Prashant Desai

Prashant Desai, Ph.D., has served as Director of Business Technology (now R&D) at FiberVisions since 2005. As of 2016, he also serves as Director of Global R&D for the IVL Fibers & Yarns business unit. Previously he was Senior Research Fellow and Global Programs Manager for the company’s Textiles/Industrials business unit. Prior to joining FiberVisions in 1998 as a research scientist, Dr. Desai was a faculty member at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1988 to 1998. He was an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering, where he had a primary appointment in the School of Textile and Fiber Engineering and an adjunct appointment in the School of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Desai has a Ph.D. in polymer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.