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Course Details

MODE

Full time

DURATION

72 Months

The Doctoral program offered by Department of Computer Engineering gives the student a complete freedom to pursue both theoretical and empirical studies in a chosen domain of interest. The program ensures creating a strong technical background necessary to carry out the research and delivering original and substantial contribution to the discipline of computer engineering. The success is measured by conference presentations, conference publications, peer-reviewed journal articles, and the completion of a successful PhD thesis along with oral defense.
The Ph.D degree is for those wishing to pursue a career in industrial research and development or institute / university research and teaching.
The department has 9 Doctorate faculty and 18 faculty pursuing Ph.D program from various reputed universities. They are pursuing research in diverse domains of Computer Engineering. The thrust areas recognized and currently working but not limited to are:
AI and its Applications: Computer Vision, Image Registration, Video Processing and Smart Surveillance Systems, GIS image Processing, Satellite Image Processing, Health care applications, Steganography, Content Based Image Retrieval.
Networking and security: VoLTE, Protocol Stacks (Computer Networks), Mobile Computing, Wireless Networking, Vehicular Ad Hoc network, 5G Applications, Adhoc networks, Wireless sensor networks, Covert Channels.
Information and information Security: Cyber Security, Digital forensics,Information Security.
Data Science: Data mining, Text Mining, Text analysis, Natural Language Processing, Big Data Analytics.
Computing: Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing, Compiler Design.

Eligibility Criteria

The eligibility criteria for a Ph.D. program at D Y Patil University, as per UGC guidelines, typically include:

A Master’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field from a recognized university.
A minimum of 55% marks or an equivalent grade in the qualifying examination (relaxation of 5% for SC/ST/OBC (non-creamy layer)/differently-abled candidates).
Qualifying in a national-level eligibility test such as UGC NET (including JRF)/CSIR NET/GATE or any other equivalent examination conducted by central agencies.
D Y Patil University Navi Mumbai is conducting the Ph.D. entrance examination twice a year.

Admission Details

Admission to the Ph.D. courses is based on an entrance test followed by an interview.

Candidates with UGC-NET (including JRF), UGC-CSIR NET (including JRF), SLET, GATE, teacher fellowship holder or have passed M.Phil Program is exempted from Entrance Test but is required to appear for an interview.

Final Selection will be based on the overall merit index of the candidate which will be arrived at by taking into account the candidate’s performance in the previous university examinations at the Master’s level and the performance in the written test, research output and the performance in the personal interview.