Back close
Admissions

Ardra P. S.

Assistant Professor, School of Artificial Intelligence, Coimbatore.

Qualification: Ph. D. in Computer Science and Engineering
ps_ardra1@cb.amrita.edu
Orcid Profile
Google Scholar Profile
Research Interest: Graph Algorithms, Parameterized Complexity, Theoretical Computer Science

Bio Publications Quallification Positions  Teaching  GIAN/Workshops Awards/Honors/Recognition
Bio

Dr. Ardra P. S. is an Assistant Professor in the School of Artificial Intelligence at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad; her doctoral thesis is titled “Color-Constrained Substructures in Edge-Colored Graphs.” Her extensive experience includes six years of research, four years of academic teaching and two and a half years as an Associate System Engineer at IBM India. Her peer-reviewed publications appear in leading journals including Electronics Journal of Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science, and her conference publications include a best paper award for the paper presented during the 48th edition of SOFSEM (2023), held in Slovakia.

Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2026

Balanced substructures in bicolored graphs

Cite this Research Publication : P.S. Ardra, R. Krithika, Saket Saurabh, Roohani Sharma, Balanced substructures in bicolored graphs, Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier BV, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2026.115745

Publisher : Elsevier BV

Year : 2026

Color-Constrained Arborescences in Edge-Colored Digraphs

Cite this Research Publication : P. S. Ardra, Jasine Babu, R. Krithika, Deepak Rajendraprasad, Color-Constrained Arborescences in Edge-Colored Digraphs, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2026, https://doi.org/10.37236/14453

Publisher : The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics

Year : 2025

Arborescences and shortest path trees when colors matter

Cite this Research Publication : P.S. Ardra, Jasine Babu, Kritika Kashyap, R. Krithika, Sreejith K. Pallathumadam, Deepak Rajendraprasad, Arborescences and shortest path trees when colors matter, Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier BV, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tcs.2025.115486

Publisher : Elsevier BV

Conference Paper

Year : 2023

Balanced Substructures in Bicolored Graphs

Cite this Research Publication : P. S. Ardra, R. Krithika, Saket Saurabh, Roohani Sharma: Balanced Substructures in Bicolored Graphs. SOFSEM 2023: Theory and Practice of Computer Science - 48th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, {SOFSEM} 2023, Nov{\'{y}} Smokovec, Slovakia, January 15-18, 2023, Proceedings : 177-191

Publisher : SOFSEM 2023: Theory and Practice of Computer Science - 48th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science

Quallification
  • Ph. D. :July 2019- January 2026 Specialization:  Computer Science and Engineering Thesis title:   Color-Constrained Substructures in Edge-Colored Graphs
  • M.Tech : 2011 – 2013
    Specialization:  Computer Science and Engineering
    Thesis title: Secure Multipath Routing Overlays and Misbehaviour in Disruption Tolerant Networks
Positions 

Current Positions

  • Assistant Professor (On Contract) at School of AI, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Coimbatore , (November 2025 – present)

Past Positions

  • Junior Research Fellow at IIT Palakkad (August 2024 – November 2025)
  • Research Scholar at IIT Palakkad (July 2019 – January 2026)
  • Assistant Manager – Learning and Development (Technical), Corporate and Industry Relations at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Coimbatore (July 2015 – July 2019)
  • Application Developer at IBM India Pvt Ltd (February 2013 – July 2015)
Teaching 

Courses Taught

  • Big Data Analytics, November 2025 – April 2026, UG

Teaching Assistant at IIT Palakkad (2019 – 2025):

  1. Data Structures and Algorithms, UG
  2. Data Structures and Algorithms (Lab), UG
  3. Design and Analysis of Algorithms, UG
  4. Advanced Algorithms, UG/PG
  5. Discrete Mathematics, UG
  6. Parameterized Algorithms, UG/PG
GIAN/Workshops

Certifications:

  1. Data Structures by University of California, San Diego (Coursera), 2016
  2. AWS Cloud Practitioner by Amazon Web Services, 2018
  3. Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) by National Instruments, 2017

Workshops / Conferences Attended

  • Forty-Fifth IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2025), 14thto  20th December 2025 at the BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, India.
  • 44th conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2024) 16thto 19th December 2024 at IIT Gandhinagar, India.
  • International Conference on Graph Theory and its Applications, December 2023 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India.
  • Recent Trends in Algorithms, July 2023 at NISER, Bhubaneswar, India.
  • Forty Eighth International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2023), January 2023 at Novy Smokovec, Slovakia.
  • IBM Bluemix Cloud Computing Platform – Workshop on Innovative Thinking in Research and Development,  at IBM India.
  • National Level Workshop on Supporting Tools for Multidisciplinary Research in Networks at Kongu Engineering College
  • Train the Trainer Workshops on Python Programming and Cloud Computing by Infosys
  • AWS Cloud Computing Architecture workshop by AWS Academy and ICTACT
Awards/Honors/Recognition
  1. Best Paper Award for the paper “Balanced Substructures in Bicolored Graphs” presented at Forty Eighth International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science SOFSEM held at Novy Smokovec, Slovakia.
Admissions Apply Now