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The Department of Information Technology, established in 1999, has the vision of “Evolve into a Centre of Excellence for Education and Research in Information Technology” through academic excellence, collaborative research, and value-added courses to produce highly competent and socially conscious information technology professionals.
The department offers a B.Tech. in Information Technology, NBA-accredited until 2027, and previously offered an M.E. in Computer Science and Information Security (2014–2020). We have an annual intake of 180 students and a dedicated faculty of 24, including 17 doctorates, 1 post doctorate and 9 Anna University-recognized supervisors. Our faculty lead research in Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Security, Blockchain, Cognitive Science, Assistive Technology, Cloud Computing, Quantum Computing, and Artificial Intelligence.

Our thematic focus is “Sustainable IT Solutions, Artificial Intelligence, Scalable Systems, and Cyber Security” supported by special interest groups in Data Engineering, Distributed Systems, Mobile Technologies, Information Security, and Cognitive Science. Our department has an AWS Center of Excellence, emphasizing transformative solutions using AWS technologies and preparing students to become future-ready professionals who can contribute meaningfully to the tech industry. The department also has MoUs with organizations/industries like ROR Technologies LLC, Tarcin Robotic LLP, SaveMom Pvt. Ltd., and Kewaunee Labway India Pvt. Ltd., promoting academic-industry collaboration.
We offer industry-supported courses designed in collaboration with top companies, ensuring that students gain practical knowledge and hands-on experience in the latest technologies. We maintain strong industry connections with leading companies like Honeywell, IBM, CTS, Zebra Technologies, XEROX, Dell, and Microsoft. Our Enterprise Mobility Lab, supported by Zebra Technologies, ensures that students and faculty stay at the forefront of industrial technologies. Graduates secure positions at top companies like Amazon, IBM, ZOHO, TCS, and CTS, achieving a 90% placement rate with salary packages ranging from an average of ₹9 LPA to a highest of ₹45 LPA.
Our alumni pursue higher studies at prestigious institutions like the University of Sydney, the University of Texas at Dallas, Monash University, and the National University of Singapore. This demonstrates the global recognition and academic excellence fostered by our department. Beyond academic and technical skills, we emphasize holistic student development, instilling values like integrity, team spirit, and a vibrant work culture to ensure success both professionally and personally.

Programmes Offered

 

B.Tech. Information Technology

The Department of Information Technology was established in the year 1999. It has the vision of “Evolve into a Centre of Excellence for Education and Research in Information Technology” through academic excellence, collaborative research and value added courses to produce highly competent and socially conscious information technology professionals. The Department offers one UG programme BTech in Information Technology since 1999 and one PG programme in Computer Science and Information Security since 2014. The UG programme is accredited by NBA for two years. The theme area of the Department is “Data Modelling and Analytics” and it is facilitated by different Special Interest Groups (SIGs) – Data Engineering, Distributed Systems, Mobile Technologies, and Information Security and Management. The Department is supported by well experienced and qualified faculty members. Faculty have been doing research in the areas like Data Analytics, Data Mining, Wireless Sensor Networks, Information Security, Cognitive science, Cloud Computing, etc. The Department has active Student Chapters in Professional Bodies like Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE-SMC and ISACA and is involved in organizing events like guest lectures, workshops and project contests. The Department has established Industry linkage with various companies like Honeywell, IBM, CTS, Zebra Technologies, XEROX, DELL, GT-NEXUS, EMC2, and Microsoft. It has industry supported Enterprise Mobility Lab by Zebra technologies (Motorola). Both students and faculty have been trained in contemporary areas and for industrial solutions. 90% placement is maintained consistently every year. Many of our Alumnus do higher studies in global Universities like University of Sydney, Collarado, Illinois, Cincinatti and so on. Apart from specialized knowledge and skills, the association programmes conducted by the Department aim to develop all round personality by inculcating values of truthfulness, genuineness, team spirit and vibrant work culture.

Insights

Number of Students

763

Faculty

28

Patent

14

Laboratories

7

Publications

447

Projects

11

People

Research

Highlights

Events

Students

Notable Alumni

Ram Saravana
(2006 batch)

C M Balaji
(2013 batch)

Amrish Kumar
(2019 batch)

Academic Year 2023-2024

Sl.No

Industry Name / Location

No of students Visited

Student Details

Date of Visit

1

Spectrum Softtech Solutions, Kochi

105

B.Tech IT

V Semester

13-10-2023

2

Codebind Technologies, Coiambatore

104

B.Tech IT

III Semester

03-11-2023

Academic Year 2022-2023

Sl.No

Industry Name / Location

No of students Visited

Student Details

Date of Visit

1

Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, Kodaikanal

110

B.Tech IT

II Semester

02-06-2022

Academic Year 2021-2022

Sl.No

Industry Name / Location

No of students Visited

Student Details

Date of Visit

1

Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, Kodaikanal

120

B.Tech IT

IV Semester

20-05-2022

2

Atindiya Technologies

99

B.Tech IT

VI Semester

24-05-2022

Academic Year 2019-20

Sl.No

Industry Name / Location

No of students Visited

Student Details

Date of Visit

1

Survey Sparrow Pvt Ltd., 4th Floor Jyothrmaya, Infopark, Cochin, Kerala-42

80

B.Tech IT

V Semester

29-08-2019 & 30-08-2019

 (Two Days)

2

Radio Astronomy Centre , Ooty

80

B.Tech IT

II Semester

01-10-2019

Academic Year 2018-19

Sl.No

Industry Name / Location

No of students Visited

Student Details

Date of Visit

ODD Semester

1

Zoho Corpration Ltd, Chennai

100

B.Tech IT

III Semester

21-09-2018

EVEN Semester

1

Kewaunee, Bangalore

9

ME CSIS 

IV Semester

29-01-2019 & 30-01-2019

2

ISRO, Vikram Sarabai SpaceCenter, Tghiruvandram

104

B.Tech IT

II Semester

18-02-2019

3

CTS, Coimbatore, Radio Astronomy centre, Ooty

83

B.Tech IT

IV Semester

08-04-2019 & 09-04-2019

Academic Year 2017-18

Sl.No

Industry Name / Location

No of students Visited

Student Details

Date of Visit

1

Wipro, Bangalore

93

B.Tech IT

VI Semester

08-03-2018 

& 09-03-2018

2

Infosys, Trivandram

109

B.Tech IT

II Semester

10-03-2018

3

Survey Sparrow, Cochin

75

B.Tech IT

IV Semester

22-03-2018

ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-2025

S.No

Topic Name

Academic Year

Name of the Speaker

Designation





1

Mathematical Foundations of AI and Electronics in Modern Communication Systems





2025

Dr. Woong Cho, Professor

Dr. Gyanendra Prasad Joshi 

  1. Department of Electronics, Information & Communication Engineering
  2. Associate Professor, Department of Artificial Intelligence & Software Kangwon National University,South Korea


2

Generative AI in Action: Exploring Techniques with Use Cases



2025

Dr. Suresh Rajappa Visiting Faculty of IT Department, TCE

Global Data Leader, KPMG, USA- Visiting Faculty of IT Department, TCE

3



Blockchain for accelerated processing of Supply Chain

2024

Mr. Krishnasuri Narayanam, 

Senior Research Engineer & Manager at IBM Research India, Bengaluru

4

Interaction Session for faculty and student on "Cyber Security Trends & Future outlook"



2024

Mr.Vittal Raj R, Kumar & Raj

1.Founding Partner2. Pristine Consulting Private Limited, Director, ISACA Chennai

Chapter

5

One day workshop on “The role of Assistive technologies in increasing success in the 21st Century. and Panel Discussion with Therapists on

16.07.2024.




2024

Dr. Sathyaprakash ramdoss

Associate Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Dwight Schar College of Education, Ashland University, Ohio, USA.

6





IEEE CIS Summer School





2024

  1. Ms.S Sumitra
  2. Mr.Rajiv Ratn Shah
  3. Ms.S Jaya Nirmala
  4. Dr.E Ramanujam
  5. Dr.M Thangavel
  6. Dr.A Sheik Abdullah
  7. Dr.M. Senthilkumar

1 IIST TVM

2 IIIT Delhi

3 NIT Trichy

4 NIT Silchar

5 College of Information Technology, UAE

6 VIT Chennai.

7 Savemom Pvt Ltd., Madurai

7

Recent Trends in IoT by Swadhesi Shodh Sansthan, Chennai Chapter,director CEO,Zoho Corp,chennai



2024

  1. Dr.Sunil David
  2. Dr. Vittal Raj

1.Digital Technology Consultant in IoT and AI

2. consulting expert and Trainer, Cybersecurity

     
  1. Dr.Prabhu ram
  2. Dr.Mythili  Parthasarathy

3. President SIDA,Madurai

4.Swadeshi Shodh Sansthan,Tamilnadu chapter Head

8

5 Day Student Workshop on AWS Cloud solutions architecting

2024

AWS Certified Trainers 

ICT Academy

9

Interactive Session on Empowering Knowledge: AI/ML Trends and Innovations 16-12-2024 to 16-01-

2025



2024

Dr. S. Sumitra, Professor

Professor, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-2024

S.No

Topic Name

Academic Year

Name of the Speaker

Designation

1.

Technology Trends – A

Perspective

2024

Prof. R. Venkateswaran

ACM India Council

Member

2.

Data Structures and

Algorithms


2024

Dr.Venkatesh Raman, 

Professor, IMSc, Chennai,

3.

Tools for Application Deployment

2024

Mr.Ganapathi Subramanian 

Senior site reliability Engineer, Survey sparrow, Chennai

4.

Cloud-Fog- IoT:

Federation

and Beyond

2024

Dr.Sanjay Kumar

AP, NIT Warangal

5.

A Guest lecture on Data centre in IT

infrastructure

2024

Mr.Prithiviraj Chokkanathan

Senior Lead, Braodcom Corporation, Bengaluru

6

AR/VR/MR

hands on workshop for

first year students

2024



III, IV Year SIG Students

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

7

Guest Lecture on IoT Strategies for Business Innovation



2023

Dr.M.Arun Raja

CEO Silicon Harvest, Tamil Nadu

8

National Education Day Guest Lecture

2023

Mr.J.Vaun

CTO - iTianZ Madurai

9

Leveraging Multimodal Data and AI for Real-world

Problems



2023

Dr Rajiv Ratn Shah

IIIT Delhi

10

Practical Approaches to Ethical Hacking

2023

Dr.M Thangavel

College of Information Technology, UAE

11

Observation of students with therapists to understand their needs and customize the technology

with respect to their needs





2023

Dr.S.Govindaraj

Saksham National Executive Committee

ACADEMIC YEAR 2022-2023

S.No

Topic Name

Academic Year

Name of the Speaker

Designation

1.

Openstack

2023

Mr.E.Mahendran

Joint Director, CDAC, Chennai



3.

World Intellectual Property Day



2023



Expert from Yi

Expert Team of Yi




4.

Carrier Guidance – Learning Beyond

Education




2022




TCE Expert

Alumni-Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

2.

Data Structures For

Employability

2022

TCE Expert

Alumni-Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

ACADEMIC YEAR 2021-2022

S.No

Topic Name

Academic Year

Name of the Speaker

Designation



1

Project based learning Program - Nalaiya Thiran

2022



Expert Talk

IBM




2

TEQIP-III

Student training on Future Skill Technologies

2021



Dr.M.Suguna, Dr.S.Karthiga

Thiagarajar College of  Engineering,Madurai

ACADEMIC YEAR 2020-2021

S.No

Topic Name

Academic Year

Name of the Speaker

Designation

1

Programme on Game theory

2020

Prof Ramanujam

Department of Theoretical Computer Science, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.

2

Developing learner- centric online courses: Resilient teaching approach

2020

Dr.C Jeyamala ,A M birami K Indira

C V Nisha Angeline

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

3

Pals Innowah Workshop

2020

PALS 

PALS TEAM

4

Modern Application Development & Deployment using Java, Spring &

Kubernetes

2020

Mr.IlayaPerumal Gopinathan, 

Software Engineer, VMware Software Solutions Pvt Ltd.

5

TEQIP-III Student training on Future Skill Technologies

2020

Dr.C.Jeyamala

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

6

Webinar on DevOps

2020

Ms.A.Divya

Product Trainer, Zuora, Chennai.

7

Webinar On Bootstrap

2020

Mr K.R.A Bhubesh

-

8

Webinar on How to become Technopreneur

2020

Mr.V.Ganesh Babu

Managing Director & CEO, AgilizTech Software serices pvt Ltd.

9

Webinar On

Understanding the Business Needs

2020

Mr.Chandramouleeswaran

Infoview

10

Webinar On Behavioural Management and Human Relation

Approach

2020



Mr Raja Saravanan

-

11

Webinar on Multiplatform Mobile App Development

2020

Mr.Gopinath

Mobile App Project Manager, ANGLER Technologies Pvt Ltd, Coimbatore

12

Webinar On Rest API Using Node Js

-

2020

Mr Ganapathi Subramanian

-

13

Applications of RDBMS in the Industry

2020

Mrs.Keerthana

Senior Application Developer, Oracle

14

TCE - IT - Free

Technical Webinar on "Opportunities in Security and Building products

from scratch"

2020



Mr. S. Shiva Surya

Co-founder, Go Schedule, USA

15

Industrial webinar on “Big data and its Applications in

Finance

2020

Mr.Prabhu Sekaran

Monedo Holding GmbH, Hamburg, German

16

Machine Learning and Function

2020

Mr.Sudarsun S

Buddi Health, Bangalore

17

Social Engineering and Covid-19 Malware Attacks

2020

Mr.Dinesh Pandiyan

Honoary member, National Cyber and defense Research Centre

18

ACM Eminent Speaker Programme on Security and Trust

2020

MR.Karthick, 

CTS

19

Unbiased Machine Learning for AI Study circle

2020

Mr Abdul Majeed,

CTS

20

Algorithms: Placement Perspective

2020

Mr.Chandramouleeswarn

Infoview

21

Webinar on NLP by Prof P.Anandkumar, NIT Suratkal



2020

Dr. P.Anand Kumar, 

Associate Professor, NIT Suratkal

22

Webinar on Machine Learning

for Data Science Applications

2020

Prof.Mohd Fauzi Zanil,

UCSI University.Malaysia

23

Webinar on How to Prepare for Higher

Education in Foreign Countries

2020

M.K.Gowtham

2018 Alumni

24

Industrial webinar on “Towards Explainabe and

Robust AI"

2020

Dr.Vineeth N 

Balasubramanian,Associate Professor.Dept of CSE,IIT ,Hydrebad

25

NASSCOM -

Future Skills Training on Data

Science and Analytics

2021

Dr.C.Deisy, Dr.M.Nirmala Devi, Mr.M.Manikandakumar

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

26

Webinar on Importance of Programming Languages

2021

Mr  V.Boobalan

AVP Technology, Heptagon Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bangalore

27

Opensource Toolkits for

implementation of Private cloud

2021

Mr. E. Mahendran.

Principal Engineer, Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Chennai.

28

World of Data

2021

Mr.Kappilan Chelvarajan

Datascience and BI Consultant, Systech Solutions,

Chennai

ACADEMIC YEAR 2019-2020

S.No

Topic Name

Date

Expert's Details

Designation

1.

Fog and Explainable AI

2019

Dr M Saravanan

Principal Researcher,

Ericsson R&D

2.

Role of Youth in Nation Building

2019

TCE Experts

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

3.

Youth of Today: Challenges and Opportunities

2019

TCE Experts

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

4

Virtualization Tools and Techniques.

2019

Mr. E. Mahendran, 

CDAC

5

Data Science and How AI Fits for all Engineering Domain? AI Working group

2019

Mr.Abdul

CISCO, Bangalore

6

ACM DSP on Security and Trust

2019

Mr S.Karthick Sivakumar

CISCO, Bangalore

7

Secure Network Edge and Mobility Solutions 

2019

Mr. S. Manigandan

Symantec

8

Three day winter training course on Java Programming

2019

Internal Faculty members

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

9

Two day winter training course on Web Design

2019

Internal Faculty members

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

10

Big data and its Applications in Finance

2019

Mr.Prabhu Sekaran, 

Monedo Holding

GmbH, Hamburg, German

11

Management Skills to Balance Career

2019

Mr.Ganapathy Subramanian

Value Labs

12

Mobile Application Test Automation

2019

Mr. P. Arunkumar

Zebra Technologies, Bengaluru.

13

Youth of Today: Challenges and Opportunities

2019

Dr.Nazeera Dawood

CEO of Chai &amp Just Chat, President of Vendorship and a Social Entrepreneur

14

Introduction to Yi and Yi Inauguration




2019

Mr.Manikandan

CEO of Aparajitha corporate services and chairman of YUVA, Madurai.

15




TCE- Young Indians – Yuva Orientation Program




2019

Mr.Hari Thiagarajan,

Mr.G.Kalyana Sundaram,

Trustee Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai.

 Mr.G.Kalyana Sundaram,CEO Great Innovus Solutions Pvt

Limited.

16

CDIO Curriculum Design - Phase 1

2020

Academics Team of TCE

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

17

Three Pillars of Cloud Computing

2020

Mr. M.Mahalingam, 

Premier Engineer, Microsoft Cooperation,

Hyderabad

18

Competitive Programming

2020

Mr. M.Mahesh Aravid, 

Zoho Copoperation,

Chennai

19

Higher Stuides and

Work Environment @NUS, Singapore

2020

Mr.Naveen Kumar

NUS, Singapore

20

Cloud Service in Industry



2020

Mr.Karthilairaja, 

Member of Technical Staff, Horizon,

EUC VMware,

Bangalore

21

Artificial Intelligence Vs Machine Learning Vs Deep Learning - Discussion with case studies, May 29, 2020

2020

Dr.D,V.Ramana

Data Scientist, Wissen Infotech, Hyderabad

22

Block Chain Technology

2020

Dr.Kunwar Singh

AP, NIT,Trichy

23

TEQIP Sponsored Two-day Workshop on " Data Warehouse Creation for Real Time Projects"

2020

Experts of  TICF

TICF, Chennai

24

M2M, Cloud and Analytics

2020

Mr.Ajith Mathew George

Co-founder Sysfore Technologiespvt ltd.

25

Top Technology Trends M2M, Cloud and Analytics

2020

TCE Experts

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

26

Machine Learning and Function

2020

Mr.Sudarsun 

Buddi Health, Bangalore

27

Building Scalable Applications with Microservices

2020

Mr.N.G.Karthikeyan

Director of Engineering, Sequoia Consulting Group, Bengaluru

28.

Webinar on Behavioural Management and human relation 

2020

Mr.K.V. Raja Saravanan

Director, Software Development, Ellucian

ACADEMIC YEAR 2018-2019

S.No

Topic Name

Date

Expert's Details

 

1.

Modern Tool usage to solve Engineering Problems

2018

Experts from TCE

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

2.

Cyber Security and AI Techutsav workshop

2019

Dinesh Pandiyan 

Co-Founder of Geo- Informatics, Hongkong)




3.

Research issues and challenges on Data science and Big Data Analytics

2019




Experts from TCE

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

4.

Engineering Exploration Camp for school children

2019

Experts from TCE

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai




5.

Research based Statistical, Analytical and Data Modelling Tools

2018

Mr. M. Thangavel, 

Dr. Pethru Raj

TCE – IT & RELIANCE JIO

INFOCOMM. LTD. (RJIL)




8.

Futuristic Technologies in Engineering

Disciplines




2018




Experts from TCE

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai








11.





Big data Analytics for Cyber Security Solutions







2018

Dr. Ramesh VP ,

Mrs.Dhivya, Prof. C.Sridharan, 

Ms. Marjiya Banu , Prof.M.Thangavel, TCE

Mathematics and Analytics Center of Excellence- Central University, TCS, TCE, Honeywell



12.

use of ICT in Education in association 

2018

Experts from Education 

Technology Team of IITB



13.

Online and Blended Teaching-Learning

Process

2018

Experts from Education 

Technology Team of IITB

14.

Pedagogical

Innovations and

2018

Prof.Abhiram Ranade,Prof.Saji Mathew,

IITB

 

Research Directions in STEM Education

2018

Dr. Jayakrishna, Prof. Edamana Prasad

NPTEL, IITM



15.

Effective Use of ICT for Education



2018



Experts from TCE

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai







16.





Block chain Technology






2018

Mr.ALOK KUCHLOUS,CEO

Mr.Thambiselvam, Mr.T.Sasi Kumar

1.Mirafara Technologies, bangaluru2. Jovee Info-Tech, Madurai.3. Thought works, chennai

17.

Honeywell Automation Challenge Hackathon 2019 – 36

Hours Hackathon

2019

Honeywell Experts

Honeywell





18.

Modern Tool Usage 2018- Contest, Inter- department Events

(Tool Info, Tool Demo)





2019





Experts from TCE

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai




19.

Content Delivery and Assessment Methods for CS/IT Curriculum

2019




Experts from TCE

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

20.

Cybersecurity and

AI

2019

Experts from TCE

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai

21.

 

2018

Experts from TCE

Thiagarajar College of Engineering,Madurai








Recent Trends and Research Challenges in Deep Learning

 

Dr.Sumitra devi , Dr.Ramadoss,NIT Trichy, Mr.Naveen

 Dr.C.Deisy.

1. Indian Institute of space ,science and technology- Trivandrum.2. NIT Trichy,3. HODIT,

TCE

ACADEMIC YEAR 2017-2018

S.No

Topic Name

Date

1.

ACM Eminent Speaker Programme on "The Road: From Research to Commercialization of Ubiquitous Displays"

2017

2.

ACM Workshop on "Natural Language Processing", at Department of Information Technology, Thiagarajar College of Engineering

2017



3.

TCE in association with NIT Trichy " A one day inter-college Symposium" PRAGYAN SQUARE ONE at Thiagarajar College of Engineering



2017

4.

ACM Technical talk on "Statistical Model Checking", by Prof. Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Mathematical Institute

2017

5.

DST SERB Sponsored STTP on Big data & IoT : The strategies for SMART Environments 17th Feb - 21st Feb 2017

2017



6.

Two days TEQIP Sponsored IEEE Workshop on IoT using OpenCV Platform and Raspberry Pi, Feb 22-23 ,2017

2017



7.

TEQIP sponsored two-week workshop on Pedagogical Practces for 21st Century Learners

2017



8.

One day ACM TCE-IT Student Chapter organized ACM Modern Tool Usage 2017 - Contest, Inter-department Events (Tool Info, Tool Demo)



2017

9.

ISACA TCE -IT Security Group organized INFOSEC'18 Intra- department Events (Word Hunt, Tech Act, Tech APP, Info Talk, Tech Pix & Tech Connections)

2018



10.

IEEE TCE - IT System, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Student Chapter organized IEEE SMARTFEST'18 Intra-department Events (Tool Info, Virtual Info, Demo Task)

2018

11.

One Week/Five Days Summer Training Course on "C & Python Programming" for 10,11&12 school students [Educational Consultancy]

2018

12.

One Week/Five Days Summer Training Course on "Web & Mobile Programming" for 10,11&12 school students [Educational Consultancy]

2018

Dr. C. Deisy
Professor & Head
Email: hodit [at] tce [dot] edu
Phone: +91 452 2482430
Extn: 611
Office Extn: 612
Department of Information Technology,
Thiagarajar College of Engineering,
Madurai - 625015