About the Department
Empowering Future Innovators Through Excellence in Education
Established in 2001, the Department of Computer Applications at SSTC is dedicated to equipping students with cutting-edge skills and knowledge that significantly enhance their employability in the rapidly evolving tech industry.
Our two-year postgraduate program (MCA) features a well-rounded curriculum that spans core computer science fundamentals and the latest technological advancements. Students receive in-depth, hands-on training in a wide range of subjects including data structures, databases, programming, operating systems, computer networks, software engineering, web technologies, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, cloud computing, and cyber security.
A hallmark of the program is the mandatory industrial training in the fourth semester, designed to provide students with real-world exposure through internships in leading IT companies.
The department is supported by a team of highly qualified and passionate faculty members engaged in impactful teaching and research across areas like artificial intelligence, change management through technical interventions, and image processing. Many faculty members also bring valuable industry experience, helping to bridge the gap between academic theory and practical application.
By integrating academic excellence with industry relevance, we ensure our students are well-prepared, job-ready, and aligned with current trends in technology.
Vision
To be among the top rated departments with knowledge, skills, Zeal for self learning and to become the hub of creativity for better research oriented results to meet societal needs.
Mission
To impart high quality and innovative learning, harness soft skills and broaden mental prospects to bring about competent computer professionals to meet the industrial and societal challenges.
Programme Specific Outcome (PSOs) for P.G. Programme
- Preparation: To prepare students for productive carriers in IT and IT related industries by providing an effective teaching environment in the core and emerging areas of discipline.
- Core Competence : To provide students a thorough and sound background in theoretical and application oriented courses relevant to the latest development in software paradigm.
- Breadth : To develop the student’s ability to apply software technology in solving mathematical, computing, communication/networking and commercial problems with ability to work in multidisciplinary environment., and an ability to relate computer application issues to broader social context.
Programme Outcome (POs) for P.G. Programme
- Student will have analytic and computer science foundation, learn fundamental computing and mathematical functions and understand how these technologies and functions integrate into Information Communication & Technology and business environment.
- Students will have the ability to recognize and formulate the problem statement.
- Students will exhibit the skills to analyze and design system by using formal methods as per industry standards.
- Student will have ability to coordinate and work in teams and manage projects in multidisciplinary environment.
- Students will have ability to implement & deploy software as per user’s requirement.
- Students will have familiarity with latest tools and techniques to be used during problem solving process.
- Students will gain professional knowledge and learn ethical responsibilities.
- Students will develop effective verbal and written communication skills, as well as soft skills.
- Students will keep on updating oneself by indulging into self directed learning and conduct investigation of complex computing problem.
- Students will participate and succeed in competition.
- Students will have the confidence to apply computer based solutions and its contemporary issues in global and societal context, as well as entrepreneurship.
Courses Offered
| S.no. | Name of Course | No. of Seats |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | P.hD | - |
| 2 | MCA | 60 |
Journal Content
- Dr. Smita Selot,“A Comprehensive Study for the Hindi Language to Implement Supervised Text Classification Techniques”, 2021, 6th International Conference on Signal Processing, Computing and …, IEEE INSPEC Accession Number: 21300318.
- Dr. Smita Selot, “Comparative Performance of Random Forest and Support Vector Machine on Sentiment Analysis of Reviews of Indian Tourism”, ESCI, Information Technology In Industry 9 (2), 1487-1493, ISSN 2204-0595.
- Dr. Smita Selot, “Improved system for retrieval of color logo images using PSO,SOM and relevance feedback scheme” , Information Technology In Industry , Vol. 9(1),10-03-2021, ISSN 2204-0595(ESCI)
- Dr. Smita Selot, ”Comparative Analysis of Various Supervised Machine Learning Techniques Used for Sentiment Analysis on Tourism Reviews”, Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Trends in Computing: ICRTC 2021, Springer Singapore, pp 19-49.
- Dr. Smita Selot, “Deep Learning Techniques for Detecting Depression Signs from Text Messages: A Review”, IUP Journal of Computer Sciences Vol. -16 (4), pp. 21-45 . ISSN: 0973-9904,
- Dr. Smita Selot, “A Survey of Deep Learning Techniques in the Field of Sentiment Analysis for the Hindi Language”, I-manager journal, ISSN 2347-2227, Vol. 10, Iss. 1, pp. 27-36.
- Dr. Smita Selot, Language”, I-manager journal, ISSN 2347-2227, Vol. 10, Iss. 1, pp. 27-36. “Comparitive Performance of Random Forest and support vector machineon sentiment analysis of reviews of Indian Tourism” Information Technology in industry,vol9 No 2, ISSN-2204-0595,19-6-2021 (ESCI)
- Dr. Smita Selot, Generating Efficient Classifiers Using Facial Components for Age Classification, International Journal on Image Mining International Journal on Image Mining ( Inderscience), Vol. 3, No. 1, 2017(2018) ISSN: 2055-6047 [Index: Cabell,Google Scholar] 2018-19
- Dr. Smita Selot, Improving Accuracy in Human Age Classification Using Ensemble Learning Techniques, Iraqi Journal of Science (University of Baghdad, Iraq) ISSN: 0067-2904 [Indexed: Scopus] 2018-19
- Dr. Smita Selot, Neural Network Model for Semantic Analysis Of Sanskrit Text, International Journal of Natural Computing Research (IJNCR), IGI Global,volume7 isuue1,article 1,2018.[Indexed: ACM (DL), DBLP, Google scholar] 2018-19
- Dr. Smita Selot, Named Entity Recognition Techniques for Indian Regional Language: A Survey, National Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology (NCACSIT) 22nd and 23rd February 2019,CV Raman University Bilaspur CG 2018-19
- Dr. Smita Selot, Big Data for Natural Language Processing: A Survey Report, Proceedings of All India Conference on " Disruptive Technologies" 21st -22nd April 2018 ISBN No. 978-81-923288-6-7 2018-19
- Dr. Smita Selot, Use of Textural and Structural Facial Features in Generating Efficient Age Classifiers, 5th International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics[ ICACNI -2017 ] 01 - 03 June 2017( NIT Rourkela & NIT ,Goa) paper accepted for publication in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer , Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer ISSN: 2194-5357, 2017 -18 [indexed: UGC journal] 2017 -18
- Dr. Smita Selot, Application of nlp in big data: A survey, International Journal of Computer Engineering and Applications, Volume XII, Issue IV, April 18, www.ijcea.com ISSN 2321-3469
- Dr. Smita Selot, Deep CNN Combined with Relevance Feedback for Trademark Image Retrieval, Journal of Intelligent Systems 2018 ;De Gruyter Publications [Indexed: Scopus] 2017 -18
- Dr. Smita Selot, Content-Based Image Retrieval using Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Survey, International Journal of Advanced in Management, Technology and Engineering Sciences ISSN NO : 2249-7455 Volume 8, Issue III, MARCH/20182017 -18
- Dr. Smita Selot, Relevance feedback approach for trademark image retrieval using query improvement strategy;, i-manager’s Journal on Future Engineering & Technology, Vol. 13 • No. 2 • November 2017 - January 2018 ISSN-0973-2632 2017 -18
- Dr. Smita Selot, Deep CNN Combined with Relevance Feedback for Trademark Image Retrieval, Journal of Intelligent Systems 2018 ;De Gruyter Publications [Indexed: Scopus] 2017 -18
- Dr. Smita Selot, Content-Based Image Retrieval using Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Survey, International Journal of Advanced in Management, Technology and Engineering Sciences ISSN NO : 2249-7455 Volume 8, Issue III, MARCH/2018
- Dr. Smita Selot, Relevance feedback approach for trademark image retrieval using query improvement strategy;, i-manager’s Journal on Future Engineering & Technology, Vol. 13 No. 2 November 2017 - January 2018 ISSN-0973-26322017 -18
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “Herding and loss aversion in stock markets: mediating role of fear of missing out (FOMO) inretail investors”, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOEM-08-2020-0933SCOPUS,Impact Factor- 3.422, Citations-27
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “To develop an index measuring financial awareness amongst the rural women beneficiaries of a microfinance institution”, International Journal of Services, Economics and Management, Vol. 13(1) pp. 39-56, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSEM.2022.121890,SCOPUS, Impact Factor-1.19
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “Impact of Behavioral Biases on Investment Decisions: Moderating Effect of Preferred Sector of Investment, Ramanujan International Journal of Business and Research”, 2021, 6, 37-48, doi: https://doi.org/10.51245/rijbr.v6i1.2021.244 ISSN: 2455-5959 UGC Care List, Impact Factor-.804, Citations-02
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “To develop an index measuring financial awareness amongst the rural women beneficiaries of a microfinance institution”, Int. J. Services, Economics and Management, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2022 SCOPUS (Inderscience)
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, Moderation effect of a self-help group in reducing domestic violence among rural women – Women psychological empowerment analysis using structural equational modeling, Humanities and Social Science Studies, Vol. 10(2), ISSN 2319-829X UGC CARE
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “MicroFinance and Women Entrepreneurship – A Review of Literature”, National Conference on Paradigm Shifts in Business Practices & Technology, Amity University, Chhattisgarh, 23rd-24th Jan’ 2019.
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “The psychology of Instinct or crowd? An insight into the herding behavior of the retail investors of Chhattisgarh, Humanities and Social Science Studies, Vol no. 10(2), 2022, ISSN. 2319-829X UGC CARE
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, Impact of Behavioral biases on Investment decisions: Moderating effect of preferred sector of Investment, Ramanujan International Journal of Business and Research, Vol 6, pp 37-48. UGC Approved
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, Herding and Loss aversion in stock markets: mediating role of fear and missing out (FOMO) in retail investors, International Journal of Emerging Markets ISSN 1746-8809, Nov’ 2021 SCOPUS
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, FIIs herding in energy sector of Indian stock market”, South Asian Journal of Business Studies Emerald Publishing Limited, Vol. 11(2), ISSN : 2398-628X 2020 SCOPUS
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “The FI-PSY Impact on Investment Decisions- from the lens of Behavioral Biases” published in Kala Sarovar, Volume 23 No. 04(IX), Pg. 124-127, October- December 2020, ISSN: 0975-4520 UGC CARE Group- 1
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “An introspection of the investment decision making of the retail investors of Chhattisgarh: Through the lens of behavioral biases” published in Humanities and Social Science Studies (HSSS) -UGC CARE listed, Volume 10, Issue 1, Pg. 22-30, February 2021, ISSN. 2319-829X
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “Identifying psychological factors governing empowerment among Self Help Group women beneficiaries using principal component analysis” published in Humanities and Social science studies - Volume 9, Issue 2, Pg. 83-91, December 2020, ISSN. 2319-829X. UGC CARE
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “Micro financial drivers of women empowerment: Does self-help group membership and family size moderate the relation?” published in The Indian Economic Journal, DOI: 10.1177/0019466220988084,pp.1-23- UGC Care Group-I list journal & ABDC indexed journal.
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, Communicable and Non-Communicable diseases in India”, International Journal of Creative Research and Thought (ijcrt.org), Volume 8, Issue 6, ISSN No: 232028-82, June 2020
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, HERDING BEHAVIOUR AMONG INDIVIDUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS: A Review of Behavioral Finance”, International Journal of Advanced in Management, Technology and Engineering Sciences Volume 8, Issue III, MARCH/2018 ISSN NO : 2249-7455 (UGC Approved)
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “ROLE OF INVESTORS SENTIMENTS IN STOCK MARKET A Review of Behavioral Finance”, International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts (IJCRT), Volume 6, Issue 1 February 2018, ISSN: 2320-2882 (UGC Approved)
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, Work Life Balance and Organizations: A conceptual Review, International Journal of Behavioral Social and Movement Sciences, vol. 4(3), Feb, 2018, ISSN: 2277-7547. 2017 -18
Conference Publications
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava,Psychological Variables Influencing Self Help Group Women Beneficiaries– An Empirical Study in Rural Chhattisgarh, International Conference on Sustainable Research in Engineering , science and Management, SSIPMT, Raipur, Jan’ 2020 [2019-2020]
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, An introspection of the Behavioral biases of the investors of Chhattisgarh with special reference to Raipur & Bilaspur ”, International Conference on Sustainable Research in Engineering , science and Management, SSIPMT, Raipur, Jan’ 2020 [2019-2020]
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “Herding by Foreign Institutional Investors in Energy Sector of Indian Stock Market, International Conference on Digital Economy”, IIM Raipur, 6th -8th Dec’ 2019
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “The FI-PSY Impact on Investment Decisions- from the lens of Behavioral Biases.” in 1st joint International conference ATMITA-LINCOLN 2020 held online on 3rd-4th December 2020 at Atmiya University, Rajkot, Gujarat.
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “Covid Infected investments- the impact of new normal on behavioral Biases of Investors” in the International conference on the “New Normal” in Management, Social sciences and economic development organized by Amity Business School, Amity University Madhya Pradesh, Gwalior on 6th November 2020. ISBN: 978-93-89298-79-6, Pg. 184-192.
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, International Conference on “The new normal in management, social sciences & economic development” organized by Amity University, Madhya Pradesh, Gwalior on 6th November 2020, ISBN: 978-93-89298-79-6, Pg. 36-42.
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, Microfinance In India: Problems & Challenges, International Conference on Research & Developments in Engineering & Management organized by IIRM-SDT, Chirala, Andhra Pradesh, held on 23rd May 2021, ISBN-13: 979-8509803918,Pg. 76-88.
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, Psychological Variables Influencing Self Help Group Women Beneficiaries– An Empirical Study in Rural Chhattisgarh, International Conference on Sustainable Research in Engineering , science and Management, SSIPMT, Raipur, Jan’ 2020 [2019-2020]
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “Awareness among beneficiaries about Microfinance scheme with special reference to Durg & Bhilai districts of Chhattisgarh”, National Conference on Emerging Trends in Technology and Management, Global Institute of Technology and Management, Gurugram, 29th -30th November, 2019
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “MicroFinance and Women Entrepreneurship – A Review of Literature” National Conference on Paradigm Shifts in Business Practices & Technology, Amity University, Chhattisgarh, 23rd-24th Jan’ 2019.
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “ Social marketing: Need of the Hour” National Conference on Paradigm Shifts in Business Practices & Technology, Amity University, Chhattisgarh, 23rd-24th Jan’ 2019.
- Dr. Monica Shrivastava, “Role of investors sentiments in stock market : A review of Behavioral finance”, SCITSE-2017, NIT Raipur, Nov 2017 (Paper to be published in UGC recognized Journal)
Book/Chapter Publications
- Neural Network Model for Semantic Analysis of Sanskrit ; Chapter 49;Natural Language Processing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications;Information Resources Management Association (USA);Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 1704 ISBN13: 9781799809517|ISBN10: 179980951X|EISBN13: 9781799809524;pages 1011-1025
- Comparative Analysis of Various Supervised Machine Learning Techniques Used for Sentiment Analysis on Tourism Reviews Lecture Notes in Networks and Systemst, 2022, 341, pp. 19–49
- Monica Shrivastava, “Prelude of Investment: Freshman’s Dilemma in the Insurance Sector Investments” has been published in the book titled “Effective Strategies for Communicating Insights in Business”, publisher is IGI GLOBAL, in May 2021. ISBN13: 9781799839644, pp-169-189.
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Patents
- Application No:202141036577 Date of filing: 12/08/2021 Title of invention: sensor based intelligent brain computer interface system for assisting hand paralyzed patients to operate robotic arm Status: Published
- Application No: 2022/03892 Date of Grant: 25/05/2022 Title of invention: An IOT based UAV system for crop monitoring and surveillance Status: Granted
- Monica Shrivastava, Application No: 202121050104 Date of filing: 19/11/2021 Title of invention: BITCOIN PRICE QUICK PREDICTION USING AI, DL AND ML Status: Published
- Monica Shrivastava, Application No: 2022/03892 Date of Grant: 25/05/2022 Title of invention: An IOT based UAV system for crop monitoring and surveillance Status: Granted
Copyrights
- Registration Number SW-14930/2021 Name, address and nationality of the applicant : SMITA SELOT , Nature of the applicant's interest in the copyright of the work : OWNER Class and description of the work :computer software work this code is for generating sentiment analysis which automatically analyses reviews as positive and negative. it is based on machine learning approach Title of the work : python code for developing sentiment analyzer Language of the work : python
| S. No. | Title of Project | Name of faculty | Funding Agency | Amount in Rs. | Year Sanctioned & Present Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Opinion mining of tourism sector of India using machine learning algorithm from reviews collected through social media | Dr. Smita Selot (main PI) | Chhatisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University,Bhilai (CSVTU/CRP/TEQIP- III/37 DATE 17/08/2019) | 3,00,000 (Three lac only) | 2019-20 |
| 2 | Design and implementation of image retrieval system for trademark /logo for registration | Dr. Smita Selot (CO-PI) | Chhatisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University,Bhilai (CSVTU/CRP/TEQIP- III/72 DATE 05/09/2019 | 1,50,000 (One lac fifty thousand only) | 2019-20 |
Consultancy
Monica Shrivastava - consultancy to Aeon Software Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai from 11th Jan’ 21 to 10th May’ 21. Involved in the Analysis, Design and Testing of 2 International Projects, Project APART and Project ELEVATE. Responsible for designing of Use Cases, Test cases, managing triage calls and tracking project issues.
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Laboratory Details
Department of Computer Applications is equipped with 100 Computer system which are all well connected with LAN and WiFi facility. These labs operate in Window’s and Linux operating system for execution of following computing concepts:
- C++/Python/Java/HTML/CSS
- Data Structure and its application
- Unix Operating system and Shell Programming
- Android programming Lab
Programming Lab
- Working with DDL,DML
- Framing simple and nested queries in SQL
- Working with PLSQL
Database
- In Python
- Reading data files
- Cleaning and scaling data
- Exploratory data analysis
- Data Visulaization
- Building a model for classification and regression problems
- Evaluating the model
Data Science and Machine Learning
- Web based Project development in III semester
- Real time project Development in IV semester in Java/Python/C++/Web based
Project Development
Along with licensed software; use of open-source software is encouraged.
Microsoft campus license ,Windows 10,Oracle 10g. Open source software like Dev C++,Anaconda VM-11,Ubantu-16,Android,MySql Server 5.5,JDK 1.8 are regularly used for conducting experiments
Faculty In charge : Ms Deepti Chandra