ahmedabad gujarat technological university gtu awarded its first two phd degrees to two computer science students shalvi dave and bhavin shah at its fifth convocation held on thursday daves thesis was on network access and admission restriction using traffic analysis and vulnerability detection while shah got his degree for his thesis titled improving anomaly detection process in computer networks having existing ids using additional behaviour layer optimized back propagation neural network and mobile agents dave who had battled cancer during her studies said that she and her guide collaborated with a private firm working on live networks for analysis and study on the basis of their work she had also filed for a patent she said our challenge was to maintain the network performance even at the time of cause analysis she said she has worked as a teacher at a private university i have combined cyber security with artificial intelligence ai and for this i have filed for a patent the ai will detect and thwart virus attacks for this it will continuously scan and analyze the available data several components of the projects have won awards on national and international platforms said shah a lecturer at a citybased college follow your dreams gurnani the scenario in the retail sector is changing similarly every industry will change similarly every industry will change as a part of the revolution this situation is volatile uncertain complex and ambiguous said c p gurnani vicechairman nasscom while add ressing the audience at the convocation the situation was challenging he stressed and the key to success lies in not losing your dreams the moment you start following your dreams you will be successful gurnani told the 4000 new gtu graduates who had come to receive their degree certificates in person this year 38323 students across gujarat have graduated from different colleges under gtu and 148 students have been awarded gold medals for outstanding academic records chancellor of gujarat technological university gtu and gujarat governor o p kohli said india is passing through a transformation youth power in the country will be the main source for that transformation the degrees which universities are providing to students are not only to make careers but also to transform selves to transform the society and to transform the country due to globalization we are facing tough competition said kohli adding that knowledge revolution and technology are the new engines of growth our prime minister narendra modi wants speedier transformation thats why he is starting programmes like make in india startup and innovation kohli added