D. L. V. K. Prasad was born in Ongole, Andhra Pradesh in 1980. After schooling, he received his BSc degree from Nagarjuna University; CSRS College. In the year 2000, Prasad moved to the University of Hyderabad to study Masters in Chemistry and later to work with Prof. Jemmis for a PhD in the areas of structural chemistry of boron. During his doctoral studies, he also had conducted research at Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru and continued there for further research as research associate and subsequently joined as a postdoc in the research group of Prof. Jansen at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart and Cornell University, Ithaca to work with Prof. Hoffmann (1981 Nobel Laureate) and Prof. Ashcroft.

In 2013, Prasad joined as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His teaching and research interest broadly lies in the areas of physical chemistry and chemistry and physics of molecules, minerals, and materials — Theory and Computations of electronic structure and bonding, lattice dynamics, phase transitions, superconductivity, and crystal structure prediction-materials genome initiative approaches to materials design and synthesis.

Prasad is a member of the Editorial board of the Journal of Innovative Materials in Extreme Conditions (JIMEC) and invited member of American Chemical Society (2015-2018).