The Department of Physics and Computer Science was established under the Faculty of Science in 1981. While originally offering only an undergraduate Honours degree in Physics, it opened its M.Sc. programme in 1986, and produced its first Ph.D. in 1992. Ever since, the Department has undergone continuous upgradation and expansion in all its programmes. Our fourteen full time faculty members hail from a variety of disciplines and specializations which include Nano-Photonics, Soft Computing, VLSI Design, Microwave Theory, Particle Physics, Quantum Algorithms, and Biometrics. With our dedicated team of qualified and experienced faculty members, we stress on quality instruction in the classroom with an appropriate blend of the latest inter-disciplinary research investigations. Our special blend of Physics and Computer Science is lends strength in our forward looking inter-disciplinary research programmes.

The Department of Physics and Computer Science takes advantage of various MoUs that DEI has signed with leading Institutes such as the University of Maryland, College Park, USA, the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, the Indian Institutes of Technology at Delhi and Kanpur, and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Joint courses are offered to postgraduate students of the Department from University of Maryland, and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Talented students of the Department are also sent for Summer Internships to these premier institutions. Visiting faculty from these institutes as well as others are invited to deliver special lectures as well as take sabbatical leave to spend time in the Department, thus enriching its teaching and research activities.

Student placements have been excellent with our graduates and postgraduates being placed at companies such as Infosys Technologies, Bangalore, Headstrong, Hughes Software, Microsoft, Adobe Systems, VGL Softech, MIC Electronics, DCM Technology, Cadence Design Systems, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Sasken Communications, and Biomorphic VLSI.