Krishna B. Misra
Ph. D., Fellow of
Indian Academy of Sciences,
Fellow of Indian
National Academy of Engineering
Editor–in-Chief
International Journal of Performability Engineering
Krishna B. Misra is the
founder Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Performability
Engineering (http://www.ijpe-online.com) started in 2005 and published
by RAMS Consultants (www.ramsconsultants.org) also established by him in
2005 at Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. The concept of performability as a
holistic attribute of performance has been introduced and popularized by
him. He also made efforts to popularize reliability and safety concepts
in India - both in the industries and in the technical institutions. It
was due to his efforts, a master’s degree program in reliability
engineering was conceptualized and started for the first time in India
at IIT, Kharagpur in 1982 and this M. Tech. programme has been running
successfully till date. He also founded Reliability Engineering Center
at IIT, Kharagpur in 1983. This center is the first of its own kind to
promote research, consultancy and teaching at an advanced level in the
area of reliability, quality, maintainability and safety engineering in
India.
Krishna Misra was born
in 1943 at Kota, Rajasthan, India and received his B.E. (Electrical)
from M.S. University of Baroda, India in 1963 and M.E. (Power System
Eng.) and Ph.D. (Reliability Eng.) degrees in 1966 and 1970, both from
the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (India). He joined
IIT-Roorkee as a lecturer in 1966, and became professor in 1976 at the
age of 33. Subsequently, he moved over to IIT Kharagpur as Professor in
Electrical Engineering in 1980 and worked there for 25 years till his
retirement in 2005. He has been Director of North Eastern Regional
Institute of Science and Technology (a Deemed University under Ministry
of Human Resources Development) from 1995 to 1998. During the period
1992-1994, he worked as Director-grade-Scientist at National
Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI, Nagpur - a National
laboratory under Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India),
where he set up two important divisions, viz., Disaster Prevention and
Impact Minimization Division and Information Division. He was
Coordinator of Ministry of Human Resource Development Project on
Reliability Engineering since 1983 at IIT Kharagpur. He was also Dean,
Institute Planning and Development at IIT, Kharagpur. Dr. Misra has been
working in the area of reliability engineering (started at IIT-Roorkee)
since 1967.
He has also worked in
Federal Republic of Germany at four different institutions, viz.,
Technical University-Munich (Professor Dr. R. Baumann’s institute:
1972-73), GRS-Garching (Professor Dr. A. Birkhofer’s Institute:1973-74),
RWTH-Aachen (Professor H.-.J. Zimmermann’s institute :1978-79) and
Kernforschungszentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany (1987-88). On invitation, he
has delivered lectures in USA and in several European countries, which
include England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy,
Poland, Sweden etc..
Dr. Misra has published
over 250 technical papers in reputed international journals such as IEEE
Transactions on Reliability, Microelectronics and Reliability,
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, International Journal of
Quality and Reliability Management, International Journal of
Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, International Journal of
System Science, International Journal of Control, Fuzzy Sets and Systems
etc. Dr. Misra’s research papers have been widely quoted in
international journals and books published abroad.
Dr. Misra is a recipient
of the first Lal C. Verman Award in 1983 by the Institution of
Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering for his pioneering
research work in Reliability Engineering in the country. In 1995, in
recognition of his meritorious and outstanding contributions to
reliability research and education in India, he was awarded a plaque by
IEEE Reliability Engineering Society, USA.
Prof. Misra is a fellow
of Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Academy of Engineering,
Institution of Electronics & Telecommunications (India), Institutions of
Engineers (India) and Safety & Reliability Society (UK). He had been
vice president of System Society of India, of which he also serves a
life member. He is also a life member of National Institute of Quality &
Reliability.
In 1992, Professor Misra
authored a 889-pages the state-of-art book on Reliability Analysis and
Prediction: A Methodology Oriented Treatment, published by Elsevier
Science Publishers, Amsterdam. In 1993, Prof. Misra edited a 715-pages
book, New Trends in System Reliability Evaluation, which was also
published by Elsevier Science Publishers. These books had received
excellent reviews throughout the scientific world. In 1995, Professor
Misra edited another 853-pages book on, Clean Production: Environmental
and Economic Perspectives, published by Springer Verlag, Germany. In
2004, he has authored another book, Principles of Reliability
Engineering mainly for practicing engineers. A 1316-pages (containing 76
chapters, with 100 acclaimed contributors from all over the World)
Handbook of Performability Engineering has been edited by Prof. Misra
and published by Springer in 2008. It is landmark contribution which
will set a new trend in the design of systems and services in 21st
Century.
Professor Misra besides
being an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Reliability, had
served as reviewer to IEEE Transactions on Reliability nearly for four
decades since 1969 and has also served on editorial boards of several
reputed international journals which include Microelectronics &
Reliability ( for more than 25 years), Reliability Engineering & System
Safety, International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management,
International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering,
International Journal of Fuzzy Mathematics, Electrical Power Research
Journal and several other journals.
Professor Misra has been
the Chairman of Indian Bureau of Standards Committee LTDC 3 on
Reliability of Electrical & Electronic components and Equipments. For
several years, he served as a member of Environmental Appraisal
Committee (for nuclear power plants in India), Ministry of Environment &
Forests, Govt. of India, New Delhi. In 1976, Prof. Misra was invited by
the Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi to serve as the
convener of the NCST working group on Reliability Engineering in India
set up by the Government of India. This group submitted two reports
(part I & part II) in 1978 on the Reliability Implementation Program in
India. He also served as member of Task Force Committee on Reliability
Engineering of the Department of Science & Technology, in 1979. He has
served as member on Project Assessment Committee for National Radar
Council, Department of Electronics, CSIR, UGC, etc. Misra is listed in
Indo-American who’s who.
