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K S Rama Krishna joined the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) on December 10, 1990, and served as an Administrative Coordinator until his retirement on July 31, 2024.

Mr K S Rama Krishna was joined NIAS in 1990, as the Secretary to Dr Raja Ramanna, the founding Director of NIAS. 

Mr Rama Krishna, as a keen learner, took interest in the IT field and was in charge of IT Infrastructure at NIAS.  He looks after the IT requirements of NIAS like purchase, planning, Network/System Administration and vendor development, etc.  

Besides he was also provides administrative support in conducting DST training programmes at NIAS.  He had assisted in conducting various events at NIAS like the Associates’ Programme, Memorial Talks, etc.  

He was the co-coordinator of the Wednesday Discussion Meeting along with Prof. Anindya Sinha.  

His interests include photography, Carnatic classical music and Indian Vedic tradition and philosophy. He is a graduate in Arts with a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration. He has completed his Senior Grade in Shorthand and Typewriting.

J. N. Sandhya joined the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) on February 11, 1997. She served as an Administrative Coordinator until her retirement on July 15, 2026.

Ms J N Sandhya has a bachelor's degree in arts from Bangalore University. Proficient in technical typing in English, Kannada and mathematics, using Latex, she has worked in reputed institutions like the Indian Institute of Science (Departments of Physics, Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Applied Mathematics) and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, before joining NIAS. At NIAS, she had assisted the late Prof S Settar in the publication of his Kannada dictionary and earlier served as a secretary to the late Prof C V Sundaram, when he published his renowned book, Atomic Energy in India – 50 Years. Sandhya had also assisted the late Prof K Ramachandra in publishing 33 volumes of his distinguished Hardy Ramanujan Journal from 1997 to 2010 and in the preparation of an acclaimed book, Theory of Numbers, in 2007. Sandhya has worked on the development and maintenance of the infrastructural facilities of NIAS till 2008 and coordinated several national and international courses at the institute. She was also instrumental in coordinating the establishment of the First INFOSYS Prize for Mathematics, 2009, jointly organised by Infosys and NIAS. 

She served as a Senior Executive Assistant in the NIAS Doctoral Programme, Sandhya had been active – virtually singlehandedly – coordinating the activities of the Programme for over 16 years. This had involved guiding the admission process of all the students each year till the final submission of their thesis to the concerned university, handling the affairs of occasionally more than 70 students at a time. She also provided secretarial support to the faculty of the International Strategic and Security Studies Programme, thus being involved in the organisation of national and international conferences, other meetings and public lectures of the Programme throughout the year.   

Lt B. Lalu (Retd) joined NIAS on 16 April 2012.
Prior to joining NIAS, he has served in the Army (Corps of Engineers, MEG) for 26 years and superannuated from service on 31 October 2011.  He holds a Bachelor Degree in Arts (Economics) from the University of Kerala.

During his tenure in the Army, he served almost all parts of the country, including Operational/High Altitude Areas of Jammu & Kashmir. In appreciation of his meritorious service, he was honoured with “Lieutenant” rank by the President of India on 26 January 2012. 

As Office Manager, his duties involve supervision of Admin office/support staff, handling of petty cash expenses, maintaining office files/documents, and personal records, leave register and providing various facilities for the day-to-day functioning of the Institute.  He is also responsible for managing security staff and contract Labours as well as Institute infrastructure.    In addition to the above, he is responsible for providing logistic support, which is required in conducting various events/programmes being conducted at the Institute. He executes the works under the guidance of Head-Administration.
 

Ms Mary Stella joined NIAS in the year 1994.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Indira Gandhi National Open University and a Proficiency Diploma in Secretarial Training from St.Joseph’s College of Business Administration, Bangalore. She has completed a course in word processing in 1991 from St.Joseph's Evening College. She is also certified in Office Equipment Operation by the Regional Vocational Training Institute for Women under the Government of India, Ministry of Labour. She has been certified by Commerce Institutes' Association of Karnataka in Typewriting (Senior) and has completed her English Shorthand (Intermediate) course under Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board.

In 1994, she worked under the guidance of Late Prof. R.L. Kapoor and Dr. Biswajit Sen for a DRDO Project. During 1994 to 1997, she had provided administrative support in organising the University Grants Commission Courses. Later, she also provided Secretarial Support to Prof. B.V. Sreekantan, Prof. C V Sundaram, and Prof. M.N. Srinivas for a project.

As an Executive Assistant, she is responsible for handling the matters pertaining to Group Mediclaim Policy of the Employees and PhD Students, such as submission of claims, follow-up with the agency, proper documentation and ensuring smooth settlement of claims. All queries related to Mediclaim facility are handled by her. She also manages the front office and its communication channels and coordinates with its service providers. Ms Stella assists the faculty members with meeting-related tasks, organising conference/workshops, as and when assigned by the Administration. 

A Deva Raju joined the Institute on 28 March 1989. He has a Bachelors Degree in Commerce from Sri Venkateswara University, Thirupathi and a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management from Pondicherry University.

He is the Coordinator (Admin & Logistics) since 1 July 2021. Earlier he was an Assistant Manager (Admin) from 1 April 2009 to 30 June 2021. 

As the Coordinator and Asst Manager, he has been looking after the Guest House, apart from coordinating the arrangements during NIAS Courses, programmes, workshops to be held at the Institute from time to time, in consultation with the Manager and the Head-Administration.

From 1989 to 2008, he provided administrative support to all Programme Coordinators of the Senior Executives Programmes from the very First Programme in 1989 to 21st Programme in 2008.

In addition, he had also worked as Secretary to Late Prof R L Kapur, who was a Professor and then the Deputy Director  of the Institute from October 1988 – November 2006.