The following faculty members of Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering (VVCE), Mysuru, have been conferred Ph.Ds during the 21st convocation of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) on Mar.10:

D. Khasim Vali was awarded Ph.D in Computer and Information Sciences for his thesis “Retrieval Of Identical Tune Songs From Different Languages With A Tune Input” submitted under the guidance of Dr.Nagappa U. Bhajantri.

N.S. Prema was awarded Ph.D in Computer and Information Sciences for her thesis “Some Analysis And Prediction Techniques For Maternal Health Care System” submitted under the guidance of Dr. M.P. Pushpalatha.

N. Mohammed Muddasir was awarded Ph.D in Computer and Information Sciences for his thesis “Study And Evaluation Of Performance Optimization Techniques Of Near Real Time ETL” submitted under the guidance of Dr. K. Raghuveer.

P. Ravi was awarded Ph.D in Computer and Information Sciences for his thesis “OCR System For Ancient Kannada Epigraph” sub-mitted under the guidance ofDr. C. Naveena.

H.N. Naveen Kumar was awarded Ph.D in Electronics and Communication Engineering Sciences for his thesis “Deve-lopment of Novel Facial Expression Recognition System by using Hybrid Facial Features” submitted under the guidance of Dr.Chandrashekhar M. Patil.

B.B. Ganesh was awarded Ph.D in Mechanical Engi-neering Sciences for his thesis “Effect of Fin Perforations on the Rate of Heat Transfer under Forced Convection” submitted under the guidance of Dr. G.V. Naveen Prakash.

B. Vinod was awarded Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering Sciences for his thesis “Investigation of the Effect of Irradiation and Cryogenic Treatmenton the Behaviour of Pineapple Leaf Fibre ReinforcedPolymer Composites” submitted under the guidance ofDr. L.J. Sudev.

Arun C. Dixit was awarded Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering Sciences for his thesis titled “Studies on fatigue behaviour of Aluminium Boron Carbide Metal Matrix Composites” under the guidance of Dr. M. V. Achutha and Dr. B.K. Sridhara.