Professor Chakrabarti completed his B. Tech in 1985 and PhD in 1988 from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. He joined the same department as a faculty member in 1988 and is currently a Professor there. From July 2013 to June 2019, he was the Director of the IIT Kharagpur. He was the Professor-in-Charge of the Advanced VLSI Design Laboratory, Dean of Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy at IIT Kharagpur and Head of the Advanced Technology Development Centre. He pioneered the development of the Incubation Programme at IIT Kharagpur. Professor Chakrabarti has made fundamental scientific contributions in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Automated Reasoning and has applied the techniques to solve important synthesis, optimisation and verification problems especially in VLSI Design and Embedded Systems. His work has been peer recognised by several scientific awards and best paper prizes. He has published more than 250 papers in international journals and conferences and supervised more than two dozen PhD students. Professor Chakrabarti received the President of India Gold Medal (1985), the INSA Young Scientist Award (1991), Anil K Bose Award (1995), INAE Young Engineers Award (1997) and the Swarnajayanti Fellowship (1997-98), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (2000), INAE Visweswarya Chair Professorship (2007-9), J.C. Bose Fellowship (2013), DSc Honoris Causa (Kalyani University) and many other awards. He has been elected a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi and the Indian Academy of Science, Bangalore, Indian National Academy of Engineering and the West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology.