Ramprasad Rao

Ramprasad Rao received the B.S.E.E. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in astronomy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1999. He is currently an Engineer and Scientist with the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Hilo, HI, where he is involved with the Submillimeter Array. His current research involves the study of magnetic fields in the star formation process in astrophysics and the development of techniques that enable radio telescopes to detect such magnetic fields using polarimetric techniques. Dr. Rao was the recipient of a 1999 Grainger Fellowship to pursue post-doctoral studies with the Department of Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. He was also the recipient of the Submillimeter Array Post Doctoral Fellowship presented by the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.