Biography
Nagarajan Prabakar is an associate professor and undergraduate program director in the Knight Foundation School of Computing & Information Sciences at Florida International University. He received his MEng degree in automation from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Queensland, Brisbane. He is an SFFP Fellow at AFRL and received the best paper award in SEDE 2022. His research interests include deep learning approaches to system security and quantum database algorithms.
Awards & Honors
- Excellence in Service Award, School of Computing and Information Sciences, 2020
- AWS Academy Accredited Educator, 2020
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, 2020
- Finalist for the FIU Presidential Excellence Award in 2019 and 2020 on Accelerating the Next Generation of STEM
- Excellence in Service Award, College of Engineering and Computing, Florida International University, 2012
- Excellence in Service Award, School of Computing and Information Sciences, 2011
- Teaching Incentive Program Award at Florida International University, 1995
- University of Queensland M.I.M. Holdings Ltd. prize for attaining the highest level of academic achievement in Computer Science Postgraduate Studies, 1982 and 1984
- University of Queensland Postgraduate Research Scholarship, 1981 - 1984
- Gold medal for securing the first rank in B.E. at Annamalai University, 1977
Education
- Ph.D. University of Queensland, Australia Computer Science, 1985
- ME, Indian Institute of Science, India Automation, 1979
- BE, Annamalai University, India Electrical & Electronics Engineering, 1977