Three major research projects are ongoing with Dr. Shikhar Kr. Sarma as the Chief Investigator:

1. NE Language Technology Development Project: Sponsored by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India (Total Project value: 1.52 crores). This project aims at developing the standards, technologies, tools and applications for putting Assamese and Bodo languages in the Digital Media as equivalent to another language like English. The scope includes developing Unicode Compliances for both the languages, ground work building for local language Operating Systems, building complete digital script grammars, spell checker design and development, and building a large corpus in Unicode format.

2. Development of NE Wordnet: Sponsored by Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India (Total Project value: 32 Lacs). This project aims at developing Digital Wordnets in Assamese and Bodo Languages. The Wordnets in Assamese and Bodo Language will then be integrated with the other Wordnets like Hindi and English, which will eventually form the background of efficient local language search engines etc.

3. Design and Development of a Digital Assamese Thesaurus: Sponsored by UGC (Total Project value: 9.26 lacs). This project will output a structured digital Assamese Thesaurus which will be integrated with an interface enabling cross lingual information retrieval more efficient and meaningful.

One major research project is ongoing with Mr. Abhijit Sarma as the Chief Investigator:
1. Development of framework for logging and analysis of Network Traffic to secure Network Infrastructure: Sponsored by Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India (Total Project value: 46 lacs).

Linkage with Industry/Science based research labs:
The Department has research collaboration with following national R&D organizations and Institutions: Collaboration with C-DAC Pune for the NE Language Technology Development Project for joint research, technology and tool transfer, training etc. The NE Wordnet Project is in a joint consortium mode, where IIT Bombay is the consortium leader.

Placement Profile:
Some of the organizations where our students got placements include Xcome Technology, Taipei, Taiwan; Start Technologies, Taiwan; Versine Technologies, Kolkata; CDAC, Bangalore; Maharastra Knowledge Corporation Ltd; Web Tech India, Bangalore; AMTRON, Guwahati; Wipro Systems; NIIT Bangaloire; Maverik Systems, Chennai, etc. Besides students passed out from this department are now engaged in teaching positions in various educational institutions within and outside the state of Assam.