Prokhorov is the IEEE Senior Member, received his Diploma in Robotics with Honors from the St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, Russia, in 1992. He then worked in the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation. After receiving Ph.D. in 1997, he joined the staff of Ford Scientific Research Laboratory, Dearborn, Michigan. While at Ford he was engaged in application-driven studies of intelligent technologies, developing new and improving existing machine learning/computational intelligence algorithms and applying them to problems in system modeling, control, diagnostics and optimization. He has been serving as a panel expert for the National Science Foundation, Associate Editor of several IEEE Transactions and the Elsevier journal of Neural Networks. He has also been a reviewer and a member of Organizing and/or Program Committees of many international journals and conferences. He has authored more than 100 scientific publications, as well as many patents. He has been involved in research on intelligent technologies at Toyota Tech Center (TTC), Ann Arbor, MI since joining TTC in 2005, and in particular, all main areas of research on highly automated vehicles. Since 2011 he has been in charge of future mobility research department of Toyota NA.