Dr. Prakash Raghavendra completed his MTech(CS&E) from IIT Madras in 1994 and PhD from the Department of CSA, IISc, in the areas of Parallelizing Compilers in 1998. Dr. Prakash has worked the areas of Operating Systems for Hewlett-Packard in Bangalore from 1998 to 2007. He has worked in Adobe Systems between 2007 and 2009 in the areas of Flex IDE. Between 2009 and June 2012, Dr. Prakash has worked as Associate Professor in the Department of Information Technology, NITK Surathkal. He guided three research students and several MTech/BTech students. He was awarded ìIBM Faculty Awardî and ìIntel Parallelism Content Awardî in 2010. Dr. Prakash is currently working as Architect in AMD, Bangalore, in the area of GPGPU and server for application performance optimizations. Dr. Prakash has several Intl Conference and Journal papers and two patents to his credit.