Somali Chaterji (pronounced shoh-MAH-lee CHA-ter-jee) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University, where she leads the Innovatory for Cells and Neural Machines [ICAN]. ICAN specializes in developing algorithms and statistical models for IoT and edge computing on the one hand and genome engineering on the other. Read more about ICAN’s research updates here.

Somali has her PhD in Biomedical Engineering [Purdue University], winning a Chorafas Foundation fellowship. She followed this up with two post-doctoral stints, in Biomedical Engineering [UT Austin] and in Computer Science [Purdue University].