With BSc (Engineering) in 1989 from BIT Sindri, Dhanbad, MTech in 1992 and PhD in 1997 from IIT Kanpur (all in Mechanical Engineering),  Prof. Subhash C. Mishra joined IIT Guwahati  as a Senior Lecturer in December 1996. He became Assistant Professor in April 1997, Associate Professor in May 2000 and Professor in October 2004.    From April 2003- April 2005, he was the Faculty In-charge, Training and Placement and from 31 March 2006 to 6 July 2008, he was the Dean of Academic Affairs of IIT Guwahati.

Prof. Mishra has about 200 research publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences. He has guided more than 90 students.  He is a man of heat transfer with specialization in thermal radiation. Apart from his main research in the area of radiative heat transfer, currently his research involves porous media combustion for cheap and clean combustion and use of transient radiative transfer analysis for defect/disease diagnosis. Since 2005, he is also working on applications of the lattice Boltzmann method to thermal problems, and during the short time, in this area, his research group has made notable contributions.

Prof. Mishra is a recipient of the research fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany and  a (long term) Fellowship by Invitation of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS).  He is the reviewer of more than 30 journals and many conferences in the area of heat transfer. Post PhD, on fellowships/invitations, for about 3 years, he has worked in premier academic institutions in Germany, Japan and Italy, and has done collaborative research.  Starting January 2010, Prof. Mishra is one of the four vice presidents of the Indian Society for Heat and Mass Transfer.  He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and  the Institution of Engineers' India.

Prof. Mishra has remained actively involved with the organization of many conferences/symposia/workshops. Prominent among such events have been the   18th National & 7th ISHMT-ASME Heat and Mass Transfer Conference held at IIT Guwahati during 4-6 January 2006 and Indo-German Winter Academies in December 2003 and 2007.   He is one of the Coordinating Professors of the Indo-German Winter Academy series which is held in India every year since December 2002.  For the holistic growth of the young generation by understanding science and spirituality in proper perspectives and to see a harmonious society through synthesis of science and spirituality,  since 2007, Prof. Mishra is also actively involved  with the organization of the conference series - All India Students' Conference on Science and Spiritual Quest.