Kakinada, January 04: Prime minister Manmohan Singh presented the prestigious Srinivasa Ramanujan Birth Centenary Award and a gold medal to JNT University-Kakinada (JNTU-K) vice-chancellor Allam Appa Rao at the inaugural session of the 98th Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) held at SRM University in Chennai today.
The ISCA selected Prof Rao for the award for his contribution to the development of science and technology, specifically in the area of Computational Biology, Software Engineering and Network Security.
Rao has presented 150 research papers at national and international seminars so far and is a member of the international editorial board.
University rector K Satya Prasad, registrar V Ravindra, directors GVR Prasad Raju, B Prabhakar Rao, I Santhi Prabha, K Padma Raju, N Appa Rao, P Vijay Kumar, S Srinivasa Kumar, EV Prasad and Purnanandam and engineering college principal P Uday Bhaskar congratulated Rao.
—Agencies