Archan MISRA
Full-time Faculty
Vice Provost (Research); Lee Kong Chian Professor of Computer Science; Institutional Official for Research; Interim Director, SMU Resilient Workforces Institute
School of Computing and Information Systems
SCIS
Qualification
- PhD, University of Maryland, 2000
Teaching Topics
- Mobile & Pervasive Technology
- Networking
- Architectural Analysis
- Engineering Software Systems
Research Advisor/Co-Research Advisor to
Research Areas and Areas of Expertise
Strategic Priorities
HighlightsArchan Misra is an internationally recognized expert in real-time analytics, mobile computing, and pervasive sensing, with pioneering contributions to smart environments, e-healthcare, and urban analytics.
Combines methodological innovation in sensor analytics, pervasive computing, and collaborative intelligence with real-world deployments in smart cities, healthcare, and energy management; emphasizes scalable, privacy-aware, and context-rich solutions with significant translational impact through large-scale testbeds and industry collaborations.
Focused research areas include Pervasive and mobile sensing, real-time analytics, collaborative intelligence, multimodal activity recognition, urban informatics, context-aware systems, energy-efficient mobile and sensor networks, and smart nation applications.
Combines methodological innovation in sensor analytics, pervasive computing, and collaborative intelligence with real-world deployments in smart cities, healthcare, and energy management; emphasizes scalable, privacy-aware, and context-rich solutions with significant translational impact through large-scale testbeds and industry collaborations.
Focused research areas include Pervasive and mobile sensing, real-time analytics, collaborative intelligence, multimodal activity recognition, urban informatics, context-aware systems, energy-efficient mobile and sensor networks, and smart nation applications.
Areas of Expertise
Real-time analytics and mobile computingcollaborative and embedded sensor stream analyticsactivity recognition and deep context monitoringspatiotemporal data miningpervasive e-healthcare (energy-efficient remote monitoringbody-worn sensor stream optimizationmedical context provenance)smart appliances and electrical grid demand response.
Past Awarded Grant
- C2SEA: Coordinated Cyber-physical Sensing & Edge Analytics, NRF Investigatorship, National Research Foundation (NRF), PI (Project Level): Archan MISRA, 2019, S$2,916,012
- Socio-Physical Sensing & Analytics for Urban Anomaly Detection (Year 2), US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) International Technology Center Pacific (ITC-PAC), PI (Project Level): Archan MISRA, 2018, S$212,667
- Socio-Physical Sensing & Analytics for Urban Anomaly Detection, US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) International Technology Center Pacific (ITC-PAC), PI (Project Level): Archan MISRA, 2017, S$221,685
- Personalized Participatory Nation: The Proposal for 2nd Phase Funding of Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC) CMU Partnership & International Collaborations, Interactive Digital Media (IDM) International Research Centres (IRCs) Funding Scheme, National Research Foundation (NRF), PI (Programme Level): LIM Ee Peng, PI (Project Level): Archan MISRA, ZHENG Baihua, Steven HOI, Jing JIANG, 2017, S$6,984,929
- Center for Applied Smart-Nation Analytics (CASA), Translational R&D for Application to Smart Nation (TRANS), National Research Foundation (NRF), PI (Project Level): Archan MISRA, Co-PI (Project Level): LIM Ee Peng, 2016, S$3,000,000
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- T Yeo, M Jeon, D Weerakoon, R Qiao, A Prakash, A Solar-Lezama, ...arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19187, 2026
- T Yeo, D Weerakoon, D Weerakoon, A MisraarXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06366, 2026
- N Bandara, T Kandappu, A MisraProceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer …, 2026
- Towards a Feedback-driven Adaptive Embodied Environment Generator for Training Robotic Agents [2026]T Yeo, D Weerakoon, D Weerakoon, A Misra
- H Sharma, R Sachdeva, AK MishraIITM Journal of Management and IT, 80-87, 2025
- Towards acies-os 2.0: A middleware architecture for adaptive optimization of aiot applications [2025]J Li, D Weerakoon, T Kimura, D Kara, Y Chen, T Wang, Y Hu, A Misra, ...2025 IEEE Annual Congress on Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT), 133-139, 2025
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Qualification
- PhD, University of Maryland, 2000
Teaching Topics
- Mobile & Pervasive Technology
- Networking
- Architectural Analysis
- Engineering Software Systems
