Prof Pradeep Kumar Mishra is currently serving as Vice Chancellor, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, UP. He has also served Jharkhand Technical University, Ranchi as Vice Chancellor prior to this. He is former head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Dean Student affairs at IIT (BHU) Varanasi. He holds Bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Roorkee, Masters from IIT Bombay and PhD from IIT (BHU) Varanasi. After brief instinct in Industries Prof Mishra joined teaching at IIT BHU Varanasi in January 1997. He has been placed to HAG scale in 2016 recognizing his academic and R&D contributions. Prof Mishra has published more than 100 papers in SCI journals and filed 6 patents. He has authored/edited more than 20 books and contributed scores of chapters in books/encyclopaedias. He has also successfully completed sponsored research project and consultancy worth more than 20 crores from DST, NSTEDB, CPCB, DBT, AICTE New Delhi, and NCL Singrauli etc. Prof P K Mishra is actively contributing to the area of Bioenergy and wastewater treatment in addition to biocompatible materials.