Dr. Prakash M, SM IEEE, SM ACM, Top 2% Scientist in 2023 and 2024 by Standford University and Elsevier database works as a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT University), Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering in 2001 from the University of Madras, his Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering in 2007 from Sathyabama University, and his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science and Engineering in 2014 from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad.
He has over 24 years of experience in teaching and research. His areas of interest include Data Analytics, Big Data, and Machine Learning. He has published more than 75 research papers in international journals and conferences.
He has served as a lead guest editor for journals published by Inderscience, EAI Endorsed Transactions, Bentham Science, and Tech Science Press. He is a member of the Editorial Review Board of IGI Global, Scientific Reports, and has reviewed manuscripts for journals from leading publishers such as IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and Inderscience.
He has received awards from the Computer Society of India (CSI) for hosting the highest number of CSI events and is an active CSI member of the Coimbatore Chapter during 2018-19. He is also a member of IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Computer Society of India (CSI), ISTE, and IAENG.