It is a matter of pride and honour for the department that Acharya Nagarjuna University recognized it as a research centre in March 2004 to offer M. Phil and Ph.D. in mathematics. The recognition has ignited the creative minds of the post graduate students of mathematics and every year two to three students joined for M. Phil and after its completion registered for Ph.D. Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao, Professor & HOD of the department is recognizes as a research director by ANU. So far under the guidance of Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao, 3 Ph.D”s and 9 M.Phils were awarded through this research centre. Commendable work is being done in algebra ( rings, lattices ) and graph theory(topological indices, magic labelings).Several papers were published in national and international journals and these research students have presented papers in several national and international conferences and symposia.

S.No.	Name of the student	Year of Admission	Name of the course	Title of the Dissertation	Name of the guide	Remarks
1	K.  Lavanya     Lakshmi	2004	M. Phil	Polars and Annihilators in Seminormal Lattice ordered Autometrized Algebras	Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao	Awarded in 2006
2	B.S.K. Chaitanya	2004	M. Phil	A group theoretical study of second ordered magneto resistance and second order piezoelectricity in quasicrystals	Dr. P. Hemagiri Rao	Awarded in 2006
3	M. Prasanthi	2004	M. Phil	Minimal prime ideals in seminormal lattice ordered autometrized algebras	Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao	Awarded in 2006
4	P.V. Srinivas	2005	M. Phil	On a class of seminormal lattice ordered autometrized algebras	Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao	Awarded in 2007
5	M. Siva Mala	2005	M. Phil	On a Class of Semi lattice ordered  semirings	Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao	Awarded in 2007
6	K. Kiran Kumar	2005	M. Phil	Implicative Semilattices	Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao	Awarded in 2010
7	A. Lakshmi Prasanna	2006	M. Phil	On Wiener, PI & Szeged indices of penta chains	Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao	Awarded in 2009
8	K. Sunita	2006	M. Phil	On Representable  Autometrized  Algebras	Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao	Awarded in 2010
9	M. Srujana	2008	M. Phil	Randic and Sh indices of certain classes of pentachains.	Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao	Awarded in 2013
10	P. Srinivasa Rao	2008	M. Phil	On  hyper lattices	Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao	Awarded in 2012
11	K. Lakshmi Lavanya	2008	Ph.D	On certain topological indices of phynelynes	Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao	Awarded in 2014
12	P.V. Srinivas	2008	Ph.D	Ideal theory of sum-ordered partial semirings	Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao	Awarded in 2012
13	N. Karunakar	2008	Ph.D		Dr. N. Prabhakara Rao	Registered

The staff members of the department who have registered / Completed Ph.D other than the research centre of the department are :

14	J.Bhaskar Babujee	2000	Ph.D	On Graph labellings	Dr.N.Prabhakara Rao	Awarded in 2004
15	K.V.L.N. Acharyulu	2003	Ph.D	A Study on some Mathematical models of Ecological Ammensalism between Multiple Interacting Species.	Dr. N. Ch. Pattabhiramacharyulu	Awarded in 201