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VCV.Rao is a Group Coordinator at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune University Campus, Pune, INDIA since 1993 onwards. He received his Ph.D in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT), Kanpur, INDIA in 1992-93 and he also worked there till December 1993. From 1997-1998, he was a visiting faculty member at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, and Post Doctoral Fellow Army High Performance Computing Centre (AHPCRC), University of Minnesota; Minneapolis. In 1997-1998, VCV.Rao worked with Prof. Vipin Kumar and Prof. George Karypis and contributed Parallel algorithms for Unstructured mesh Computations and Graph Partitioning Algorithms. VCV.Rao's current research interests are Parallel Distributed Computing, Grid Computing – Globus Technology and Scalable Data Mining Algorithms, Web Search and Information Retrieval, Replication Technology-Types of distributed data access and Implementation aspects. VCV.Rao is programme committee member for GCC 2006, October 2006, Changsha, China. He was the Tutorial Co-Chair of HPC Asia 2002 Banglaore, INDIA. VCV.Rao has served on the Task force Committee for C-DAC's PARAM series of Supercomputers and C-DAC's Grid Computing Project GARUDA - A National Grid Computing Initiative. Education & Year of Study /Institute /Place Bachelor of Mathematics (1982), Andhra Univeristy, Andhra Pradesh State, INDIA Master of Mathematics (1985), Andhra Univeristy, Andhra Pradesh State, INDIA Doctors in Mathematics (1993), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, INDIA Honors and Awards Received Honor award for team efforts and meritorious contributions in design, development and commissioning of PARAM Padma and in setting up C-DAC's Tera Scale Supercomputing Facility, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore,India (April 2003) Annual award of recognition for best contribution in Parallel Processing technology, C-DAC, Pune, India, (April 2000) Was awarded PARAM Award for Significant Application – Development Team of Software for Adaptive Grid Algorithms on the PARAM (April 1997) Was awarded for Parallelization of Composite Analysis Application Software at C-DAC Scientific and Engineering Group, C-DAC, Pune, India (April 1996) Received Scholarship for Doctor of Philosophy Program in Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India (1985 – 1992) Secured 96.4 % in Common Entrance Research Admission test for Ph.D Mathematics in Indian Institute of Technology’s (IIT), India (1985 – 1986) First Rank in Masters Degree in Mathematics, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhara Pradesh, India (1982-84)