Ram Kumar Vankadara received his M.Tech. in Earth and atmospheric science from the N.I.T Rourkela in 2020 and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in ionospheric studies in the E.C.E department. He worked as a Research Scholar at Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (2020–2023). In 2023, he was promoted to Senior Research Fellow in a project under CRG/ SERB. His research topics mainly include ionospheric scintillation studies, GNSS, and remote sensing.