Dr Chakraborty currently heads his own lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware and postdoctoral studies from the University of Minnesota. He also worked at UC Berkeley till 1988. He served as the Warren and Katherine Schlinger Distinguished Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, Professor of Biophysics at Berkeley. He also worked as Head of Theoretical and Computational Biology at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.