Mr. Vijaya Sankaran is the Chief Technology Officer, VESRAD. He holds the degrees of B.E (Aeronautical Engineering) J.J College of Engineering and Technology (affiliated to the Anna University, Chennai), Tiruchirappalli and M.E (Aeronautical Engineering) PARK College of Engineering & Technology (affiliated to Anna University, Chennai), Coimbatore. His areas of specialisation are Aeropropulsion and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). Previously, he was a Project Assistant with the Propulsion Division, CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore where he was associated with an AR&DB-DRDO sponsored R&D project on the ‘Development of a Micro-thruster for Satellite Propulsion’ and a GTRE-DRDO sponsored R&D project on ‘Combustion Instabilities in an Aero-Gas Turbine Afterburner’.