The Hitchhikers Guide to

MTech@CSE@IITB

Soumen Chakrabarti
Faculty Advisor

The big picture, first year

Semester 1 (Fall 2006)

3 Elective courses (3*6 credits)

Software Lab (4 credits)
Seminar (4 credits)
Communication skills (pass/fail)

Heavy!
Need discipline,
time management

Semester 2 (Spring 2007)

Mood Indigo, Tech Fest, PAF,

4 Electives (4*6 credits), mini-project?
1 Institute elective (6 credits)
Fix MTech projects (MTP) by approx middle of
semester
Major Time Pass

The big picture, second year

Summer 2007

MTP1 (22 credits) viva end of July

Semester 3 (Fall 2007)

2 Elective courses (2*6 credits)

MTP2 (28 credits)
Pre-placement, interviews,

If this is not
keeping you busy,
you are in trouble

Semester 4 (Spring 2008)

Mood Indigo, Tech Fest, PAF,

MTP3 (40 credits) viva mid-end July

MTP: 90 credits, courses: ~68

Minimum CC grade to remain in program

Lifelines: Do not hesitate to

Look foolish if necessary
Cant beat your faculty advisor at that!

Ask for help

Solve the problem vs. appear more self-reliant

Give your best (your finest years!)

Be honest with everyone, all the time
Demand that academics be fun
Eat well, sleep 7h, exercise, no matter what
Make friends, balance work and life
Develop long-term interests and career goals

Facilities
Carry your ID card with you at all times
CSE: labs, servers, accounts, classrooms

At the moment spread across many buildings

HQ in EE annex, lectures in Math and KReSIT,
some groups in Math basement

Computer Center (CC)

Institute-level accounts, access, software, email,

file server etc.

Other meeting places for coursework

P. C. Saxena Auditorium (a.k.a. LT), Girish

Gaitonde (GG) building, convo hall

Main Building for administrative paperwork

Registration
CC has given you LDAP login Ids
Course registration, personal data update, IITs
central Web proxies, email routing

Right now, some faculty members will

describe their research areas and courses
they teach
After that, you will use your CC-assigned
logins to register for courses
CSE does not have formal specializations
You probably want to pick 12 target areas
informally

Which courses?
Generally MTech/PhD students pick CS6xx
or CS7xx courses
Can also take IT6xx, IT7xx, EE6xx, EE7xx
But if you are keen on taking a CS4xx
course talk to the instructor
A course runs in a slot that determines
lecture hours and exam times
Cannot enroll for more than one course in
any slot
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/page141

Seminar and project allocation

Faculty members publish topics and short
descriptions
Students express preferences, talk to faculty
members
First round of matching based on preference
Completed at some deadline
Forced matching for the rest soon after
Students may benefit from continuity from
seminar to project
But not required by dept policy

Some CSE courses this semester

Some courses have prerequisites

Some lectures are in the evening
Also check for KReSIT, EE course offerings
Deadline for add/drop/mod 4 AUG

Broad areas (incomplete)

AI, machine learning, data mining
pb, gn, soumen

Operating systems, performance analysis

dmd, varsha

Databases and information management

krithi, sudarsha, nls, soumen

Formal verification
supratik, siva, krishnas

Graphics, computer vision

sharat, sohoni

Broad areas (still incomplete)

Natural language processing
pb

Networking and Internet technologies

siva, varsha, krithi, soumen

Programming languages, compilers, object

oriented languages
uday, as, sb, dmd, rkj

Theoretical computer science

sundar, aad, ranade, sohoni, ketan

Tentative schedule

Intro to specific faculty members

Pushpak Bhattacharyya
Areas of research
Natural language processing, machine
translation, machine learning, information
extraction

Course this semester

CS623 (Intro to Neural Nets)

Projects
Lab for Intelligent Systems
Cross Language Information Retrieval and
Machine Translation

Lab: CFILT (Math basement)

Soumen Chakrabarti
CS705 in Autumn Statistical foundations of
machine learning (Mtech1 encouraged!)
CS610 in Spring Web search and mining
(depends significantly on CS705)
Searching using types and relations
Searching in entity-relation graphs (with Prof.
Sudarshan), learning ranking functions, models
for text and the Web graph

Web monitoring and page analysis for mobile

networks (with Prof. Ramamritham)
Semi-connected Web view tuned to user profiles

Krithi Ramamritham
Course this semester: IT625, Information and
Communication Technologies For SocioEconomic Development
Research areas
Query processing and communication in sensor
networks
Monitoring dynamic content (structured and
textual) through unreliable networks
Databases for hand-held devices that use flash
memory

Labs/Projects: Developmental Informatics

Lab, Lab for Intelligent Systems,