Sponsored Projects

• Capacity building in the area of Information Security to address the human resource requirement of the country.

• Generation of core research manpower to undertake basic/fundamental research, applied research, research in the area of Product/Solution design and development and in selected thematic areas of national strategic importance to build indigenous capability.

• Introduction of Information Security curriculum in formal courses like M.Tech./M.E./M.S., B.Tech/B.E., Post Graduate Diploma courses etc., faculty training, modular/short term knowledge oriented courses etc. through academic institutions,

• Launching non-formal modular/short-term knowledge-cum-skill oriented courses, etc., for working professionals at all levels including the flexible certificate programs, certification scheme through NIELIT, CDAC, etc.

• Launching formal courses on virtual mode using the NKN Network to expand the capacities.

• Training of Government personnel.

• Creation of mass information security awareness targeted towards:

  • Academic Users: School level – Children, Parents & Teachers, College level – Students & Faculty,

  • General Users: Small enterprise/Business users, SME Sector/Non IT industry, NGO’s, CSCs, Cyber cafes and general public at large.

  • Government Users: Central/State Government employees (non IT professionals), Legal / Police professionals, etc.

• Creating a national repository of courses designed course contents and learning material, MIS about the professionals trained through this scheme, Technology Forecast and Assessment, changes in the market trends and the resultant human resource requirement etc.

Funding agency

• Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India.

Funding Amount

• 63 lakhs

Duration

• Period of five years starting from 16th November 2015

Chief-Investigator

• Dr Debasish Jena

Co- Chief-Investigator

• Dr Suvendu Rup

DST, Govt. of India has identified Department of CSE for strengthening the existing infrastructure in Level1 category for setting up a Bioinformatics Research Lab under "Fund for Improvement of S&T infrastructure in universities & higher educational institutions (FIST)-2013” program. Prof. Anjali Mohapatra is the Program-Coordinator of this lab. This Lab provides the computational facilities to the under graduate students, post graduate students, research scholars and faculty members across the departments. It is equipped with high-end workstations, desktops, 3D viewing screen including advanced software tools for simulation and modeling of Bioinformatics- Applications as well as development and analysis of the Algorithms related to this area.

Funding agency

• DST-FIST

Funding Amount

• 50 Lakhs

Duration

• Period of five years starting from 2014

Project Coordinator

• Dr Anjali Mohapatra

Cross Lingual Information Access-II is funded by Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India as a part of CLIA consortium. The CLIA consortium consists of 12 institutes (AU-KBC Chennai, AU-CEG Chennai, CDAC Noida, CDAC Pune, DAIICT Gandhinagar, IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, ISI Kolkata, Jadavpur University, IIIT Bhubaneswar, Gauhati University) with IIT Bombay as leader. The objective of the project is to design an online search engine for Indian languages like Google. Indian language search system (Sandhan) has been developed by the CLIA consortium.

Funding agency

• Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India

Funding Amount

• 70.84 Lakhs

Duration

• Period of five years starting from 2012

Chief-Investigator

• Dr Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray

Secure Digitization of Land Record using Blockchain Technology is funded by Department of Technology, Government of Odisha under Research and Development project. The duration of the project is three years. The objective of the project is to develop a system using blockchain technology for digital land record of odisha state which will be transparent and secure. The fraud in land selling and purchase could be reduced.

Funding agency

• Department of Science and Technology, Government of Odisha

Funding Amount

• 9.90 Lakhs

Duration

• Period of three years starting from 06th March 2020

Principal-Investigator

• Dr. Debasish Jena

Co-Principal-Investigator

• Dr. Suraj Sharma