Prabu is a lecturer in the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Library and Information Science from Universitas Indonesia and Master’s Degree in Information Systems from Middle East Technical University in 2008 and 2014. He is currently a researcher in the areas of Library and Information Science, Data Analytics (knowledge discovery from data), Knowledge Management, Text Mining, Information Literacy, and Digital Library and Electronic Archives. He is interested to study Information Science for his Doctoral degree. Upon completion of his degree program, he intends to return to his home institution to teach Library and Information Science.

For his Fulbright Doctoral degree program in Information, Prabu is placed at Florida State University.