The institute, one of the pioneering engineering institutions of the country, was established in 1961 as Sardar Vallabhbhai Regional College of Engineering & Technology and was given a status of National Institute of Technology, in 2002. At present, there are six undergraduate courses, nineteen postgraduate courses, three MSc Integrated courses, and Ph.D. programmes in all disciplines of engineering and applied sciences. It has an excellent placement record with a number of top ranking companies visiting the campus. The whole campus has connectivity of the internet with fiber optic network including faculty quarters and student hostels. The institute is located at Surat, about 260 kms North of Mumbai and is very well connected by rail and road links to Mumbai as well as Ahmedabad (250 kms)/Vadodara (150 kms). The institute is approximately 10 kms away from Surat Railway Station and 10 kms from the Surat Airport (STV). Surat is the industrial city with historical importance and is well known for Textile, Jari and Diamond industries. The leading industries like RIL, ONGC, Kribhco, L&T, ESSAR, NTPC, and GAIL are established in Surat- Hazira area.

The department is running UG programme B.Tech. Computer Engineering since 1989 and PG programme M.Tech. Computer Engineering since 2006. Department is also offering Ph.D. programme since 2005. The department has well qualified and dedicated faculty members with the specializations in niche areas like Information security, Cloud computing, Operating systems, Image processing, Data Mining, Wireless sensor network, Computer vision, Machine Learning etc.

Surat is a top ranking industrial city of India. It is well known worldwide for textiles, zari and diamond industries. Several large scale industries and establishments are located in the city (e.g. RIL, L&T, ESSAR, NTPC, etc.). The city is situated on the main western railway route between Vadodara and Mumbai. Flights operate daily between Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Goa and Surat.

The international conference on “ Security, Privacy and Data Analytics (ISPDA-2021)” is scheduled to be held during December 13-15, 2021. The objective of this conference is to bring together experts from academic institutions, industries and research organizations and professional engineers for sharing of knowledge, expertise and experience in the emerging trends related to Security, Privacy, and Data Analytics. The conference is structured as plenary and keynote speeches followed by parallel sessions. The keynote speeches will be delivered by eminent personalities at the international level invited to introduce the theme of the conference. Papers are invited from the prospective authors from industries, academic institutions, R&D organizations and from professional engineers belonging to the engineering disciplines.