Barada Kanta Mishra
Barada Kanta Mishra (Born 15 June 1959) is the Founding Director of the Indian Institute of Technology Goa.[1][2] since 2017. He was the Director of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology[3] from 2005 to 2017. He was a Professor in the Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur[4].
He is an expert in mineral and metal extraction, powders and particles, environment and waste management, and discrete element method. For his distinguished contributions in these fields, he was elected a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2009 [5]. He was ranked by Stanford University as the Number 1 scientist of India and Number 11 in the world in the field of Mining and Metallurgy, 2020[6]. He has guided more than ten PhD students and published several research papers in top journals[7].
Education and Career[edit]
He completed his BSc in Engineering (Metallurgical Engineering) from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela in 1981. It was followed by MS (Metallurgical Engineering) from Wayne State University in 1986. Subsequently, he completed PhD in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Utah in 1991. He joined the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur as a faculty member in 1993 where he served as an Assistant Professor (1993-1997), Associate Professor (1997-2001) and Professor (2001-2011). He has also held visiting appointments at University of Utah and Aston University. He was a Fulbright Scholar in 2002[8]
Awards and Honours[edit]
- National Geoscience Award, Govt. of India, 2008[9]
- Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 2009[5]
- Vasvik Award for Material and Metallurgical Sciences & Technology, 2012[10]
- AICTE-INAE Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar, July 2014- May 2016
- CSIR Technology Award (Team Award), 2017[11]
- Distinguished Alumnus Award, NIT Rourkela, 2019[12]
- Eminent Engineer Award, Institution of Engineers, 2019
References[edit]
- ↑ "Director's Message". Indian Institute of Technology Goa. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ↑ "Founding Director of IIT Goa". India Education Diary. 17 March 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ↑ "Director of CSIR IMMT". India Education Diary. 17 March 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ↑ "Homepage of Prof. B K Mishra at IIT Kanpur". IIT Kanpur. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "List of Fellows". Indian National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ↑ Baas, Jeroen; Boyack, Kevin; Ioannidis, John P. A. (2020). "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Elsevier BV. 2. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.2. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ↑ "Prof. B.K. Mishra". scholar.google.co.in. Retrieved 2022-12-25.
- ↑ "Fullbright Scholar Barada Mishra". Fullbright Scholar Barada Mishra. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ↑ "National Geoscience Awardees 1995-2012" (PDF). List of National Geoscience Awardees (1995-2012). Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ↑ "Vasvik Awardees". List of Vasvik Award Winnder. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ↑ "CSIR Technology Awards 2017". CSIR Technology Awards 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
- ↑ "Learning from the Best, NIT Rourkela Alumni Association". NIT Rourkela Alumni Association. Retrieved 25 December 2022.
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