Student Name: Sufiyan Arif Mallu Supervisor(s): Professor Peter Dankelmann and Dr. Sonwabile Mafunda Title of Thesis: Bounds on Proximity and Remoteness in Graphs and Digraphs Year Completed: 2025 Institution: University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Master's Students
Student Name: Ayanda Thabede Supervisor(s): Dr. Sonwabile Mafunda and Dr. Mark Sias Title of Thesis: Spectral Methods in the DES Cryptographic Algorithm Year Completed: 2025 Institution: University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Student Name: Sufiyan Arif Mallu Supervisor(s): Professor Peter Dankelmann and Dr. Sonwabile Mafunda Title of Thesis: Proximity and Remoteness in Graphs Link to Thesis:Click Here Year Completed: 2022 Institution: University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Honours/ Final Year Projects/ Capstones Students
2025--2026 (In Progress): Masashiro Uchida – Soka University of America, USA - Project Title: TBC
2021: Ashely Masuku – University of Johannesburg, South Africa - Project Title: Metric Dimension in Graphs
2021: Keletso Mabutla – University of Johannesburg, South Africa - Project Title: Automorphism Groups of Simple Graphs
2019: Sufiyan Arif Mallu – University of Johannesburg, South Africa - Project Title: On the Fixing Number of Graphs
Research Assistant Students
2025: Masashiro Uchida - Soka University of America, USA - Project Title: On the Effect Edge-Deletion on Proximity and Remoteness in Graphs
2025: Devin Weber - Soka University of America, USA - Project Title: On the Weiner Index in 2-Connected (and for 2-edge-connected) Graphs
2024: Masashiro Uchida - Soka University of America, USA - Project Title: On Proximity and Remoteness in Graphs
2024: Mahir Anand - Soka University of America, USA - Project Title: School on Graph Theory: Sofware Development, Structuring and Analysis