Bud Mishra

Bud Mishra is an Indian American computer scientist and a Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University.

Bhubaneswar "Bud" Mishra was born on 9 November 1961 in Bhubaneswar, India.

Mishra received a degree in Physics from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India. He then attended Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and received a B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 1980.

After receiving his engineering degree from IIT, he immigrated to the US for higher studies. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 and 1985, respectively. During his Ph.D., he got to work under Edmund M. Clarke, who was his thesis advisor.

Mishra has an illustrious academia record.

He began his career as an Instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University from 1973 to 1975.

Currently, he is a professor of computer science and mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, professor of computer science and engineering at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering, professor of human genetics at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and a professor of cell biology at NYU School of Medicine. He is also a visiting scholar at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He also held adjunct professorship at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India from 2003 to 2006.

• He is a Co-Founder in OpGen, a computational biology company.
• He is also a principal investigator at the Center for Malicious Behavior and Model Checking.
• He has authored a textbook on algorithmic algebra and more than two hundred archived publications.
• He is known for his applied contributions to bioinformatics, cybersecurity, and computational finance. Mishra is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher in Computer Science.
• He is a fellow of IEEE, ACM and AAAS, a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur, and an NYSTAR Distinguished Professor.

• "Simulating Heterogeneous Tumor Cell Populations," (with A. Sundstrom, and D Bar-Sagi), PLOS ONE, (Accepted for Publication), PONE-D-15-48781R3, 2017.
• "Design of the TRONCO Bioconductor Package for TRanslational ONCOlogy," (with M Antoniotti, et al.), R Journal, (Accepted for Publication), bioRxiv: 027524, 2017.
• "Exposing the Probabilistic Causal Structure of Discrimination," (with S Hajian, et al.), International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, (Accepted for Publication), JDSA-D-16-00043R2, 2017.