City professor awarded doctorate

HYDERABAD: The Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTUH) has awarded a Ph.D degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering to S P Venu Madhava Rao, currently a professor at Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad.The research for the thesis titled ‘Efficient Methods and Novel Approaches for Analog Electronic Circuit Fault Diagnosis using Simulation Before Test Approach (SBT)’ was carried out under the guidance of Dr N Sarat Chandra Babu, executive director, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore and Dr K Lal Kishore, registrar, JNTUH.S P Venu Madhava Rao has thus far published several papers in international journals and national journals, while also presenting several papers at various international and national conferences.His research interests include very largescale integration and nano electronics.He was also sanctioned a project under Sakshat, an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Developme n t , N e w D e l h i