
His interdisciplinary efforts in IT have resulted in several publications in international conferences such as the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences and the International Conference on Systems Integration.

He has been researching the area of innovative information technologies during the last two decades. He has taught courses on object-oriented programming, parallel and distributed computing, and operating systems. He has a broad range of interests in computer science and information technology and has published numerous research papers and a textbook on computer architecture and machine-level programming.

He obtained his bachelors degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, his masters degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, and his doctoral degree in computer science from Washington State. Gurpur Prabhu has been on the faculty of the department of Computer Science at Iowa State University since 1983.
