Author Biography
I. GENERAL INFORMATION Name: A. Ramachandra Rao Date of Birth: 23 October 1939 Academic Record School Attended Degree Date University of Illinois 1964-68 Ph.D. 1968 University of Minnesota 1962-64 M.S.C.E. 1964 University of Mysore (India) 1956-60 B.E. 1960 1. Professional Experience: Employer Position Date University of Mysore Lecturer in Civil 1960-62 (India) Engineering University of Minnesota Research Assistant 1962-64 University of Illinois Research Assistant 1964-68 Purdue University Visiting Assistant 1968-70 Professor Purdue University Assistant Professor 1970-73 Govt. of New Zealand NRAC Senior Research Fellow 1977-78 Purdue University Associate Professor 1973-80 Purdue University Professor 1980- Construction Engineering Visiting Faculty May-July, 1983 Research Laboratory Member 1983 Purdue University Acting Head, Hydraulics 1983-84 and Systems Engineering Area Indian Institute of Science, Visiting Professor of Jan-July, Bangalore, India Civil Engineering 1989 University of Illinois, Visiting Professor of Jan-May Urbana, IL Civil Engineering 1998 2. Awards, Honors, Citations Awarded 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 Societies Member, Chi Epsilon, Sigma Xi Citations American Men and Women of Science Who's Who in the Midwest Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology Who's Who in Science and Engineering Who's Who, Environmental Registry Who's Who in the World Who's Who in American Education Invited Activities and Lectures Invited 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. tssp, 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. In
