Sushmita Mitra

Sushmita Mitra is an Indian female computer scientist. She is currently a Full Professor (HAG) and a former head of the Machine Intelligence Unit at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Her research interests include data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, soft computing and medical imaging. She is a Fellow of all three science academies and the engineering academy of India, along with several others from abroad.

Life and career The journey Sushmita was born to Dr. Maya Mitra, a professor of Botany at Bethune College in Kolkata, and Dr. Girindra Nath Mitra, a scientist with Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). Then she studied physics honours in Presidency College, under the guidance of Prof. Amal Raychaudhuri and Prof. Shyamal Sengupta. “Information Sciences”, 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)”.

Two of her research papers have been ranked 3rd and 15th in the list of top-cited papers in Engineering Science from India during 1992-2001, according to the Science Citation Index (SCI).

Television interview from University of San Pablo, Peru (2019)

UNESCO: A Braided River: The Universe of Indian Women in Science (2022)

TCS: Real Leaders, Real Stories (2022)

Women Engineers in India, Vol. I (2022)

IAPR (International Association for Pattern Recognition) Interview (2023)

INSA: Women Shaping Scientific Frontiers (2024)

Bigyan Bishwe Banglar Meyera (2025)

"Life is a Journey" (2025) IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Distinguished Lecturer 2025-2027