The Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS) is an interdisciplinary engineering department at the Indian Institute of Science focused on computational science, data science, and scalable systems. The research labs in the department broadly belong to the following two streams.
- Computational Science and Engineering Stream: Focuses on developing computational methods and applying them to science and engineering problems. Research areas include numerical methods, scientific computing, computational biology, fluid and materials modeling, medical and multi-modal imaging, quantum computing, control and optimization, high-performance computing, and AI for science and engineering.
- Computer and Data Systems Stream: Focuses on the design and analysis of high-performance and scalable computing systems. Research areas include systems for machine learning, parallel and distributed systems, edge and cloud computing, big data platforms, databases, machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, large language models, and middleware systems.
For more information about the research activities of the department, please refer to faculty webpages.
The department (CDS) offers two degree programs through research, Ph.D. and M.Tech. (Research).
More details about research programs can be seen here.
The M.Tech. Computational and Data Sciences is another degree program of CDS that involves coursework primarily. This is an inter-disciplinary program (spanning 2 years) that brings together the domain-specific knowledge of science and engineering with relevant areas of computing and data science.
It educates and trains students in the modern discipline of data science (more details are available here). [Program Flyer]
