PhD Completed (08):
1. Name of the Candidate: Dr. Tejasvi Alladi
Title of the Thesis: Security Provisioning for Emerging Applications in Smart Cities
PhD Start Date: January 2017
PhD Defence Date: February 01, 2021
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science & Information Systems, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus
2. Name of the Candidate: Dr. Vikas Hassija
Title of the Thesis: Blockchain-Based Transparent and Secure Algorithms for Specific Domains of the Internet of Things
PhD Start Date: August 2017
PhD Defence Date: December 04, 2021
Current Affiliation: Associate professor, Department of Computer Science, KIIT, Bhubaneswar
3. Name of the Candidate: Dr. Praveen Gorla
Title of the Thesis: Resource Provisioning and Management of Smart and Sustainable 5G Small Cells Base Stations
PhD Start Date: August 2018
PhD Defence Date: January 19, 2023
Current Affiliation: Principal Researcher, VISWAM.AI, Hyderabad
4. Name of the Candidate: Dr. Amit Chougule
Title of the Thesis: Artificial Intelligence Enabled Vehicular Vision and Service Provisioning for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
PhD Start Date: January 2021
PhD Defence Date: April 20, 2024
Current Affiliation: Senior Al/CV Engineer, Lowe's India
5. Name of the Candidate: Dr. Mritunjay Shall Peelam
Title of the Thesis: Design and Development of Blockchain-Based Schemes for Enabling Intelligent Transportation Systems
PhD Start Date: August 2022
PhD Defence Date: July 17, 2025
Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor Selection Grade, UPES, Dehradun
6. Name of the Candidate: Dr. Anubhav Elhence
Title of the Thesis: Enabling Drone-Driven Smart Cities: Real-Time Computer Vision, Secure Communication, and Data Fusion for Drones
PhD Start Date: August 2021
PhD Defence Date: February 09, 2026
Current Affiliation: Software Engineer, Google, Bengaluru, Karnataka
7. Name of the Candidate: Dr. Naga Siva Sai Reddy
Title of the Thesis: Confluence of Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Next-Generation Secure and Scalable Healthcare Solutions
PhD Start Date: August 2022
PhD Defence Date: May 04, 2026
Current Affiliation: Research Fellow, National University of Singapore
8. Name of the Candidate: Shashank Srivastava
Title of the Thesis: Design and Development of Machine Learning based IoT Solutions for Cognitive Health Monitoring
PhD Start Date: August 2022
PhD Defence Date: (submitted: June 2026)
Current Affiliation: Assistant professor, PVP Siddhartha Institute of Technology
PhD Ongoing (11):
1. Name of the Candidate: Uday Mittal
Title of the Thesis: Intelligent Communication and Control of Drone Swarms Using Large Language Models
PhD Start Date: August 2024
2. Name of the Candidate: Shubham Sharma
Title of the Thesis: Design and deployment of intelligent UAV swarms for edge-based surveillance, autonomous navigation, and self-sustaining operations
PhD Start Date: August 2024
3. Name of the Candidate: Manish Prasad
Title of the Thesis: Trustworthy LLM-Assisted Cybersecurity for Smart-City IoT
PhD Start Date: August 2024
4. Name of the Candidate: Rishikesh Sharma
Title of the Thesis: Smart Water Management and Crop Disease Identification in Climate-Resilient Agriculture
PhD Start Date: August 2023
5. Name of the Candidate: Emmanuel Thangiah
Title of the Thesis: Integrated Real-Time Vision, Secure Communication, and Overtaking Strategy for Autonomous Vehicles Using Edge Hardware Acceleration
PhD Start Date: August 2024
6. Name of the Candidate: Vikas Ranjan
Title of the Thesis: Bridging Code and Operations: A Semantic Code Knowledge Graph for Cross-Service Code Generation and Code-Level Remediation
PhD Start Date: August 2024
7. Name of the Candidate: Kunjan Shah
Title of the Thesis: Fake or Fact? Detecting and Mitigating AI-generated Fake Content
PhD Start Date: August 2025
8. Name of the Candidate: Hritav Singh Solanki
Title of the Thesis: Design and Development of Intelligent, Secure, and Autonomous UAV Systems for Defence Applications
PhD Start Date: July 2026
9. Name of the Candidate: Vineet Suri
Title of the Thesis: Semantic and Forensic Frameworks for Detection, Attribution, and Authentication of AI-Generated Multimodal Media
PhD Start Date: July 2026
10. Name of the Candidate: Manvendra Singh
Title of the Thesis: A Unified Framework for Autonomous Drone Fleet Operations: Platform-Agnostic Charging, AI-Driven Charge Scheduling. Intrusion-Resilient Communication — emphasizes the end-to-end pipeline from hardware to security.
PhD Start Date: January 2026
11. Name of the Candidate: Himanshu Shekhar
Title of the Thesis:Auditable Medical Report Generation: Unifying EHR-Aware Retrieval, Multimodal Imaging, and Sentence-Level Region Grounding
PhD Start Date: August 2025
