Dr. Debani Prasad Mishra is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bhubaneswar, and held the position of Head of Department (HOD) from 2021 to 2024. With over 16 years of experience spanning industry, academia, and research, he holds a PGDC in Thermal Power from NPTI, Nagpur, an M.Tech in Power Systems from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi , and a Ph.D. in Power Systems from Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Odisha.
Dr. Mishra has supervised four Ph.D. scholars to completion and currently mentors two more in areas including power system protection, MPPT techniques for microgrid-connected photovoltaic systems, power quality enhancement, electric vehicles and smart electric power distribution systems. He is a prolific researcher with over 77 publications in high-impact SCI and Scopus-indexed journals (Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, IJPEDS, etc.), 2 Indian patents, and more than 100 IEEE conference papers, along with contributions to book chapters and Springer book series.
His research contributions have garnered over 1,675 citations on Google Scholar, with an h-index of 21 and an i10-index of 47. He was honored with the Institute of Research Young Scientist Award 2023 for his outstanding contributions in Electrical Engineering and has received Best Paper Awards at the EPREC-2021 and SIGMA-2018 conferences. He handled two projects from E&ICT Academy, NITW-MeitY (18.9 lakhs) and ANRF (442 lakhs), and chaired sessions at national and international platforms.
In addition to his research, Dr. Mishra actively reviews for leading international journals from publishers including IEEE, IET, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, and Taylor & Francis. He has also taken on various institutional responsibilities, including serving as a Senate member and committee member for admissions, curriculum development, and enhancing the NIRF ranking. Dr. Mishra is a sought-after speaker who has delivered over 30 invited talks on topics such as AI/ML application on power quality, smart grids, renewable energy systems, power system protection, and electric vehicles.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
IIIT Bhubaneswar (April 2016- Till date):
Now I am working as an Asst. Professor (Initial Pay of Rs 19050 and with Academic Grade Pay (AGP) of Rs 7000) in International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Bhubaneswar. IIIT Bhubaneswar.
IIIT Bhubaneswar (5 year):
Now I am working as an Asst. Professor (Initial Pay of Rs 15600 and with Academic Grade Pay (AGP) of Rs 6000) in International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Bhubaneswar. IIIT Bhubaneswar is going to be a National Institute of excellence with support from the Government, industrial alliance and academic. I play a significant role as the member of faculty team.
KIIT University (1 year):
I worked as an Asst. Professor in the school of technology, KIIT University at Bhubaneswar. The Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University has fast emerged as a centre of excellence and continues to create new benchmarks in the field of professional education.
Teaching Assistant in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at IIT Delhi (2 year)
ACC Limited (1 year)
Worked as an Assistance Manger in Associate Cement Company Ltd,Tikaria cement plant at Tikaria, Sultanpur, UP.
I was instrumental in operation and maintenance of CPP of 15MW(Having 2x40 TPH AFBC Cethar Vessels make boiler, 1x15 MW BHEL Turbo generator set and auxiliaries, Siemens DCS ) as an Shift in Charge /Desk Engineer .
Total Experience: 15 months
Functional Area: Operation and maintenance of CPP.
Role: Shift in charge in CPP.
Industry: Captive Power plant (ACC).
Key Skills: Operation and maintenance of power plant.
Job Profile Details -Supervision of safe and economical start up & shutdown of CPP. Frequent visit to Offsite area for monitoring different parameters of equipments of CPP to enhance their performance and efficiency during operation. Root cause analysis of problems observed during operation. Coordination with visiting teams/dignitaries for operation and maintenance of CPP.
ADMINISTRATION EXPERIENCE:
Member of “UG Admission committee,” IIIT Bhubaneswar (31/05/2024-10/10/2024)
Committee member for recruitment of outsource employee (Junior Engineer/Electrician & AC Mechanic Technician/Mess Accountant) at IIIT Bhubaneswar (28/06/2023)
Committee member for increasing the NIRF ranking of the IIIT Bhubaneswar Institute (1 August 2022-31/07/2024)
Professor in charge, student mess (12/04/2022-31/7/2024)
Committee member for new curriculum for IIIT Bhubaneswar B.Tech program 2021 Btach. (13 July 2021)
Committee member to study existing facilities available in the IIIT Bhubaneswar Guest House of the IIIT Bhubaneswar (2021 July)
Committee member for review of Grading for IIIT Bhubaneswar (2021 July)
Department Coordinator (HOD), Electrical Engineering IIIT Bhubaneswar, (1 July 2021 – 31/July/2024)
Committee member for recruitment of outsource employee at IIIT Bhubaneswar (2023)
Member in Admission committee, IIIT Bhubaneswar (2017-2021)
Coordinator /chairperson in technical seminar, IIIT Bhubaneswar (2015-2017)
Coordinator/ chairperson in Transport, IIIT Bhubaneswar (2013-2015)
Counselling member, OJEE duty. IIIT Bhubaneswar (2011-2014)
Member in the Students Relations Committee, IIIT Bhubaneswar (2012-2013)
Judge in various activity in cultural function, IIIT Bhubaneswar (2011-2013)
Mentor for 1st year student, IIIT Bhubaneswar (2011-2012)
Hostel in Charge (Assistance warden), KIIT University Bhubaneswar (2010-2011).
QUALIFYING EXAMS:
GATE Rank: 175 (GE)
SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS:
Placed at the rank 20 in lateral entry OJEE
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
LabVIEW
DigSILENT Power Factory
MATLAB Simulink
PSS/E(Power system simulation for Engineer By Siemens),