About Me

I am a faculty member at the CSE Department, IIT Hyderabad. I am part of the Theory group.

Research Interests

I am interested in all aspects of Theoretical Computer Science. I have worked on Complexity Theory, Combinatorics and Graph Algorithms.

Education

Recent Publications

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(2025). Extremal Results on Conflict-Free Coloring. Journal of Graph Theory.

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(2025). The Complexity of Optimizing Atomic Congestion. Artificial Intelligence, Volume 338, 104241.

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(2025). VEXIR2Vec: An Architecture-Neutral Embedding Framework for Binary Similarity. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

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(2025). Conflict-free coloring on subclasses of perfect graphs and bipartite graphs. Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 1031, 115080.

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(2024). Conflict-Free Coloring: Graphs of Bounded Clique Width and Intersection Graphs. Algorithmica, Volume 86, Issue 7, Pages 2250 - 2288.

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Students

Ph.D. Students

M.Tech. Students

  • Sangram Kapre. Aug 2011 - July 2013
  • Anubhav Jain. Aug 2011 - July 2014
  • Natti Bhuvana Sai. Aug 2013 - July 2015
  • Yogesh Charan. Aug 2013 - July 2015
  • Rajeev Ranjan. Aug 2016 - July 2018
  • Darivemula Mamatha Rani. Aug 2018 - July 2020
  • Soumyakanta Sahoo. Aug 2019 - July 2021
  • Prashanth Vaidya. Aug 2020 - July 2022
  • Raghvendra Gupta. Aug 2022 - July 2024

Teaching

This semester (January - April 2025)

  • CS5200. Approximation Algorithms. 3 credits.

Taught over NPTEL

Previous semesters ( full list)

I usually teach courses in the area of Theoretical Computer Science. Courses that I have offered in the past fall into broadly two categories — graduate level elective courses and undergraduate level core courses such as Data Structures, Algorithms and Theory of Computation. Click here to see the full list of courses.

Contact

  • +91 40 2301 6355
  • Room CS-508, EECS Building,
    IIT Hyderabad,
    Kandi, Sangareddy, 502285
  • Email me to set up an appointment