Mukesh Prasad is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at UTS and has made substantial contributions to the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. He received an M.S. degree from the School of Computer and Systems Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, in 2009 and a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan in 2015. His research interests include big data, computer vision, the brain–computer interface, and evolutionary computation.