Pradeep Kumar Mishra

About

Prof Pradeep Kumar Mishra holds Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Roorkee, Masters from IIT Bombay and PhD from IIT (BHU) Varanasi. After brief instinct in Industries Prof Mishra joined teaching at IIT BHU Varanasi in January 1997. He has been placed to HAG scale in 2016 recognizing his academic and R&D contributions. Prof Mishra has published more than 170 papers in reputed journals and filed 5 patents. He has authored/edited more than 20 books and contributed more than 60 chapters in books/encyclopedias. He got the funding from Department of Science & Technology, National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board, All India Council for Technical Education, Uttar Pradesh Council of Science & Technology, Ministry of Electronics, UP Government, Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium scale Enterprises, Central Pollution Control Board and Northern Coal Fields Limited, Singrauli etc. Prof Pradeep Kumar Mishra has also served as Vice Chancellor, Jharkhand Technical University, Ranchi and Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow. He is former head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Dean Student affairs at IIT (BHU) Varanasi.
Prof P K Mishra is actively contributing to the area of Bioenergy and wastewater treatment in addition to biocompatible materials. Looking to his expertise in the area of wastewater and effluent treatment processes, he was appointed Chairman to the committee for formulation of disposal standard to textile industries. He has also been members to two other important committees, which formulated charters for Distilleries and Sugar Industries. Prof P K Mishra and his team at IIT (BHU) Varanasi has been engaged by CPCB for monitoring of majority of GPIS at Ganga Basin from 2017 onwards. UPPCB and JSPCB have also engaged Prof Mishra and his team for various monitoring and sampling work in Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. Currently Prof. P.K. Mishra is member of prestigious environment assessment committee of Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change for Industry – III.
In addition to his technical contribution Prof P K Mishra has been pioneer in the field of Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship in Eastern UP and established first Incubator (Malviya Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship) at Banaras Hindu University in 2008, which was the part of IIT (BHU) Varanasi till 2020. He has also coordinated the activities of CISCO ThinQubator in association with CISCO and NASSCOM in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Machine Learning. He was coordinator to RKVY- RAFTAAR scheme of Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India for promotion of Agri-entrepreneurship in Uttar Pradesh. IIT (BHU) has also appointed him as the Nodal Person for execution of MOU being signed between IIT (BHU) and NCL, Singrauli during 2017 to 2020.
Prof Mishra has been decorated with various awards/honours, prominent of them are Dr. V. G. Patel Memorial Award 2020 for Entrepreneurship Trainer/Educator/Mentor (Cash Price-1 Lakh), Dr Shirin Gadhia Memorial Sustainability Award, 2017 and 2nd National Prize for book writing in Hindi by Min of Renewable Energy, GOI. He is member board of governors of NISBUD, Min of Skill Development and Children Emancipation Society UK. He has also represented a delegation to Germany on the invitation of German Biogas Association on behalf of Indian Biogas Association. Professor Mishra has also been selected for prestigious Leadership of Academicians Program and successfully completed it at IIT (BHU) and Pen State University, USA in March-April’ 2019. He has also been appointed as Co-Coordinator for 2nd LEAP being organized by the institute in collaboration with Cambridge University, UK. Prof. Mishra has delivered over 100 invited talks in the area of Environment, Energy, Entrepreneurship and Motivation in addition to various field of Chemical Engineering at various forums including Institutions of eminence.
Prof P K Mishra has organized over 50 Conferences/Seminars/Workshops and numerous training programs/summer schools in the area of Energy/Environment/Entrepreneurship and Business development. Prof P K Mishra has also helped Municipal Corporation and Jal Nigam by organizing training programs in association with JAICA. Local MSMEs are also being benefited with the timely suggestion and consultancy of Dr P K Mishra. Prof Mishra and his group is also working for the preservation of the culture of Varanasi through digitization as web (www.kashikatha.com) and organizing workshops.

Employment

• Indian Institute of Technology BHU Professor (HAG Scale)
  2016 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology BHU Professor
  2010 - Present
• Indian Institute of Technology BHU Associate Professor
  2007 - 2010
• Indian Institute of Technology BHU Reader
  2004 - 2007
• Indian Institute of Technology BHU Lecturer
  1997 - 2004

Education

• Banaras Hindu University PhD
  1989 - 1995
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay M Tech
  1986 - 1988
• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee B E
  1982 - 1986

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications

Publications are unavailable.