A. Ramachandra Rao

I. GENERAL INFORMATIONName: A. Ramachandra RaoDate of Birth: 23 October 1939Academic RecordSchool Attended Degree DateUniversity of Illinois 1964-68 Ph.D. 1968University of Minnesota 1962-64 M.S.C.E. 1964University of Mysore (India) 1956-60 B.E. 19601. Professional Experience:Employer Position DateUniversity of Mysore Lecturer in Civil 1960-62(India) EngineeringUniversity of Minnesota Research Assistant 1962-64University of Illinois Research Assistant 1964-68Purdue University Visiting Assistant 1968-70ProfessorPurdue University Assistant Professor 1970-73Govt. of New Zealand NRAC Senior Research Fellow 1977-78Purdue University Associate Professor 1973-80Purdue University Professor 1980-Construction Engineering Visiting Faculty May-July, 1983Research Laboratory Member 1983Purdue University Acting Head, Hydraulics 1983-84and Systems Engineering AreaIndian Institute of Science, Visiting Professor of Jan-July,Bangalore, India Civil Engineering 1989University of Illinois, Visiting Professor of Jan-MayUrbana, IL Civil Engineering 19982. Awards, Honors, CitationsAwarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the National Research Advisory Council, Government of New Zealand, for research in hydrology with the Ministry of Works and Development during 1977-78.Awarded (but not accepted) a "Senior Scientist Fellowship" by the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation, West Germany (1977).Awarded (but not accepted) the "C.H. Munro Fellowship" of the Water Research Foundation of Australia, for research in Hydrology, at Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia (1977).Honorary SocietiesMember, Chi Epsilon, Sigma XiCitationsAmerican Men and Women of ScienceWho's Who in the MidwestWho's Who in Frontier Science and TechnologyWho's Who in Science and EngineeringWho's Who, Environmental RegistryWhoâs Who in the WorldWhoâs Who in American EducationInvited Activities and LecturesInvited by UNESCO to attend the "International Symposium on Hydrologic Aspects of Droughts", New Delhi, 3-8 December 1979.Member, American Delegation to the XVIII General Assembly, IUGG, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany, August 15-27, 1983.Invited Specialist, IAWPRC Seminar on "Rainfall as the Basis for Urban Runoff Design and Analysis", Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, August 24-26, 1983.Invited lecture, "Detection of Climatic Changes in Hydrologic Time Series". Eighth IHD Endowment Lecture, Anna University, Madras, India, April 13, 1989.Keynote lecture, "Bayesian Unit Hydrographs" International Conference on Hydrology and Water Resources, Delhi, India, December, 1993.Member, Editorial Board of "Water Science and Technology Library", Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V. Dordrecht, The Netherlands, (1993-99).Editor, "Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering", ASCE, 1992 - 1998.Keynote lecture, "Bayesian Unit Hydrographs" International Conference on Hydrology and Water Resources, Delhi, India, December, 1993.Founder/honorary member, "Center of Resource Management and Eco-development Studies", I.I.T., Delhi, 1994.Fellow, Indian Association of Hydrologists."Edmund M. Burke Outstanding Civil Engineering Professor", School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, April 1995.Invited paper, "Principal Component Analysis of Hydrologic Data", A.R. Rao and T.T. Burke, Jr., NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Integrated Approach to Environmental Data Systems", Izmir, Turkey, Sept. 16-20, 1996.Invited to deliver a keynote paper in the International Symposium on "Emerging Trends in Hydrology", Department of Hydrology, University of Roorkee, India, Sept. 25-27, 1997.tÃp, Dean Marion B. Scott 1997 Exemplary Character Award, Purdue University.Invited speaker, Int. Conference on Water, Environment, Ecology, Socio-Economics and Health Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Oct. 18-21, 1999.Invited speaker, Int. Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management for Sustainable Development, Roorkee, India, Dec. 2000.Invited speaker, Golden Jubilee Celebr