Before joining NC State, he was an Assistant Professor in Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, prior to which he was a post-doctoral research associate in the Aeronautics and Astronautics department of the University of Washington, Seattle. He received his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY in 2008. His research interests are in power systems dynamics and control using emerging technologies such as Wide-Area Monitoring systems (WAMS). Dr. Chakrabortty is a member of IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES), IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), and contributes actively to the North American Synchrophasor Initiative (NASPI). He received the NSF CAREER award in 2011.