Ganti Prasada Rao

Ganti Prasada Rao (born 25 August 1942) is an Indian author, educator and researcher, well known in the field of systems and control in general, and as a pioneer in the applications of special orthogonal functions and Identification of Continuous-time Systems. For a comparative assessment of identification algorithms with continuous-time and discrete-time models, the Rao-Garnier test system became a bench mark.

In the early 1970s when the scientific community was ‘going-completely-digital’ in an indirect way via discrete-time models, he suggested the direct path of continuous time models for identification of dynamical systems and developed techniques which outperform the indirect methods. These direct methods are now used in the MATLAB compatible CONtinuous Time System IDentification (CONTSID) Toolbox. Developed at the Université de Lorraine in France. The importance of these identification methods is evident from their compatibility with real world physical systems.

After teaching and research in PSG College of Technology Coimbatore (1969–71)and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (1971–97). He became a Member of the UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee in the UNESCO - EOLSS Project in 1996. In the course of this ongoing project under the auspices of the UNESCO, he has been actively associated with the development of (1) Encyclopedia of Desalination and Water Resources (DESWARE) and (2) Encyclopedia of Life support Systems (EOLSS). Provided by Wikipedia