Dr. Chaudhuri earned his Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry and Chemical Physics from SUNY Stony Brook in 2003. As a graduate student, he received a NATO scholarship to work at Oxford University developing simulation methods for ionic conductors, catalysts, and battery materials. From 2003–2006, Chaudhuri worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials on a theory-guided design of hydrogen storage materials for automobile applications. Subsequently, he joined Washington State University’s Department of Physivs and Astronomy, and led the development of Applied Sciences Laboratory. In 2014, Dr. Chaudhuri moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At UIUC, Dr. Chaudhuri served as the Associate Director of the Applied Research Institute (ARI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research group (Accelerated Materials Research Lab) worked on applications of high-performance computing in energy, environment and manufacturing applications for improving the efficiency of materials insertion and deployment.