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Dr. A. V. R. Krishna Rao

Dr. A. V. R. Krishna Rao View All

Assistant Professor

School of Health Sciences

Dr. A. V. R. Krishna Rao holds a Ph.D. in Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore. He earned an M.Tech in Nanotechnology from IIT Roorkee and a B.Tech in Biotechnology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad.

With over 6.5 years of teaching experience at premier institutions, including the Central University of Rajasthan, NIT Andhra Pradesh, and the National Forensic Sciences University, Dr. Krishna Rao has supervised more than 10 student research projects. He qualified the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-2010) with an All India Rank of 168 in Biotechnology and received the GATE Scholarship. He was also selected to visit Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH), Germany, under the DAAD-funded LUH–IIT Indore exchange mobility partnership (2019–2023).

His expertise encompasses nanomaterials synthesis, biosensor development, and nanophotonics for biomedical imaging. He is also actively involved in leveraging AI/ML models for disease prediction and personalized medicine. He has published 4 research papers in international journals and holds a patent.

    • 6.5 Yrs

  • Publications in Journals:

    1. V.R. Krishna Rao, Premansh Dudhe, Venkatesh Chelvam. Role of oxygen defects in basicity of Se doped ZnO nanocatalyst for enhanced triglyceride transesterification in biodiesel production. Catalysis Communication 149, (2021), 106258. doi.org/10.1016/j.catcom.2020.106258.
    2. V.R. Krishna Rao, Venkatesh Chelvam. Defects Induced multicolor down- and upconversion fluorescence in Se doped ZnO nanorods by single wavelength excitation. Optical Materials 107 (2020), 110122.  doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2020.110122.
    3. V.R. Krishna Rao, R. B. Reddy, S. Sengupta, V. Chelvam. Efficient “turn-on” nanosensor by dual emission-quenching mechanism of functionalized Se doped ZnO nanorods for mercury (II) detection. Applied Nanoscience 8 (2018), 1973–1987. doi.org/10.1007/s13204-018-0875-9.
    4. Bhavani P. Nenavathu, A.V.R. Krishna Rao, Anshu Goyal, Ashok Kapoor, Raj Kumar Dutta. Synthesis, characterization and enhanced photocatalytic degradation efficiency of Se doped ZnO nanoparticles using trypan blue as a model dye. Applied Catalysis A: General 459 (2013), 106-113. doi.org/10.1016/j.apcata.2013.04.001.

    Patent:

    A Novel IoT Based Automatic Biofuel Pellet Machine Application Number: 382763-001, Cbr Number: 204137, Cbr Date: 03/04/2023 09:41:18