Dr. Emandi Sankara Rao (Dr. ESR) was born and brought up in Visakhapatnam, the city of Destiny on the East Coast of India in Andhra Pradesh.
Dr. Emandi Sankara Rao (Dr. ESR) In B.E he had designed and developed an innovative project in those days on 2716 EPROM programmer using the 8080 microprocessor and 8255 PIA along with his Electronics & Communications Engineering teammates in the ECE Department instead of his parent Electrical Department Branch. With the introduction of GATE in 1983 and after passing the first GATE exam went for a post-graduation in M.Tech Reliability Engineering, a new specialization offered at IIT Kharagpur, and had done a project in DRDO-NSTL on Torpedos recorder systems reliability and maintainability in 1984. After passing from IIT Kharagpur, served for 10 years in Telecom Systems and Power Systems manufacturing sectors and then again went to academics with a passion for research and joined IIT Bombay and had done Doctoral degree Ph.D on Telecom Infrastructure Services Project Finance & Technology titled " Techno-Economic Framework For Sensitivity & Risk Analysis Towards Network Effectiveness " using the Stochastic and AI-ANN simulation models on International Digital Telecom Services Networks having a innovative technological combination of PCM TDM Class 5 Switching Systems and transmission through evoloving IP Networks and linking the networks through Satellite C-Band transponders due to shortage of Optical Fibre in 2002. While persuing Ph.D he has also done PGDBA from Pondicherry Central University in year 2002 when serving in IDBI & IDFC.
