Prof. Shivakant Mishra

Shivakant Mishra was a professor and associate chair in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Colorado, Boulder. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from The University of Arizona and a B. Tech. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Dr. Mishra co-founded The Colorado Research Center for Democracy and Technology as well as The CU CyberSafety Research Center at CU-Boulder. He was also the CU site co-director of the NSF IUCRC  (Industry University Cooperative Research Center) on Pervasive Personalized  Intelligence. He enjoyed doing research in the areas of Distributed Computing & Networking as well as Social Computing. His research included building socio-technical systems to empower environmental justice communities, strengthening democracy through technology, investigating cybersafety issues in social networks, developing system-level support for edge computing, and multi-player online game analytics. He has also done extensive research in the areas of mobile group recommendations, cyberbullying in social networks, misbehavior detection in online video chat systems, secure and intrusion-tolerant sensor networks, delay-tolerant networking, and group communication systems.