Founders
Dr. Thyagaraju Damarla and Smt. Komala B. Damarla have founded the “Damarla Thyagaraju & Komala Gnana Kendram” in 2019 to give back to the Indian society. Dr. Damarla is a son of Sri Damarla Ramakanta Rao, M.A., MLC and Smt. Damarla Ravamma and a native of Mangalagiri, Guntur Dist., AP, India and Mrs. Komala Damarla hails from Bhubaneswar, Orissa.
Thyagaraju Damarla was a proud student of Chintakrindi Kanakaiah High School, Mangalagiri. Thyagaraju Damarla graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, WB, India with B. Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics, B. Tech. (Hons) in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, and M. Tech in Computation and Control Engineering in 1968, 1971, and 1973 respectively. He worked as an engineer at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Sriharikota, AP, India from 1973 – 1979.
While working at ISRO, he had the opportunity to work with Dr. APJ Kalam who later became the president of India. He joined as a senior engineer at the Electrical and Communication Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, UP, India in 1979. He went to the United States of America to pursue higher education in 1982. He got his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Engineering from Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, in 1987. After graduating from Boston University, he joined as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. He joined the US Army Research Laboratory in 1996 and worked there till he took voluntary retirement in 2016 to dedicate the rest of his life to social work.
Dr. Damarla has authored more than 150 technical papers and has 8 US Patents to his credit. He authored a technical book titled “Battlefield Acoustics”, published by Springer Verlag. He also published a book titled “God Bless India”, where he analyses the situation in various fields that are affecting the progress of India and suggested several improvements that will help India in becoming a major economic power and compete in the world. The book is available on Amazon. He is awaiting the publication of two other books titled “పాశ్చాత్య దేశాల్లో నాకు నచ్చినవి (What I like in the West)” and “త్యాగయ్య సూక్తులు (Thyagayya Suktulu)” both in the Telugu language. You can download the e-book “What I like in the West” from the link below.
Mrs. Komala B. Damarla has graduated with a B.A. degree from Andhra University, Vishakapatnam, AP, India, and worked as a Personnel Assistant in the Secretariat of Orissa State Government. She has a diploma in “Acupressure and Magnetic Therapy”. She helped scores of people suffering from pain by organizing free clinics in Bhubaneswar.
Books by Thyagaraju Damarla
Technical publications and the book “సనాతన ధర్మము – ఆచార విధానం”, “పాశ్చాత్య దేశాల్లో నాకు నచ్చినవి (What I Like in the West)” and “త్యాగయ్య సూక్తులు (Thygayya Suktulu)” by Thyagaraju Damarla can be found below:
US Patents by Dr. Thyagaraju Damarla
1. Patent US 10,621,506 B2, Date: April 14, 2020, Title: Apparatus and Method for Activity Detection and Classification from Sensor Data, by Soumalya Sarkar, T. Damarla, and Asok Ray
2. Patent US 9,689,966, Date: June 27, 2017, Title: System and Method for Identifying location of gunfire from a moving object, by T. Damarla
3. Patent US 8,829,439, Date: Sept. 9, 2014, Title: Target detector with size detection and method thereof, by T. Damarla
4. Patent US 8,194,501, DATE: June 5, 2012. Title: Apparatus and method of sniper localization, by T. Damarla.
5. Patent US 8,060,338, Date: Nov. 15, 2011. Title: Estimation of Global Position of a Sensor Node, by T. Damarla
6. Patent no. US 6,367,043, Date: April 2, 2002. Title: Implementation of Signature Analysis for Analog and mixed signal circuits, by T. Damarla
7. Patent no. US 5,974,242, Date: October 26, 1999. Title: Methods and computer programs for minimizing logic circuit design using identity cell, by T. Damarla and Wei Su
8. Patent no. 5,745,500, Date: April 28, 1998. Title: A Built-In Self Test Method for Identification of Faulty Chips in Multi Chip Modules, by T. Damarla, M.J. Chung, Wei Su and G.T. Michael