M.Tech.(CDS) Course Degree Admissions, 2025

Tentative Merit List of Shortlisted Candidates (including waiting list)

The following candidates have been shortlisted following the oral interviews for M.Tech.(CDS) admissions held on April 15 – April 17, 2025. This list is in application number order. This is only a provisional merit-list (including waiting list) and not the final list of selected candidates. The official list of selected candidates will be decided by the IISc Admissions unit based on merit ranking, seats available, other department preferences, etc., and posted on the Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) for GATE qualified applicants, and on the IISc Admissions portal for CFTI qualified applicants.

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About the M.Tech. (CDS) Program

Computational Science and Data Science are interdisciplinary areas that bring together the domain‐specific knowledge of science and engineering with relevant areas of computing systems and formal foundations. While computational science investigates scientific computing applications that require mathematical techniques and computing on emerging architectures, data science explores data-intensive applications that use scalable statistical and machine learning methods, large language models with Big Data and Cloud platforms.

First degree programme launched in India from a premier institution to train students as data scientists. The program has Interdisciplinary course work on computational and data science methods, computer systems and diverse applications in bioinformatics, medical imaging, computational physics, and quantum computing. The department has globally renowned faculty on computer vision, NLP, computational engineering and scalable systems, and access to HPC and GPU advanced computing infrastructure. Curriculum emphasizes both foundations and applied skills, preparing students for research and development in these emerging areas.  One-year dissertation project in the degree program gives comprehensive experience on applying learnings to practical topics. Unique Research Methods training series to develop the soft skills on entrepreneurship, publishing, etc.  100% placements with industry-leading compensation. Option to continue for a PhD degree.

The M.Tech. (Computational & Data Science) degree at CDS is designed as a course and project based program to be completed in 24 months. Students will take 36 credits of coursework over 2-3 semesters. Courses are divided into hard core courses (14 credits), soft core (10 credits), and electives (12 credits). Students will also complete a dissertation project worth 28 credits over a 12 month period. These impart foundational and scalable systems skills for computational and data sciences, with advanced courses selected by students to allow specialization on methods, platforms, and applications. More details are at https://cds.iisc.ac.in/academics/mtechcds/.

The M.Tech. (CDS) Admission Process for Aug 2025 Term

• Candidates who wish to apply to the M.Tech. (Computational and Data Science) the program should do so through the IISc Admissions website: http://www.iisc.ac.in/admissions/.
• Non-CFTI Mode: Students with a BE / B Tech or equivalent degree in any discipline (with a valid GATE) or M Sc or equivalent degree in any discipline (with a valid GATE) are eligible to apply. Eligible GATE papers are: AE/BT/CE/CH/CS/EC/EE/IN/ MA/ME/MT/PH/ST. In all cases, a strong mathematical and programming background is required (Non-CFTI mode)
• CFTI Mode: Students with a BE / B Tech or equivalent degree in any discipline or M Sc or equivalent degree in any discipline from CFTIs are eligible to apply. Eligible GATE papers are: AE/BT/CE/CH/CS/EC/EE/IN/ MA/ME/MT/PH/ST. In all cases, a strong mathematical and programming background is required
• Details for the program are listed at https://iisc.ac.in/admissions/m-tech-m-des under “Computational and Data Science (CP)” section.
• Based on the application, the department will short‐list students and notify them to appear for an in-person Oral Interview. In-person oral interview component comprises two parts (an in-person written test and an oral interview on the same day) and is mandatory for all the short-listed students (including GATE and CFTI)
• The syllabus for the oral interview component including the written test will be from:
  • Foundations: Linear Algebra/Matrices, Probability, and Combinatorics at the undergraduate engineering mathematics level, in addition to basic Calculus and Geometry.
  • Programming: Data Structures (arrays, matrices, etc.), and Basic Programming.

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Last updated on Apr 6, 2025