BCA Data Science

School of Engineering

MCA in Data Science

An undergraduate program with focused learning to develop competencies and skills to thrive in the digital world by understanding, analyzing, interpreting data and arriving at meaningful insights to make informed business decisions.

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Programme Highlights

In addition to the essential competencies a student of BCA will acquire, this specialization will focus on developing skills and mastering techniques related to data science. These include programming languages such as Python and R, statistical analysis, data analysis, data visualization, machine learning and data ethics and privacy.

Faculty

Prof. Vineeth Paleri

Director Academics, School of Engineering

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Former Professor, Department of CSE, NIT Calicut
Dr. Rajesh Kumar Prasad

Associate Professor

Ph.D. (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)

Former Associate Professor & Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur
Dr. Bharath Setturu

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, School of Engineering

Ph.D., IIIT Hyderabad; Post-doc, CES, IISc, Bengaluru

Geospatial Scientist
Sri Naresh Dixit P. S.

Assistant Professor of Civil engineering, School of Engineering

M.Tech., VTU, Belagavi

Former Research Associate, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Dr. Vijay V.

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

Ph.D., IIT Madras

Dr. Ashish Kumar Shukla

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

Ph.D., IIITDM, Jabalpur

Sri Shreehari H. S.

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

M.S., Bremen University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Former Faculty, SJC Institute of Technology
Banashankari Hosur

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

M.Tech, RVCE, Bengaluru

Former faculty of NMIT Banagalore & MCOE Pune
Banu Priya M.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, School of Engineering

M. Tech., Ph.D.(Pursuing)

Bhagirathi T

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

M.C.A

Smt. Usha Subramanian

Adjunct Professor, Computer Science, School of Engineering

M.S., BITS Pilani

Former Professor at MIIT, Myanmar
Sri Pradeep Kumar Gopalakrishnan

Professor of Practice, School of Engineering

M.Tech., Indian Institute of Science

Prof. P. V. Venkitakrishnan

Visiting Faculty

Ph.D., IIT Madras

Former Director, CBPO and Prof. Satish Dhawan Chair Scientist at ISRO
Dr. Kowshik Thopalli

Visiting Faculty

Ph.D., Arizona State University

Post-doc Researcher Machine Intelligence Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Dr. Ritesh Jain

Visiting Faculty

Ph.D., University of Wuppertal, Germany Renesas Electronics

Sri Shishir Shukla

Visiting Faculty

M.S. Arizona State University Renesas Electronics

3 US patents and author of 2 IEEE publications
Dr. Siddhartha Visveswara Jayanti

Visiting Faculty

Ph.D., MIT, USA

Research Scientist, Google Research
Dr. Tanujay Saha

Visiting Faculty

Ph.D., Princeton University

ML Engineer, Intel Corporation, USA
Prof. Y. N. Srikant

Visiting Faculty

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science

Former Faculty, IISc Bengaluru

Career Opportunities

In any software services, solutions, product or research organizations.
At the entry level:

  • Data analyst
  • Data Scientist
  • Business intelligence analyst
  • Machine learning engineer
  • Research analyst or scientist

With the potential to move to a leadership role in the area of data consultancy and data engineering.

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