Background: Prasad received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1993. Discovering the boundary between solvable and unsolvable tasks, developing efficient / optimal algorithms for solvable tasks, and understanding further assumptions / relaxations needed to solve otherwise impossible tasks are the issues that interest him the most. Professor Jayanti's research is on asynchronous concurrent systems, with emphasis on synchronization and fault-tolerance aspects.

His honors include Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, New Hampshire Excellence in Education Award, Dartmouth Distinguished Teacher Award, Melville and Leila Strauss 1960 Faculty Fellow, Dartmouth College Faculty Fellowship, NSF Research Initiation Award, an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Cornell Engineering Co-op Program, and the Co-op Honor.