Research Projects
This page details the active/completed Research Projects from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering with IIT Tirupati affiliation.
The projects are broadly classified into four categories based on their nature and source of funding.
Sponsored Projects
Consultancy Projects
Covid-19 Projects
Other Projects
8. AI Assisted Techniques to Extract Business Rules from Legacy Code Base
Sponsored by: IBM Research
Amount: $2700
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
7. AI-Driven Bug Classification and Detection in Onboard Satellite Software Systems
Sponsored by: ISRO
Amount: 21.8 Lakhs
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
6. C2S System Design
Sponsored by: MEITY
Amount: 85 Lakhs
Faculty Involved: Dr Jayanarayan T Tudu
5. Deep Learning Algorithms for Molecular Structural Analysis with Applications in Drug Discovery and Bioinformatics
Sponsored by: DST India (SERB)
Amount: 19 Lakhs
Faculty Involved: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
4. Intelligent Fault-tolerant Architecture for Low power Testing of IoT Nodes
Sponsored by: DST India (SERB)
Amount: 32 Lakhs
Faculty Involved: Dr Jayanarayan T Tudu
3. A Scalable Secure Architecture Model for privacy and performance in IoT
Sponsored by: DST India (TARE)
Amount: 10 Lakhs
Faculty Involved: Dr Venkata Ramana Badarla
2. A Virtual AR/VR Museum for Science and Technology Literacy
Sponsored by: DST India
Amount: 25 Lakhs
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
1. Semi-Automatically Generating Documentation to Facilitate Software Maintenance in Legacy Software Systems
Sponsored by: SERB
Amount: 29.5 Lakhs
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
11. Green AI Frameworks – Comparing Energy Consumption of Deep Learning Frameworks
Sponsored by: Accenture
Amount: $25,000
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
10. An Approach for Generation of Source Code Centric Knowledge Graphs for Test Specification
Sponsored by: Robert Bosh R&D
Amount: 15 Lakhs
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
9. Online Facilitation of Debugging Skills through Game Based Learning
Sponsored by: COL CEMCA
Amount: 7.37 Lakhs
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
8. Towards Comprehending COBOL Programs through Knowledge Graphs
Sponsored by: Exafluence
Amount: $25,000
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
7. An Approach for Incremental Generation of Knowledge Graphs
From Source Code and Requirements
Sponsored by: Robert Bosh R&D
Amount: 15.75 Lakhs
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
6. Discovering Energy-Hungry Patterns
In Machine Learning Driven Software Systems
Sponsored by: Accenture Labs, USA
Amount: $25,000
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
5. A Novel approach for Bug localization
Involving Generation of Knowledge Graphs for Requirements and Code
Sponsored by: Robert Bosch R&D
Amount: 14.5 Lakhs
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
4. Machine learning algorithm design for anomaly detection in multivariate wave patterns
Involving both design of metrics and design of algorithms
Sponsored by: Toshiba R&D
Amount: 11.55 Lakhs
Duration: 01-May-2020 to 31-Mar-2021
Faculty Involved: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
3. Disaster Response Dashboard for India
Sponsored by: Facebook R&D India
Amount: 26 Lakhs
Duration: 01-June-2021 to 31-May-2022
Faculty Involved: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
2. A software platform for explainability driven anomaly detection
Sponsored by: Toshiba R&D
Amount: 11.55 Lakhs
Duration: 01-May-2021 to 31-Mar-2022
Faculty Involved: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
1. Design and development of algorithms for waveform characterization for anomaly detection under sparse data scenarios
Sponsored by: Toshiba R&D
Amount: 13.91 Lakhs
Duration: 01-July-2019 to 31-Mar-2020
Faculty Involved: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
3. GeoCov19 Population Mobility Analytics
Sponsored by: Facebook India
Faculty Involved: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
2. SurviveCovid-19++
A Game for Improving Awareness of Social Distancing and Health Measures for Covid-19 Pandemic
Sponsored by : Richard Lounsbery Foundation, USA
Amount: $12,000
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
1. Mood of India During Covid-19
An Interactive Web Portal Based on Emotion Analysis of Twitter Data (CSCW 2020 Demo Track)
The mood of the India portal is an interactive web portal that can be used to understand the emotions of people across India or specific states/cities (based on analysis of over half a million COVID-19 related tweets) on a specific date or date range during Covid-19.
The portal was used in the states of Rajasthan and Delhi.
Details : https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.02955
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
18. APIScanner
Towards Automated Detection of Deprecated APIs in Python Libraries
Video: https://youtu.be/1hy_ugf-iek
Installation: https://bit.ly/2KXMLkO
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
17. StackEmo
Towards Enhancing User Experience by Augmenting Stack Overflow with Emojis
Video: https://youtu.be/j8lCtnx2MHg
Source: https://github.com/AkhilaSriManasa/StackEmo
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
16. AC2
Towards Understanding Architectural Changes in Python Projects
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNrJfZ0RCVI
Source: https://github.com/dheerajrox/AC2
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
15. Site2Vec
A reference frame invariant algorithm for vector embedding of protein–ligand binding sites
For Details: https://services.iittp.ac.in/bioinfo/home
Service: https://services.iittp.ac.in/site2vec/home
Faculty Involved: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
14. WAccess
A Web Accessibility Tool based on WCAG 2.1 Guidelines
WAccess highlights violations of 8 guidelines from WCAG 2.0 and 9 guidelines from WCAG 2.1 and suggests the fix for violations while specifying violating code snippet simultaneously. The tool has detected 11195 violations in 118 Indian government websites as part of the evaluation.
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
13. GitQ
Towards Using Badges as Visual Cues for GitHub Projects
GitQ automatically augments GitHub repositories with badges representing information about source code and project maintenance metrics.
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
12. NoteG
Towards Design and Development of a Computational Notebook for Rapid Game Prototyping
NoteG is a Jupyter Notebook that helps game developers (especially novices) to quickly prototype role-playing games, with the ability to update game elements during gameplay in the NoteG environment itself.
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
11. Annotator
A platform for large scale digital document sub-region annotation and retrieval based on novel concepts of model pooling and workflow microservices
Service: https://services.iittp.ac.in/annotator
Faculty Involved: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
10. Signature2Vec
An algorithm for reference frame agnostic vectorization of handwritten signatures
Service: https://services.iittp.ac.in/signature2vec/auth/login
Faculty Involved: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
9. COSPEX: A Program Comprehension Tool for NoviceProgrammers
The core idea of the tool is to leverage static and dynamic code summarization techniques for improving comprehension of source code for novice programmers.
Tool: https://github.com/Naxs-me/COSPEX
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHPaHAkqHQ
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
8. SOCluster
Towards Intent-based Clustering of Stack Overflow Questions using Graph-Based Approach.
Source Code: https://github.com/Liveitabhi/SOCluster
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyn8ie4h3NY
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
7. AiR – An Augmented Reality Application for Visualizing Air Pollution
AiR, an android application uses augmented reality to visualize air pollution based on pollutants’ data from the Central Pollution Control Board for 222 stations across India.
The app has more than 1000 downloads on Google Play Store with a review of 4.5
Details: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.02136
Student Team: Noble, Dheeraj, Akhila
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
6. Refactor4Green
A game for novice programmers to learn code smells (ICSE 2020)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdmwOvTuabE&t=3s
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
5. G4D
A treasure hunt game for novice programmers to learn debugging, Smart Learning Environments journal
Details: https://bit.ly/3j5mMTH
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
4. EmoG
Towards Emojifying Gmail Conversations (To Appear in 54th HICSS 2021)
Details: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06403
Video: https://youtu.be/BBiJan3-98g
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
3. YTCoder
Towards Turning YouTube into a Development Environment (CSCW 2020 Demo Track)
Video: https://youtu.be/qy4BW1ERwkM
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda
2. Workflow System
General Purpose Workflow System – Use case deployed at IITT for HTTA/HTRA processes
Video: https://services.iittp.ac.in/workflow
Faculty Involved: Dr Kalidas Yeturu
1. COBREX
A Tool for Extracting Business Rules from COBOL. One of the first open source tools that extracts business rules from COBOL code, funded by Exafluence.
To Appear In Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Cyprus.
Faculty Involved: Dr Sridhar Chimalakonda