Dr. Prabu K is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NIT-K) in Surathkal. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor at VIT University Vellore's SENSE, as well as at EEC, SRM Group, LICET, the Loyola group, and SGC Services Pvt. Ltd. in the CIPA Project NIC Puducherry. Overall, he has 11+ years of experience in the wireless and optical communications domain. He is a notable alumnus of Anna University, where he graduated and post-graduated in 2007 and 2010, respectively, before pursuing a PhD at NIT Trichy. He has mentored around 40 PhD and Masters students. He has disseminated pertinent knowledge through 81 technical papers, 66 international journals, 15 international conferences, 2 book chapters, and 1 book, as well as in 100+ invited or conference talks. He received fellowships from the Government of India, including the University Grant Commission (UGC) and the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP). He has also been honored with the TEQIP International Foreign Travel Grant for his laboratory visits to Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is one among the top 2% of scientists worldwide, as acknowledged by Elsevier and Stanford University US, consecutively, in the years 2019 to 2022. His research interests include wireless optical communication (FSO, VLC, and underwater), optical sensors, nano-photonics, 5G, antennas and 6G–IoT.