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Dr. Prasant Misra is a Senior Scientist at Tata Consultancy Services - Research, where he works on intelligent cyber physical systems for smart and sustainable mobility. He is a Visiting Faculty at the Robert Bosch Centre for CPS, IISc Bangalore. His current research is centered around modeling, optimization and decision support for operations management of urban mobility and infrastructure systems. His past research endeavor was in the design of sensing techniques and sensor informatics for energy constrained network embedded systems.

He has published over 60 peer-reviewed scientific and position papers in the field of cyber physical systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile systems, and electric mobility. He has been felicitated by numerous honors and awards for his work, of which it is noteworthy to mention the MIT TR 35 - India “Top 10 Innovators under the age of 35 in India” (for the development of new technology or creative application of existing technologies to solve problems) and the TCS “Exemplary Contribution Award” (for increasing the brand value of TCS) in 2017; the ERCIM “Alain Bensoussan” and “Marie Curie” Fellowship (for scientific excellence) in 2012; and the Australian Government's AusAID “Australian Leadership Awards” Scholarship (for his potential to make substantial impact on social, economic, and development challenges of the Asia-Pacific region at a leadership level) in 2008. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award (in the applied data science track) at ACM India CODS-COMADS 2023; and has won the Best Poster Paper Award at ACM SenSys 2016 and EWSN 2013.

He has served and continues to serve on the committees of various professional organizations & industry bodies (IEEE | ACM | COMSNETS | NASSCOM); government agencies (MeitY); standard development organizations (BIS | ISO/IEC); editorial boards (IEEE | Elsevier); and board-of-studies. He is presently the Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society Bangalore Chapter; Vice-Chair (Technical Activities) of the IEEE Bangalore Section; and committee member of the COMSNETS Association. Previously, he has served as the Founding Chair of the India chapter of ACM SIGMOBILE (2019-20). He has also served as the Chair of the Bangalore Chapter of IEEE Computer Society (2022-23), the tenure that led to the "Outstanding Chapter Award 2023" global recognition from IEEE Computer Society. He is the Chair of the Technical Subcommittee for IoT and PRSG member of NASSCOM-MeitY FutureSkills Prime; member of the MeitY working group on IoT based technologies for Smart Cities; and PRSG member of the MeitY project on the Development of Secure Post Quantum Public Key Infrastructure. Previously, he has served on BIS and ISO/IEC standards committees for smart cities and infrastructure (2016-18). He is on the editorial boards of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal as Area Editor, and IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine as Associate Editor; and has previously served on the editorial board of IEEE Communications Magazine as Series Editor of Internet of Things (2019-2022). His volunteering excellence has been felicitated by the IEEE Bangalore Section "Outstanding Volunteer Award" in 2018; COMSNETS Association “Outstanding Service Recognition” in 2019 and 2020.

He has 17+ years of professional experience. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from UNSW Sydney and completed his Post-doctoral from RISE SICS Stockholm. He has previously held research positions at CSIRO Australia and IISc Bangalore; short-term visiting positions at NICTA Australia, TIFR Mumbai, Universiteit Gent, ETH Zurich; and software engineering positions at NTT Data. He is a senior member of the IEEE/Computer Society and ACM/SIGMOBILE. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker.