Shashidhar Rao is a Quality Assurance Professional at NJ Labs. Colleagues describe them as "A very sincere, intelligent, committed, hard working efficient scientist apart from being a very good human being !!!!!" and "Shashi is a versatile computational chemist, with a remarkable talent for clear communication, great listening skills, and creative problem solving abilities. Because of his industrial experience in drug discovery area, he understands practical issues faced by his customers, and addresses them in a down to earth manner. His excellent scientific background is reflected in his interactions, and collaborations resulting in high quality publications. He is one of the very few persons I have known with demonstrated first hand experience in methods development, applications and medicinal chemistry collaborations in the area of computer-assisted drug design."