Somali Chaterji (pronounced shoh-MAH-lee CHA-ter-jee) is an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering and College of Agriculture at Purdue University. She did her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue, winning the Chorafas Dissertation Award and the Future Faculty Fellowship. She followed this up with a postdoc in Biomedical Engineering from UT Austin and another postdoc in Computer Science from Purdue. She leads ICAN at Purdue. Somali has received funding from NIH (R01), DOD (ARL), NSF (CISE-CNS, CAREER), USDA, as well as private industries like Amazon and Adobe Research. She is an Associate Editor of BMC Bioinformatics and serves on the editorial board of the Computational and Structural Biotechnology journal. Somali also serves on Program Committees of prestigious conferences in IoT, computer systems, machine learning, and computational genomics like Usenix ATC, EuroSys, HotStorage, Middleware, ICML, and NeurIPS. She reviews for high impact journals in computer systems and genomics such as Transactions on Networking, Genome Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Scientific Reports, and the BMC Series. She won the NSF-CAREER award from CISE (CNS) in January 2022. Somali also goes by her childhood alias Sonata Chaterji, Sonata from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata that her mom loves.

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October 13, 2021