Full Name
Deb Mishra Ph.D., P.E., M. ASCE
Job Title
Associate Professor
Company
Oklahoma State University
Speaker Bio
Dr. Debakanta (Deb) Mishra is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oklahoma State University, where he teaches courses in the areas of geotechnical engineering, pavement engineering, and railroad engineering. He joined OSU in August 2019 after spending 5 years as an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Boise State University. Prior to that he completed his Ph.D. and post-doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Deb has research interests in the generic areas of Infrastructure Materials, Pavement Engineering, Railroad Engineering, and Transportation Geotechnics. His research has encompassed the following topics: (1) Performance Monitoring of Transportation Infrastructure through Advanced Instrumentation; (2) Design and Development of Advanced Laboratory Equipment for Infrastructure material characterization; (3) Numerical and Analytical Modeling of Transportation (Pavement and Railroad) Infrastructure; and (4) Sustainability Quantification in Pavement and Railroad Engineering through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). He serves as an active member of several TRB and ASCE committees and served as the chair of the TRB Unbound Granular Material Sub-Committee since from 2016 till. 2022. Since January 2023 he has taken over as the Committee Research Coordinator for TRB’s Aggregates Committee (AKM80). Deb serves as an Associate Editor for ASCE’s Journal of Materials and serves on the Editorial Board for Transportation Geotechnics and the International Journal of Pavement Engineering.
Deb has research interests in the generic areas of Infrastructure Materials, Pavement Engineering, Railroad Engineering, and Transportation Geotechnics. His research has encompassed the following topics: (1) Performance Monitoring of Transportation Infrastructure through Advanced Instrumentation; (2) Design and Development of Advanced Laboratory Equipment for Infrastructure material characterization; (3) Numerical and Analytical Modeling of Transportation (Pavement and Railroad) Infrastructure; and (4) Sustainability Quantification in Pavement and Railroad Engineering through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). He serves as an active member of several TRB and ASCE committees and served as the chair of the TRB Unbound Granular Material Sub-Committee since from 2016 till. 2022. Since January 2023 he has taken over as the Committee Research Coordinator for TRB’s Aggregates Committee (AKM80). Deb serves as an Associate Editor for ASCE’s Journal of Materials and serves on the Editorial Board for Transportation Geotechnics and the International Journal of Pavement Engineering.
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