Dr. Prasant Misra is a Senior Scientist in the Data and Decision Sciences division of TCS Research. He also serves as Visiting Faculty in the Department of Cyber Physical Systems at IISc Bangalore. His work broadly lies at the intersection of mobility, energy, and intelligent systems. His current research is centered around optimization and decision intelligence for operations management of urban mobility and infrastructure systems. His earlier research in computational informatics focused on the design of energy-efficient sensing and information processing techniques for low-power networked embedded systems. 

He has authored over 60 publications, position papers, and editorials spanning cyber-physical systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile systems, and electric mobility. He has received numerous honors for his work, including multiple Best Paper & Poster awards. He has been recognized as a Distinguished Contributor (Class of 2025) by the IEEE Computer Society. 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 is a recipient of the ERCIM Alain Bensoussan & EU Marie Curie Fellowship in 2012, 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. 

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 of the IEEE Bangalore Section. He is also a member of the IEEE Computer Society Region 10 Geographic Activities Committee, ACM India Membership and Chapters Committee, COMSNETS Association.  He previously held leadership roles as the Founding Chair of the India chapter of ACM SIGMOBILE (2019–2020), Chair of the IEEE Industry Applications Society Bangalore Chapter (2024–25), and Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Bangalore Chapter (2022–2023), during which the chapter received the IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Chapter Award 2023.  In addition, Dr. Misra 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 in 2018 and the COMSNETS Association Outstanding Service Recognition award in 2019 and 2020.

He has over 19 years of professional experience. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, and completed his Post-doctoral fellowship from RISE SICS, Stockholm (formerly the Swedish Institute of Computer Science). 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.