Directors and Team

BEE(JU), MSc (London), PhD (London), FBCS, FRSA, CMATH, FIMA
Founder and Managing Director

Prof Mitra is an internationally renowned research scientist in the field of Operational Research in general and computational optimization and modelling in particular. He has developed a world class research group in his area of specialisation with researchers from Europe, UK, USA and India. He has published five books and over hundred and fifty research articles. He is an alumni of UCL and currently a Visiting Professor of UCL. In 2004 he was awarded the title of ‘distinguished professor’ by Brunel University in recognition of his contributions in the domain of computational optimization, risk analytics and modelling. In OptiRisk Systems he directs research and actively pursues the development of the company as a leader in the domain of financial analytics. Professor Mitra is 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.

A full list of his publications and academic activities can be viewed here

Intern and Sponsored PhD Candidate

Yuanqi joined OptiRisk Systems in October 2020. She is an industry sponsored PhD student in the Department of Mathematics, Brunel University. Yuanqi is supervised by Professor Keming Yu and her research is in the area of Statistics. Earlier she obtained her master’s degree in Statistics (with Distinction) from University of Nottingham in 2019. Yuanqi has a strong programming background and is well versed in, R, MATLAB and SPSS.

Chief Business Development Officer

Shrey is a Computer Science graduate of Amity University; he has subsequently worked with Hindustan Times in the area of Customer Marketing. He joined UNICOM (Marketing Arm of OptiRisk) in 2015 and managed the Sales and Marketing Back Office in Kolkata/India. Over last 8 years he has gained a rich experience of working in IT, Media, Conferences and Training industries. Recently Shrey has joined OptiRisk Systems as the Chief Business Development Officer to take charge of Sales and Marketing. Shrey is outspoken and ambitious, driven by work and thrives on challenges.

PhD (Brunel University London), MSc (Politecnico di Milano)
Chief Technology Officer

Dr Valente has a bachelor’s degree, first class honours in Computer Science and subsequently an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Politecnico di Milano, Italy (2004). He was a sponsored industry based PhD research student in Mathematical Sciences, at Brunel University. He joined OptiRisk Systems in 2005; the company, as the managing partner of the WEBOPT project (CRAFT programme of EU) sponsored his PhD research. Dr Valente’s PhD research was on the topics of Stochastic Programming and parallel computing. Dr Valente leads the design team for AMPL IDE and Stochastic AMPL (SAMPL). These flagship products have been developed under contract from AMPL Optimization Inc. who are also a Partner of OptiRisk Systems. Dr Valente has designed and developed many optimization based decision support systems and substantial industrial risk protection systems and acts as the main technological advisor for external projects. Dr Valente is fluent in Italian (his native language) and English and is also proficient in German.