Dr. Prasant Misra is a Senior Scientist at TCS Research, where he leads applied research on intelligent cyber physical systems for smart and sustainable mobility. He also serves as Visiting Faculty in the Department of Cyber Physical Systems at IISc Bangalore. His current research is centered around optimization and decision intelligence for operations management of urban mobility and infrastructure systems. Earlier in his career, he worked extensively on sensor informatics, particularly in the design of energy-efficient sensing and information processing techniques for low-power network-embedded systems.

He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications and position papers spanning 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. In 2017, he was named among MIT Technology Review’s TR35 India “Top 10 Innovators Under 35” and received the TCS Exemplary Contribution Award. He was awarded the prestigious ERCIM Alain Bensoussan & Marie Curie Fellowship (in 2012) for scientific excellence, and the Australian Government's AusAID Australian Leadership Awards Scholarship (in 2008) for his potential to make substantial impact on social, economic, and development challenges of the Asia-Pacific region at a leadership level. He has received the Best Paper Award (Applied Data Science track) at ACM India CODS-COMAD 2023, and Best Poster Awards at ACM SenSys 2016 and EWSN 2013. 

Dr. Misra actively contributes to the broader scientific and professional community through his involvement with a wide range of academic, industry, and government bodies. He has served on the committees of leading professional organizations such as IEEE, ACM, and COMSNETS, and contributed to government agencies like MeitY, as well as standard development organizations such as BIS and ISO/IEC. He is currently the Chair-Elect (2025) of the IEEE Bangalore Section, Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society Bangalore Chapter, and a member of both the COMSNETS Association and the ACM India Membership and Chapters Committee.  He previously held leadership roles as the Founding Chair of the India chapter of ACM SIGMOBILE (2019–2020) and Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter (2022–2023), during which the chapter received the IEEE Computer Society’s global "Outstanding Chapter Award 2023". He also plays an active advisory role in public technology policy and capacity-building initiatives. He chairs the Technical Subcommittee for IoT and serves as a PRSG member for both the NASSCOM-MeitY FutureSkills Prime program and MeitY’s Smart City 2.0 project. He has previously contributed to BIS and ISO/IEC standards development on Smart Cities and Infrastructure (2016–2018). On the editorial front, he currently serves as Area Editor for Elsevier’s Ad Hoc Networks Journal and Associate Editor for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine. He previously served as Series Editor of IoT for IEEE Communications Magazine (2019–2022). His commitment to volunteering and community service has been recognized through the IEEE Bangalore Section "Outstanding Volunteer Award" (2018) and the COMSNETS Association “Outstanding Service Recognition” awards (2019, 2020).

He has 18+ years of professional experience. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from UNSW Sydney and completed his Post-doctoral fellowship from RISE SICS (the Swedish Institute of Computer Science) Stockholm. He has 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.