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School-wise Programmes Overview

Area of research: You may choose up to three areas from one School only in the case of an interdisciplinary research project (Drop down menu)

Schools and Subjects

School of Business

Strategy
- Analytics
  - Analytics
- Finance
  - Finance
  - Accounting
  - Banking and Commerce
  - Investment analysis
  - Risk Management
  - Microfinance
  - Cloud funding
- Marketing
  - Marketing
  - Customer relationship management
  - Retail Management
  - Brand management
  - Tourism
  - Customer Behavior
- Human resource and organizational behavior
  - Human resource and organizational behavior
  - Labour Management
  - HR Operations
  - Leadership
  - Training and Development
  - Knowledge Management
- Information system
  - Information system
- Operation Management
  - Operation Management
- Sector-based Research
  - Health Sector
  - Insurance

LIST OF RECOGNIZED PH.D. SUPERVISORS – SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (SOB) RV UNIVERSITY, BENGALURU

S No.	Name of Supervisor	Designation	Areas
1.	Prof. (Dr.) Dwarika Prasad Uniyal	Professor & Pro Vice Chancellor	Marketing & Strategy
2.	Prof. (Dr.) Subhashree Natarajan	Professor & Dean – SOEB	Business Administration; Management with Specialisation in Marketing and Analytics
3.	Prof. (Dr.) Diganta Chakrabarti	Professor and Dean- Academic affairs	Human Resource Management; Organizational Behavior; Marketing Management; Strategic Management; General Management (depending on the topic)
4.	Dr. Arunkumar A. V.	Professor and Associate Dean – SOEB	Commerce; Banking; Finance; Development Economics; Financial Economics; Health Economics; Technology Adaptation
5.	Dr. Tuhin S. Banerjee	Associate Professor	Financial Management; Stock Market; Insurance
6.	Dr. Veena A.	Associate Professor	Education and General Management
7.	Dr. Kanish Debnath	Associate Professor	Analytics; Agri-Business; Risk and Insurance; Public Systems; Agricultural Economics; Microfinance and Microinsurance; Environmental Economics
8.	Dr. Kali Charan Sabat	Associate Professor	Strategy and Operations Management
9.	Dr. Samudra Sen	Assistant Professor	Public Policy, Higher Education, Business Management, Quantitative Methods / Analytics
10.	Dr. Shivaprasad S.P.	Assistant Professor	Finance
11.	Dr. Jyoti Vidhani	Assistant Professor	Accounting & Finance

School of Computer Science and Engineering

AI in Edge Computing
AI in Edge Computing, UI/UX – Human-computer interference
AI-ML
Application of Edge solution on healthcare
Application of Deep Learning
Applied optimization (especially for parallel computing)
Assistive Technologies
Benchmarking and Benchmark Development
Big Data Systems
Blockchain
Cloud Computing
Computational Drug discovery
Computational offloading
Computational Physics
Computer vision
Computer Science Education
Containers, Micro-services
Cryptography
Cyber Security
Data Science
Data security
Deep Learning & its applications
Device-level Automation in Agriculture & Healthcare
Distributed Algorithms
Distributed Computing
Drug design
Edge Computing
Edge resource management including Distributed Computing involving optimizing the allocation of computing resources across multiple edge devices & servers.
Electrical And Electronics Engineering Sciences
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Fault Tolerance
Generative AI
Genetic Algorithms
Graph Theory and Its Applications
Healthcare
Heterogeneous computing
High-Performance Computing
Image & Signal processing
Image Processing
Image processing–Algorithms and applications (especially in healthcare)
Industrial IoT
Intellectual property rights, Patents, Trademarks, Geographical indications, Copyrights
Intelligent IoT
IoT
IoT in healthcare
Machine Learning and Image Processing in Healthcare
Manets
Medicinal chemistry
Modeling & Edge Computing
Nano science & Nanotechnology
Network Security & Cyber Security
Nonlinear Dynamics and Bifurcation Theories
Organic chemistry
Performance Analysis
Physics / Biophysics
Porting / Migrating models to the Microcontroller Platform
Probabilistic Motion Planning in Mobile Robotics
Production quality distributed systems
Quantum Information Science and Computing
Scalable Architectures
Sensor development and Material Science
Serverless/FaaS
Simulation
Software as a service
Software frameworks
Task Scheduling and Management of Distributed Systems
Virtualization
Web development

LIST OF RECOGNISED PH.D. SUPERVISORS- SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (SOCSE) RV UNIVERSITY, BENGALURU

S No.	Name of Supervisor	Designation	Areas
1.	Prof. (Dr.) Sahana D Gowda	Professor & Registrar- RVU	Document Image Processing; Pattern Recognition; Video analytics
2.	Prof. (Dr.) Sanjay R Chitnis	Professor and Dean-SOCSE	Computer Science; AI and Machine Learning
3.	Prof. (Dr.) Phani Kumar Pullela	Professor and Associate Dean – SOCSE	Chemistry (Computational Chemistry); Drug Discovery; Functional nanomaterials; Organic chemistry; Medicinal chemistry
4.	Dr. Mydhili Nair	Professor & Head- B.Tech. (H)	AI – ML/DL; Cloud Computing (Serverless Computing, Virtual Machines on the cloud); WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks); Assistive Technologies Research (For people with disabilities – blind, speech, hearing, autism etc.) Applying ML/DL in all these areas.
5.	Dr. Shobana Padmanabhan	Associate Professor	Machine Learning including deep learning; Natural language processing and image processing; Applied optimization
6.	Dr. Nikita Singh	Assistant Professor	Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain); Parallel and Distributed Computing; Distributed Systems; System Scalability; Genetic Algorithms
7.	Dr. Thotreithem Hongray	Assistant Professor	Nonlinear Dynamics and Bifurcation Theories; Computational Physics; Quantum Information Science & Computing; Probabilistic Motion Planning in Mobile Robotics
8.	Dr Vidya M.J.	Assistant Professor	Image and Signal Processing (Database management, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, IOT, Biomedical Engineering)
9.	Dr. Merin Thomas	Associate Professor	Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Data Science
10.	Dr. Baishali Garai	Associate Professor	Nanotechnology; Sensor development
11.	Dr. Sudhakar K. N	Associate Professor	Wireless Sensor Networks; Internet of Things (Iot); Network Security; Cyber Security; Web Technology; Optimization; AI/ML
12.	Dr. Shabbeer Basha	Associate Professor	Computer Vision; Machine Learning; Image Processing
13.	Dr. Sathya D	Associate Professor	Computer Science and Engineering (Wireless Networks, IoT, Sensor networks, Blockchain Technology, Data Security)
14.	Dr. Harsha B K	Assistant Professor	Electrical And Electronics Engineering Sciences
15.	Dr. Durgarao Guttula	Assistant Professor	Physics/Biophysics
16.	Dr. P Karthikeyan	Assistant Professor	Application of Deep Learning
17.	Dr. Srinivasan Lakshminarayanan	Assistant Professor	Computer Science Education

School of Design and Innovation

S No.	Name of Supervisor	Designation	Areas
1.	Prof. (Dr.) Anuradha Chatterjee	Professor & Dean-SODI	Design; Architecture; Design Education; Design History; Criticism & Humanities

School of Economics

Strategy
- Microeconomics
  - Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
  - Agricultural Economics
  - Development Economics
  - Financial Economics
  - Public Policy Economics
  - Economics, Development Economics
  - Quantitative Research
  - Empirical Economics Research
  - Econometrics Research
  - Inequality and Development
  - Productivity and efficiency analysis
  - Studies on market research and consumer Behavior, Comparative Development Studies.

LIST OF RECOGNISED PH.D. SUPERVISORS- SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS (SOE) RV UNIVERSITY, BENGALURU

S No.	Name of Supervisor	Designation	Areas
1.	Dr. Pushkarni Panchamukhi	Associate Dean- SOE & Associate Professor	Economics
2.	Dr. Narinder Kumar	Assistant Professor	Economics, Development Economics, Quantitative Research, Empirical Economics Research, Econometrics Research, Inequality and Development, Productivity and efficiency analysis, Studies on market research and consumer Behaviour, Comparative Development Studies.

School of Film, Media and Creative Arts

S No.	Name of Supervisor	Designation	Areas
1.	Prof. (Dr.) Piyush Roy	Professor & Dean – SOFMCA	Film Studies; Sanksrit Drama & Natyashastra; Entertainment Journalism & Criticism

School of Law

S No.	Name of Supervisor	Designation	Areas
1.	Prof. (Dr.) Y.S.R. Murthy	Vice Chancellor and Dean-SOL	Law; International Human Rights Law/; International Humanitarian Law; International Refugee Law; Higher Education
2.	Dr. Lakshmi Arya Thathachar	Dean-Research & Associate Professor	Socio-Cultural History of Modern India; Political Philosophy; Gender Studies
3.	Dr. Bhanu Prakash Nunna	Assistant Professor	Psychology

School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Climate Change Adaptation
Cultural Studies
Discrete Mathematics
English Literature
Environmental Science
Formal Logic (Nyaya)
Gender and Agrarian Change
Indian and World Literature
Migration and Urbanization
Philosophy
Philosophy of Mathematics
Physical Geography
Political Science with Specialization in Modern Indian Political Thought and Indian Politics
Psychology
Socio-Cultural History of Modern India
Teaching Mathematics

LIST OF RECOGNISED PH.D. SUPERVISORS- SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES (SOLAS) RV UNIVERSITY, BENGALURU

S No.	Name of Supervisor	Designation	Areas
1.	Prof. (Dr.) Priya Nair	Professor & Dean – SOLAS	Organizational Psychology
2.	Dr. Vijendra Singh	Assistant Professor	Political Science with Specialization in Modern Indian Political Thought and Indian Politics
3.	Dr. Soundarya Iyer	Assistant Professor	Gender and agrarian change; Migration and Urbanization; Climate Change Adaptation
4.	Dr. Karthik Chandrasekhar	Assistant Professor	Discrete Mathematics; Formal Logic (Nyaya); Teaching Mathematics; Philosophy of Mathematics
5.	Dr. Amit John Kurien	Assistant Professor	Environmental Science
6.	Dr. Hasan Akthar	Assistant Professor	Environmental Science; Physical Geography
7.	Dr Sudhindra Bhimarao Maganahalli	Assistant Professor	Philosophy
8.	Dr. Abhishek Chatterjee	Assistant Professor	English Literature; Cultural Studies; Indian and World Literature

Interdisciplinary Research

Be creative. Be innovative. Send us research proposals that cut across the disciplines and areas listed above. The future of research is interdisciplinary: one that seamlessly brings together design, technology, business, economics, humanities, social sciences and arts. We encourage research proposals that can imagine and celebrate this inter-disciplinarity. We also encourage research proposals that identify problems in the industry / professional sector (be it law, education, business, etc.) and aim to find solutions to the problem.

Application Process

Submit your application at https://admissions.rvu.edu.in on or before 11 May 2024.

Steps:
1. Go to https://admissions.rvu.edu.in
2. Fill in the application form.
3. Upload the required documents.
4. Pay the application and entrance test fee of INR 1000.
5. Submit your application.
6. Apply by 11 May 2024.

Eligibility Criteria

You are eligible if you have completed a:

A. One year / two semester Masters’ Degree after a four year / eight semester Bachelors’ Degree, from a recognized University, in the relevant discipline, with a minimum 55% aggregate marks or the equivalent grade on a point scale, where a grading system is followed.

B. Two year / four semester Masters’ Degree after a three year / six semester Bachelors’ Degree, from a recognized University, in the relevant discipline, with a minimum 55% aggregate marks or the equivalent grade in a point scale, where a grading system is followed.

C. Four year / eight semester Bachelors’ degree with a minimum of 75% aggregate marks or the equivalent grade in a point scale, where a grading system is followed.

D. M.Phil. degree from a recognized University, with a minimum 55% aggregate marks or the equivalent grade on a point scale, where a grading system is followed.

Admission Procedure

Entrance Test + Viva Voce

Entrance test*

Entrance Test + Viva Voce before a research committee

Qualifying marks: 50%

*Candidates who have qualified UGC-NET and those who have an M.Phil. degree are exempted from writing the entrance exam.

Tentative Date of Entrance Examination: 26 May 2024.

Mode of Examination: Online

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Fee Structure

SN	FEE STRUCTURE	PART TIME++	FULL TIME++
1.	Application Fees & Entrance Test	INR 1000	INR 1000
2.	Provisional Registration Fees	INR 4000	INR 4000
3.	Annual Fee	INR 40000	INR 25000
4.	Dissertation Evaluation & Ph.D. Viva-Voce Fees	INR 25000	INR 25000

** A part time Ph.D. student shall pay an annual fee of INR 40,000/year for 4 years (stipulated period for completing the Ph.D. from the date of provisional registration). For each additional year (late submission), the fee is annual fee + Rs.20000/ year.

++ A full time Ph.D. student shall pay an annual fee of INR 25,000/year for 3 years (stipulated period for completing the Ph.D. from the date of provisional registration). For each additional year (late submission), the fee is annual fee + Rs.10000/ year.

The part-time Ph.D. option is open to those candidates who are working professionals and wish to pursue doctoral studies while being in employment.

The full-time Ph.D. option is open to those candidates who are not in employment and wish to pursue doctoral studies full-time.

Stipends

Stipends are available for deserving candidates.

RV University is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity and inclusion in the selection of PhD candidates.

RV University will admit only those candidates who qualify the written test and viva voce examination.

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