Prashant Joshi is a lecturer in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin, teaching in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management. He also teaches in UT Austin’s Department of Computer Science, as well as the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has taught a wide range of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in computer science, computer engineering, and business analytics.

Prior to joining The University of Texas, he was a senior engineering manager for Intel Corp., where he led the circuit design and physical design teams at multiple international sites in the E-Core microprocessor group. He has more than 30 years of industry experience managing teams and projects, and in all aspects of design of high-performance and low-power microprocessors. 

His research has included fault tolerant networks and low-power, high-performance design, and he has chaired numerous conferences for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has authored more than two dozen papers in international conferences and journals and holds a patent for modeling full- and half-cycle clock variability.

Joshi earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, an M.S. in computer science from the University of South Carolina, and a Bachelor of Technology in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.