Dr. Bhaskaranarayana is working as Distinguished Vikram Sarabhai Chair Professor at ISRO Headquarters, Bangalore and has held the responsibilities of the Scientific Secretary; Director-Satellite Communication Programmes; Director- Frequency Management Programme; Director-INSAT; and Programme Director- Edusat & Telemedicine programmes. 

Graduated from IIT-Madras, he is a fellow of the IETE and member of the Astronautic Society of India and IETE Council. He joined Indian Space Research Organization in 1972 and was associated with the development of India's first satellite, "Aryabhatta". He worked on Telecommand, Telemetry and Communication payloads developed for India's first remote sensing satellite IRS-1A. He was also the principal designer of high bit rate data transmission systems for IRS series of satellites.

He was designated as Deputy Project Director for India's first operational communication satellites INSAT 2A and 2B and was elevated to a position of Associate Project Director for INSAT 2C/2D satellites. He was also a Project Director of Indian Advance Communication satellite INSAT 2E, which was a forerunner for the new INSAT/GSAT series of satellites.

He is awarded the "Distinguished Achievement Award" for his contribution to the Aryabhata project; National Research and Development Council Award for 'Innovative Hardware Development' and ASI Outstanding Achievement Award for his contribution to the spacecraft and related technologies. He is also the recipient of ISRO's "Individual Performance Excellence Award" for year 2007, "ISRO Merit Award" for year 2006 and several "Team-Excellence Awards".

He has been responsible for introduction of latest state-of-the-art technologies in communication satellite-systems to enable these systems to be commensurate with the latest trends in the world. Mr Bhaskaranarayana has been leading a team of professionals utilizing satellite technology for the benefit of common people through several societal applications programmes like tele-education, tele-medicine and Village Resource Centres or VRCs.

Recently he has also received the 'Honorary Doctorate (Honoris causa)' for the year 2009 from Sathyabama University, Chennai.

He has published several papers in the National and International journals and has three International Patents to his credit.