Soumyottam Chatterjee’s research is primarily concerned with the theory of distributed computing systems. More specifically, he is interested in various symmetry breaking problems (e.g., maximal independent set, leader election, etc.) in synchronous, message-passing distributed systems. He is also engaged in designing protocols for dynamic networks and Byzantine fault-tolerant networks. Prior to joining Ashoka, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University (in College Station, Texas) and at Georgetown University (in Washington DC). He obtained his PhD in Computer Science in August 2019 from University of Houston in Houston, Texas.