About the Department

Contact : Professor and Head,

                      Department of Computer Science,

                      Guindy Campus, University of Madras, Chennai - 600025

           Office : 044-22202907;  Mail id : computerscience@unom.ac.in

The Department was instituted in the year 1987. One Professor Dr. S. Sundaram from Deaprtment of Crystallography and Biophysics was Head in-charge from 1987 to Jan.. 1995. The Department started three year M.C.A. program during 1987-1988, which is being conducted until now. From 1995 to 2006  Dr. P. Thangvel was Head in-charge of the department.  In the year 1998, it also started Ph.D. program in Computer Science. Further the department conducted M.Phil. program during 2000-2001. Again, the M.Phil. course was revived in the year 2003-2004 and it is being continued.  From 2006 to till date  Prof. P. Thangavel is the Professor and Head of the department.  The department has also started M.Sc. Computer Science (self-supportive) program in the academic year 2006-2007. The M.C.A program has been restructured as a two year program since the academic year 2020-21.  The department is engaged in training Post Graduate students and Research Scholars. The active research areas of the department are Algorithms and Artificial Systems, Computer Graphics, Digital Image Processing, Neural Networks, Data Mining and Bigdata Analytics.

The department has so far trained 14 research scholars towards their Ph.D. Degree. Further it has trained around 70 scholars towards their M.Phil. Degree and  It has also trained around 750 students towards their M.C.A. degree and 70 students towards their M.Sc. degree.