Specialized in Structural Engineering with 28-Years of teaching, research and consultancy experience. Research interests are concrete technology, structural designs, special concretes, high performance concrete, self compacting concrete and use of micro silica, metakaolin, high volumes of fly ash in concrete. He received Meritorious State Teacher Award by the Government of Telangana in the year 2015. He recipient of ICE–Ultra Tech. Endowment Award for Outstanding Concrete Engineer of Telangana State for the year 2015. He is a fellow of institution of engineers, life member of Indian Concrete Institute, American concrete institute and some other professional organizations. He guided Six Ph.ds, 100 M.Tech Dissertations and Published over 150 research papers in National / International Journals and Conferences. Presently guiding 6 Ph.d’s and a number of M.Tech Projects. Dr. Rao delivered a good number of invited talks, expert Lectures and keynote addresses and also chaired valuable number of sessions at various National/International Conferences/Symposia and Industry/Research organizations. Dr. Rao delivered number of Lectures on the Themes of Quality control of materials, Good detailing practices in constructions, Blended concretes, High Performance concretes, self compacting concrete, Durability of concrete etc. He associated with number of MHRD Projects and AICTE R&D projects for Structural Engineering. He acts as external examiner for various Universities and NITS to evaluate the M.Tech & Ph.D students. He also attended as member on the Board of Studies for Civil Engineering Department at various Universities. He is also member for various committees of State Government. He has been associated with a number of Design Projects and act as a key person in quality control and mix designs for number of organizations. He is also a paper reviewer for the Journal of Civil Engineering Division, Institution of Engineers (India) Indian concrete journal Mumbai (ICJ). Dr. Rao has visited countries namely Singapore, Malaysia, United states of America, Srilanka, Thailand etc., to Present Research Papers in International Conferences. He attended 50 Conferences at National and International level. Dr. Rao organized many workshops and conferences through Indian Concrete Institute. Dr. Rao, held positions of Head of the Department of Civil Engineering, JNTU Ananthapur, JNTU college of Engineering Hyderabad and Director, BICS, JNT University Hyderabad. Presently he is holding the position of Vice-Principal, JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad.
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