Sunil Rao

Sunil Rao is an articling student with Bereskin & Parr LLP. His practice focuses on electrical & computer technology, artificial intelligence, cleantech, financial technology and nanotechnology.

Sunil graduated from the Juris Doctor program at the University of Toronto. He holds a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy degree, both in Electrical Engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. He completed a Bachelor of Engineering at the K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering in India.

As part of his graduate research, Sunil studied chemical vapor deposition of different thin film semiconductor materials including silicon carbide, cadmium telluride, cadmium sulfide, germanium and zinc telluride. For his doctoral dissertation, his research focused on metalorganic vapor phase epitaxial growth of (211)B cadmium telluride on silicon substrates. Sunil has co-authored many journal papers on semiconductor materials and processing.

Prior to being an articling student, Sunil was a summer student with the firm. He is fluent in English, Hindi, Marathi and Konkani.