He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016[1] for his contributions to network traffic modeling, congestion control, and Internet economics.

This work influenced Cisco's development of the PIE (Proportional Integral controller Enhanced) algorithm, which addresses the bufferbloat problem in internet networks.

This relationship led to the establishment of the Columbia-Dream Sports AI Innovation Center, where he serves as Director.

In 2021, Misra founded Ask Here First, which developed AskCricinfo, one of the earliest commercial applications of Large Language Models (LLMs).

Launched on ESPNcricinfo on September 15, 2021,[9] fifteen months before ChatGPT's release, AskCricinfo pioneered the commercial implementation of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technology.