Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

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Richa Mishra

Joined Institute on : 15-Sep-2021

  • Assistant Professor
  • Electronics and Communication Engg
  • Post Doctoral Fellow(IIT Kharagpur), Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur), M.Tech (BIT Mesra)
Contact Address

ECE Department, BIT Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand - 835215

Jharkhand

  • Phone Office - 9002248104
  • Phone Residence - 9002248104
  • Email - richa@bitmesra.ac.in
Work Experience

Teaching : 6 Years

Research : 8.5 Years

Individual: 3 Years

Professional Background
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India (Sep 2021 onwards)
  • Post Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Project— Nanoengineered Painless Drug Delivery Systems sponsored by Department of Science and Technology and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Sep 2019-Sep 2021)
  • Ex- Cofounder and Director, Innovodigm Private Limited, Kolkata, India (Feb 2020 – Aug 2021)
  • Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Project sponsored by Department of Science and Technology and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Mar 2019-Aug 2021)
  • Assistant Professor, O.P. Jindal Institute of Technology, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, India (Nov 2011-  Dec 2012)
  • Assistant Professor, RVS College of Engineering & Technology, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand (Dec 2007- July 2011)
  • Senior Executive, HCL Infosystems Limited, Noida, India (Jul 2004-Aug 2007)

 

 

Research Areas

MEMS and Microsystems, Flexible and printed Electronics, Energy Harvesting, Smart Sensing systems, Microfabrication and Printing Technologies

Award and Honours
  1. 1st Prize, Research Project Poster Exhibition & Presentation for SERB POWER project (2022-2025) titled “Scalable assembly of Painless Hollow Microneedle Array”, National Technology Day-25, 7th & 8th May 2025, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra awarded to Research Scholar-Sachin Kumar Singh, Supervisor - Dr. Richa Mishra
  2. Winner Team (Richa Mishra, Vinod Belwanshi, Neela Chattoraj, Sachin Kr. Singh, Rahul Kr. Singh), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology , India Semiconductor Mission and IISc Bangalore sponsored INUP Hackathon 2025, Topic: SOI-MEMS Hackathon: Pioneering Innovations in Microelectromechanical Systems, Project – Development of MEMS Pressure Sensors Intended for Subsonic Wind Tunnel Applications, 2025
  3. 1st position in Oral Presentation Award, "Hollow Microneedle Mediated Painless Drug Delivery, 4th Research Colloquium, BIT Mesra, 15th-17th July 2024, awarded to Research Scholar-Sachin Kumar Singh, Supervisor - Dr. Richa Mishra
  4. 1st Position in Innovative Protype Product Model Display Exhibition & Competition on the occasion of “National Technology Day 24” , 8th May 2024 organized by Institution’s Innovation Council, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra awarded to Research Scholar-Sachin Kumar Singh, Supervisor - Dr. Richa Mishra
  5. Best Paper Award at International Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering and Sciences (RTES-2024), India for paper “Feasibility study on hollow steel microneedle assembly and IOT enabled Peristaltic Pump”, 29th-30th March, 2024, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi.

  6. 'Best Paper Award’ at Institute of Smart Structures and systems Researcher’s Forum, IISc Bangalore, India, 27- 28th March 2018.
  7. Gold Medal and ‘Top 10 innovation in India’ by DST - Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program, New Delhi, 2016
  8. 2019-21, Post Doctoral Fellowship sponsored by Department of Science and Technology, India and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, India
  9. 2017-18, Teaching Assistantship, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
  10. 2013-17, Institute Doctoral Fellowship, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
  11. University Topper, Mtech, New Materials & Processing Technology, BIT Mesra, 2009-11
Publications

Journal Publications

  1. Singh, R.K., Patel, P., Chattoraj, N. , Belwanshi, V., Mishra, R.et al. Enhancing pressure sensor performance through diaphragm geometry optimization for subsonic applications. Microsyst Technol (2025), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-025-05918-w
  2. V Belwanshi, R Mishra, K Guha & J Iannacci, Sense by MEMS: Revolutionizing Sensing Techniques using Microsystem Technology, Science Reporter , NIScPR-CSIR, India, SR 62(05), 44-48, 2025, 2582-6492 (Online);0036-8512 (Print), 2582-6492 (Online);0036-8512 (Print), http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/65795 
  3. Singh, S.K., Dwivedi, M., Bhattacharyya, T.K., Mishra R., Simulation of hollow Ormocomp microneedles and fabrication by two photon photolithography. Microsyst Technol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-025-05847-8
  4. Richa Mishra, T.K.Maiti and T.K.Bhattacharyya, “Feasibility Studies on Nafion Membrane Actuated Micropump Integrated With Hollow Microneedles for Insulin Delivery Device”, IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 987-996, Dec. 2019 (IF – 2.8), https://doi.org/10.1109/JMEMS.2019.2939189
  5. Richa Mishra, Bidhan Pramanick, T.K.Maiti and T.K.Bhattacharyya, “Glassy Carbon Microneedles—new transdermal drug delivery device derived from scalable C-MEMS process”, Nature Publications, Microsystems and Nanoengineering, volume 4, Article number: 38 (2018) (IF – 8.1), https://doi.org/0.1038/s41378-018-0039-9 
  6.  Richa Mishra, T.K.Maiti and T.K.Bhattacharyya, “ Design and scalable fabrication of hollow SU-8 microneedles for transdermal drug delivery, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol 18, issue 14, 15th July, 2018, pp 5635-5644 , DOI - https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2018.2840335, (IF – 4.3
  7. Mishra, Richa; Maiti, Tapas; Bhattacharyya, Tarun, "Development of SU-8 Hollow Microneedles on Silicon Substrate with Microfluidic Interconnects for Transdermal Drug Delivery" by IOP Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 28 (2018) 105017, https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6439/aad301,  (IF – 2.2
  8. S. Mishra, R. Mishra, “ Investigation of Si-C-N Multilayer (Hard and Soft) coating as potential Candidate for Si-C-N MEMS fabrication”, OPJIT International Journal of Innovation & Research, vol.02, 1, 2013, ISSN 2319-4340

International Conference Publications

  1. S.K.Singh, R. Mishra, Simulation Based Comparative Analysis of Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Using Three Different Materials, IEEE International Conference on Communication and Smart Devices (ICCoSD)-2025, Birla Instittue of Technology, Mesra, 25th & 26th July, 2025.
  2. S.K.Singh, Guruswamy Rajaram, R. Mishra, Comparative Analysis of Sputter Etch Rates of photoresists on glass under ICP-RIE Conditions, IEEE International Conference on Communication and Smart Devices (ICCoSD)-2025, Birla Instittue of Technology, Mesra, 25th & 26th July, 2025.
  3. S.Dutta, N. Chattoraj, R. MishraOptimization Techniques for enhancing the efficiency of MEMS-based energy harvesters, IEEE International Conference on Electronics, AI and Computing, NIT Jalandhar, 5th -7th June 2025
  4. R.K.Singh, V. Belwanshi, N.Chattoraj and R. Mishra, “ Finite element analysis of MEMS pressure sensors intended for Subsonic Wind Tunnel Applications”, International Coference on Micro/Nanoelectronics Devices, Circuits, & Systems Conference, NIT Silchar, 29-31January 2025
  5. P. Patel, V. Belwanshi, N. Chattoraj and R. Mishra, "Comparative Study of MEMS Microheaters Using Distinct Designs and Materials for PCR Applications," 2024 IEEE International Conference of Electron Devices Society Kolkata Chapter (EDKCON), Kolkata, India, 2024, pp. 01-06, doi: 10.1109/EDKCON62339.2024.10870831.
  6. Richa Mishra, T.K.Bhattacharyya, Design and Simulation of MEMS based Cascaded Structure Electroosmotic Micropump, ISSS International Conference on Micro, Nano and Smart Systems 2024, July, 10-12, IISc Bangalore
  7. Sachin Kr. Singh, Shahid Monouwer Ali, Raghvendra Kumar, Richa Mishra, Feasibility study on hollow steel microneedle assembly and IOT enabled Peristaltic Pump, International Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering and Sciences (RTES-2024), 29th-30th March, 2024, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India
  8. Sachin Kr. Singh , Guruswamy Rajaram, Richa MishraSputter Etch Rates of Photoresist OIR 620M and MEGAPOSIT SPR 220 using ICP RIE, International Conference on Recent Trends in Engineering and Sciences (RTES-2024), 29th-30th March, 2024, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India
  9. A Datta, R Mishra, S Biswas, J S Manna, R Dhar and T K Bhattacharyya , “Fabrication and characterization of lithium doped nafion membrane and hollow glassy carbon microneedle for micropump based drug delivery”, 24th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2020) , online. 
  10. Richa Mishra, T.K.Maiti and T.K.Bhattacharyya, “A novel design and characterisation of Nafion 115 membrane for micropump based transdermal drug delivery”, MicroTAS 2018, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 11-15 November, 2018.
  11. Richa Mishra, Bidhan Pramanick, Ayan Chatterji, T.K.Maiti and T.K.Bhattacharyya,”Fabrication of C-MEMS Derived 3-Dimensional Glassy Carbon Microelectrodes for Neural Sensing and Stimulation”, IEEE Sensors 2018, New Delhi, India, 28-31 October 2018. 
  12. Richa Mishra, T.K.Maiti and T.K.Bhattacharyya, “Structural Comparison of SU-8 Microtubes fabricated by Direct Laser Writing and UV Lithography”, IEEE Sensors 2017, 29 Oct-1 st Nov 2017, Glasgow, Scotland.
  13. Richa Mishra, Bidhan Pramanick, T.K.Maiti and T.K.Bhattacharyya, “ C-MEMS process based strength enhancement of SU-8 hollow microneedles for drug delivery”, 21st International Conference on miniaturized systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2017, October 22-26, 2017, Savannah, Georgia. 
  14. R.Mishra, T.K.Bhattacharyya, T.K.Maiti, "Comparison of direct laser writing and UV photolithography techniques for fabrication of high aspect ratio hollow microtubes”,20th International Conference on miniaturized systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2016, October 9-13, 2016, Dublin, Ireland.
  15. R.Mishra, T.K.Bhattacharyya, T.K.Maiti, "Design and Simulation of microfluidic components towards development of a controlled drug delivery platform”, 29th International Conference on VLSI Design and 15th International Conference on Embedded Systems, Jan 4-6, Kolkata, India, 2016 
  16. R.Mishra, T.K.Bhattacharyya, T.K.Maiti, "Theoretical analysis and simulation of SU-8 microneedles for effective skin penetration and drug delivery”, IEEE Sensors 2015, Busan, South Korea, Nov 1-3, 2015
  17. R.Mishra, T.K.Bhattacharyya, T.K.Maiti, “Direct Laser Writing as an alternative to photolithography for precise fabrication of microfluidic components for drug delivery systems”, 19th International Conference on miniaturized systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences, MicroTAS 2015, October 25-29 2015, Gyeongju, South Korea 
  18. R.Mishra, T.K.Bhattacharyya, T.K.Maiti, "Fabrication and release of SU-8 structures on soft substrate," 2014 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Emerging Electronics (ICEE), pp.1,4, 3-6 Dec. 2014, Bangalore, India. 
  19. R.Mishra, S.K.Mishra, “Preparation of Hard and Tough Multilayers of Silicon Carbon Nitride by Magnetron Sputtering: A novel Approach, International Conference for Innovation & Research in Technology, 3-5 November, 2012, Raigarh, India. 

National Conference Presentations

1. Richa Mishra, “Development of Microfluidic platform based drug delivery System, Institute of Smart Structures and systems Researcher’s Forum, 27-28 March 2018, IISc Bangalore, India

 Events Organized

  1. SERB Sponsored 2 Day High-End Workshop on MEMS based Scalable Healthcare Technologies on 1st and 2nd August 2024 under SERB POWER project titled “Scalable Assembly of Hollow Microneedle array” , Project Investigator - Dr. Richa Mishra (File no. SPG/2021/004087).
  2. Organised Chhattisgarh Government of Science & Technology and JSPL, Raigarh sponsored “National Symposium on Nanotechnology in Industry”, O.P. Jindal University, Raigarh, Aug 18, 2012

 

Member of Professional Bodies

Senior Member, INAE

Member, IEEE

Life Member, Institute of Smart structures and Systems (ISSS), IISc, Bangalore

 

Current Sponsored Projects
  1. PI, DST SERB POWER grant , “ Scalable assembly of Painless Hollow Microneedle Array”, 2022-25, Amount – 29.15 Lacs (ongoing)
  2. PI, Birla Institute of Technology,Mesra, India Seed Money sponsored "High Speed Two Photon Polymerisation based Fabrication of Hollow Microneedles" (2022-2024 Amount - INR 5 Lacs (completed)
  3. CO-PI and Member, Project implementation group, AI enabled MEMS based Sensors Fabrication and Characterization Facility (AMSFCF), DST FIST Program 2022 (2023-28) , Amount – 178L (ongoing)
Text and Reference Books

Book

    1. Richa Mishra, T.K.Bhattacharyya, MEMS-based Transdermal Drug Delivery, CRC Press, 2023, ISBN – 9781032064239(hbk), DOI – 10.1201/9781003202264

Book Chapters

  1. Richa Mishra, T.K.Bhattacharyya, “Connectivity Attributes for Remote Insulin Therapy”,Chapter 2,  Nanosensors as Robust Non-invasive Diagnostic Tools for remote Health Monitoring, Advances in Smart Healthcare Technologies, CRC Press, 2025, ISBN 9781032623009, DOI – 10.1201/9781003602729
  2. Richa Mishra, T.K.Bhattacharyya, “MEMS based hollow microneedles for transdermal drug delivery”, Chapter 16, Editor(s): Eric Chappel,In Developments in Biomedical Engineering and Bioelectronics,Drug Delivery Devices and Therapeutic Systems,Academic Press,2021,Pages 325-344,ISSN 25897527,ISBN 9780128198384,DOI- 10.1016/B978-0-12-819838-4.00007-9.
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Richa Mishra, T.K.Bhattacharyya, T.K.Maiti., “Microneedle and Micropump based Fluid Delivery System”, Indian Patent granted, Indian Patent No. 555945(201831017171) of 7th May 2018,