[4][6] He was the professor-in-charge of the state of the art VLSI Design Laboratory which he helped set up and has been the Dean of Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy at IIT Kharagpur and Head of the Advanced Technology Development Centre.

His areas of interest include Artificial Intelligence (AI), Formal Methods, CAD for VLSI & Embedded Systems, Fault Tolerance and Algorithm Design.

He has worked closely with Govt as well as industry on various problems and has successfully led and completed large projects and programmes at national and international levels.

[12][13] The Chairman of the Board of Governors have been informed about the decision of Human Development Ministry that Professor Chakraborti be given the appointment, sources said.

The members and a large number of alumni of IIT Kharagpur took a protest march on July 20 to demand appointment of Professor Chakraborti as the Director.

[14] Union Human Development Ministry has cleared the appointment of Professor Chakraborti as director of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.