Vaibhav B Joshi is the first PhD scholar from School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University. His PhD thesis title is "Securing Biometrics through Data hiding techniques". Dr. Mehul Raval was his PhD thesis supervisor.
 
Members of Vaibhav's Thesis Advisory Committee are Professor Priti P Rege (Professor and Head, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Department, College of Engineering Pune), Professor N Padmanabhan, (Professor, Ahmedabad University) and Professor Mehul S Raval (Associate Professor, Ahmedabad University)
Members of his PhD Examination Committee were Professor S N Merchant (Professor Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India) and Professor Arun Somani (Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Philip and Virginia Sproul Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA