Dr. Mukesh Prasad

Dr Mukesh Prasad is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at UTS and a subject matter expert for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Institute of Applied Technology (IAT), NSW, Australia. He has made substantial contributions to the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence, data analytics and Natural Language Processing. He is working also in the evolving and increasingly important field of computer vision and internet of things, which promise to pave the way for the evolution of new applications and services in the areas of healthcare, biomedical and agriculture. His research has appeared in numerous prestigious journals, including IEEE/ACM Transactions, and at conferences, and he has published more than 200 research articles.

He started his academic career as a lecturer with UTS in 2017 and became a core member of the University’s world-leading Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII), which has a vision to develop theoretical foundations and advanced technologies for AI and to drive progress in related areas. His research is backed by industry experience, specifically in Taiwan, where he was the principal engineer (2016-17) at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). He received an M.S. degree from the School of Computer and Systems Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India (2009), and a PhD from the Department of Computer Science at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan (2015).