RR Venkatesha Prasad
RR Venkatesha Prasad

Dr. R. Venkatesha Prasad has been a faculty member at the Networked Systems group of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). He has supervised PhD (20+) and MSc (65+) students. He has (co-)authored 300+ publications in peer-reviewed international transactions/journals and conferences, including patents, standards, and book chapters. He has been successful in acquiring and executing several European and Dutch national projects in the areas of IoT, CPS, mmWave networks, Smart-energy systems, Personal Networks, and Cognitive Radios.


Dr. Prasad received his 4TU University Teaching Qualification diploma with excellence in 2015. Recognizing his research contributions to the field of IoT, he was selected as an IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) Distinguished Lecturer twice, during 2016-2020. He has been contributing significantly to valorizing research to practice by contributing to standards on Cognitive radios work groups and a mentor of the IEEE Tactile Internet standard. Currently vice chair of MobiNet-SC standardization group and was secretary of ComSoc standards board. He is also leading many IEEE activities through positions in technical committees (vice-chair of the cognitive networking 2013-16, 2020-22, and Green Communications and Computing 2017- 2019). He is an editor of many transactions and magazines and is a regular TPC member for many conferences. He was responsible for the signing of the MoU between the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) and TUDelft, and he is anchoring the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and TU Delft cooperation. He was the Deputy Project Director for Lunar Zebro – a moon rover project. Dr. Prasad completed his PhD from IISc, Bangalore, India, in 2003. During his PhD research, a scalable VoIP conferencing platform was designed. His thesis work led to a start-up venture, Esqube Communication Solutions. While at Esqube, Several patent applications and PCT applications were filed along with his colleagues. He was instrumental in Esqube’s selection as top 100 IT innovators in India in 2006 by NASSCOM and the top 100 promising companies in Asia by RedHerring in 2008. Recently, he led a student team to win the worldwide Airbus challenge – Fly Your Ideas (2019). He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM. He is a Fellow of IETE.