Dr. Soma Chakrabarti leads the Materials Education Resources team at Ansys, Cambridge, UK. Earlier she was the assistant dean of Summer Term at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, director of Continuing Studies at the University of Delaware, and the director of Center for Engineering and Interdisciplinary Professional Education at the University of Kansas. Soma was the president and CEO of BioComp Systems, a University of Kansas spin-off which developed a true 3-D volumetric display system using two National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Phase I and Phase II grants and was the principal investigator of both the grants.

Soma is the current first vice president of International Federation of Engineering Education Societies, the current president of International Association for Continuing Engineering Education and a director of the American Society for Engineering Education College-Industry Partnership Division Board. She has a Ph.D. in biochemical engineering and biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.