Dr. Ranganayakulu graduated from Andhra University, M.E from Bharathiar University, Ph.D from IIT (Madras), Chennai, a National Academy of Engineers Fellow, and an Alexander von Humboldt fellow from Germany. He was a re-visiting researcher at Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, and presently a re-visiting Scholar at Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany, and a Visiting Researcher at UNISA, Johannesburg, South Africa. He published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in International/National journals/conferences. He is a reviewer for various Research Journals. He guided 6 Ph.D. projects and is supervising 8 more Ph.D. topics in BITS and other institutions. He is the Chairperson and member of various committees at ADE, DARE, NAL, HAL, ADA - Bangalore and NIOT-Chennai.