Ph.D. Students

MS Thesis Students, 2022-2023 

Semester Project Students, August 2023

Former Members

MS Theses Completed:

1. Mohan Karra, Integrated BS-MS Program, IISER Pune, Thesis: Parameterized Complexity of the Hiding Leader Problem in Social Network, Completed in 2022. Single Guidance.

2. Vaikunt Mallya,  Integrated BS-MS Program, IISER Pune, Thesis: Parameterized Algorithms for Graph Problems. Completed in 2021,  Single Guidance.

3. Vishnu Vardhan V M, Integrated BS-MS program, IISER Pune, Thesis:  Problems on Temporal Graphs. Completed in 2019,  Single Guidance.

4. Gunda Spoorthy, Integrated BS-MS Program, IISER Pune, Thesis: Lossy Kernelization. Completed in 2019.  Jointly with Prof. Saket Saurabh, IMSc. Currently pursuing her PhD at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

5. Komal Muluk, Integrated BS-MS Program,  IISER Pune Thesis: Parameterized Complexity of the fair feedback vertex set problem. Completed in 2019, IISER Pune, Single Guidance. Currently pursuing her PhD at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

6. Joshi Chinmay Chandrashekhar, Integrated BS-MS Program,  IISER Pune, Thesis: Parameterized Complexity of Minimum Neighbourhood Problem, Completed in 2019, Single Guidance.

7. Aditya Kabra, Integrated BS-MS program, IISER Pune, Thesis: Parameterized Complexity of Minimum-k-Union Problem. Completed in 2018, Single Guidance. 

8. Reshma C Chandrasekharan, Integrated BS-MS program, IISER Pune, Thesis: Constructions of covering arrays, Completed in 2015, Single Guidance. Currently Assistant Professor at IIM Bangalore.

9. Sourajit Basu, Integrated BS-MS Program, IISER Pune  Thesis: Erdos-Ko-Rado and Kruskal Katona theorems for discrete structures, Completed in 2014.  

10. Kumar Vasu Mitra, Integrated BS-MS Program,  IISER Pune, Thesis:  Erdos-Ko-Rado Theorem and Kruskal-Katona Theorem, Completed in 2013.

11. Ankur Pariwal, Integrated BS-MS Program, IISER Pune, Thesis:  Transversal Hypergraphs, Completed in 2013.

12.  Ruchi Gupta, Integrated BS-MS Program, IISER Pune, Thesis: Group construction of covering arrays, Completed in 2011.

13.  Navi Prasad, Integrated BS-MS Program, IISER Pune, Thesis: Software testing using combinatorial designs, Completed in 2011.

14.  Gourav Chauhan, Integrated BS-MS Program, IISER Pune, Thesis:  Permutation polynomials over finite fields and their applications in cryptography, Completed in 2011.

15. Romina Dutta, Master's in Mathematics & Computing, IIT Kharagpur, Thesis: Max-flow algorithms and their applications, Completed in 2009. Currently, Romina is working at Google, Hyderabad.

16.  Anusuya Ghosh, Master's in Mathematics,  IIT Kharagpur, Thesis: Visual cryptography for black and white images, Completed in 2009. Anusuya completed her PhD in Mathematics at IIT Mumbai.

17.  Smriti Awasthi, Master's in Mathematics & Computing, IIT Guwahati, Thesis:  Authenticated key agreement protocols based on Diffie-Hellman problem. Completed in 2007.

18. Nishigandha Misra, Master's in Mathematics & Computing, IIT Guwahati, Thesis: Visual cryptography for black and white images, Completed in 2007.

19.  Chandabani Dutta, Master's in Mathematics & Computing, IIT Guwahati, Thesis:  Threshold proxy signature schemes based on public key cryptosystems, Completed in 2006.

20. Raviraj Paliwal, Master's in Mathematics & Computing, IIT Guwahati, Thesis:   On path length of trees with known fringe, Completed in 2006.

21.  Anand Kumar Mallik, Master's in Mathematics & Computing, IIT Guwahati, Thesis:  Authenticated key agreement protocols based on Diffie-Hellman problem, Completed in 2006.

22. Kezhasono Meyase, Master's in Mathematics & Computing, IIT Guwahati, Thesis: Visual cryptography for black and white images, Completed in 2005. Currently Kezhasono is working at Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) Bangalore.

23.  Chrisil Arackaparambil, Master's in Mathematics & Computing, IIT Guwahati,  Thesis:  Generalized visual cryptography schemes, Completed in 2005. Chrisil completed his PhD in Computer Science at the Dartmouth College.