Dr. M. Chandrasekhar has 21 years of Defense Industrial R&D experience and 11 years of Engineering Teaching Experience for UG & PG at Central and State Universities. He worked as a Senior Manager (R&D) in Missile Technology at Bharat Dynamics, Hyderabad, Ministry of Defense, Government of India. He is well-known for his significant contributions towards the indigenous design, development of Embedded Test Systems Deployment. His achievements were recognized two times for prestigious national awards, “ Excellence Award-2003 ” awarded in 2005 for Indigenization and saving foreign exchange of 40 Crore. The second time, “Excellence Award-2005” awarded in 2007 for Innovation of Countermeasure defence system for Fighter Aircrafts (Developed First time in India). Award from Hon. President of India via defence Ministry, Government of India. 

He was appointed as a scientist in 1995, under Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) in Plasma Research Institute (IPR) at Ahmedabad. He resigned in 1996 and joined as a faculty for the newly started M. Sc., an Electronics program at the University of Hyderabad. He played a key role in establishing a newly started Master Degree Program in Electronics. He developed the Advanced Microprocessors Lab., and Applied Lasers experimental Lab. for a PG Program.

He joined the BDL R&D unit in Hyderabad. Being a new R&D, he established a strong foundation for advanced Embedded Systems research groups to equip Armed forces with new portable, power-efficient technologies of interdisciplinary Systems. As a New project advisor, he significantly contributed towards the formulation of several sub-systems by innovative and reverse engineering approaches for ATGMs, SAMs, and HILS. His contribution to the development of cost-effective Real Time Hardware In Loop Simulators (HILS) for Training and education saved a lot of foreign exchange. As Sr. Manager, from 2012, he headed long-range missile programs, Agni-3 and Agni-5 as a quality control head at the centre for Advanced systems (A DRDO Establishment). He led the most critical testing groups of the Agni missiles. Attain the complete self-sufficiency in electrical assembly and testing of the state-of-the-art Missiles assembly in line with DRDO Teams. He optimised the mission-critical adaptive test procedures and techniques for speedup and timely completion in the assembly line for Long Range Agni-5 missile production.

He holds the distinction of being inducted as Board of Governors (BoG) member as Industrialist Member at JNTU Hyderabad. He is a Fellow of the Instrument Society of India, Sensors Research Society (DRDO), a Life member of ISTE, and many other Academies and Scientific societies in the country. Dr. Chandrasekhar is an invitee and keynote speaker in several prestigious national and international invitations for Invited Talks and ChairPerson, which includes the Technical University Berlin, Germany, Indian Institute of Science, IIT Delhi, BARC, and Central Electronics Engineering Institute (CEERI) for Engineering Excellence. He is an active BoS member and research supervisor of OU, JNTUH, SKU-Anantapur, RU-Kurnool, and MGR Univ. Chennai. He has more than 20 years of combined University teaching, research, and R&D management experience. He has published around 45 research papers in International & National Journals and Conferences. He received few “Best Paper Awards” for the research work presented at TU, Berlin on Speech Recognition in 1992 from Vice-Chancellor Amravati University, and from Vice-Chancellor of SK University in 2006 for his contribution to continuing training on Embedded Systems and VLSI in the Universities.

He is an IIM Calcutta Trained member on Quality Analytics. He attended several high-level Technology Management Program of the premier institutes of India. Presently guiding research scholars in the areas of Image processing, Artificial Intelligence, Speech Recognition, VLSI, and Embedded Systems. Guided For Ph.D. and Two in Progress.