Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Gandhinagar

PhD Program

A research-focused doctoral program for creative, independent, and interdisciplinary inquiry.

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Recent CSE PhD defenses

Defense announcements from the last six months, matched with public research-scholar profiles from the IITGN CSE student directory.

7 profiles
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Jayesh Malaviya

Computer Science and Engineering

Thesis
Subset Selection for Scalable Machine Learning: Coresets, Sketching, and Statistical Guarantees
Defense
3 Jun 2026
Supervisor
Anirban Dasgupta
Joined
2019

Scalable machine learning through coresets, sketching, and randomized numerical linear algebra.

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Pritam Kadasi

Computer Science and Engineering

Thesis
Budget-Aware Decision Making for NLP: Annotation, Training and Data
Defense
3 Jun 2026
Supervisor
Mayank Singh
Joined
2021

Natural language processing and large language models, with an emphasis on instruction tuning, multilingual AI, and resource-efficient model training.

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Himanshu Beniwal

Computer Science and Engineering

Thesis
Assessing Factuality and Toxicity in Large Language Models
Defense
18 May 2026
Supervisor
Mayank Singh
Joined
2021

Factuality, toxicity, and safety assessment in multilingual large language models.

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Prajwal Kumar Singh

Computer Science and Engineering

Thesis
Scalable Generative Vision and Neural Decoding: Connecting Machine and Human Perception
Defense
6 May 2026
Supervisor
Shanmuganathan Raman
Joined
2021

Generative vision and neural decoding methods that connect machine and human perception.

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Jinia Ghosh

Computer Science and Engineering

Thesis
Graphs Defined on Groups: Complexity Theoretic and Algorithmic Aspects
Defense
29 Apr 2026
Supervisor
Bireswar Das
Joined
2020

Complexity-theoretic and algorithmic aspects of graphs defined in terms of groups.

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Anant Kumar

Computer Science and Engineering

Thesis
On Graph Isomorphism for Power Graphs and Subgraph Counting in Sparse Graphs
Defense
24 Mar 2026
Supervisor
Bireswar Das
Joined
2019

Graph isomorphism for power graphs and subgraph counting in sparse graphs.

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Zeel B Patel

Computer Science and Engineering

Thesis
AI for Air Quality: Modeling, Sensor Placement and Source Detection
Defense
4 Feb 2026
Supervisor
Nipun Batra
Joined
2019

AI for social good and air-quality systems, including modeling, sensor placement, and source detection.