Vishal Misra

Vishal Misra
Vishal Misra
Born
CitizenshipUS
Occupation(s)Professor, Entrepreneur
AwardsACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow
Academic background
EducationIIT Bombay, UMass-Amherst
Academic work
DisciplineComputer Scientist
InstitutionsColumbia University
Websitehttps://www.cs.columbia.edu/~misra/

Vishal Misra is an Indian-American computer scientist at Columbia University, New York, NY. He serves as Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments and as Vice Dean of Computing and AI at Columbia's School of Engineering. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 for his contributions to network traffic modeling, congestion control, and Internet economics. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018. In 2014, he received the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award from the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Engineering, and in 2019, he was designated a Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Bombay, from which he graduated in 1992.