Dr. Prakash is a Research Fellow (Security and Geopolitics) at the Australia India Institute. Her research focus is geoeconomics of India, Southeast Asia and the Quad. She was previously an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute leading the Australia-India Cyber and Critical Technology Program between 2022 and 2023. Before that she was the inaugural Southeast Asia Research Associate at the Lowy Institute between 2021 and 2022. She completed her PhD in 2021 from Griffith University, the focus of her thesis was Australia-India strategic and economic relations during the Cold War.