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). There are more than 150 research publications in her name in refereed international journals. For the period 2014-2016, 2018-2021, Dr. Mitra was an IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer. She was a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence (FNAPE) Fellow in 2018-2020, and INAE Chair Professor during 2018-2020. She was the Chair, IEEE Kolkata Section (2021-22), and also of the IEEE CIS Kolkata Chapter. She has visited more than 30 countries as a Plenary/Invited Speaker or an academic visitor. She served in the capacity of General Chair, Program Chair, Tutorial Chair, of many international conferences. == Cited in ==