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BIREN PRASAD

Also known as: Birendra Prasad

Knowledge Solutions, Stanford University, Illinois Institute of Technology

ORCID iD 0000-0002-9665-2868
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About

Brian is the Aerospace most distinguished leader - bringing more than a decade of diverse
engineering and business experiences from many large aerospace and avionics companies
and disciplines. He brings in unique experiences from a number of industry giants worldwide,
including Panasonic Avionics and Parker Hannifin, Parker Aerospace (Control Systems),
Unigraphics-- CAD/CAM software, EDS--systems integration and consulting, Ford, GM and
Delphi --automotive, NASA -- aerospace, AAR--railroad and NASA-- government.
Dr. Prasad has developed many patented technologies and applications. Dr. Prasad has
been recently awarded two patents from US patents office for his inventions on (1) Modular
Passenger seat module (US#10,246,192) in which one or more of the modules can be
installed in the cabin of a vehicle, such as an airplane, train, bus, automobile, etc. (2)
Entertainment Display Mount (us#9743769B2) for dynamically positioning a display (such as
a TV) to an airplane interior surface.
Dr. Prasad is internationally well known and has extensively worked on Knowledge-based
Systems, Knowledge Management, Optimization, Concurrent Engineering, Integrated
Product development, Supply Chain, and Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC). Before
joining Parker Aerospace, he was a visiting Professor at California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena and managing Spec2Market Solutions as Chief Technology Officer. Brian is one
of the few e-Manufacturing company executives, who possess a strong multi-dimensional
perspective and understanding of the e-manufacturing processes and practices.
Dr. Prasad is pioneer in combining knowledge-capture technologies with industrial
automation needs to deliver innovative solutions that no one has done before. His visionary
ideas, strong leadership and relentless drive for instantaneous product realization have
helped him to transform his creative ideas into viable e-manufacturing products and services.
Proving his innovation and drive, Brian has numerous publications and over a dozen of
books on high-performance modern manufacturing, concurrent product development,
knowledge-based systems and OEM-to-OEM (O2O) Internet exchange solutions.
Before joining Panasonic Avionics, R&D Group in Lake Forest, CA, he worked for Parker
Aerospace, CSD group in Irvine, CA for 13 years. At Parker, Brian managed a Lean
Engineering Group where he developed patented technologies for drastically reducing lifecycle time and cost for Manifolds and Actuators as much as 50-60%. Brian came from two
premier organizations within Electronic Data Systems, Inc., Automated Concurrent
Engineering (ACE) and Unigraphics Solutions (UGS), where he conceived, architected and
launched the development of industry-leading, next-generation knowledge-based CAD/CAM
system. Within a year of its launch, he successfully delivered at the Fall UG-Users
Conference an embedded solution to capture all sorts of knowledge including
geometry
within the same CAD/CAM environment - never done by anyone before. Prior to UGS,
Brian served as a Senior ACE consultant and Director of ACE technology at Electronic Data
Systems.
Brian graduated from one of the top US universities, Stanford, with a Degree of Engineer in
Applied Mechanics, now a Division of Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1977.

Employment

  • Knowledge Solutions Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
    2000 - Present

Education

  • Stanford University D.Engineer
    1975 - 1977
  • Illinois Institute of Technology Ph.D.
    1975 - 1977

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (1)