Graduate Students who worked / are working with Meena Mahajan

Abhimanyu Choudhury surveyed some recent results concerning dependency schemes for QBFs for his Master's project, which he completed in Oct 2020. Towards his doctoral degree, he is looking at questions in propositional and QBF proof complexity.

Yogesh Dahiya is interested in Boolean function analysis, communication complexity, optimization, and many other topics. In June 2024, he defended his doctoral dissertation, titled Exploring Size Complexity and Randomness in the Query Model. Currently he is pursuing post-doctoral research at TIFR.

Gaurav Sood defended his doctoral dissertation, titled A study of QBF Merge Resolution and MaxSAT Resolution , in March 2023. He is also interested in Boolean function complexity, communication complexity, and algebraic complexity. Currently he is at the CSE Dept at IIT Mandi.

Aditi Dudeja surveyed results on pebble games and bounds and trade-offs for resolution proofs for her Master's project, which she completed in July 2017.

Anuj Tawari surveyed some recent results in the area of algebraic complexity for his Master's project, which he completed in June 2014. In Feb 2019, he defended his doctoral thesis, titled Lower bounds for read-once and tropical formulas, which is concerned with some lower bound questions in algebraic complexity.
Currently, Anuj is at the Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

Anil Shukla surveyed results concerning lower bounds for resolution proofs for his pre-doctoral project completed in July 2013. For his doctoral dissertation, he has explored various proof systems for QBFs. In Feb 2017, he defended his doctoral dissertation, titled On Proof Complexity for Quantified Boolean Formulas .
Currently, Anil is at the CSE Dept at IIT Ropar.

Sankardeep Chakraborty surveyed results in the area of correlation bounds for his Master's project, which he completed in July 2013.

Nitin Saurabh surveyed results in the area of algebraic complexity for his Master's project, which he completed in July 2012. In Dec 2016, he defended his doctoral dissertation, titled Analysis of Algebraic Complexity Classes and Boolean Functions.
Currently, Nitin is at the CSE department at IIT Hyderabad.

Karteek Sreenivasaiah surveyed lower bound techniques for Boolean circuits for his Master's project, which he completed in July 2010. In Jan 2015 he defended his doctoral dissertation, titled On verifying proofs in constant depth, and polynomial identity testing.
Currently, Karteek is at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Prajakta Nimbhorkar worked on a variety of problems concerning planar graphs and planar layouts. A high point of her research, co-authored with many others, is a log-space algorithm for determining whether two planar graphs are isomorphic. She is also interested in circuits, randomness, and algebraic structures. She defended her doctoral thesis, titled Complexity Analysis of Some Problems in Planar Graphs, Bounded Tree-width Graphs and Planar Point Sets, in October 2010.
Currently, Prajakta is at the Chennai Mathematical Institute.

B. V. Raghavendra Rao worked on problems concerning counting classes, arithmetic circuits, algebraic complexity, and the complexity of some isomorphism questions. He defended his doctoral thesis, titled A study of width bounded arithmetic circuits, and the complexity of matroid isomorphism, in March 2010.
Currently, Raghavendra is in the CSE dept at IIT Madras.

Nutan Limaye worked on parallel computation techniques centred around LogCFL for her Masters project, which she completed in June 2005.
Towards a PhD, Nutan worked on problems concerning circuits, logarithmic space, and context-free languages. She defended her doctoral thesis, titled Exploring LogCFL using Language Theory, in December 2009.
Currently, Nutan is at the CSE dept at IIT Bombay and the ITU at Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jayalal Sarma worked on derandomization techniques for his Masters project, titled Refining Randomness and Applications to Derandomization, which he completed in July 2004.
Towards a Ph.D., he worked on problems concerning circuits, algebraic structures/computations, and derandomization. He defended his doctoral thesis, titled Complexity Theoretic Aspects of Rank, Rigidity and Circuit Evaluation, in February 2009.
Currently, Jayalal is in the CSE dept at IIT Madras.