Dr. Prabhakaran received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award FY 2003 for his proposal on Animation Databases.

He was selected as an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2011 and is currently an IEEE Senior Member. He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia from 2015-2020.

Prabhakaran is a founding Associate Editor for Springer’s Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research and is an Editor for Elsevier Journal, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.

He is Member of the Editorial board of Multimedia Systems Journal (Springer), Multimedia Tools and Applications journal (Springer), and other multimedia systems journals. He received the Best Associate Editor for 2015, from Springer’s Multimedia Systems Journal.

Dr Prabhakaran is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia . He is a Member of the Executive Council of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) and is the Co-Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC) Special Interest Group on Video Analytics (SIGVA).

Dr. Prabhakaran served as the General Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics (ICHI) 2015. He was also a General Co-Chair of ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2013 (ICMR 2013), IEEE Haptic, Audio, and Visual Environments (HAVE) 2014, a General Co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2011, and ACM Multimedia and Security (MM&Sec) 2007.

Prof Prabhakaran's research has been funded by Federal Agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA Army Research Office (ARO), and the US-IGNITE Program, apart from industries and consortiums.