Bhubaneswar Mishra (born 9 November 1961) is an Indian American computer scientist and professor at the

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. He is known for his applied contributions to bioinformatics,

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, and computational finance. Mishra is listed as an

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in Computer Science.

Career

Born in

Bhubaneswar, India Bhubaneswar (; ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Odisha. The region, especially the old town, was historically often depicted as ''Ekamra Kshetra'' (area (''kshetra'') adorned with mango trees (''ekamra'')). Bhubaneswar is ...

, Mishra received a B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) is a public institute of technology established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Established in 1951, the institute is the first of the IITs to be established ...

in 1980. He then received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 and 1985, respectively. His Ph.D. thesis advisor was Edmund M. Clarke. He began his scientific career as an instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 1973 to 1975. He is also a visiting scholar at the

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, as well as a co-founder in OpGen, a computational biology company. He also maintains a position as principal investigator at the Center for Malicious Behavior and Model Checking.

Awards and honors

Mishra is a

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of the Association for Computing Machinery (2007), of the

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(2009), and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010).Bud Mishra named as a 2010 AAAS fellow
, NYU Bioinformatics Lab, 22 January 2011, retrieved 2013-12-15.

References

Carnegie Mellon University alumni Indian Institutes of Technology alumni Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty American computer scientists 1961 births Living people Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellow Members of the IEEE Scientists from Bhubaneswar Indian emigrants to the United States American academics of Indian descent American people of Odia descent 20th-century Indian mathematicians 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians {{US-mathematician-stub