Bhubaneswar Mishra (born 9 November 1961) is an

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computer scientist and professor at the

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. He is known for his applied contributions to

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, and computational finance. Mishra is listed as an

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in Computer Science.

Career

Born in

Bhubaneswar Bhubaneswar () is the capital and the largest city of the States and territories of India, Indian state of Odisha. It is located in the Khordha district. The suburban region, especially the old town, was historically often depicted as ''Chakra ...

, India, Mishra received a B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1980. He then received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The institution was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. In 1912, it became the Carnegie Institu ...

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. 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

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(2007), of the

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(2009), and of the

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(2010).Bud Mishra named as a 2010 AAAS fellow
, NYU Bioinformatics Lab, 22 January 2011, retrieved 2013-12-15.

References

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