K. V. Prasad received a Gold Medal for Excellence in academic performance during his Master’s program at Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, Karnataka, India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in the field of Applied Mathematics from the same university during the year 2001. He has published 165 papers in research journals brought out by Springer and Elsevier publishers and his research contribution thus far has a total impact factor of 180.5. The total citation of his papers as per Google scholar exceeds 3406. His research interest include free, forced, and mixed convection problems involving stretching sheet, flat plate, flow past a wedge, thin films, nanofluids, multi-layer fluid flows , peristaltic flows, and porous media problems. He has research experience with Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids. He is a reviewer for several International journals. He is a recipient of the prestigious BOYSCAST Fellowship of the Department of Science and Technology, Technology Bhavan, Government of India. He is presently working as a Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Bellary, Karnataka, India. He is the recipient of Awards for Research Publications (Published) by Science Faculty-2014 with a citation and a cash prize of Rs.25,000/- sponsored by Government of Karnataka. He is the recipient of ICM-2014 funded by NANUMM 2014 by KIAS to present a research article from August 11th to August 21st , 2014 SEOUL, South Korea.