Dr Sudip Misra

Dr. Sudip Misra is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, and is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Prior to this he worked in Cornell University (USA), Yale University (USA), Nortel Networks (Canada) and the Government of Ontario (Canada). He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada, and the masters and bachelors degrees respectively from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Dr. Misra has several years of experience working in the academia, government, and the private sectors in research, teaching, consulting, project management, architecture, software design and product engineering roles.

Dr. Misra is the author/editor of over 90 scholarly research papers and books. He has won five research paper awards in different conferences. He was also the recipient of several academic awards and fellowships such as the (Canadian) Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal at Carleton University, the University Outstanding Graduate Student Award in the Doctoral level at Carleton University, and the Canadian Government’s prestigious NSERC Post Doctoral Fellowship. His biography was also selected for inclusion in the 2006-2007 edition of Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and the 25th Edition of the Marquis Who's Who in the World, California, USA. A mention about him and his work has also appeared in 2006 in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper.

Dr. Misra edited several books in the areas of wireless ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, communication networks and distributed systems, network reliability and fault tolerance, and information and coding theory, published by reputed publishers such as Springer and World Scientific.

He was invited to chair several international conference/workshop programs and sessions. He has been serving in the program committees of over a dozen international conferences. Dr. Misra was also invited to deliver keynote lectures in around a dozen international conferences in USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa.