Former Director, VSSC & LPSC, ISRO Former Project Director – PSLV, GSLV MKIII First Chief Executive for the Indian HSP Programme Played a key role in the Chandrayan-I & MOM mission. Padma Shri Award-2003 ISRO Performance Excellence Award, ISRO Outstanding Achievement Award National Design Award by IEI, ASI Award Hon. Doctor of Science by SASTRA University, Tamilnadu Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Madras ...
Former Director, Space Applications Centre (SAC) Played a crucial role in Chandrayaan-1 mission right from the conceptualization stage and has made exemplary contributions to the success of Mars Orbiter Mission Chair of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) in 2012 Fellow – INAE, Indian Society of Remote Sensing, IETE, Engineers, Indian Meteorological Society, and an elected member of International Academy of Astronautics “Padma Shri” – 2014 ...
Former Director, RCI Fellow of Royal Institute of Navigation, London (FRIN), Royal Aeronautical Society, UK (FRAeS), INAE, AeSI, Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, USA, etc Indian Science Congress Association Homi J. Bhabha Memorial Award, Silver Medal of Royal Aeronautical Society, UK, first IEI (India) and IEEE (USA) joint award for Engineering Excellence, National Systems Gold Medal, Aeronautical Society of India Dr Biren Roy Space Science Design Award...
Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania Responsible for development of Control, Guidance and instrumentation systems at VSSC for space vehicles Member, Space Commission during 1993-94 Fellow – National Academy of Engineering, Astronautical Society of India, and National Academy of Sciences Member, International programme Committee on Automatic Control in Aerospace under IFAC National Academy of Science Award -1989, Vasvik award – 1990, and Aryabhatta Award – ...