User:A Durga Prasada Rao

Prof Angalakuduru Durga Prasada Rao was born in the village Kuchinapudi that belongs to Nizampatnam Mandal of Bapatla district. He finished postgraduation in the nuclear physics department of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam in the year 1987. After finishing his M.Phil. and doctoral program joined in the same department as a faculty member in the year 1994. He obtained Master course in the field of education from the Annamalai university and in the field information technology from the Manipal University. He has been serving as a professor of nuclear physics department of Andhra University, Visakhapatnam starting his career as a member of the faculty at an early age in 1994. He is presently serving as board of chairman in the department and engaged in directing and inspiring students to find their place amongst the global competition. During 2009-16, he has served as the head of the department, during which a mega alumina meet was organized pulling around 100 eminent personalities around world. It facilitated to upgrade teaching class rooms and laboratories with their support. Project work was introduced in the 4 th semester of M.Sc., course. Students were made to visit many DAE organizations namely BARC, IGCAR, VECC, RRCAT etc. During 2018-19 as Registrar of Vikrama Simhapuri University (VSU), Nellore, met the challenges of building this new University, thus worked hard to get approval from government for construction of new buildings and foundation laid for development of infrastructure. Long pending CAS was performed raising faculty satisfaction and resolved several pending service issues of non-teaching also. Proposals were submitted to the UGC for obtaining 12 (B) status. The university won NSS award at national level and received it in New Delhi. He has also been serving on the governing boards, enquiry committees and boards studies of reputed institutes and organizations besides government departments. . His areas of research interest include material science, applied nuclear physics such as elemental analysis with nuclear techniques and medical physics. He has over 127 research publications in reputed international journals and conferences and has supervised the 22 PhD and 7 M.Phil. scholars besides several M.Sc., project works. He was carried three major projects sanctioned by funding agencies, visited Japan, USA, Russia and UK for presentation of research work in the conferences.