Conferences:

1. C. Sankar Rao and K. Barik, Modeling, Simulation and Control of Middle Vessel Batch Distillation Column, ICMOC 2012, Noorul Islam College, Tamilnadu 
2. C. Sankar Rao and M. Chidambaram. Subspace identification of unstable systems by MON4SID algorithm, 10th IFAC International Symposium on Dynamics and Control Process Systems, 2013, pp. 666-671, IIT Bombay. (Dec 18-20, 2013) 
3. C. Sankar Rao and M. Chidambaram. Subspace Identification of Unstable Transfer Function Model for a Magnetic Levitation System, Third International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems, 2014, pp. 394-399, IIT Kanpur. (Mar 13-15, 2014) 
4. C. Sankar Rao and M. Chidambaram. Experimental application of subspace identification of an unstable system, International Conference on Modelling and Computer Simulation, 2014, IIT Madras, 2014. (Dec, 8-9, 2014)
5.  P. Nagarjuna Reddy and C. S. Rao. Modelling and Simulation of Batch Distillation Column, ICMOC 2014, Noorul Islam College, Tamilnadu.
6. A. Sahoo, T. K. Radhakrishnan and C. S. Rao. Real-time implementation of two PID tuning methods for temperature control of shell and tube heat exchanger, Technoscape 2016, VIT, Vellore. (20-21 Oct, 2016)
7. Yashas Mohan Kumar, Sai Dinesh B. and C. Sankar Rao. Simulation and control continuous crystallization process, IES 2017, Japan. (1-3 March, 2017)
8. Purushottam Patil and C. Sankar Rao, Design of PID controller for non-minimum phase system, Chemcon 2017, HIT, Haldia (27-30 Dec)
9. Vura Chaitanya and C. Sankar Rao, Modeling and Simulation of CO2 Capture Using Alkanolamines, First International Conference on Energy and Environment: Global Challenges, NIT Calicut, 2018, (9-10, March)
10. Purushottam Patil, Prabhuteja Y. and C. Sankar Rao, Tuning of PID Controller for an Unstable Non-Minimum Phase SOPTD System, CHEMCON 2018, NIT Jalandhar (27-30, December)
11. Prabhuteja Y. and C. Sankar Rao, Optimal Control of Fluid Catalytic Cracking Process, CHEMCON 2018, NIT Jalandhar.
12. Abhishek, Indra Neel Pulidindi and C. Sankar Rao, Novel strategies for glucose production from switchgrass using solid acid catalysts, CHEMCON 2018, NIT Jalandhar.
13. Sanjith S. Anchan and C. Sankar Rao, Simulation and Control of a Biological Wastewater Treatment Process, International Conference on Civil Engineering Trends and Challenges for Sustainability (CTCS 2019), N.M.A.M.I.T., Nitte, Mangalore (May 23 – 24).
14. Abhishek, Indraneel Pulidindi, C. Sankar Rao,  Supported hydropoly acid for the production of fermentable sugar from cellulosic biomass, International conference on multifunctional and hybrid composite materials for energy, environment and medical applications, NIT Trichy, 9-11 September, 2019.
15. Sanjith S. Anchan and C. Sankar Rao, Design of decoupler for wastewater treatment plant, CHEMCON 2019, IIT Delhi.
16. G. Uday Kiran and C. Sankar Rao, Tuning of centralized controller for industrial scale polymerization reactor, CHEMCON 2019, IIT Delhi
17. Gourav Yadav and C. Sankar Rao, Design of a centralized PI controller for a non-square system with application to reverse osmosis process,  CHEMCON 2019, IIT Delhi

Invited Talks:

1. Delivered a talk on “Subspace Identification Methods” in AICTE sponsored short-term course on Process Control at IIT Madras (15^th to 19^th Dec, 2014).
2. Delivered a guest lecture on Process design and development in Faculty development program at MSRIT, Bangalore on 21^st Jan, 2017.
3. Delivered a research talk on Overview of subspace identification in National workshop on Trends in Process Control at IIT Madras in 22^nd April, 2017.
4. Delivered a technical talk on Process Modelling and Simulation for Chemical Process in workshop on modelling and simulation of Engineering Systems at NIT Trichy during 23-24 March, 2018.
5. Delivered a technical talk on Chemical Process Modelling and Simulation using MATLAB in TEQIP-III sponsored National workshop Course on “Application of Chemical Engineering in Natural Resources (AChENRI)” during 17-21, July, 2018 at IGIT Sarang.
6. Delivered a technical talk on Process Modelling and Simulation using DWSIM and MATLAB in TEQIP-III sponsored National workshop Course on “Modelling, Simulation and Data analysis for experimental research MSDAER-2019” during 28th Jan -2nd Feb, 2019, 2018 at VSSUT, Burla.
7. Delivered a keynote lecture on subspace identification of unstable systems for control in the International Conference on Advances in Systems, Control and Computing (AISCC 2020) at MNIT Jaipur during 27-28, Feb 2020

Workshop/Seminars:

1. Coordinated and conducted a Scilab Workshop on 10^th April, 2013 at IIT Madras.
2. Attended the two days’ workshop on “Model Predictive Control” conducted by Dr. John Bagterp Jørgensen of the department of Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark.
3. Delivered a talk on “Subspace Identification Methods” in AICTE sponsored short term course on Process Control at IIT Madras (15^th to 19^th Dec, 2014).
4. Coordinated and conducted “Aspen Plus Workshop” on 3^rd July,2015 at Shaastra 2015, IIT Madras
5. Coordinated and conducted Aspen plus and Aspen Dynamics workshop on 14^th March, 2015 at ChemClave 2015, IIT Madras.
6. Attended 1^stIndian Control Conference 2015 at IIT Madras during 5-7 Jan, 2015
7. Attended the workshop on Symbolic Computing and Numerical Programming using Mathematica/Matlab (SCNPMM) during 10^th – 12^th July, 2015 at NIT Warangal
8. Attended the workshop on Industrial Automation (IA-2015) from 17^th to 19^th August, 2015 at NIT Tiruchirappalli
9. Attended the workshop on Advanced Process Control (ACE 2015) from 9^th to 10^th Oct, 2015 at NIT Tiruchirappalli
10. Participated in three-day workshop on Parallel Computing with GPUs conducted by GPU Centre of Excellence (GCOE), IIT Bombay organized by National Institute of Technology, Trichy. (Mar 8-10, 2016).
11. Attended short term course on Recent developments in waste water treatment technologies, organized by Chemical Engineering Department, NIT Trichy during 6^th -7^th May, 2016 under sponsorship of TEQIP – II, Govt of India
12. Participated in one week GIAN course on Crystallization Systems Engineering organized by Chemical Engineering Department, NIT Warangal during 5^th – 9^th September, 2016. (Foreign Expert: Prof. Zoltan K. Nagy, Purdue University, USA)