Rajendra Prasad is a professor of physics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He received a PhD in physics from the University of Roorkee (now renamed as IIT Roorkee) and completed postdoctoral work at Northeastern University. Dr. Prasad is a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India. Spanning over four decades, his research work focuses on the electronic structure of metals, disordered alloys, atomic clusters, transition metal oxides, ferroelectrics, multiferroics, and topological insulators.