Dr. Subhas C. Misra is a distinguished scientist who is currently working at Harvard University, Boston, USA. He received his Ph.D. degree from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada, and M.S. and M.Tech. degrees respectively from the University of New Brunswick, in Fredericton, Canada, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), at Kharagpur, India. Dr. Misra has several years of experience working in the academia, and the public and private sectors in research, teaching, consulting, project management, architecture, software design and product engineering roles. His current research interests include the areas of software management, software quality management, and information systems security, which are interdisciplinary, combining the fields of software engineering, information systems, organizational behavior, and technology and operations management. Dr. Misra has authored over 50 scholarly research papers and published (to appear in 2008) 5 books.
He has won Best Research Paper Award in an international conference held in the United States. He was also the recipient of more than 15 academic awards such as the Achievement Award at the 2007 World Congress held in Las Vegas in the United States for outstanding research contributions to his field, and the Canadian Government’s NSERC Post Doctoral Fellowship. A mention about him and his work has also appeared in the June 8, 2007 issue of the Carleton Now newspaper. His biography has also been selected to appear in the Cambridge Blue Book, Cambridge, England, 2008.
Dr. Misra is the Managing Editor/Associate Editor of more than ten international journals. He was invited to serve as Program chair, Organizing Chair, and Session Chair in different international conferences. He has been serving in the program committees of over a dozen international conferences.
Dr. Misra was also invited to offer keynote lectures in more than a dozen of international conferences in different countries of North America, Europe, and Asia. Recently, he was invited to deliver a keynote lecture in the World Congresses held in Imperial College (London) and UC Berkeley (USA).
