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Professor Mitra was the founder and CEO of OptiRisk
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in 1956 for intermediate science he made the choice of academic work and dropped competitive sports and hobby. This was the time in India when
Engineering was seen to be the future pillar of the country. He had to make another choice between Science and Engineering, so he joined and graduated as an
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and retired in 2009. The retirement gave him the chance to fulfil his ambition as an entrepreneur. The two companies UNICOM, a knowledge dissemination company and OptiRisk, an analytics company are academic spinoffs. Having left the academia, Gautam and his wife Dhira have devoted their energies to
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in recognition of his contributions in the domain of computational optimization, risk analytics and modelling. He headed the
Mathematics Department (1990-2001) and subsequently founded the Center for the Analysis of Risk and Optimization Modelling Application (CARISMA). He was an emeritus Professor
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from UK, India, Europe, USA, and Brazil. Professor Mitra was also the founder and chairman of the sister company UNICOM Seminars. OptiRisk
Systems and UNICOM Seminars also have subsidiaries in India. In India and Southeast Asia both the companies are going through a period of organic growth.
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Until the age of 14 Gautam was taught by his mother Meera Rani Mitra who had a thorough grounding in
Mathematics and academic topics prior to her marriage at an early age. This foundational training had kindled Gautam's interest in all aspects of Mathematics and its applications.
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