Biography:Supratik Chakraborty

Short description: Indian computer scientist

Supratik Chakraborty is an Indian computer scientist. He is currently Bajaj Group Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Supratik completed his undergraduate in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1993, where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal. Subsequently, he completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1995 and 1998 respectively, working on the design of polynomial time approximate algorithms for timing analysis of asynchronous systems. He worked for a year in the Advanced CAD Research group at Fujitsu Laboratories of America before joining Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1999.

His current areas of research include both theoretical and practical aspects of formal methods, including formal verification of software and hardware systems, constrained counting and sampling and their applications, automated synthesis, automata theory, logic, and systems biology. In the past, he has also worked on design and analysis of asynchronous systems and on cellular automata.

He is an elected fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering, a Distinguished Member of Association for Computing Machinery, a Senior Member of IEEE and is a Distinguished Alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.