The following contains the names of the fine young men and women with whom I have / had the pleasure of working, when they chose me to be the advisor for their doctoral and masters dissertations.

Doctoral Students:

Name: Mr. Kavit NANAVATI Time Period: January 2020 - Research Interests: Connectives on Relational Structures Publications: K. Nanavati, M. Gupta and B. Jayaram, " Distance Functions from Fuzzy Logic Connectives: A State-of-the-art Survey " , Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 490, 109040, 2024. .   K. Nanavati, M. Gupta and B. Jayaram, " Fuzzy Implications - A (Dis)similarity Perspective " , Int. Jl. of Approximate Reasoning, 168, 109145, 2024.   K. Nanavati, M. Gupta and B. Jayaram, " Pseudo-Monometrics from Fuzzy Implications " , Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 467, 108484, 2023.   K. Nanavati and B. Jayaram, " Order from Non-Associative Operations " , Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 466, 108429, 2023.   R. Fernandez-Peralta, Megha Gupta, Kavit Nanavati, S. Massanet and B. Jayaram, Subgroup Discovery through Sharp Transitions using Implicative Type Rules, 2023 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, Fuzz-IEEE 2023 , Songdo Incheon, Korea, August 13-17, 2023.   Megha Gupta, Kavit Nanavati and B. Jayaram, Monometrics on Lattice Betweenness using Fuzzy Implications, 12th International Summer School on Aggregation Operators, AGOP 2023 , Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 4-8, 2023 . Best Paper Award Winner   Kavit Nanavati, Megha Gupta and B. Jayaram, A Study of Monometrics from Fuzzy Logic Connectives, 12th International Summer School on Aggregation Operators, AGOP 2023 , Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 4-8, 2023 . Best Paper Award Nominee   Kavit Nanavati, Megha Gupta and B. Jayaram, Distances from Fuzzy Implications, 3rd International Conference on Computational Intelligence, ICCI 2022 , Pune, Indial, December, 2022.   Kavit Nanavati, Megha Gupta and B. Jayaram, Monodistances from Fuzzy Implications, 19th International Conference of Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2022 , Milan, Italy, July 11-15, 2022.   Kavit Nanavati and B. Jayaram, On the Order-Compatibility of Fuzzy Logic Connectives on the Generated Clifford Poset, 19th International Conference of Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2022 , Milan, Italy, July 11-15, 2022.   Kavit Nanavati, Megha Gupta and B. Jayaram, Metrics from Fuzzy Implications and their Application, 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence PReMI 2021 , Kolkata, India, 2021 .   K. Nanavati and B. Jayaram, Orders based on Non-Associative Operations, 11th International Summer School on Aggregation Operators, AGOP 2021 , Bratislava, Slovakia, 2021 .

Name: Ms. Megha GUPTA Time Period: August 2018 - July 2023 Research Interests: A Study of Distance Functions on Relational Structures Publications: M. Gupta and B. Jayaram, " Appropriateness of Distances in Nearest Neighbour Classification: A Monometric Perspective " , Pattern Analysis and Applications, Accepted .   K. Nanavati, M. Gupta and B. Jayaram, " Distance Functions from Fuzzy Logic Connectives: A State-of-the-art Survey " , Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 490, 109040, 2024. .   K. Nanavati, M. Gupta and B. Jayaram, " Fuzzy Implications - A (Dis)similarity Perspective " , Int. Jl. of Approximate Reasoning, 168, 109145, 2024.   K. Nanavati, M. Gupta and B. Jayaram, " Pseudo-Monometrics from Fuzzy Implications " , Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 467, 108484, 2023.   M. Gupta and B. Jayaram, " Fuzzy Compatibility Relations and Pseudo-Monometrics: Some Correspondences " , Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 451, pp. 342-360, 2022 .   Megha Gupta, Kavit Nanavati and B. Jayaram, Monometrics on Lattice Betweenness using Fuzzy Implications, 12th International Summer School on Aggregation Operators, AGOP 2023 , Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 4-8, 2023 . Best Paper Award Winner   Kavit Nanavati, Megha Gupta and B. Jayaram, A Study of Monometrics from Fuzzy Logic Connectives, 12th International Summer School on Aggregation Operators, AGOP 2023 , Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 4-8, 2023 . Best Paper Award Nominee   Namasivayam Kalidasan, Megha Gupta and B. Jayaram, Making Fractional Distances work in the presence of White Noise - Motivation and Challenges, 9th ACM IKDD CODS and 27th COMAD - Young Researcher Symposium Track, CODS-COMAD 2021 , Bangalore, India, 2021 .   Kavit Nanavati, Megha Gupta and B. Jayaram, Metrics from Fuzzy Implications and their Application, 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence PReMI 2021 , Kolkata, India, 2021 .   M. Gupta and B. Jayaram, Fuzzy Relations and Monometrics: Some Correspondences, 11th International Summer School on Aggregation Operators, AGOP 2021 , Bratislava, Slovakia, 2021 .

Name: Mr. Vikash GUPTA Time Period: January 2017 - December 2021 Research Interests: Order from Non-Associative Algebras Publications: V. Gupta and B. Jayaram, " Clifford’s Order from Uninorms on Bounded Lattices " , Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 462, 108384, 2023.   V. Gupta and B. Jayaram, " On the pecking order between those of Mitsch and Clifford " , Math. Slovaca, 73(3), pp. 565-582, 2023.   V. Gupta and B. Jayaram, " Importation Lattices " , Fuzzy Sets and Systems , 405, pp. 1 - 17, 2021.   V. Gupta and B. Jayaram, " Order from Associative Operations " , Information Sciences , 566, pp. 326 - 346, 2021 .   V. Gupta and B. Jayaram, Orders from Uninorms on Bounded Lattices: Some Perspectives , 11th International Summer School on Aggregation Operators, AGOP 2021 , Bratislava, Slovakia, 2021 .   V. Gupta and B. Jayaram, Importation Algebras, 10th Intl. Summer School on Aggregation Operators, AGOP 2019 , Olomouc, Czech Republic, July 1 - 4, 2019.   Current Position: Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Hyderabad, India.

Name: Dr. Nageswara Rao VEMURI Time Period: August 2010 - May 2014 Research Interests: Fuzzy Logic Connectives, Algebra. Thesis Topic: The -Composition - A Novel Generating Method of Fuzzy Implications: An Algebraic Study Defended on: 19th, September 2014. Publications: N.R. Vemuri and B. Jayaram, " Bijective Transformations of Fuzzy Implications - An Algebraic Perspective" , Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Accepted.   N.R. Vemuri and B. Jayaram, " The -Composition of Fuzzy Implications : Closures with respect to Properties, Powers and Families " , Fuzzy Sets and Systems , 275, pp. 58 - 87, 2015 .   N.R. Vemuri and B. Jayaram, " Homomorphisms on the Monoid of Fuzzy Implications and the Iterative Functional Equation I(x,I(x,y)) = I(x,y) " , Information Sciences , 298, pp. 1 -21, 2015 .   N.R. Vemuri and B. Jayaram, " Representations through a Monoid on the set of Fuzzy Implications " , Fuzzy Sets and Systems , 247, pp. 51 - 67, 2014 .   Current Position: Asst Professor, University of Hyderabad.

Name: Dr. Sayantan MANDAL Time Period: August 2010 - May 2014 Research Interests: Fuzzy Inference Systems Thesis Topic: Bandler-Kohout Subproduct with Yager's Classes of Fuzzy Implication: A Comprehensive Study Defended on: 5th, January 2015. Publications: S. Mandal and B. Jayaram, "Monotonicity of SISO Fuzzy Relational Inference with Implicative Rule Base" , IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Submitted .   S. Mandal and B. Jayaram, " Fuzzy Relational Inference systems based on Fuzzy Implications are Universal Approximators " , Fuzzy Sets and Systems , Accepted, doi:10.1016/j.fss.2014.10.003   S. Mandal and B. Jayaram, " Bandler-Kohout Subproduct with Yager's classes of Fuzzy Implications " , IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems , 22(3), pp. 469 - 482, 2014 .   Current Position: Asst Professor, SRM, Amaravati.

M.Sc Dissertations Guided:

Name: Mr. Madhav YADAV Time Period: August 2022 - June 2023 Research Interests: Data Analysis Thesis Topic: Classification using Distance-based Relational Pivoting

Name: Mr. Amrit KUMAR Time Period: August 2021 - June 2022 Research Interests: Data Analysis Thesis Topic: Kernelised Fuzzy-Rough set theoretic approaches to Supervised Learning

Name: Mr. Namasivayam KALIDASAN Time Period: August 2020 - July 2021 Research Interests: Data Analysis Thesis Topic: On the appropriateness of fractional distances in similarity searches Publications:     Namasivayam Kalidasan, Megha Gupta and B. Jayaram, Making Fractional Distances work in the presence of White Noise - Motivation and Challenges, 9th ACM IKDD CODS and 27th COMAD - Young Researcher Symposium Track, CODS-COMAD 2021 , Bangalore, India, 2021 .

Name: Ms. Avneet KAUR Time Period: August 2019 - July 2020 Research Interests: Data Analysis Thesis Topic: The Effect of High Dimensions on the Discriminative Power of Kernels Publications:     Avneet Kaur, Harsh Raj and B. Jayaram, "On the Unsurprising Behaviour of Kernels in High Dimensions" , 5th IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation, ICCCA 2020, India, 2020.

Name: Ms. Diksha SHARMA Time Period: August 2018 - May 2019 Research Interests: Time Series, Fuzzy Inference Systems Thesis Topic: Time-Series Analysis Using Fuzzy Set Theoretical Approach Publications:     Diksha Sharma and B. Jayaram, " Predicting Time Series using MISO Fuzzy Relational Inference Systems " , Journal of Combinatorics, information & System Science , Accepted.

Name: Mr. Arpan SINGH Time Period: August 2018 - May 2019 Research Interests: Role of distances in High Dimensions Thesis Topic: De-noising Distances: A Data Analysis Perspective Publications:     Arpan Singh and B. Jayaram, " Minkowski-type Distances in Approximate Query Searches " , Comp. and Appl. Math., 43:187, 2024.   Arpan Singh and B. Jayaram, " Performance of Minkowski-type Distances in Similarity Search - A Geometric Approach" , 5th IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation, ICCCA 2020, India, 2020.

Name: Ms. Megha GUPTA Time Period: August 2017 - May 2018 Research Interests: Non-classical Measures and Integrals Thesis Topic: Special Fuzzy Integrals: Theory and Applications

Name: Ms. Puja PANDEY Time Period: August 2017 - May 2018 Research Interests: Non-additive Measures Thesis Topic: Non-additive measures in Optimization

Name: Mr. Satya Prakash SINGH Time Period: August 2016 - May 2017 Research Interests: Fuzzy Implication Operators Thesis Topic: A new class of fuzzy implications on the interval valued lattice. Publications:     S. P. Singh and B. Jayaram, " A New Class of Fuzzy Implication on LI " , Journal of Combinatorics, information & System Science , 43, pp. 155-166, 2019 .

Name: Ms. Heena BALANI Time Period: August 2015 - May 2016 Research Interests: Fuzzy Inference Systems Thesis Topic: The SIRM Fuzzy Inference System: Interpolativity and Monotonicity Publications:     H. Balani and B. Jayaram, " The SIRM Fuzzy Inference System: A Study of its Suitability " , Uncertainty Modeling, UM 2016, Slovakia, 2016 .

Name: Mr. Akshay GOEL Time Period: August 2015 - May 2016 Research Interests: Concentration of Norms Thesis Topic: Probabilistic Analysis Of Dispersion Function - An Index For Concentration Of Distances In High Dimensional Spaces Publications:     A. Goel and B. Jayaram, " Probabilistic Analysis Of Dispersion Function " , Under preparation.

Name: Ms. Sushma KUMARI Time Period: April 2014 - May 2015 Research Interests: Concentration of Distances Thesis Topic: Distances in High Dimensions: Concentration vs Stability Publications:     S. Kumari and B. Jayaram, " Measuring Concentration of Distances - An Effective and Efficient Empirical Index " , IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 29(2), pp. 373 - 386, 2017 .

Name: Mr. P. Balaji Time Period: April 2003 - March 2004 Research Interests: Fuzzy Systems Thesis Topic: Desirable Properties of Fuzzy Implications for Fuzzy Systems Publications:     P. Balaji, C.J.M. Rao and J.Balasubramaniam, "On The Suitability of Yager's Implication for Fuzzy Systems" , International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence, ICAAI'03, Pune India, December 15 - 16, 2003.

M.Tech Dissertations Guided:

• Maan Singh, "Kernel-Based Clustering:A Comparative Study ", 2010 - 2012, M.Tech Dissertation.
• Vandana, "Image Enahmcement in the framework of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets ", 2009 - 2011, M.Tech Dissertation.
• K.V.D.L. Narayana, " Fuzzy Inference System based Contrast Enhancement", 2008 - 2010, M.Tech Dissertation.
• P.Balaji, "ConFLICT - Configurable Fuzzy Logic Inference Characterization Tool ", 2003 - 05, M.Tech Dissertation.