Dr Venkat Sastry

Areas of expertise

• Autonomous Systems
• Operational Analysis and Simulation

Background

Before joining Cranfield University in 1989, Venkat was a Lecturer at Plymouth Polytechnic having been appointed in 1987 following his work there as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow. At Plymouth his research included:

• scattering of acoustic waves by fluid loaded objects
• computation of special functions of complex order and complex argument
• asymptotic expansions of special functions
• computation of zeros of an analytic functions
• derivative free algorithms.

From 1981 to 1984 he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Open University working on acoustic wave propagation in poro-elastic media. From 1980 to 1981 he was a research assistant at IISc, Bangalore working on helicopter dynamics including blade stability in the presence of induced flow.

Venkat was awarded his

• PhD from the Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in 1981 for his thesis Some Mixed Boundary Value Problems Arising in Diffraction Theory
• Post-graduate Diploma in Plasticity and Rheology, IIT Kharagpur in 1976
• MSc in Mathematics from IIT Madras in 1975.

Current activities

Venkat is currently:

• principal investigator on the What to do Learners within an m-Learning Environment Need? project funded under Office of Naval Research Global Grant N62909-10-1-7121
• involved in the international Multichannel Learning Systems project coordinated by the Office of Naval Research Global.
• Programme Director for Chevening Cyber Security Fellowship (2013 - )

Clients

• Office Naval Research Global
• BAE SYSTEMS
• Numerical Algorithms Group

Publications

• Articles in journals
• Conference papers
• Books