Professor B.K. Mishra earned a Bachelor’s from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela in 1981. After a brief tenure at Indian Metals and Ferro Alloys Limited (IMFA), he pursued a Master’s degree at Wayne State University, starting in 1984. He subsequently earned a Ph.D. from the University of Utah, USA.

Following his education and research in the USA, Professor Mishra returned to work as a faculty member at IIT Kanpur in 1993 and continued till 2006. He then became the Director of CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT) Bhubaneswar, a position he held from 2006 to 2017. In March 2017, he was appointed founding Director of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Goa, where he served until May 2024. He is known for his significant contributions to Mineral Processing, Extractive Metallurgy, and Powder Technology.

Research Interests:
Mineral Processing & Extractive Metallurgy; Particulate Processes and Design; Machine Learning for Industrial Applications; CO₂ Conversion Pathways.

ML3L001 Minerals Engineering
ML3L012 Mineral Processing Plant Design

Industry Engagement:
I routinely conduct short-term courses (up to one week) for industry professionals in
Mineral Processing and Plant Design. These courses may be conducted
either at the plant site or at IIT Bhubaneswar, with the course content customized to address
specific industry needs and operational challenges. Interested organizations may contact me
for further discussion.

1. Abhishek Gupta, B.K. Mishra, Multi-head neural networks for simulating particle breakage dynamics, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 14(2), 100515, 2024.
2. Abhishek Gupta, B.K. Mishra, Globally optimized dynamic mode decomposition: A first study in particulate systems modelling, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 15, 100563, 2025.
3. Shelly Saini, Shakthi Prasad D., Raja Mitra, R.N. Roy, and B.K. Mishra, Surface Charging in Different Gaseous Medium in Extremely Nonuniform Electric Fields, accepted in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE, 2025.
4. Tirthkumar Mistry, B.K. Mishra and Abhishek Gupta, Biconvex Dual PINNs for Stable Identification of Particulate Population Dynamics, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2026.

1. Abhishek Gupta, B.K. Mishra, Neuroevolving monotonic PINNs for particle breakage analysis, IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), pp. 993-996, 2024.

After graduating from NIT Rourkela, Professor Mishra joined Indian Metals and Ferro Alloys Ltd. (IMFA) as a Project Engineer. He then moved to the USA for his higher studies, and after completing his education and research there, Professor Mishra returned to India to join IIT Kanpur as a faculty member in 1993, where he continued until 2012. During this period, he was deputed to serve as the Director of CSIR-Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT) Bhubaneswar, a position he held from 2006 to 2017. In March 2017, he was appointed the founding Director of the Indian Institute of Technology Goa, where he served until May 2024. Currently, Professor Mishra is serving as an Independent Director of Indian Metals and Ferro Alloys Limited since March 2024.