Educational Qualifications

• Ph.D from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University

Research Interests

• Biometrics
• Payment System Technologies
• Digital Watermarking

Professional Experience

• Working as Assistant Professor in IDRBT since 2003
• Worked as Associate Professor in Sree Vidyanikethan Engg. College, AP from 1998 to 2000
• Worked as Lecturer in G. Pulla Reddy Engg. College, from 1995 to 1998

Achievements

• Published over 40 papers in International and National Journal / Conferences
• Guided 1 Ph.D. Scholar in the area of Digital Watermarking and 4 Ph.D. students are currently working in the areas of Biometrics and Digital Watermarking.
• IBA-IDRBT Open Standards on Smart Card based Solution to Financial Inclusion
• Reviewer: International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies, ICCSIT 11, Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling, International Journal of Biometrics, INDICON 11.
• Program Committee Member: SITIS 10, SITIS 11, ICETET 11

Recent Publications

• "Towards Cashless Society" by M V N K Prasad and P. Swathi, The Indian Banker Journal (Accepted)
• "A novel Technique for Palmprint Classification and Authentication" by M. V. N. K. Prasad, International Journal of Biometrics, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2010, pp. 87–108.
• "Fast and Accurate Watermark Retrieval Using Evolutionary Algorithms" by E.V. Gopal, M V N K Prasad and V. Ravi, International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, Vol. 2, 2010, pp. 121 – 136.
• "Subset Selection Approach for Watermarking Relational Databases" by Burepalli V S Rao and Munaga V N K Prasad, International Conference on Data Engineering and Management, July 2010,(ICDEM 2010) pp. 181 – 188.

Books & Monographs:

• "Lossy Image Compression" by K. K. Shukla and M. V. N. K. Prasad, Springer briefs Publishers, 2011.
• "Performance Evaluation of Color Image Watermarking", by P. Ramana Reddy, Munaga. V. N. K. Prasad, D. Srinivasarao Lambert academic publishing, 2011

Book Chapters:

• Munaga. V. N. K. Prasad, P. Manoj, D. Sudhir Kumar and Atul Negi, "Intramodal Palmprint Authentication" in "Signal Processing for Image Enhancement and Multimedia Processing", Eds. Damiani, E.; Dipanda, A.; Yetongnon, K.; Legrand, L.; Schelkens, P., Springer Publishers, 2007.
• E. V. Gopal, V. Ravi and Munaga. V. N. K. Prasad "Efficient watermark retrieval through Hopfield Neural Network" in "Soft Computing: New Research", Eds Frank Columbus, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., USA, 2008.

Working Papers:

• "Universal Distinctive Bank Account Numbering Scheme" by M. V. N. K. Prasad and S Ganesh Kumar
  IDRBT Working Paper, 2011.