Prasad Tetali is a Regents Professor in the School of Mathematics and the School of Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, Prasad received his PhD from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs from 1992-94.

His research interests lie in discrete mathematics, probability, functional analysis, algorithms and optimization, and he has published more than 110 research articles. Prasad was recognized as a SIAM Fellow (2009) and an AMS Fellow (2012). He was the Editor-in-Chief of the SIAM Discrete Mathematics from 2009-2011. Prasad is a former director of Georgia Tech's Algorithms and Randomness Center Think Tank (ARC) and current director of the interdisciplinary PhD program in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization. He served as interim chair of the School of Mathematics at Georgia Tech from 2015-2016.