Veena Misra is the MC Dean Distinguished University Professor and founding 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 2024, Dean Jim Pfaendtner named her as the tenth Department Head for Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State. She was named Interim Dean for the College of Engineering in May 2026.