The department has a doctoral programme with an annual intake of 5-10 students per year. Admission to the doctoral programme is through a rigorous process of test and interview conducted by the department. The department now accomodates 37 research scholars working on diverse areas in computer science.

The active areas of research in the department are:

• Algorithms
• Computer Architecture
• Computer Networks
• Data Informatics and Analytics
• Distributed and Cloud Computing
• Information Security
• Speech and Image Processing