Dr A R Upadhya
Former Scientist
CSIR– National Aerospace Laboratories
He served as a Scientist at the CSIR – National Aerospace Laboratories initially during 1974-1986 and then as its Director during 2004-2011. In between, he was associated with the design and development of the Light Combat Aircraft at the Aeronautical Development Agency, MoD in the areas of Loads, Dynamics and Aero-Servo- Elasticity. Post superannuation , he was appointed as Dr Raja Ramanna DRDO Distinguished Fellow of the Department of Defence Research, MOD at ADA for a period of 4 years
Dr Upadhya was also closely associated with the country’s novel National Programmes on Smart Materials & MEMS, first as the Programme Director of the first programme NPSM and later as Co-chairman of the Executive Committee of the Second programme NP-MASS