Chennupati Kodanda Ramaiah

Presently Dr. Ramaiah is working as Professor at the Department of Library & Information Science at Pondicherry University, Puducherry – 605014. Prior to that he worked as Professor & Head in the same Department from 2010-13 and before that he worked as Professor & Head, Department of Library & Information Science and University Librarian at Dravidian University, Kuppam from 2008-2010. Before that he worked as Professor & Librarian at Muffakham Jah College of Engineering & Technology, Hyderabad. Ramaiah also worked as the Director, Centre for Information Science, Mahatma Gandhi National Institute of Research and Social Action, Hyderabad for two years. Dr. Ramaiah worked as an Assistant Professor for 6 years with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 1999-2005. Prior to that Dr Ramaiah was Deputy Director at DESIDOC, Delhi a national information centre in Defence Science & Technology. In total he worked for 14 years with the DRDO, Delhi as Scientist, in various areas including conducting research, heading Research & Development Facilities Division, Multimedia Lab, A-V Division, and Defence Science Library. He was a Commonwealth Scholar for doing Ph.D. in UK in the field of Information Science in England during 1989-1993. Soon after obtaining his Ph.D., he came back to India and setup a multimedia lab and worked several years in designing multimedia applications, presentation and training materials. His formal education includes Masters de¬grees in Chemistry and Library and Information Science. He is a Fellow of the Society of Information Science, and member of many international professional bodies/ societies such as the CILIP, ASIST, ACM, IFLA, ALISE etc. Ramaiah had been to more than a dozen countries on various professional matters, attending conferences, seminars and workshops. He has published over 100 papers and four books. Dr Ramaiah’s research interests include multimedia & hypertext technologies, human-computer interaction, user interfaces, designing e-books, e-publishing, e-learning, archival informatics and bibliometrics.

Qualification

• Ph.D
  Loughborough University of Technology

Honours and Awards

• IATLIS MOTIWALE BEST LIS TEACHER AWARD 2019
  Indian Association of the Teachers of Library and Information Science (IATLIS)

• DR. S. RADHAKRISHNAN EDUCATION EXCELLENCE AWARD
  Indian Institute of Oriental Heritage, Kolkata

• BHARAT GAURAV AWARD
  India International Friendship Society, New Delhi