Seshagiri Rao Vellanki

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. In addition to that, he also served in ISRO as Prof. Satish Dhawan for three years. He is instrumental in setting up state of the art Real Time Systems[5] and computer network for flight safety at SDSC SHAR. He is also responsible in developing data processing software required for displaying flight trajectory. He is a specialist in Kalman Filter.[6] Pulse Coherent Mono-pulse Radars (PCMC) development and commissioning was carried under his leadership. He also developed and implemented various algorithms required for wind profile estimation for weather monitoring.[7] He also worked extensively in Mission Simulations and Post flight trajectory estimation and data analytics. Implemented Expert System for Range Safety. Developed special techniques for dynamic calibration of Radars and Telemetry ground stations.

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

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 has greatly contributed for Satellite recovery experiment,[8] Chandrayan-1, Mangalyaan [9][10] and many other missions. ISRO’s prestigious Multi Object Tracking Radar (MOTR) [11][12] was designed, developed[13] and commissioned under his guidance as Project Director. He is responsible in developing and implementing Software for Comuterisation Of Working Administrative areas for ISRO in all centres. He has visited number of colleges[14][15] and universities[16] for delivering motivated talks[17][18] to students in science and technology.

Personal life

Dr. Seshagiri Rao is born on 10 January 1953, at Kolavennu village, Krishna District of Andhra Pradesh. He completes 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 A.C. College,[19] Guntur. He is a B.Sc. graduate from J.K.C College, Guntur in 1972. Later he took his post-graduation M.Sc. (Physics – Electronics) from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam in 1974. Joined as Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in Andhra University and ultimately took his Ph.D. degree from Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati. Currently staying at Hyderabad, Telangana state and helping various academic,[20] scientific and IT[21] institutions in various research activities.

Positions held

Held various positions at SDSC SHAR ISRO

  • Chairman, STAnding Review Committee for Software Development(STARS) 1998 – 2018
  • Prof Satish Dhawan Professor 2015 - 2018
  • Associate Director 2013 – 2015
  • Controller 2008 – 2010, 2012 – 2013
  • Deputy Director, Range Operations 2008 – 2014
  • Project Director, Multi Object Tracking Radar (MOTR)[22] 2009 – 2015
  • Deputy Director, Vehicle Assembly and Static Testing (VAST) 2011 – 2012
  • General Manager, Mission Analysis and Range Safety (MARS) 2012 – 2014
  • General Manager, Range Instrumentation Systems (RIS) 2013 – 2014
  • General Manager, SHAR Computer Facility (SCOF) 2005 – 2008
  • Deputy General Manager, SHAR Computer Facility (SCOF) 2001 – 2005
  • Manager, Real Time Data Processing 1998 - 2001

Academic and research activities

He published more than 60 papers[23][24] (Author & Co-author) in national and international journals, seminars and conferences.

References
  1. "University newsletter" (PDF). www.nagarjunauniversity.ac.in. 2015. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  2. Varaprasad, R.; Gnanasambanthan, Rajendran; Ravikumar, Jiguru Venkata Narasimha; Pamireddy, Chandra Jagadeesh Reddy; Ramsenthil, Chandravel; Haribabu, K.; Rao, V. S. (5 January 2014). "Ground-based real-time auto commanding system for ISRO advanced technology vehicles". IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine. 29 (5): 18–24. doi:10.1109/MAES.2014.120207. S2CID 41747266 – via Semantic Scholar.
  3. Pillai, S. K.; Balakrishnan, S. S.; Rao, V. Seshagiri; Narasaiah, N. (1 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 – via arc.aiaa.org (Atypon).
  4. "Range Safety Real-time System for Satellite Launch Vehicle Missions–Testing Methodologies". publications.drdo.gov.i. 2006. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  5. Balakrishnan, SS; Rao, V Seshagiri (17 October 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. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. doi:10.2514/6.iac-05-d2.2.02.
  6. "Trajectory estimation studies for long coasting phase of mars mission". Issuu.
  7. Rajasekhar, M.; Kishtawal, C. M.; Prasad, M. Y. S.; Rao, V. Seshagiri; Rajeevan, M. (5 January 2014). "Extended Range Tropical Cyclone Predictions for East Coast of India". In Mohanty, U. C.; Mohapatra, M.; Singh, O. P.; Bandyopadhyay, B. K.; Rathore, L. S. (eds.). Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change. Springer Netherlands. pp. 137–148. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7720-0_13. ISBN 978-94-007-7719-4 – via Springer Link.
  8. Narasaiah, N.; Varaprasad, R.; Seshagiri Rao, V.; Krishnamurty, V.; Sanyal, M. K. (1 November 2009). "Space capsule recovery—Evaluation of risk factors, safety plans and procedures and design of experiments for systems qualification". Acta Astronautica. 65 (9): 1224–1230. Bibcode:2009AcAau..65.1224N. doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.03.057 – via ScienceDirect.
  9. "User Account". archive.org.
  10. Subramanian, T. S. (13 November 2013). "Next stop Mars". Frontline.
  11. "ISRO is All Set to Test Multi Object Tracking Radar (MOTR) | Aero Journal India". Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  12. "ISRO 'makes in India' sophisticated multi-object tracking radar". The Avenue Mail. 15 May 2015.
  13. World, Geospatial (24 December 2014). "ISRO's Indigenous Radar to be Ready Soon".
  14. "KL University News Letter - PANORAMA". kluniversity.in.
  15. "Newsletter" (PDF). www.gitam.edu. 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  16. Rao, G. Narasimha (23 December 2014). "'A harbinger of good tidings'". The Hindu – via www.thehindu.com.
  17. "Newsletter" (PDF). www.gitam.edu. 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  18. "INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITATION SELF STUDY REPORT" (PDF). www.chalapathiengg.ac.in. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  19. "Andhra Christian College". 4 December 2020 – via Wikipedia.
  20. "Corporate Advisory Board". www.srmist.edu.in. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  21. "Global Mentor Community". ibhubs.co. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  22. "The Guindy Times". www.facebook.com.
  23. "List of works". www.researchgate.net. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  24. "Dr.Seshagiri Rao V". scholar.google.com.
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