MURALI VENKATRAO

Provost

MURALI VENKATRAO

Provost

Overview Professional Experience Education Research Interests Research Experience Accomplishments & Awards Selected Publications

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.

Professional Experience

Provost and Professor of Yogic Physiology, Vivekananda Yoga University (Jan 2020 – Present)
Director, Ananda Institute of Living Yoga, Bothell, WA (2018 – Present)
Consulting Software Architect, IDX (MSN) Group, Microsoft Corp. (Feb 2013 – Dec 2019)
Software Architect and Dev Lead, Education Group, Microsoft Corp. (2007 – 2013)
Consulting Program Manager, WinFS Group, Microsoft Corp. (2000 – 2007)
Program Manager, Office Group, Microsoft Corp. (1991 – 2000)

Education

Research Interests

Research Experience

Accomplishments & Awards

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

Selected Publications

Venkatrao, M., Nagarathna, R., Majumdar, V., Patil, S. S., Rathi, S., & Nagendra, H. (2021). Prevalence of Obesity in India and Its Neurological Implications: A Multifactor Analysis of a Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, 27(3–4), 153–161. DOI
Venkatrao, M., Nagarathna, R., Patil, S. S., Singh, A., Rajesh, S. K., & Nagendra, H. (2020). A composite of BMI and waist circumference may be a better obesity metric in Indians with high risk for type 2 diabetes: An analysis of NMB-2017, a nationwide cross-sectional study. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 161. DOI
Gray, J., Chaudhuri, S., Bosworth, A., Layman, A., Reichart, D., Venkatrao, M., Pellow, F., & Pirahesh, H. (1997). Data cube: A relational aggregation operator generalizing group-by, cross-tab, and sub-totals. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 1(1), 29–53. DOI
Howell, R. R., & Venkatrao, M. K. (1995). On non-preemptive scheduling of recurring tasks using inserted idle times. Information and Computation, 117(1), 50–62. DOI
Venkatrao, M., & Pizzo, M. (1995). SQL/CLI - A New Binding Style For SQL. ACM SIGMOD Record, 24(4), 72–77. DOI