PhD Students

Eight doctoral students supervised to successful thesis defence, spanning matrix theory, graph theory, number theory and algebra.

Supervised PhD Students

1
Mr. Devendra Prasad

Defended: January 21, 2019

Co-supervised with Prof. Krishnan Rajkumar, JNU, India

Research area: Fixed divisors of polynomials

2
Ms. Monimala Nej

Defended: August 21, 2019

Research areas: Exponents of primitive companion matrices; binary strings

3
Mr. Biswajit Koley

Defended: March 19, 2020

Research areas: Irreducibility of polynomials over integers; cyclotomic factors

4
Mr. Veer Singh Panwar

Defended: November 14, 2022

Co-supervised with Prof. Priyanka Grover, SNIOE

Research area: Positivity properties of special matrices

5
Ms. Shivani Chauhan

Defended: February 27, 2024

Research areas: Algebraic connectivity, line graphs, edge Laplacian, double covers

6
Mr. Shrinit Singh

Defended: April 28, 2025

Co-supervised with Prof. Amber Habib, SNIOE

Research area: Achiral words and algebra

7
Ms. Khyati Sharma

Defended: August 25, 2025

Research area: Groups with specified numbers of cyclic subgroups

8
Ms. Kavita Samant

Defended: March 10, 2026

Research area: Generating graphs of finite groups (dihedral and dicyclic)

At a Glance

8 PhD Degrees Awarded
3 Co-supervised
2019 First Defence
2026 Most Recent

Research Themes

Polynomial Irreducibility Fixed Divisors Primitive Matrices Positivity of Matrices Algebraic Graph Theory Cyclic Subgroups Generating Graphs Binary Strings

Co-supervisors

  • ◆ Prof. Krishnan Rajkumar — JNU
  • ◆ Prof. Priyanka Grover — SNIOE
  • ◆ Prof. Amber Habib — SNIOE