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The Department of Mathematics is recognized as a Research Centre to offer Ph.D. degree under VTU w.e.f. 22.04.2008. The Department has five eminent Professors, guiding researchers towards Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics and Graph Theory.
List of Research Guides
| Sl. No. | Name of the Faculty | Qualification | Designation | Area of Interest |
| 1 | Dr. L. Venkata Reddy | M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D | Professor & HOD | Applied Mathematics, Fluid Mechanics |
| 2 | Dr. N. P. Chandrashekara | M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D | Professor | Applied Mathematics, Fluid Mechanics |
| 3 | Dr. Leena N. Shenoy | M.Sc., Ph.D PGDCA | Associate Professor | Applied Mathematics, Graph Theory |
| 4 | Dr. A. Pranesha Setty | M.Sc., Ph.D | Associate Professor | Applied Mathematics, Fluid Mechanics |
| 5 | Dr. Roopa G | M.Sc., Ph.D | Assistant Professor | Applied Mathematics, Fluid Mechanics |
| 6 | Dr. Yogalakshmi S | M.Sc., Ph.D | Assistant Professor | Applied Mathematics, Graph Theory |
List of Ph.Ds Awarded
| Sl. No. | Name of Research Scholar | Name of the Guide | Title of the Research Work | Month & Year of Award |
| 1 | L Venkata Reddy | Dr. S. Manjunath | The Fluid Mechanics of the Cooling of Streching Films | May 2014 |
| 2 | N P Chandrashekara | Dr. S. Manjunath | Convection of a Boussinesq-Stokes Suspensions and Micropolar Liquids in an Enclosure | September 2014 |
| 3 | Sreelakshmi D | Dr. S. Manjunath | Computer assisted Solution to the Flow Problem Involving Coolant Surrounded Stretching Water-Films | May 2018 |
| 4 | Sushma T. S. | Dr. S. Manjunath | Study of Thermal Convection in Newtonian Ferromagnetic Nanoliquids using Differential Geometry Methods | July 2022 |
| 5 | Sowmya. K | Dr. Leena N. Shenoy | Study on Hamiltonicity of Regular Graphs | September 2022 |
| 6 | Srihari M Subodha | Dr. S. Manjunath & Dr. Chandrashekara | Three-Dimensional Dispersion in Flows through and Past Porous Media | February 2024 |
| 7 | Rajashree. S | Dr. N P Chandrashekara | Convection in Ferromagnetic Nanoliquids | February 2024 |
List of Research Scholar
| Sl. No. | Name of Research Scholar | Name of the Guide | Title of the Research | Research Area |
| 1 | Jeevitha N. | Dr. Yogalakshmi S | Network Vulnerability Analysis using Graph Theory: Identifying Critical Nodes and Edges | Graph Theory |
| 2 | Komala. C. S | Dr. L Venkata Reddy | Convection in Viscoelastic Liquids Occupying a Tilted Slot | Applied Mathematics (Fluid Mechanics) |
| 3 | Naveen Bala A | Dr. L Venkata Reddy | Study of Two-Dimensional Flows of Nanoliquids Due to Stretching Sheets and Cylinders | Applied Mathematics (Fluid Mechanics) |
| 4 | Raghu N. | Dr. N P Chandrashekara | Convection in Dielectric Nanoliquids | Applied Mathematics (Fluid Mechanics) |
| 5 | Padmaja. C | Dr. Leena N. Shenoy | Hamiltonian Laceablity Properties of Decomposition of Connected Graphs | Graph Theory |
| 6 | Nagarathanamma K G | Dr. Leena N. Shenoy | Hamiltonicity, Hamiltonian Connectivity and Other Properties of Some Special Classes of Graphs | Graph Theory |
| 7 | Manjula M | Dr. Leena N. Shenoy | Study on Laceability of Various Graph Structures through Partitioning | Graph Theory |
| 8 | Satisha M | Dr. A Pranesha Setty | A Study of Convection of Binary Liquids in Porous Media | Applied Mathematics (Fluid Mechanics) |
| 9 | Bharathi K | Dr. Roopa G | The study of heat transfer problem in boundary layer theory by using analytical or numerical methods | Applied Mathematics (Fluid Mechanics) |
