Curriculum:

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM

For completion of the PhD degree all candidates must satisfy the requirement given below, within a minimum of 3 years and a maximum of 6 years. An extension shall be required from the Departmental Research Committee (DRC-CS) in case a candidate exceeds the 6 year limit.

1. Credit and Residency Requirements

Course work credits 18
Dissertation credits 12
Total Credits 30

It is recommended that the course work credits should be completed during the first 3 semesters after admission to the program.

Course work credits must be earned from 600+ level courses offered by the CS department.

The minimum CGPA requirement for Ph.D. shall be 3.0. Anyone getting below 2.5 CGPA will be dropped from the program. The students who earn a CGPA below 2.6 may be put on academic probation at the end of the semester of enrollment. The student will remain on academic probation until a CGPA of 2.6 or higher is achieved.

2. GRE (International)/GAT Subject Test

All PhD scholars also have to pass either GRE (International) or GAT subject test. This test has to be cleared so that the candidate can be accepted as a Doctoral Candidate. If a GRE subject test is not available in the scholar's selected area, a replacement to this test may be devised by the IBA with approval from the Higher Education Commission.

3. Comprehensive Exam

After successful completion of the course work requirement, all scholars are required to appear in a comprehensive exam. The objective of the comprehensive exam is to assess a scholar's readiness to complete doctoral research in an area of concentration. The result of the comprehensive exam is a grade of pass or fail with recommendations for removing any deficiencies. Scholars must pass the comprehensive exam before being advanced to candidacy, i.e., passing the dissertation proposal exam. The comprehensive exam must be attempted for the first time no later than one year after completing all course work requirements.

Scholars who fail the comprehensive exam may request reexamination within 60 days of receiving notice of the exam result. The request should be made in writing to the concerned Associate Dean. If the scholar fails again or does not request reexamination within 60 days, the scholar will be dismissed from the program.

Comprehensive exam, set by no less than three faculty members comprising, all 600+ level courses taken only during PhD. coursework (600 level courses taken during MS will not be considered), is administered to the students. Only two attempts will be allowed at maximum to pass the exam with 60% marks in each subject, failing which a student is dropped from PhD.

3. PhD Proposal Defense

All PhD scholars must pass the PhD Proposal Defense within three years of admission to the PhD program. The PhD Comprehensive Examination will constitute satisfactory progress and successful presentation of preliminary doctoral research conducted during the first three years of doctoral studies.

The PhD Comprehensive Examination will be conducted by the DRC. The DRC may invite other experts in the field to the Proposal Defense. A maximum of two attempts will be allowed for the Proposal Defense. A scholar who has successfully defended the PhD Proposal will be formally declared a Doctoral Candidate.

4. Research Papers

PhD candidates must have minimum one publication in an ISI-Indexed journal. The research papers must be accepted prior to the Dissertation Defense. However, different departments may choose higher standards approved by its Board of Studies (BoS).

IBA have the right to cancel the degree if any plagiarism is found in PhD research work or fake documents submitted by the student.

5. Dissertation Defense

After successful completion of the doctoral research, the candidate will be asked by the DRC to present the draft of the PhD Dissertation to the DRC in the prescribed format.

After approval of the PhD dissertation draft by the DRC, the PhD dissertation draft will be sent to two overseas external examiners, to be selected by the DRC, for approval. After the approval of the PhD dissertation by the external examiners, the candidate will be asked to appear for his PhD dissertation defense by making a formal presentation of his PhD dissertation to the DRC. The DRC may invite other experts in the field to the final examination. After the Dissertation Defense, the DRC may require changes to be incorporated by the doctoral candidates within a specific amount of time and to be resubmitted to the DRC for final approval.

Courses*

Course code	Course title	Credit hours	Pre-requisite
MIS652	Advanced Research Topics In IS	3	-
MIS653	Advanced Theoretical Concepts in IS	3	MIS651
ICT660	Advanced Topics In Wireless Sensor Networks	3	ICT659
CSE668	Big Data Analytics	3	CSE652
CSE607	Bioinformatics Algorithms	3	-
CSE645	Combinatorial Optimization	3	-
CSE659	Computational Intelligence	3	-
ICT651	Computer Communication Network and Simulation	3	CSE248, MTS102
ICT654	Computer Communication Network and Simulation II	3	ICT651
CSE669	Deep Learning	3	-
CSE665	Information Retrieval and Web Search-I	3	-
CSE666	Information Retrieval and Web Search-II	3	CSE665
CSE652	Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining	3	-
CSE671	Machine Learning	3	-
CSE655	Probabilistic Reasoning	3	-
CSE661	Semantic Web	3	-
CSE670	Social Network Analysis	3	-
CSE606	Stochastic Modeling With Applications In Engineering	3	-
MIS651	Theoretical Foundations of IS	3	-
ICT659	Wireless Sensor Networks	3	CSE141, CSE248, MTS102
ICT662	WSN Protocols And Applications	3	CSE248

*It is a partial list of courses