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Jeyaprakash (Jey) has worked with world renowned scientists, Dr. Prusinkiewicz, known for his work on L-systems, and Dr Alex A. Aravind, known for his work on concurrency and synchronization issues. Jey started his research career as a Master’s student at the University of Northern British Columbia under the guidance of Dr. Alex A Aravind. His research work on CPU scheduling algorithms has been reported in the book “Operating Systems” by Sibsankar Haldar and Alex A. Aravind. Presently, Jey is working as a Postdoctoral fellow under the guidance of Dr. Prusinikiewicz to complete his work on leaf modeling. He is also is taking a course on "Physically-based and biomechanical modeling of natural phenomena" taught by Dr. Prusinkiewicz at the University of Calgary.

After completing his research, he worked in the area of Bioinformatics for a period of three months with Dr. Aravind. During this period, he developed a passion and insatiable curiosity to apply the notions and methods from Computer Science for Biological Modeling. He approached Dr. Prusinkiewicz for PhD studies after reading his book on “Algorithmic Beauty of Plants”. He later worked in Biological Modeling and Visualization lab, led by Dr. Prusinkiewicz, as a PhD student for six years. He used principles from mathematics and physics to create virtual models for understanding the emergence of different biological patterns and forms. During this period, he also collaborated with Dr. Jill Harrison from the University of Cambridge to work on the moss Physcomitrella patens leaf development. His Coleochaete model organism resulted from PhD work was published in The New Phytologist journal by the authors P. Prusinkiewicz and A. Runions in an article titled “Computational Models of Plant Development and Form”, and he was acknowledged for his contribution. . After working with Dr. Prusinkiewicz for over six years, Jey developed an immense passion in the area of graphics and animation. In Jey's opinion, graphics programming is more interesting than traditional programming as one can see math and physics in action. It also makes one get excited and invigorated after seeing the visual output. Jey is a passionate teacher and two of his students got placed at Amazon and Siemens while he worked as an Assistant Professor at Shiv Nadar University, India.

Apart from his research career, Jey was an active volunteer at University Television (NUTV) at the University of Calgary from 2010-2012. He worked as a video editor for many stories and was an active crew member for live shows. It is during this period he developed contacts with short film directors. He is currently working on a movie (short-film) script with his friends who are pursuing film studies at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Calgary, Alberta.

Jey's recent Postdoctoral work and presentation slides can be found at this link: Postdoctoral work (Sep 2014 - Present). Jey is very happy that he and his collaborators have finally decoded how leaf develops in P. patens after many years of hard-work. He is currently working on a journal publication on “Understanding leaf development mechanism in moss Physcomitrella patens with a computational model” with Dr. Prusinkiewicz, Dr. Runions, Dr. Harrison (University of Cambridge), and Dr. Elizabeth (University of Regina).