Résumé
Researcher · Software Developer
Aarhus, Denmark
Profile
- Focuses on digital twin platforms, cyber-physical systems, and distributed simulation as a researcher and software architect.
- Turns research results into open-source platforms, prototypes, and industrial collaborations.
- Collaborates with industry partners and research groups across Denmark, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Norway.
- Brings more than a decade of teaching, mentoring, and curriculum development experience in software engineering and computer science.
Research Motto: Research on real-world problems to deliver industry-ready software solutions.
Software Development Motto: Agile software development process enhanced with DevSecOps practices.
Teaching Motto: Socratic style hands-on instruction with equal emphasis on conceptual and practical learning.
Work Experience
Researcher
Digital Twins Research Group, DIGIT Centre, Aarhus University — Aarhus, Denmark
June 2020 – Present
- Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of Digital Twin as a Service for research and industrial projects in the DIGIT Centre portfolio.
- Deliver software, documentation, training, and technology transfer for CP-SENS and related collaborations with engineering partners.
- Contribute to collaborative digital twin, simulation, and secure sharing projects including DIGITbrain, HUBCAP, Secure Collaboration on DTaaS, and SWiM.
PostDoctorate Researcher
Agile Cloud Lab, Communications Group, Aarhus University — Aarhus, Denmark
June 2018 – May 2020
- Researched efficient storage techniques for IoT data in cloud systems, with emphasis on generalized deduplication.
- Conceived and implemented the IT infrastructure for the Agile Cloud Lab.
- Built software prototypes and evaluation pipelines to demonstrate research results from the lab.
Researcher & Assistant Professor
Department of CS & IS, BITS, Pilani – KK Birla Goa Campus — Goa, India
June 2012 – May 2018
- Rebuilt and taught Internetworking Technologies as an advanced finishing course for students interested in data networks and systems.
- Expanded and taught Object Oriented Programming for cohorts of roughly 220 students, adding industry-relevant software development processes, labs, and projects.
- Architected and co-developed AutolabJS for automated evaluation of software projects; the tooling remained in use after my departure.
- Mentored undergraduate software projects and nine students who later became Google Summer of Code participants during 2015–2017.
Assistant Professor
Departments of CS & IS and ECE, RVR & JC College of Engineering — Guntur, India
November 2005 – May 2012
- Led coordination and administration for campus IT systems from 2009 to 2011; the deployed systems later supported 6,200 courses and 12,000 students over the 2009–2017 period.
- Taught courses on Unix Programming and Computer Networks.
Research
My current work focuses on digital twin platforms, cyber-physical systems, collaborative simulation, and research software engineering.
Sustainable Water-based Cooling in Megacities (SWiM)
Role: Researcher and Architect for Digital Twin Platform
Period: January 2026 – December 2030
Link: project
- Grundfos Foundation project with a total budget of 60 million DKK and four partners.
- Develop digital twin platforms to support multi-paradigm modeling and simulation of district cooling systems.
Secure Collaboration on top of the Digital Twin as a Service Platform
Role: Researcher and Developer
Period: December 2025 – December 2028
Link: project
- Thomas B. Thriges Foundation project funded at 3 million DKK.
- Co-developing mechanisms for secure collaboration and sharing of digital twin assets across organizational boundaries.
CP-SENS: Cyber-Physical Sensing for Machinery and Structures
Role: Project Board Member, Software Architect, and Developer
Period: May 2023 – May 2027
Link: project
- Danish Innovation Foundation project with a total budget of 19.3 million DKK and six project partners.
- Architect for developing digital twins for structural health monitoring applications.
DIGITbrain
Role: Architecture and Design Sub-group Member
Period: July 2020 – December 2023
Link: project
- H2020 European Union Innovation Action with an overall budget of 8 million EUR and 36 partners.
- Contributed to requirements analysis, architecture and design, and prototype demonstrations for manufacturing digital twins.
HUBCAP
Role: Architecture, Requirements, and Prototype Development
Period: January 2020 – December 2022
Link: project
- H2020 European Union Innovation Action with an overall budget of 8 million EUR and 17 partners.
- Worked on architecture requirements, distributed sandbox prototyping, and review of project deliverables for cloud-based model-driven engineering support for cyber-physical systems.
- Created case study demonstrations for the platform.
Software Development
I architect, program and maintain research software and supporting repositories for digital twin development, experimentation, and deployment.
- Digital Twin as a Service (DTaaS) — documentation. Core platform for developing and operating digital twins.
- Simulation Bridge — Simulation middleware for distributed simulation of digital twins and IoT systems.
- Digital Twin Workflow for Structural Health Monitoring — Reference digital twin design for structural health monitoring. Used to monitor testing of wind turbine blades.
- DIGITbrain — Architecture and Design for Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS) software.
- Generalized Deduplication — Better data deduplication using probability transformations.
- AutolabJS — Auto evaluation tool for C/C++/Java/Python programming projects.
- IRCLogParser — Analysis and visualization of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels.
Technology Stack
| Category | Tools |
|---|---|
| Architectures | Microservices, Pub-Sub, Concurrent Actors, MVC |
| Cloud Services | Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services |
| Design Techniques | SOLID Principles, Design Patterns |
| Languages | TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C++, C, Java, Bash, R, Elixir |
| Frameworks | React, React Material UI, NodeJS, JVM, NetworkX, Gephi |
| Testing | Jest, Playwright, Pytest, googletest, junit, hamcrest, bats |
| Collaboration | git, github, gitlab |
| Packaging | npm, pip, waf, maven |
| Virtualization | Docker, Docker Hub, Vagrant, VMware ESXi |
| Configuration | Ansible, Shell |
| CI/CD | GitHub Actions, Semantic Versioning |
| Monitoring | glances |
| Code Quality | Codecov, Codeclimate, ESLint, cppcheck, shellcheck, checkstyle, pylint |
| Documentation | LaTeX, MkDocs, Doxygen, swagger, mediawiki |
Academic Collaborations
- Prof. Marco Picone and Prof. Nicola Bicocchi, Department of Sciences and Methods for Engineering, Università di Modena, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
- Prof. Neena Goveas, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, BITS, Pilani – Goa, India.
- Prof. Martin Leucker, Institute for Software Engineering and Programming Languages, University of Lübeck.
- Prof. Einar Broch Johnsen, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway.
- Parwinder Singh and Prof. Michail Beliatis, Department of Business Development and Technology, Aarhus University, Denmark.
- Eduard Kamburjan, Assistant Professor, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Consulting Experience
Web Service for 3D Fabrication
Danish Technological Institute — Aarhus, Denmark · August 2018 – October 2018
- Design of REST API for the web service. API specification and documentation done using swagger.
Robotics
Sensible Oy and GIM Robotics Oy, Finland — Helsinki, Finland · March 2020 – January 2021
- Review of software design, DevOps practices and recommendations.
Education
| Degree | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| PhD. in Computer Science | BITS, Pilani – KK Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India | 2013–2018 |
| M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, Distinction (78%) | Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India | 2007–2009 |
| B.E. (Hons) in Electronics & Instrumentation, Distinction (CGPA: 9.06/10) | BITS, Pilani – Pilani Campus, India | 1997–2001 |
Honors & Awards
| Award | Event | Location | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant | National Award for Teaching Linux Programming | Guntur, India | 2011 |
| Fellowship | National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) Fellowship | New Delhi, India | 2010 |
| Scholarship | Merit-cum-need scholarship for entire duration of undergraduate studies | Pilani, India | 2001 |
Publications & Writing
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- Prasad Talasila, Dmitri Tcherniak, et al., A Digital Twin Platform for Structural Health Monitoring, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (accepted).
- Prasad Talasila et al., Composable digital twins on Digital Twin as a Service platform, SIMULATION, 2024.
- Santiago Gil et al., An architecture for coupled digital twins with semantic lifting, Software and Systems Modeling, 2024.
- V. Zambrano et al., Industrial digitalization in the industry 4.0 era, Array, 2022.
- Claudio Gomes, Morten Haahr Kristensen, et al., Digital Twin Tutorial: The Incubator Case Study, in Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems, Springer Nature, 2025.
- Prasad Talasila et al., Realising Digital Twins, in The Engineering of Digital Twins, Springer, 2024.
- Peter Gorm Larsen, Prasad Talasila, and John Fitzgerald, Towards the Composition of Digital Twins, in The Application of Formal Methods, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.
Recent Conference and Workshop Papers
- Riccardo Sieve, Prasad Talasila, et al., A Self-Adaptive Digital Twin Architecture to Automate Greenhouse Management, ICPS 2026 (accepted).
- Milan Vathoopan, Prasad Talasila, et al., Orchestrating Distributed Simulations for Circular Manufacturing-as-a-Service Ecosystems, IEEE ICIT 2026.
- Marco Picone, Samuele Burattini, et al., A Multi-Simulation Bridge for IoT Digital Twins, IEEE PerCom Workshops, 2026.
- Mirgita Frasheri, Prasad Talasila, and Vanessa Scherma, Towards Federated Digital Twin Platforms, FSE workshop, 2026.
- Pranjay Yelkotwar et al., On-Demand Cardiac Digital Twins, MODELS-C, 2025.
- Prasad Talasila et al., Structural Health Monitoring of Engineering Structures Using Digital Twins, EVACES, 2025.
- Marco Picone, Prasad Talasila, et al., Exploring DevOps for Integrating Physical and Digital Twins in Cyber-Physical Systems, ICPS 2025.
- Prasad Talasila et al., Digital twin as a service (DTaaS): a platform for digital twin developers and users, IEEE Smart World Congress, 2023.
Reviewership & Expert Panels
- Journal Reviewer: Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems; npj Digital Medicine; Journal of Simulation.
- Conference Service: Program committee member, ICN 2019–2022; IEEE UIC 2024.
- Expert Panels: Open Digital Twin Standard (EPFL and ETH Zurich joint effort).