| V.Chandrasekar is a pioneer in the development of radar science and technology for Meteorology and Hydrology. Dr. Chandrasekar (Chandra) has made pioneering contributions in the area of “Polarimetric Radar Observations of the Atmosphere”. Dr Chandra has extensive experience in Radar System Design, Radar Network Development, DSP Design as well as RF Communication Systems. He also conducts research on related topics including Image Processing, and Lachine Learning Applications and Large Scale System Simulation. He has organized and participated in many large multi-agency, national level experiments involving many radars, aircraft and ground instrumentation. He is an avid experimentalist conducting special experiments to collect in-situ observations to verify the new techniques and technologies. Dr Chandra is co-author of three textbooks, Introduction to Dual Polarization Weather Radar, Polarimetric and Doppler Weather Radar (by Cambridge University Press) and Probability and Random Processes (by McGraw Hill), and five general books published by the US national academy. Prof Chandra is a member of the science team of major NASA missions including the NASA TRMM and GPM missions. He is currently the director of the of the CSU-CHILL radar facility and plays an important role in maintaining it as one of the most advanced meteorological radar systems in the world available for research, and continues to work actively with the CSU-CHILL radar supporting its research and education mission. He also served as the research director of the NSF Engineering Research Center , CASA ( Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere ). he has been elected fellow of both Science and Engineering societies namely, the IEEE, AGU, AMS , URSI and was also Elected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He was knighted by the government of Finland to recognize his research in Environmental Remote Sensing. he was awarded the prestigious Suomi technology medal by the American Meteorology Society and Distinguished Achievement Award by the IEEE geoscience and remote Sensing Society. |
