About Us

The firm’s principal and founder, Prasada Rao, Ph.D., has been working as a faculty in the USA since 1997. He has worked for the University of Kentucky, Duke University, and Johns Hopkins University. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at California State University, Fullerton. He has extensive scientific, engineering, and expert litigation (hydrology, groundwater contamination, remediation, flooding) support experience.

His research grants have been funded by the US Army Corps of Engineers, US Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, US Bureau of Reclamation, and other agencies. His invitational talks spanned multiple institutions, including The United States Military Academy, West Point.

A frequent invitee to evaluate the Times Higher Education World University Rankings methodology, he co-developed a US News top-ranked graduate engineering program.  He formulated and led the implementation of a few international agreements between universities in the USA and worldwide.

Students mentored by him have won numerous highly competitive awards (including the Harvard Mason Fellowship, National merit scholarship, Graduate research fellowship, Eisenhower transportation fellowship) and tuition fee waivers/scholarships across multiple universities. Some of his former students are now in faculty positions in highly respected institutions, including Oxford University.

Well-versed in evolving higher education landscape, university admission policies, degree outcomes, and job trends, parents highly seek his advise for their children to achieve academic and career goals, and to build self-esteem, and set realistic goals. Over the past two decades, he has developed pathways for many students in Grades 8-16 students (from India, USA, UAE and Saudi Arabia) to blossom academically and as individuals.