Bhubaneswar, April 19 -- Prof. (Dr.) Sukumar Mishra from Odisha has been appointed as the Director of IIT-Dhanbad.

The Union Ministry of Education on Thursday appointed new directors to six IITs. Manindra Agrawal, Sukumar Mishra, Avinash Agarwal, Devendra Jalihal, Dhirendra S Katti and Amit Patra were given charge as directors at IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Dhanbad, IIT-Jodhpur, IIT-Guwahati, IIT-Goa and IIT-BHU, respectively.

Mishra was earlier a professor in the electrical engineering department at IIT-Delhi.

He received his M.Tech and Phd in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela in 1992 and 2000, respectively.

Mishra has won many accolades such as Young Scientist award (1999) by Orissa Bigyan Academy, INSA meda...