She is currently a Full Professor (HAG) and a former head of the Machine Intelligence Unit at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.

[1] Her research interests include data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, soft computing and medical imaging.

[3] Then she studied physics honours in Presidency College, under the guidance of  Prof. Amal Raychaudhuri and Prof. Shyamal Sengupta.

[2] She received the CSIR Senior Research Fellowship to work on her Ph.D in Neuro-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition under the supervision of Prof. Sankar K. Pal in 1989.

[1] On recommendation of one of her Ph.D. examiners, she authored a book based on her publication - Neuro Fuzzy Pattern Recognition: Methods in Soft Computing.

[1] She is also a recipient of prestigious J. C. Bose National Fellowship in 2021 and is a member of the Inter-Academy Panel for Women in STEMM.

[1] Mitra was a visiting professor in the Computer Science Departments of University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 2004 and 2007.

[1] Dr. Mitra has guest edited special issues of several journals; is an Associate Editor of “IEEE/ACM Trans.

on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics”,[4] “Information Sciences”,[5] Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, Computers in Biology and Medicine, and is a Founding Associate Editor of “Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (WIRE DMKD)”.