Veena Misra

Interim Department Head MC Dean Distinguished University Professor

919-515-3377
vmisra@ncsu.edu
3098 Engineering Building II
218E Monteith Research Center
Campus Box 7911

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Biography

Misra is the Director of the NSF Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST). She received her Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Ph.D. from NC State University in electrical engineering in 1991, 1992, and 1995, respectively. After working at the Advanced Products Research and Development Laboratories, Motorola Inc. in Austin, TX, she joined the North Carolina State University faculty in 1998.

She has authored or co-authored over 150 papers in the areas of state-of-the-art low-power CMOS devices, power devices, alternative high-mobility substrates, nanoscale magnetics, and energy harvesting. Misra received the 2001 NSF CAREER Award, the 2011 Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Achievement award, and most recently the 2022 Holladay Medal for Excellence. She was also named to serve on the Microsystems Exploratory Council for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in 2022.

In 2023, Dean Louis Martin-Vega named her to the interim role of Department Head for Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State.

Education

Ph.D. 1995
Electrical Engineering
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Master's 1992
Electrical Engineering
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Bachelor's 1991
Electrical Engineering
North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Research Focus

Recent Publications

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Involvement

Microsystems Exploratory Council for DARPA
Member

Highlighted Awards

Awards & Honors

2022 - Holladay Medal for Excellence
2016 - R. J. Reynolds Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Extension
2012 - 2011 Alcoa Foundation Distinguished Engineering Research Award
2011 - ALCOA Foundation Distinguished Engineering Research Award (NC State)
2011 - IEEE Fellow, for contributions to metal electrodes and high-K dielectrics for CMOS applications
2007 - Outstanding Alumni Research Award (NC State)
2002 - ALCOA Foundation Engineering Research Award (NC State)
2001 - NSF Presidential Early CAREER Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE) Recipient

Recent News

ASSIST and IConS Researchers Part of NSF Convergence Accelerator Grant

Posted on February 20, 2024 | Filed Under: Faculty and News and Research

It seems almost impossible to imagine replicating the impressive olfactory sensing abilities of animals. Indeed, jewel beetles can detect a burning tree 50 miles away, and dogs can sniff out substances at concentrations of one part per tril …

Dan Stancil, 9th department head of ECE at NC State

Department Head Stancil to step down, remain on faculty

Posted on February 6, 2023 | Filed Under: Faculty

Serving as 9th department head for ECE at NC State, Dan Stancil is returning to faculty at the end of the 2022-23 academic year, and Veena Misra will serve as Interim Head.

Veena Misra Named as MC Dean Distinguished University Professor

Posted on September 29, 2022 | Filed Under: Faculty

Congratulations to Veena Misra for earning the second honorific professorship title MC Dean Distinguished University Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering!

Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

November 1, 2023

Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. Fortunately, though, at wearables’ modest power budgets, energy is effectively everywhere. It’s in the sun’s rays and radio waves, the skin’s sweat and body heat, a person’s motion and their footfalls. And today, technology is maturing to the point that meaningful amounts of these energy giveaways can be harvested to liberate wearables from ever needing a battery. Which seems plenty attractive to a range of companies and researchers.

“A game changer”: With CHIPS Act, NC is poised for a new manufacturing boom

October 13, 2022

The new law includes $13.2 billion for research and the training of people to work in the development, design and manufacturing of semiconductor wafers and the chips that are built on them. The R&D funding could be a boon to North Carolina’s research universities, especially N.C. State. John Muth, a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, said other states dominate in the design and production of silicon-based chips, but N.C. State is at the forefront of developing a new generation of silicon carbide semiconductors that can endure higher temperatures and higher voltages, qualities that will be increasingly needed in electric automobiles, data processing centers and clean energy production. “In general, we need to do more manufacturing, do it cleaner and employ people with better paying jobs and the CHIPS Act helps out with that,” he said.

Our Wearable Future

August 23, 2022

What Will New Tech Look Like, and how will it work? Prepare for a future where you and your doctor track your health markers 24/7, manage chronic conditions in real time, and predict incoming illness with incredible precision – all from tiny sensors you’ll wear on your skin and in your clothing.

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