Computer Technology Department

Department of Computer Technology was established in 1986. It offers a four year B.E. programme in Computer Technology with an annual intake of 120 students. Over the period of thirty years, the department has evolved as a center of excellence and known for its unique academic practices. National Board of Accreditation, New Delhi has accredited the department twice to acknowledge the standard the department has achieved. The department was at the forefront with RTM Nagpur University to introduce new branch of Information Technology in 1999. Key strength of the department lies in its devoted staff members, up-to-date infrastructure and strong will to build good industry-institute interaction. The department is keen enough to provide additional learning resources. Special emphasis on skill development has improved the employability of the students. Students of the department get placed in good industries like INFOSYS, TCS, WIPRO, CAPGEMINI, TECH MAHINDRA, NVDIA, INTEL and many more.

Salient Features :

Teaching Staff:

Department is a team of qualified and experienced teaching staff graduated from IITs, NITs and other reputed institutions with great zeal to impart best possible knowledge to the students.

Infrastructure:

The department has state-of-the-art computer centers with modern hardware and software infrastructure. Hardware infrastructure includes around two hundred desktop computer with latest configuration and high-end servers.
Access to internet through 100 Mbps dedicated leased line through wired and Wi-Fi connectivity.
Various operating systems and licensed software such as WINDOWS, IBM AIX, ORACLE, IBM DB2, DotNET, RATIONAL ROSE, JAVA, Microsoft Visual Studio with other necessary software are available for curriculum based practical and for project work.

Industry-Institute Interaction:

MOU’s with reputed software companies for developing good connect with industries.
Students are encouraged to take up industrial and research oriented projects in various area of expertise in association with research organization and reputed firms.
Every year interested students of final year develop their projects with the assistance of research organization like Regional Remote Sensing Center Dept. of ISRO, Govt. of India, Nagpur.
IBM recognized the department to conduct courses and certification exams on some of the IBM technologies such as TIVOLI, RAD, DB2.
IIT Bombay which coordinates the AAKASH project of MHRD, India to promote mobile technology has authorized the department as one of the nodal center.

Library and digital Learning Material:

Dedicated departmental library has around 683 titles from different orientations of Computer Technology and Information Technology and around 186 volumes of video CDs of professors from IITs on subjects of computing.
Access to web based online programming tools developed by M/s Code Tantra, Hydrabad.
Access to the video lectures of the eminent professors i.e. NPTEL learning material is available through LOCAL GURU software and National Digital Library from personal digital devices.

Funded Projects:

Department has received grant of Rs. Six lacks(Rs 600000/-) from AICTE,New Delhi for modernization of Computer Networks and Soft Computing laboratories.
IIT Bombay has given grant of Rs. One lack(100000/-) to the department to develop the necessary infrastructure required for AAKASH project.

Learning Beyond Curriculum:

To keep the students in pace with the rapidly developing technology, department follows the practice of conducting need based courses/workshops on various emerging technologies such as JAVA, ANDRIOD, HADOOP, BIGDATA, LINUX,C etc.
Department has GATE club to provide extra guidance for preparation of GATE. GATE results have been promising since year 2011, seventeen students have scored more than 85 percentile. Former members of GATE club Mr. Birendra Yadav had 184^th All India rank with 99.91 percentile, Mr. Manas Thakur secured 708^th All India rank with 99.61 percentile and Mr. Bhupender Yadav secured 706^th All India rank with 99.20 percentile.
Student’s chapter of Computer Society of India(CSI) which gives a platform to students to showcase and enhance technical skills.
ACME, the student’s forum is coined to focus specifically on grooming up the soft skills of the budding engineers. This forum conducts many technical events such as paper presentation, technical quizzes, workshops and many other technical activity to serve the intended purpose of the forum.

Excellence in Competitive Exams:

Students of the department are motivated to pursue higher studies. Many students appear for competitive exams such as GATE,GRE,TOFEL and have brought laurels to the department by securing admission in reputed institutes in India and abroad.

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY :

Sr.No	Name	Designation
01	Dr. Vilas P. Mahatme	Associate Professor and Head, Associate Dean (ICT)
02	Mr. Bhushan A. Deshpande	Assistant Professor
03	Mr. Amit R. Ukalkar	Assistant Professor
04	Ms. Shilpa D. Ghode	Assistant Professor
05	Ms. Vaishali B. Malekar	Assistant Professor
06	Mr. Rahul M. Bansod	Assistant Professor
07	Mr. Deepak S. Asudani	Assistant Professor
08	Mr. Sanjay R. Khajure	Assistant Professor
09	Mr. Manish Bhardwaj	Assistant Professor
10	Mr. Sarang Kimmatkar	Assistant Professor

Dr. Vilas P. Mahatme, Associate Professor & Head, and
Associate Dean ( Information and Communication Tech.)

Qualification : B.E in Computer Science and Engineering from Govt. college of Engineering Amravati, M.Tech from IIT kharagpur and Ph.D. from RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur.
Experience : Joined this Institute in 1991. He has 30 years of total teaching experience on under graduate and postgraduate level.
Publications : Published 20 technical papers in National and International conferences and journals.
Membership of Professional Bodies : Life member CSI, ISTE, IETE, IE(I), CSTA
Fields of Interest : Data mining and warehousing, Artificial Intelligence, E Learning, Soft computing and System software.
Other :
1. Hon. Treasurer of Computer Society of India (CSI), Nagpur Chapter.
2. Awarded National Merit Scholarship from Director of Education (M.S).
3. Ex. Member of Task Force Committee of Computer Engg. and Info. Tech R.T.M.N.U., Nagpur.
4. Ex. Member of Board of Studies Information Technology, Computer Science and Engineering, RTM, Nagpur University.
5. Ex. Member of Executive Council of IETE Nagpur Center.
He organized and attended several workshops, seminars, training programmes and conferences.

Mr. Bhushan A. Deshpande, Assistant Professor

Qualification : B.E from Nagpur University and M.Tech (CSE) from VNIT, Nagpur.
Experience : Joined this Institute in 1996. He has 24 years of total teaching experience and 3 years of Industry experience.
Publications : Published one paper in International Conference.
Membership of Professional Bodies : Member of ISTE.
Fields of Interest : Data Structure and Algorithms, Distributed Database, Mobile Computing, Image Processing
Other : Ex. Member of Task Force Committee of Computer Engg. and Info. Tech. R.T.M.N.U., Nagpur also attended and organized severals workshops and training programme.

Mr. Amit R. Ukalkar, Assistant Professor

Qualification : B.E from RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur and M.E. from Pune University.
Experience : Joined this Institute in 2010. He has 14 years teaching and 2 years of Industrial experience.
Publications :Published 04 Technical paper in National and International Conferences
Membership of Professional Bodies : Life Member of CSI,ISTE.
Fields of Interest : Video Compression Standards.
Other : Attended and organized several workshops and training programmes.

Ms. Shilpa D. Ghode, Assistant Professor

Qualification : B.E from Nagpur University and M.Tech from VNIT Nagpur.
Experience : Joined this Institute in 2006. She has 14 years of total teaching experience .
Publications :Published 05 papers in National International Conferences and Journals.
Membership of Professional Bodies : Life Member of ISTE.
Fields of Interest : Data Mining, Algorithms, Data Structure.
Other : Attended several workshops and training programmes.

Ms. Vaishali B. Malekar, Assistant Professor

Qualification : B.E in Computer Technology from Nagpur University and M.Tech (CN and IS) from SGGS Nanded.
Experience : Joined this Institute in 2007. She has 13 years of total teaching experience.
Publications : Published 05 papers in International Journals.
Membership of Professional Bodies : Nil
Fields of Interest : System Programming, Information Security,Network Security
Other : Attended several workshops and training programmes.

Mr. Rahul M. Bansod, Assistant Professor

Qualification : B.E in Computer Technology and M.Tech (CSE) from R.T.M Nagpur University.
Experience : Joined this Institute in 2007. He has 12 years of total teaching experience.
Publications : Published 04 paper in International Conferences.
Membership of Professional Bodies : Life Member of ISTE.
Fields of Interest : Object Oriented Methodologies, Data Structure and Design Analysis and Algorithms.
Other : Attended several workshops and training programmes.

Mr. Deepak S. Asudani, Assistant Professor

Qualification : B.E in Computer Science and Engineering from RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur and M.Tech (CSE) from Govt. College of Engineering. Amravati.
Experience : Joined this Institute in 2008. He has 11 years of total teaching experience .
Publications : Published 04 technical paper in National and International Conferences and Journals.
Membership of Professional Bodies : Member of CSI.
Fields of Interest : Databases and Algorithms
Others : Attended and Organized several workshops and training programmes.

Mr. Sanjay R. Khajure, Assistant Professor

Qualification :B.E (Computer Technology), M.Tech.(CSE) from R.T.M Nagpur University and PGDAC (Sunbeam Pune).
Experience : Joined this Institute in 2009. He has 11 years of total teaching experience and 3 years of field experience in software development.
Publications : Published 04 paper in International Conferences.
Membership of Professional Bodies : Life Member of ISTE.
Fields of Interest : Web Development and Project Management.
Others : Attended several workshops and training programmes also developed 60+ website for different clients.

Mr. Manish Bhardwaj, Assistant Professor

Qualification : B.E in Computer Science and Engineering from Pt.R.S. University, Raipur and M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from VNIT, Nagpur. Pursuing Ph.D. from RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur.
Experience : Joined this Institute in 2010. He has 10 year experience.
Publications : Published 03 paper in International Conference.
Membership of Professional Bodies : Nil
Fields of Interest : Parallel Processing, Advance Algorithms, Real Time Systems, OpenMP (API), Multi Core Architecture, Computer Network and Image processing.
Other : Attended several workshops and training programmes.

Mr. Sarang Kimmatkar, Assistant Professor

Qualification : B.E. in Computer Technology from R.T.M.N.U., Nagpur and M.Tech (C.S.E) from Y.C.C.E,Nagpur.
Experience : Joined this Institute in 2015. He has 05 years of teaching experience.
Publications : Published 03 papers in National and International Conferences.
Membership of Professional Bodies : Member of CSI.
Fields of Interest :Data Mining, Software Engineering.
Other : Attended several workshops and training programmes.