Tapan Misra
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Tapan Misra | |
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| Director, Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation | |
| In office February 2015 – July 2018 | |
| Preceded by | A. S. Kiran Kumar |
| Succeeded by | D. K. Das |
| Director, Physical Research Laboratory, Indian Space Research Organisation | |
| In office June 2016 – February 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Utpal Sarkar |
| Succeeded by | Anil Bhardwaj |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 January 1961 |
| Education | Jadavpur University (Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering) |
| Website | sisirradar |
Tapan Misra (born 20 January 1961) is an Indian scientist who has been the Director of Space Applications Centre[1] and Physical Research Laboratory[2] in ISRO. He later became Senior Advisor to the Chairman, ISRO.[3]
In 2022, Misra founded a space-tech startup called Sisir Radar, which manufactures Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR), a technology that he pioneered in ISRO, for drones and satellites.[4] Sisir Radar will make synthetic aperture radars (SAR) that can be fixed on drones for imaging smaller land areas.[5]
Tapan Misra was born in 1961 in Rayagada, Odisha to father Sidheshwar Misra and mother Kamala Misra. He had qualified the IIT Joint Entrance examination with an all India rank of 85 in 1980 but opted to study at the Jadavpur University. He secured the First rank in West Bengal JEE in 1980. He was awarded J C Bose National Science Talent Search Scholarship (JBNSTS) in 1981. He graduated in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in 1984 from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.[6][7][8]