Rate My Professor Y Srinivasa Rao

Professor Y Srinivasa Rao serves as a Professor in the Department of Instrument Technology at Andhra University, with a specialization in Micro Electronics within the Engineering faculty. He obtained his B.Tech degree in 1990 from Kakatiya Institute of Technology and Science, M.E. in 1992 from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ph.D. in 1998 from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 2014 from Andhra University. Appointed as Professor at Andhra University since 2006, he has dedicated his career to advancing instrumentation and microelectronics through research, teaching, and mentorship. His professional engagements include memberships in the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) since 2002 and life membership in the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) since 1992. He has coordinated major funding initiatives such as the Department of Science and Technology's FIST program in 2019 and the University Grants Commission's Special Assistance Program in 2014.

Professor Rao's research interests encompass signal processing, nanotechnology, biosensors, image processing, speech recognition, EEG signal classification, content-based image retrieval, and electrical properties of polymer thick film resistors. He has published 61 journal articles and 40 conference proceedings, with key works including 'Speech recognition using HMM with MFCC-An analysis using frequency spectral decomposition technique' (2010), 'Epileptic seizures classification in EEG signal based on semantic features and variational mode decomposition' (2019), 'Speech recognition using hidden Markov model with MFCC-subband technique' (2010), 'An effective similarity measure via genetic algorithm for content based image retrieval with extensive features' (2013), and 'Studies on electrical properties of polymer thick film resistors' (2007). These publications have accumulated over 116 citations, reflecting an h-index of 5. He has supervised 18 doctoral theses from 2009 to 2023, covering topics such as MRI image enhancement, solar cells, EEG signals, face recognition, speaker recognition, and polymer thick film resistors. His contributions have earned prestigious recognitions, including the Young Scientist Award from the Department of Science and Technology (2002), Vignan Prathibha Award from Andhra University (2006), multiple Best Paper Awards at international conferences (2007, 2011, 2012), Outstanding Paper Award from Emerald Literati Network (2008), UGC-PDF Research Award (2012), SAARC Fellowship (2013), and visiting researcher positions at universities in Malaysia, Hungary, Egypt, and Taiwan between 2014 and 2019.