Chandranil “Nil” Chakraborttii, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Trinity College. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz (as a member of the Hardware Systems Collective) and his B.Tech. in Information Technology from the West Bengal University of Technology, India. Prior to his doctoral studies, he spent three years as a systems engineer in the enterprise software industry and taught computer science and logic at the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes for four years. 

Prof. Chakraborttii’s research operates at the intersection of computer systems, cloud storage reliability, and applied artificial intelligence. His lab focuses on machine learning for storage performance and failure prediction, cryptographic data erasure and privacy in vector databases, and intelligent hybrid memory architectures. His work is supported by competitive awards including a NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium (CTSGC) Faculty Research Grant and enterprise computational resources from the Connecticut AI Alliance (CAIA). At Trinity, Chakraborttii directs the Cloud, Reliability, Intelligence, and Cyber-Systems (CRICS) Research Lab.  For more information on current projects, publications, and student opportunities, please visit the CRICS Lab website: https://crics.domains.trincoll.edu/