Dr.Parimala Prabhakar working as a Associate Professor in the Department of ETE is enthusiastic in carrying out more innovative projects in the domain of Antennas and RF systems. She is the registered PhD guide under VTU. She is senior member of IEEE, Execom member of IEEE Sensor council, Execom member of IEEE APS/MTTs, Bangalore section, IETE member , LISTE member.
She has total of 35 publications including quality journals and IEEE conference papers.She is PI of DST Project on Design, development of high accuracy Navic receivers for rapid topographic surveys, with funding of Rs 52L. She is also working on research projects with RIT Faculty seed funding on Compact Transparent antennas –Rs 2L. Has two Patents published on Antenna designs. She is the co ordinator of RIT COE for Antennas and RF systems. She is awarded as Best senior faculty award from Novel Research academy. She is a recipient of Sir Thomas Ward Prize from Institute of engineers for the research paper on Image tracking and fusion algorithm.