Prior to this, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute. Dr. Mitra received her Ph.D. degree in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include data mining, business analytics and statistical applications in healthcare, education security and information systems. She has more than 30 research publications, including 11 peer-reviewed journal articles and 10 book chapters. She teaches courses in the area of Statistics and Analytics.