Prof. Prashant Upadhyay is Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering of K.J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering and Information Technology, Sion, Mumbai, with special focus on embedded system for Robotics collaborative R & D with other department at KJSIEIT, Sion Mumbai. Prashant teaches several courses on VLSI, microcontroller microprocessor, He is also teaching a course of ASSEMBLY and mixed language Programming- 86 families, to students of Computers Engineering and Information Technology. He co-authored a paper in Electronic material Journal titled, "Role of Induced Gap States in Polar AlxGa1-xN schottky Diodes". 

 Besides teaching, He is instructor of e-Yantra in KJSIEIT, an embedded system and Robotics Program. He is Also Instructor of ROBOCON –KJSIEIT team which recently bagged a AIR-5 and Judges special award. 

Prashant Also organizing a series of  Workshop on Raspberry Pi recently and In House Internships for Students in Embedded System and Robotics at KJSIEIT, Sion, Mumbai.