresh Lakhani	Student Representative - 2	foram	-
Himanshu Karnatak	Student Representative - 3	himanshuk	-

Department Under-Graduate Committee

• Liaison with the Institute regarding the UG program.
• Welfare of UG students of CSE, including monitoring and advising weaker students.
• Scheduling of UG activities.
• BTP grading.
• Initiatives to improve the UG program.

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Raghunath Tewari	Convener, Counselling advisor	rtewari	7174
Surender Baswana	Head	sbaswana	6074
Debadatta Mishra	DPGC Convener	deba	2004
Nitin Saxena	Counselling advisor	nitin	7588
Sutanu Gayen	Placement Incharge	sutanu	2276
Subhajit Roy	Ex-DUGC Convener	subhajit	7585
Amey Karkare	Ex-Head	karkare	7520
Shantanu Jayawant Kolte	Student Representative - 1	shantanu	-
Saagar K V	Student Representative - 2	saagar22	-

Department Library Committee

• Liaison with Central Library and SLC representative.
• Look after the functioning of the department Library.
• Procurement of electronic as well as regular books.

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Sruti S Ragavan	Incharge	srutis	2231
Swarnendu Biswas	Ex-Incharge	swarnendu	2055

CSE Lab Committee

• Smooth functioning of the lab.
• Planning for Lab's future. Prepare a priority list for procurement and upgradation for the year.
• Purchase of all equipment that goes in the lab.
• Coordinate with Computer Centre
• Lab Incharge is CCCC representative

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Swarnendu Biswas	Incharge	swarnendu	2055
Surender Baswana	Head	sbaswana	6074
Piyush Rai	Web Incharge	piyush	6894
Debadatta Mishra	Ex-Incharge	deba	2004
Amey Karkare	Ex-Head	karkare	7520
Sumit Ganguly	Member	sganguly	7597
Brajesh Kumar Mishra	Member	brajeshm	7234

* Swaprava Nath (Ex-Web Incharge) left IIT Kanpur, currently at IIT Bombay.

CSE Admission Committee

• Executing the admission process.
• Initiatives for improving the quality of intake.

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Sutanu Gayen	Incharge-1	sutanu	2276
Debapriya Basu Roy	Incharge-2	dbroy	2250
Piyush Rai	DPGC Convener	piyush	6894
Surender Baswana	Head	sbaswana	6074
Mainak Chaudhuri	Member	mainakc	7890
Hamim Zafar	Ex-Incharge-1	hamim	2054
Urbi Chatterjee	Ex-Incharge-2	urbic	2211
Amey Karkare	Ex-Head	karkare	7520

Webmasters

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Nagendra Yadav	Webmaster	nayadav	6344
Akash Misra	Webmaster	akash	7590

DFAC

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Sanjeev Saxena	Member	ssax	7611
Anil Seth	Member	seth	7231
Nitin Saxena	Member	nitin	7588
Mainak Chaudhuri	Member	mainakc	7890
Surender Baswana	Head	sbaswana	6074
Amey Karkare	Ex-Head	karkare	7520

Faculty Meeting (FM) Convenor

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Sayak Ray Chowdhury	Convenor	sayakrc	2575
Purushottam Kar	Ex-Convenor	purushot	6370

Faculty Recruitment and Review Committee

• Execute the process of faculty recruitment, including advertising (electronic or otherwise), corresponding with candidates, shortlisting, calling for interviews, preparing for DFAC/IFAC, etc.
• Guidelines for feedback to faculty.
• Initiatives to draw better candidates to IITK.

Same as DFAC

Institute Research and Development Committee (IRDC)

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Subhajit Roy	Department Representative	subhajit	7585

Finance Committee

• Prepare a budget for the Department Promotion Account.
• Keep track of credit (and debit) in CSE's accounts (DPA, MHRD funds, Endowents, etc.)
• Preparing a statement of all expenditures and income of the department, say every semester, and presenting them to the faculty.
• Initiatives for raising funds.

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Surender Baswana	Head	sbaswana	6074
Sandeep Kumar Shukla	Member	sandeeps	2123
Nisheeth Srivastava	Member	nsrivast	7916
Nitin Saxena	Member	nitin	7588
Amey Karkare	Ex-Head	karkare	7520

Seminar Incharge

• Plan seminars - Identify speakers, domestic, international, and internal.
• Initiatives to invigorate seminar series.
• Making arrangements for the seminar, speaker.

Timetable Incharge

• Prepare timetable and guidelines for timetabling.
• Prepare department calendar for each semester.

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Sunil Simon	Incharge	simon	6212
Surender Baswana	Ex-Incharge	sbaswana	6074

Department Placement In-Charge and Representative

• Liaison with the Students' Placement Office.
• Any department level placement activities.

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Sutanu Gayen	Incharge	sutanu	2276
Raghunath Tewari	Ex-Incharge	rtewari	7174

Counselling Advisor

• Liason with Institute Counselling Service.
• Counsel students as per Institute norms and procedures.

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Nitin Saxena	Advisor	nitin	7588

ACA Advisor

• Counsel students on ACA related matters

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Indranil Saha	Advisor	isaha	6343
Sunil Simon	Ex-Advisor	simon	6212

Space Allocation and Management

• Allocate space to various users in the department
• Plan for future space requirements of the department

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Swarnendu Biswas	Incharge	swarnendu	2055
Surender Baswana	Head	sbaswana	6074
Nitin Saxena	Member	nitin	7588

Computer Center Coordination Committee (CCCC)

• Coordinate with CC regarding Networking
• Provide user feedback to CC

Lab Incharge is CCCC representative.

Student Ethics Committee

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Sunil Simon	Convener	simon	6212
Surender Baswana	Head	sbaswana	6074
Sutanu Gayen	Placement Incharge	sutanu	2276
Piyush Rai	DPGC Convener	piyush	6894
Raghunath Tewari	DUGC Convener	rtewari	7174
Amey Karkare	Ex-Head	karkare	7520

Department Student Affairs' Committee (DSAC)

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Sandeep Kumar Shukla	Convener	sandeeps	2123
Surender Baswana	Head	sbaswana	6074
Preeti Malakar	Member	pmalakar	2024
Piyush Rai	DPGC Convener	piyush	6894
Debadatta Mishra	Ex-Convener	deba	2004
Arun KP	Student Member	kparun

Ranking Committee

• Collate all the department ranking-related information.
• Coordinate with the institute ranking cell

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Adithya Vadapalli	SPOC	avadapalli	2422

Department Record Retention Policy 2024 Committee

• Systematic and timely disposal of obsolete records
• Coordinate with the Registrar's Office

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Surender Baswana	Head	sbaswana	6074
Yadubir Singh	Member	yadubirs	7638
Brajesh Kumar Mishra	Member	brajeshm	7234
Gopendra Mishra	Member (Registrar Office)	gopendra@iitk.ac.in	6984

Remote Teaching Cell (Student)

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Ashutosh Modi	Incharge	ashutoshm	2131
Rajat Mittal	Member	rmittal	6210
Piyush Rai	DPGC Convener	piyush	6894
Surender Baswana	Head	sbaswana	6074
Amey Karkare	Ex-Head	karkare	7520

Departmental Newsletter

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Surender Baswana	Editor	sbaswana	6074
Sandeep Kumar Shukla	Ex-Editor	sandeeps	2123

Department Website

• Decisions on Website Design, Contents
• Maintaining the department website.
• Ensuring that for all BTP and theses, a copy is uploaded on the website

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Preeti Malakar	Incharge-1	pmalakar	2024
Sruti S Ragavan	Incharge-2	srutis	2231
Swarnendu Biswas	Lab Incharge	swarnendu	2055
Surender Baswana	Head	sbaswana	6074
Piyush Rai	Ex-Incharge	piyush	6894
Amey Karkare	Ex-Head	karkare	7520
Akash Misra	Administrator	akash	7590

Kendra (Department Automation)

• Decisions on Kendra's Design, Contents
• Maintaining the Kendra website.

Name	Role	Email	Phone
Surender Baswana	Head	sbaswana	6074
Preeti Malakar	Web Incharge-1	pmalakar	2024
Sruti S Ragavan	Web Incharge-2	srutis	2231
Swarnendu Biswas	Lab Incharge	swarnendu	2055
Piyush Rai	Ex-Web Incharge	piyush	6894
Amey Karkare	Ex-Head	karkare	7520
Akash Misra	Administrator	akash	7590