The Department of MCA is a recognized Research centre under VTU with 12 faculty members as approved guides. Currently 19 research scholars are pursuing research and 10 completed under this research centre.

Research areas available for PhD Program

Candidates who completed PhD Programme

List of PhDs in Progress

University Research Center Activities 2024

• Shailaja KP has been completed Pre Ph.D Comprehensive Viva Voce successfully Under the VTU research centre, Department of MCA.
• Rekha C has completed the Course work of Ph. D

University Research Center Activities 2023

• Savita Sheelavant has been completed Pre Ph.D Comprehensive Viva Voce successfully Under the VTU research centre, Department of MCA on 25th October 2023.
• Saravanan C has completed the Course works of Ph. D

University Research Center Activities 2022

The Pre-Comprehensive vivo-voice of the research scholor Pavithra S Ganapathi Bhat is completed under the guidence of Dr. Andhedharani on 18.03.2022

The Doctoral Committee Meeting of following Research Scholars under VTU Research Center, Dept of MCA, RVCE was successfully completed

University Research Center Activities 2021

The Doctoral Committee Meeting of following Research Scholars under VTU Research Center, Dept of MCA, RVCE was successfully completed

University Research Center Activities 2021-22

1. Shaila H Koppad (1RV16PEJ01) Research Scholar successfully completed her final Doctoral thesis titled “Frame work for investigating and analysing cronic obstructive pulmonary disease using big data analytics” in Defence Viva-Voce Examination  under the guidance of Dr.Anupama Kumar S, Associate Professor, Department of MCA, RVCE on 4th September 2021
2. Jayashree Baburav Madalgi (1RV15PEJ34) Research Scholar successfully completed her final Doctoral thesis titled “Effectiveness of datamining technique to detect congestion in wireless sensor network” in Defence Viva-Voce Examination  under the guidance of Dr.Anupama Kumar S, Associate Professor, Department of MCA, RVCE on 2nd September 2021
3. Shailaja K P (1RV18PMC01) Research Scholar, successfully completed Doctoral Committee Meeting under VTU Research Center, Dept of MCA, RVCE was conducted on 16th august 2021 under the Guidance of Dr. Manjunath M, Assistant Professor, Department of MCA, RV College of Engineering.
4. The DC Meeting for the research scholor Prof. Savita Sheelavant 1RV19PMC02 was conducted on 14th  July 2021 , Under the Guidance of Dr. Preethi N Patil.

University Research Center Activities 2020-21

1. Mr Guduru Kiran Kumar successfully completed his final Doctoral thesis titled “Development of Methods to reduce Network Congestion in Telecom Signaling” in Defence Viva-Voce Examination  under the guidance of Dr.Usha J, Professor, Department of MCA, RVCE on 10th December 2020

2. Mrs. Deepika K successfully completed her final Doctoral thesis titled “Improvement of Human Tracking using Sensor Based System” in Defence Viva-Voce Examination  under the guidance of Dr.Usha J, Professor, Department of MCA, RVCE on 24th September 2020

3. Mrs. Sudha M, External research Scholar, successfully completed her final Doctoral thesis titled “Development of efficient fault tolerant methods and practices for cloud computing environment” in Defence Viva-Voce Examination  under the guidance of Dr.Usha J, Professor, Department of MCA, RVCE on 30th September 2020

4. Mr. Jayasimha S R successfully completed her final Doctoral thesis titled “Development of Energy Efficient Algorithms for Cloud Environment” in Defence Viva-Voce Examination  under the guidance of Dr.Usha J, Professor, Department of MCA, RVCE on 10th August 2020
5. Mrs. Deepika K successfully completed her final Doctoral thesis titled “Improvement of  Human Tracking  using Sensor Based System” in Defence Viva-Voce Examination  under the guidance of Dr.Usha J, Professor, Department of MCA, RVCE on 24th September 2020
6. Mrs. Sudha M, External research Scholar, successfully completed her final Doctoral thesis titled “Development of efficient fault tolerant methods and practices for cloud computing environment” in Defence Viva-Voce Examination  under the guidance of Dr.Usha J, Professor, Department of MCA, RVCE on 30th September 2020

University Research Center Activities 2019-2020

• Research Scholars under Dr.Usha J submitted Thesis on 17th January 2020. Details are:       

1. GUDURU KIRAN KUMAR -1RV12PEN02

   Title: Development of Methods to Reduce Network Congestion in Telecom Signaling

2. SUDHA M -1RV12PEN04

   Title: Development of Efficient Fault Tolerant Methods and Practices for Cloud Computing Environment

3. DEEPIKA K -1RV15PEJ27

   Title: Improvement of human tracking using sensor based system

4. JAYASIMHA S R -1RV16PEJ25

   Title: Development of energy efficient algorithms for cloud environment

• A pre submission colloquium was conducted for the research scholars under Dr.Usha J

1. Mr.Jayasimha SR on 17/10/2020
2. Mrs.Sudha M on 18/10/2020
3. Mr Kiran Kumar Guduru on 18/10/2020
4. Mrs.Deepika K on 18/10/2020

• DC meeting of Mrs Shailaja KP, 1RV18PMCO1 pursuing PhD Under the guide ship of Dr Manjunath M was conducted on 17th October 2019

• An open seminar for PhD Scholars under VTU research Centre, Dept.of MCA was conducted on 24^th August 2019 from 9.30am to 12.30pm. The Seminar facilitated the doctoral students to discuss their research works with experts and colleagues in their field of research and getting feedback and suggestions for being suitably incorporate them into their research work. The Technical experts present during the seminar are Dr. Mallikarjun B C, Associate Professor, Department of EEE, Siddaganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur as external domain expert and Dr. Sathish Babu, Professor, Department of CSE, RVCE Bengaluru as internal domain expert. The research scholars participated and benefited from the seminar are Jayashri Baburao Madalgi (1RV15PEJ34), Shrikant H Koppad (1RV17PEA14), Vyshali J Gogi (1RV16PEJ02), Pavithra S Ganapathi Bhat(1RV17PEA01), Shailaja K P(1RV18PMC01).
• One day workshop is conducted for all research scholars under RVCE Research forum on 15th July 2019 at RVCE, Bengaluru. The research scholars  Guduru Kiran Kumar (1RV12PEN02), Chandrani Chakravorty (1RV12PEN25), Deepika K (1RV15PEJ27), Santosh Akki (1RV15PEJ28), Shaila H Koppad (1RV16PEJ01), Jayasimha S.R (1RV16PEJ25), Pavithra S Ganapathi Bhat (1RV17PEA01), Shailaja K P (1RV18PMC01), Savita Sheelavant (1RV19PMC02), K Prashanth (1RV19PMC01) are participated.
• The Doctoral Committee Meeting of following Research Scholars under VTU Research Center, Dept of MCA, R.V.C.E was conducted under the Guidance of Dr. Usha J

• Mrs. Divya T L successfully completed her final Doctoral thesis titled “Analysis and prediction of forest fire occurrence and its consequences using data mining techniques” in Defence Viva-Voce Examination  under the guidance of Dr.Vijayalakshmi M N, Associate Professor, Department of MCA, RVCE on 21st March 2019.
• Comprehensive viva of Mrs. Vyshali. J. Gogi (1RV16PEJ02) was conducted on 30th March 2019.
• The Doctoral Committee Meeting of following Research Scholars under VTU Research Center, Dept of MCA, R.V.C.E was conducted on 30th March 2019.

• Derick John Mathew (1RV13PEN30) has successfully completed his PhD Comprehensive Viva-Voce Completion under the Guidance of Dr. Andhe Dharani.

University Research Center Activities 2018

• Mr. Mohanaradhya, Assistant. Professor, Dept. of MCA, defenced Ph.D Viva-Voce examination entitled with “Performance Analysis in Identifying an Efficient and Optimal method for Adhoc and Sensor Networks” held at VTU Research Center, Department of MCA, RVCE 30^th August 2018
• Jayasimha SR have completed Pre Ph.D Comprehensive Viva Voce successfully under the MCA VTU research center
• An Open Seminar was conducted for the Research Scholars registered under VTU Research Center, Department of MCA , RVCE  on 24^th February 2018. Dr. Saroj K Meher, Associate Professor, System Science and Informatics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bengaluru was the evaluator for the seminar. Dr. Jasmine K S co-ordinated the event

University Research Center Activities 2017

• The Department of MCA is a recognized Research centre under VTU from 2011 – 2018 with 11  approved research guides and 21 research scholars
• Mrs. Sandhya S, Asst. Professor, Dept. of MCA has successfully completed Ph.D Viva-Voce examination held on 28^th January 2017, with the thesis titled “An Integrated Framework to optimize security mechanisms in Bluetooth Environment” under VTU Research Center, Department of MCA, RVCE
• Ms. Chandrani C,  Mrs. Deepika K and Jayashri Baburao Madalgi have completed Pre Ph.D Comprehensive Viva Voce successfully under the MCA VTU research center

University Research Center Activities 2016

• An Open Seminar was conducted for the Research Scholars registered under VTU Research Center, Department of MCA , RVCE  on 24^th September 2016. Dr SathishKumar S , Associate Professor, RNSIT was the evaluator for the seminar. Dr Andhe Dharani and Dr Nagamuthu Krishnan co ordinated the event
• Workshop on "Data Analytics Using R-Tool" on 23^rd -24^th April 2016. Four research scholors of this center attended.
• Workshop on “Effective Research Paper Writing” for the II & IV semester MCA Students, was conducted on 9^th April 2016, under Research center, Department of MCA, RVCE. Dr. Usha J, Director, MCA - delivered a talk  on “Research Paper – Need and Necessity”, Dr. Vijayalakshmi M N, Associate Professor, MCA - conducted a session  on “Contents of a Research Paper”, Dr. Sridevi T R, Chief librarian, RVCE, conducted a session on “Facilities & Services at Library” and Dr. Anupama Kumar, Associate Professor, MCA, delivered a talk on “Referencing & Sample Paper”