Dr. Prasad is a charter member of several non-profit organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area. He founded the American/ International Gita Society whose aim is to serve the humanity through the teachings of the holy Bhagavad-Gita and other Vedic scriptures, and to establish unity amongst all cultures, races, religions, and faiths of the world through the immortal teachings of all great masters, and major world scriptures.
He is a 1959 graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He obtained his M.S. degree from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1966. Dr. Prasad has worked in research, teaching, engineering consulting, as well as State and Federal Governments, including U.S. Navy and U. S. Army Corps of Engineers at San Francisco, California.
At present he is a professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the San Jose State University, California and an adjunct professor of Religion and Psychology at the Graduate College of the Union Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio.