Thrust Areas

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learni

Artificial Intelligence is social and cognitive phenomena that enable a machine to socially integrate with a society to perform competitive tasks requiring cognitive processes and communicate with other entities in society by exchanging messages with high information content and shorter representations.

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Cyber security Advancement

Cyber security is the technology of protecting the internet-connected systems such as hardware, software and data from cyber-attacks. This would be used by persons and enterprises to protect against unauthorized access to data centers and other computerized systems.

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Block chain

Block chain is a special kind of distributed decentralized database in computer science that keeps an ever-increasing number of records protected against unauthorized interference from both the outside and the peer-to-peer network nodes themselves. The most common application of block chain technology is to use it as a crypto currency account book contains bitcoin that stores user transactions. It can ensure the anonymity of operations and prevent unauthorized transactions.

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Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet of things prescripes physical objects with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communications networks.

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5G Technology

5G is the 5th generation mobile network. It is a new global wireless standard after 1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G networks. 5G enables a new kind of network that is designed to connect virtually everyone and everything together including machines, objects, and devices.

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Mobile computing

Mobile computing is all about staying productive while on the move. It allows us to exchange data using wireless transmission without the need to use physical connections.

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Augmented Reality

Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that blends computer-generated elements into the real world that you see around you through devices like smartphones or AR glasses. This can make tasks more interactive and engaging.

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Virtual reality

Virtual reality (VR) is a technology that immerses you in a computer-generated environment using a VR headset. This virtual world has interactive elements which immerses the user and provides experience similar to the real world experience.

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Image and video analytics

Image and video analytics are important computer vision technology with the aim of making sense of image and video content in order to ultimately understand ubiquitous and rich source of information. It has been used in diverse multimedia applications, including visual surveillance, healthcare, smart cities, and security.

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Network and Information Security

Network Security is vital in protecting client data and information, keeping shared data secure and ensuring reliable access and network performance as well as protection from cyber threats. A well designed network security solution reduces overhead expenses and safeguards organizations from costly losses that occur from a data breach or other security incident.

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By the Numbers

561

UG Students

10

PG Students

21

Scholars

18

Faculty

6

Staff

6

Patents

2

Projects

194

Publications

2529

Citations

23

H-Index

Message from the HOD

Dr. M.R. Sumalatha

PROFESSOR

          Welcome to the Department of Information Technology, Anna University, MIT Campus. As a well-known fact, we cannot imagine the world without information technology which has become an essential and inevitable part of our daily lives. The Department’s focus is to train our students to get strong academic knowledge in the recent trends of information technology like Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Internet of Things, Social Networks, Mobile Applications, Machine Learning, and Blockchain Technology, to make the students ready to face real-world challenges. The Department has a rich blend of young and highly-experienced regular and teaching-fellow faculty members, all holding Ph.D degree. The faculty members display a high level of dedication and enthusiasm towards both teaching and state-of-the-art research. The Department faculties have sound knowledge in emerging research areas like Mobile Computing, Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, Image and Video Analysis, Distributed and Cloud Computing Networks and Information Security, and Data Analytics. Our faculty members are continuing their respective research projects and publishing their research articles in reputed national and international journals.