Education
He gained his Master of Arts at Karnatak, his Doctor of Philosophy from Gauhati in 1966 Doctor of Science from Manchester in 1988.
He gained his Master of Arts at Karnatak, his Doctor of Philosophy from Gauhati in 1966 Doctor of Science from Manchester in 1988.
He is a specialist in time series analysis especially non-stationary and non-linear time series analysis, higher order spectral analysis, theory of random fields, time series methods for analysis of environmental variables (detection of climatic changes etc) and multivariate nonlinear models. The Subba Rao-Liporace models, and Subba Rao Gabr window for bivariate spectraare named after him. Subba Rao retired in 2009 having worked at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Manchester for 42 years.
He published over 70 papers and supervised 15 Doctor of Philosophy students.
Even after retirement he remains active.