PhD Computing Program

The Computing plays a significant role in all aspects of society and has become critical to enterprises, industry, government, scientific development and individual well-being. The students enrolled will have to complete 18 credit hours course work and 30 credit hours of research work. The course work is focused on the area of research student is involved in. These courses can be class room based or directed/guided study based. After the completion of course work student has to pass comprehensive examination. The next stage is to do the research proposal defence. After the proposal defence student becomes the PhD scholar. Then the student has to conduct a research work which should result in a formal dissertation. Upon the successful defence of dissertation student receives the PhD degree.

AIMS:
 The goal of the program is to take people with raw talent and intellect, nurture them in our
environment through a thorough immersion in research and coursework, and produce well educated researchers and future leaders in Computing. The program aims to develop core competencies in the fields of computer science, networks, distributed systems, software engineering, requirement engineering, information security and software development.

Objectives:

Since we aim to produce productive researchers by conducting through integration of our research activities with practical research in a broad range of subfields of computing, we therefore have designed our program to cater for three distinct needs:
3.1. Educationist wishing to pursue a professional career in the academia,
3.2. Researchers wishing to enhance their scientific knowledge to apply in their scientific
research, and
3.3. Candidates wishing to prepare themselves for a research based career

Eligibility Requirements:

18 years of education with CGPA 3.0 or 70% marks in relevant discipline (relevancy shall be established by the Graduate Committee) including Six credit hours of research work with dissertation in MS/MPhil. GRE (International) test / NTS Subject for admission in PhD or equivalent test shall be developed by the department. The candidate is required to take at least 60% score in the test.

Research Areas:

Computing is a vast discipline. Its major fields include Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering and so on. Other sub/fields are:
Software Engineering
– Software Usability Engineering
– Global Software Development
– Software Requirement Engineering
– Software Quality Engineering
– Cloud Computing
– Distributed Computing
– Reliability Engineering
– Secure Software Development
– Application Security
– Information Security Management
– IT Governance
– Network Security
– Digital Forensics
– Goal Oriented Model Base Testing
– Advance Topics in Artificial Intelligence