MURALI VENKATRAO
Provost & Professor, Vivekananda Yoga University
Overview
Murali Venkatrao is the Provost and Professor of Yogic Physiology at Vivekananda Yoga University, specializing in yoga’s impact on metabolic disorders, particularly Type II Diabetes. He also has a strong background in software architecture from his time at Microsoft.
Research Areas:
- Mechanisms/pathways for how yoga benefits Type II Diabetes and other endocrinal disorders
- Impact of Yoga on Metabolic Syndrome
- Yoga as a public health intervention to reduce the epidemic of obesity, CVD, and Type II Diabetes
- History of Yogic practices, esp. the Hatha Yogic Period (5th century CE to modern times)
Achievements:
- Member, the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
- Valedictorian, SVYASA Convocation of 2019
- Associate Editor, ISO/ANSI SQL-92 Standard
- Co-inventor of MDX, a SQL-like language for querying multi-dimensional databases
- Received US-patent (#10678806) for an ultra-high scale algorithm to do “Per-user Aggregation of database content”
- Professional Progress Award, Kansas State University, 2010
- 5th Rank, BSc class of 1989, Bangalore University
- 16th Rank (of 110,000), Engineering track, Common Entrance Test, Karnataka State