Soham Chakraborty

Soham Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor at the Programming Languages Group, TU Delft since 2021. He previously served as an Assistant Professor at the CSE Department, IIT Delhi before joining TU Delft. His academic journey includes a PhD from Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in 2019 and a Master's degree from CSE Department, IIT Kharagpur in 2008.

• Affiliation: TU Delft, IIT Delhi, MPI-SWS
• Research Interests: Programming Languages, Compilers, Architecture, Verification, Concurrency

His research focuses on formal semantics, compiler correctness, architecture-to-architecture translation, and verification of weak memory models. He has contributed to major conferences including POPL, PLDI, CGO, and ASPLOS. His work addresses challenges in heterogeneous concurrency, relaxed memory concurrency, and binary translation for weak memory architectures.

Recent works include How Hard is Weak-Memory Testing? (POPL'24) and Toast: A Heterogeneous Memory Management System (PACT'24). He also received the Distinguished Paper Award at DATE'25 and Distinguished Artifact Award at PODC'22.

• Teaching: Courses like Concepts of Programming Languages (CS2120), Parallel and Concurrent Programming (CS4555), Compiler Construction (CS4555), Analysis of Concurrent and Distributed Programs (CS4405), Software Fundamentals (Rust), and Seminar Programming Languages (COL 380)
• Students: PhD student Dennis Sprokholt, MSc students Michal Raczkiewicz, Alexandru Dumitriu, Huixuan Wu, and alumni including Pieter van den Ham, Mingyu Gao, Jeroen Kloppenburg, and others.
• Service: Served on program committees for POPL, PLDI, CGO, VMCAI, APLAS, and Eurosys workshops.