Seshagiri Rao Vellanki

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Dr Seshagiri Rao Vellanki
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Seshagiri Rao V in 2015 [1]
Born (1953-01-10) 10 January 1953 (age 71)
Kolavennu, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
NationalityIndian
Scientific career
Fields Space research, Realtime Systems, [2] Digital Signal Processing, [3] Flight Safety, [4] Computer Software, Radars
Institutions ISRO
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Former Distinguished Scientist ISRO

Dr. Seshagiri Rao Vellanki is an Indian scientist and is former distinguished scientist and associate director of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He worked in ISRO for more than 39 years in various capacities. He also served in ISRO as Prof. Satish Dhawan for three years. He was instrumental in setting up state of the art Real Time Systems [5] and computer networks for flight safety at SDSC SHAR. He also developed data processing software required for displaying flight trajectories. Pulse Coherent Mono-pulse Radars (PCMC) development and commissioning was carried out under his leadership. He also developed and implemented various algorithms required for wind profile estimation for weather monitoring. [6] He worked extensively in Mission Simulations and Post flight trajectory estimation and data analytics.[ citation needed ]

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He has worked as Deputy Director, Range Operations (RO), Deputy Director, Vehicle Assembly and Static Test (VAST) Facility. He also served as Controller SDSC SHAR. He contributed significantly to the Satellite recovery experiment, [7] Chandrayan-1, Mangalyaan [8] [9] and many other missions. ISRO’s prestigious Multi Object Tracking Radar (MOTR) [10] [11] was designed, developed [12] and commissioned under his guidance as Project Director. He is responsible for developing and implementing Software for Computerisation Of Working Administrative areas for ISRO in all centres. He has visited numerous colleges [13] [14] and universities [15] to deliver motivational talks [16] [17] to students in science and technology.

Personal life

Rao was born on 10 January 1953, in Kolavennu, a village in the Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh. He completed his schooling at Elementary school and Zilla Parishad High School at Kolavennu village in Telugu Medium. He completed his Pre-University Course (PUC) in 1969 at Andhra Christian College Guntur.[ citation needed ] He is a B.Sc. graduate from J.K.C College, Guntur in 1972. Later he completed his post-graduation M.Sc. (Physics – Electronics) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam in 1974. He joined Andhra University as a Junior Research Fellow (JRF)[ citation needed ] and ultimately completed his Ph.D. degree at Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati.

Rao currently resides in Hyderabad, Telangana state, where he supports various academic, [18] scientific and IT [19] institutions in their research activities.

Academic and research activities

He has authored and co-authored more than 60 papers [20] [21] [ verification needed ] in national and international journals, seminars and conferences.

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References

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  3. ↑ Pillai, S. K.; Balakrishnan, S. S.; Rao, V. Seshagiri; Narasaiah, N. (May 1992). "Model error estimation by ideal state processing in linear Kalman filter". Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. 15 (3): 775–777. Bibcode:1992JGCD...15..775P. doi:10.2514/3.20904.
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  5. ↑ Balakrishnan, SS; Rao, V Seshagiri (2005). "Real time performance monitoring of a Satellite la". 56th International Astronautical Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the International Institute of Space Law. doi:10.2514/6.iac-05-d2.2.02.
  6. ↑ Rajasekhar, M.; Kishtawal, C. M.; Prasad, M. Y. S.; Rao, V. Seshagiri; Rajeevan, M. (2014). "Extended Range Tropical Cyclone Predictions for East Coast of India". Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change. pp. 137–148. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7720-0_13. ISBN   978-94-007-7719-4.
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  19. ↑ "Global Mentor Community". ibhubs.co. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
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