VCV.Rao is a Group Coordinator, National PARAM Supercomputing Facility, at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
(C-DAC), Pune University Campus, Pune, INDIA since 1993 onwards. He received his Ph.D in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT), Kanpur, INDIA in 1992-93 and he also worked there till December 1993.

From 1997-1998, he was a visiting faculty member at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, http://www.cs.umn.edu/~vcvrao and Post Doctoral Fellow Army High Performance Computing Centre (AHPCRC), University of Minnesota; Minneapolis. In the year 1997-1998, VCV.Rao worked with Prof. Vipin Kumar and Prof. George Karypis and contributed Parallel algorithms for Unstructured mesh Computations. He worked on various parallel graph-partitioning algorithms and implemented these partitioning algorithms on massively parallel processor machines for large-scale scientific applications.

VCV.Rao's current research interests are Parallel Distributed Computing and Grid Computing. He also works on Mining Algorithms for Web Search and Information Retrieval; Replication Technology-Types of distributed data access and Implementation aspects. His research interests include application and system benchmarks on Multi-Core Computing systems and Parallel Processing Platforms of future PARAM series of Suprecomputers. VCV.Rao and his team members work on design and development of testing methodology of Grid Computing Infrastructure GARUDA and execute the test plan on GARUDA in the year 2006-2007. His team works on various Grid Programming languages, which enable applications for Grid Computing using Globus technology. The associated software on Parallel Computing and Grid Computing can be downloaded from C-DAC web site. He worked extensively on development of algorithms for Parallel-Unstructured Mesh Computations, High Performance Data Mining algorithms and Parallel Molecular Dynamics applications.

At C-DAC, Pune, he heads the testing and Benchmarking group activities at C-DAC,Pune. He is a core-committee member of future generation PARAM Series of Supercomputers. He works on performance and scalability issues of PARAM Padma, PARAM 10000 and application and system and benchmarks. He was a task force member for putting PARAM Padma in Top-500 Supercomputers list in the world. He was working on parallelization of scientific and Engineering Applications, and porting third party applications on PARAM during 1994-1996.

VCV.Rao is Programme Committee Member for GCC 2006, October 2006, Changsha, China and e-Science and Grid Computing Conference that will be held in Nov 2007 at Bangalore, India. He was the Tutorial Co-Chair of HPC Asia 2002 Banglaore, INDIA. VCV.Rao has served on the Task force Committee for C-DAC's PARAM series of Supercomputers and C-DAC's Grid Computing Project GARUDA - A National Grid Computing Initiative.

VCV.Rao was a key member for design, develop, and deliver Parallel Computing training course on PARAM 10000 for Premier Institutes and C-DAC joint project work. He delivered lectures on Parallel Computing and conducted parallel computing workshops at premier institutes such as IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Madras, IISc-Bangalore, BITS-Pilani, BIT-Ranchi in India during the years 2000-2001. He was workshop coordinator for the four-day workshop on Parallel Computing – Optimizing Performance of Parallel Programs (PCOPP-2002) in June 2002 and five-day workshop on Parallel Computing Algorithms and Applications (PCAA-99) in June 1999 at C-DAC, Pune. He delivered a half-day tutorial on and Optimizing Performance of Parallel Programs in HPC ASIA 2001 at Brisbane, Australia. He visited several international conferences such as HiPC, SC 2000, ISC 2003 and he was a HPC Asia 2002 tutorial Co-chair. He also delivered parallel computing lectures in Advanced Course on Bio-Informatics (ACB), during the period 2000-2006, jointly organized by C-DAC,Pune and IICT, Hyderabad and JNTU, Hyderabad during the years 2001-2006.

VCV. Rao received Ph.D degree in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India in 1992 under the joint guidance of Department of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering. He worked on Structured Grid Generation Algorithms and Unstructured adaptive grid computations and its applications to Computational Fluid Dynamics by Finite Element Method. Later, he was involved in software development of Dynamic Crack Simulation by adaptive finite element method in Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT-Kanpur, 1993.