Ph.D Students

1. M. V. Panduranga Rao (Completed- 2007)

   Thesis Title : Bounds on Augmented Automata and Adiabatic Quantum computing

   Currently he is a Profesor at Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.)

2. Mathew C Francis (Completed- 20th February 2010)

   Thesis Title: Intersection graphs of boxes and cubes

   Currently he is an Associate professor at Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai.

3. Abhijin Adiga (Completed- 4th February 2011)

   Thesis Title: On Dimensional Parameters of Graphs and Posets.

   Currently he is a Research Associate Professor at the Bio Complexity Institute, Verginia Tech, Blacksburg, US

4. Manu Basavaraju (Completed- 10th March 2011)

   Thesis Title: Acyclic Edge Coloring of Graphs.

   Currently he is an Associate Professor in National Institute of Technology, Suratkal, Karnataka, India

5. Rogers Mathew (Completed- 30th March 2012.)

   Thesis Title: Boxicity and Cubicity: A study on special classes of graphs

   He first joined in IIT Kharagpur as Assistant Professor and then moved to IIT Hyderabad after a few years. Currently an Associate Professor in Indian Institute of Technolgy, Hyderabad.

6. Deepak. R. (Completed- 27th September 2013)

   Thesis Title: Rainbow Colouring and some Dimensional Problems in Graph Theory

   Currently an Associate Professor in IIT Palakkad

7. Jasine Babu (Completed- 3rd July 2014)

   Thesis Title: Algorithmic and Combinatorial Questions on Some Geometric Problems on Graphs

   Currently an Associate Professor in IIT Palakkad

8. Pratiti Bhadra (Completed- 2014)

   Thesis Title: A new coarse grained molecular mechanics for proteins dynamics and its application on dynamics- function correlation.

   Co-guided with Prof. Debnath Pal from SERC Department. The student belongs to the IMI - IISc Mathematics Initiative (Interdisciplinary: Bioinformatic Centre and Computer Science and Automation)

   She was a post doctoral fellow in University of Macau

9. Abhiruk Lahiri (Completed- 2018)

   Thesis Title: Problems on Bend Number, Circular Separation Dimension, and Maximum Edge 2-coloring

   Currently, he is a Research and teaching assistant at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Germany

10. Dibyajyoti Maity (Completed-2020).

    Thesis Title: Effect of Single Residue Change on Conformational Dynamics of Proteins and their function: A Molecular Dynamics Study.

    Co-guided with Prof. Debnath Pal from SERC Department. The student belongs to the IMI - IISc Mathematics Initiative (Interdisciplinary: Bioinformatic Centre and Computer Science and Automation)

11. Raji R Pillai (Completed- 2024)

    Thesis Title : Algorithmic Problems on Vertex Deletion and Graph Coloring

    Currently an Assistant Professor in Govt. Engineering College, Kottayam, Kerala.

12. Rishikesh Gajjala (In Progress. 2020-present)

    (PMRF student)- May submit this year

13. Shirish Purushottam Gosavi (In Progress 2021-present)

    Comprehensive examination finished

14. Suraj Sahoo (In Progress 2023-present)

15. Rajat Adak (In Progress 2024 August-present)

1. Krishnam Raju (Completed)

   Thesis Title: Hadwiger number and the cartesian product operation on graphs.

2. Naveen Belkale (Completed)

   Thesis Title: Hadwiger Conjecture on Circular Arc graphs.

3. Ashik Mathew. K (Completed)

   Thesis Title: Geometric Representations of graphs: Cubicity and Boxicity.

4. Chintan D. Shah ( Completed)

   Thesis Title: Boxicity, Cubicity and Vertex Cover.

5. Subramania Bharadwaj B.V. (Completed)

   Thesis Title: The Isoperimetric Problem on trees and bounded treewidth graphs.

6. Arunselvan. R. (Completed)

   Thesis Title: Rainbow Connection Number of Graph Power and Graph Products.

7. Prachi Goyal. (Completed 2014)

   Thesis Title: Parametrized Complexity of Maximum Edge Coloring in Graphs.

8. Nitesh Tripathi (Completed 2018)

   Thesis Title: Guarding Terrain Using k-Watch Towers.

9. Ankur Naskar (Completed 2021)

   Thesis Title: Hadwiger’s Conjecture and Total Coloring Conjecture.

10. Talha Hashim (Completed 2021)

    Thesis Title :Improved Approximation Bounds On Maximum Edge q-coloring Of Dense Graphs.

1. Diptendu Bhowmick (Completed- May 2009)

   Thesis Title: Geometric Representations of Graphs for special classes.

2. Ramanjit Kumar (Completed- Dec 2009)

   Thesis Title: SIG-dimension of trees under L-infinity metric.

3. Tejas S.P. (Completed- July 2009)

   Thesis Title: Acyclic Edge Coloring and Linear Arboricity of Graph products.

4. Mangesh Pujari (Completed- July 2010)

   Thesis Title: Weiner Index of Special Classes of Graphs.

5. Biswanath Haldar (Completed- April 2011)

   Thesis Title: Acyclic Edge coloring of cubic graphs.

6. Pushpendra Singh Katoria (Completed- July 2013)

   Thesis Title: Algorithm for computing the jump number.

7. Swapan Das (Completed- July 2019)

   Thesis Title: Implementation of a High Girth Graph Construction and Experimental Verification of its Expansion Property.

8. Akash Mistra (Completed- July 2019)

   Thesis Title: Boxicity and graph minors.

9. Deepak Poonya (Completed- July 2020)

   Thesis Title: Gallai’s path decomposition conjecture.

10. Devisingh Degavath (Completed- July 2023)

    Thesis Title: Quantum Physics and Graph Theory: Unveiling the nature of Multi party entanglements through Hypergraphs.

11. Pranshu Mishra (Ongoing : 2024-2025)