Karkal Prabhu

Karkal Prabhu

Teaching Professor Emeritus
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Karkal Prabhu

Teaching Professor Emeritus
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Biography

Dr. Prabhu has government and industrial experience on account of his long association with the Indian Space Research Organization and Honeywell-Bull Co. (France). He worked on application of software engineering principles to real-time software used in space missions. He developed and tested microprograms for Honeywell Series 60 machines.

Dr. Prabhu has more than ten years of teaching experience at Drexel University and several universities in India. He has taught a number of graduate and undergraduate courses in computer networks, microcontrollers, VHDL, software engineering, neural networks, pattern recognition, and distributed operating systems.

Degrees / Education

  • PhD, Harvard University, 1971
  • ME, Indian Institute of Science

Research Interests

Computer engineering education; computer architecture; embedded systems