{"id":7,"date":"2025-02-25T14:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/chowdhury\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:50:41","slug":"7-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/chowdhury\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Suman Chowdhury"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/chowdhury\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/605\/2025\/02\/Chowdhury-Suman-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9\" style=\"width:255px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/chowdhury\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/605\/2025\/02\/Chowdhury-Suman-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/chowdhury\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/605\/2025\/02\/Chowdhury-Suman-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/chowdhury\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/605\/2025\/02\/Chowdhury-Suman.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Associate Professor<\/strong><br><strong>Department of Industrial &amp; Systems Engineering at the University of Florida<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Director: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpnelab.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hpnel-chowdhury.com\/\">Human Performance and Neuro-Engineering Lab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Co-Director<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/hsel\/\">Human Systems Engineering Lab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Other Affiliation<\/strong>s: <a href=\"https:\/\/cehpw.eng.ufl.edu\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cehpw.eng.ufl.edu\/\">Center for Human Performance and Wellness<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/iot.institute.ufl.edu\/2025\/08\/new-faculty-chowdhury\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/iot.institute.ufl.edu\/2025\/08\/new-faculty-chowdhury\/\">Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:sk.chowdhury@ufl.edu\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:sk.chowdhury@ufl.edu\">sk.chowdhury@ufl.edu<br><\/a><strong>Office:<\/strong>\u00a0Weil 474<br><strong>Phone:<\/strong> +1 (352) 294-7731<br><strong>Fax:<\/strong>\u00a0+1 (352) 392-3537<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpnelab.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hpnel-chowdhury.com\/\">Research Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Chowdhury joined as an <em>Associate Professor <\/em>in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida in August 2024. He works on traumatic brain injury, brain mechano-electrical modeling, musculoskeletal health biomechanics, helmets, exoskeletons, robotics and prosthetic designs, and rehabilitation engineering. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpnelab.com\/lab-director\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hpnel-chowdhury.com\/lab-director\">More<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests:<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Methods: <\/strong>My research method encompasses a dynamic fusion of computational biomechanics, neuroscience, machine learning, and control theory to develop multiscale, multiphysics model of the brain and brain-muscle interaction dynamics, with the purpose of creating unprecedented scientific knowledge to advance the fields of biomechanics, neuroengineering, and ergonomics. &nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Applications: <\/strong>1) Traumatic brain injury mechanics, 2) motor dysfunction in stroke, Parkinson\u2019s disease, spinal cord injury, and other neurological disorders, 3) work performance with a disability, 4) human-centric designs of helmet, exoskeleton, robotics, and prosthetics, and 5) neurorehabilitation through the development of new therapeutic interventions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><strong>Awards and Honors<\/strong><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Best Paper Award, 27<sup>th<\/sup> Annual International Occupational Ergonomics and Safety Conference, 2015, Nashville, TN<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2003 &#8211; 2004 Dean\u2019s Scholarship, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Academic Positions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Associate Professor (2024 \u2013 present), Department of Industrial &amp; Systems Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assistant Professor (2019 \u2013 2024), Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, &amp; Systems Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assistant Research Scientist (2017 \u2013 2019), Department of Industrial &amp; Systems Engineering, Texas A&amp;M University, College Station, Texas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Education and Post-Graduate Training<\/strong><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Postdoctoral Research Associate: Computational Biomechanics (2016 \u2013 2017), Department of Mechanical Engineering &amp; Materials Science and Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering: Biomechanics and Human Factors Engineering (2016), West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering: Biomechanics and Human Factors Engineering (2012), West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.Sc. in Industrial and Production Engineering: Operation Research (2006), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leadership<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chair (2020 \u2013 2022), Occupational Ergonomics TG, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Publications<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bahreinizad, H., Paulon, G. M., Wei, L., &amp; Chowdhury, S. K. (2025). An MRI-derived head-neck finite element model. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 1-21.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10237-025-02013-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doi.org\/10.1007\/s10237-025-02013-x<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wei, L. H., Paulon, G. M., Sarker, P., &amp; Chowdhury, S. K. (2025). Sustained-till-exhaustion effects of firefighter helmets on the neck muscle fatigue mechanism. Ergonomics, 1-17.\u200b\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00140139.2025.2548004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doi.org\/10.1080\/00140139.2025.2548004.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wei, L. H., Sudeesh, S., Chakroborty, S., &amp; Chowdhury, S. K. (2025). A comprehensive methodological framework for 3D head anthropometric shape modeling of a small dataset. Ergonomics, 1-16.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00140139.2025.2518306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doi.org\/10.1080\/00140139.2025.2518306<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wei, L. H., &amp; Chowdhury, S. K. (2025). An electromyography-based multi-muscle fatigue model to investigate operational task performance. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 1-17.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10255842.2025.2510369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doi.org\/10.1080\/10255842.2025.2510369<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paulon, G. M., Sudeesh, S., Wei, L., &amp; Chowdhury, S. K. (2024). Firefighter helmets and cervical intervertebral Kinematics: An OpenSim-based biomechanical study. Journal of Biomechanics, 112364.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0021929024004421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jbiomech.2024.112364<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bahreinizad, H., &amp; Chowdhury, S. K. (2024). Implant Design and Cervical Spinal Biomechanics and Neurorehabilitation: A Finite Element Investigation. Military Medicine, 189(Supplement_3), 791-799.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/milmed\/article\/189\/Supplement_3\/791\/7735897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doi.org\/10.1093\/milmed\/usae279<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S. T. Mubarrat, A. Fernandes and S. K. Chowdhury, &#8220;A Physics-Based Virtual Reality Haptic System Design and Evaluation by Simulating Human-Robot Collaboration,&#8221; in\u00a0<em>IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems<\/em>, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 375-384, Aug. 2024, DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/THMS.2024.3407109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10.1109\/THMS.2024.3407109<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>S. T. Mubarrat, S. K. Chowdhury and A. S. Fernandes, &#8220;Evaluating Visual-Spatiotemporal Co-Registration of a Physics-Based Virtual Reality Haptic Interface,&#8221; in\u00a0<em>IEEE Access<\/em>, vol. 12, pp. 57017-57032, 2024, DOI:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1109\/ACCESS.2024.3391186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10.1109\/ACCESS.2024.3391186<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hasan, M. M., Rahman, S., Parmar, H., &amp; Chowdhury, S. K. (2024). A Novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) Method to Classify and Predict the Progression of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease.\u00a0<em>bioRxiv<\/em>, 2024-06. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2024.06.03.597177\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2024.06.03.597177<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Mubarrat, S. T., &amp; Chowdhury, S. (2023). Convolutional LSTM: a deep learning approach to predict shoulder joint reaction forces. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 26(1), 65-77,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10255842.2022.2045974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>doi.org\/10.1080\/10255842.2022.2045974<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Patents:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Protective Helmet <a href=\"https:\/\/patentimages.storage.googleapis.com\/53\/b0\/dd\/64f0c43cc36133\/WO2024081236A1.pdf\">https:\/\/patentimages.storage.googleapis.com\/53\/b0\/dd\/64f0c43cc36133\/WO2024081236A1.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grant Activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Research Support<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chowdhury, Suman (PI), \u201c<em>CAREER: Unifying Neuroscience and Biomechanics Paradigms for Modeling Brain and Muscle Responses to Mechanical Impacts,<\/em>\u201d National Science Foundation, <strong>$585,473.00; <\/strong>(September 2023 \u2013 August 2028).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Past Research Supports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chowdhury, Suman (PI), McKenna, Gregory (Co-PI), Cong, Weilong. (Co-PI), <em>&#8220;NextGen Firefighter Helmet: A Prototype Design through Computer-Aided Reverse Engineering and Biomechanical Modeling,&#8221;<\/em> U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science &amp; Technology<strong>, $562,253.00; <\/strong>(September 2021 \u2013 May 2024).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chowdhury, Suman (PI), McKenna, Gregory (Co-PI), Pantoya, Michelle (Co-PI) Cong, Weilong. (Co-PI), \u201c<em>Mission-Adaptive, Modular Law Enforcement Helmet<\/em>,\u201d U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science &amp; Technology,<strong> $994,591<\/strong>; (September 2022 \u2013 August 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chowdhury, Suman. (PI), <em>&#8220;Evaluating the Technical Feasibility of Upper Body Exoskeleton in Masonry Work in Mast Climbing Work Platforms,&#8221;<\/em> CDC National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, <strong>$40,208.00;<\/strong> (September 2021 \u2013 August 2022).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chowdhury, Suman. (PI) <em>\u201cKnowledgebase of Head-Neck Musculoskeletal Dynamics for NextGen Firefighter Helmet Prototype Design,\u201d<\/em> Texas Tech University Neuroimaging Center, <strong>$5,000<\/strong>; (September 2020 \u2013 August 2021).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chowdhury, Suman (Co-I) <em>&#8220;Neck Biomechanics During Motions and Sustained Exertions,<\/em>&#8221; CDC National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, <strong>$1,577,536.00<\/strong>; (August 2016 &#8211; August 2019).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate ProfessorDepartment of Industrial &amp; Systems Engineering at the University of Florida Director: Human Performance and Neuro-Engineering Lab Co-Director:\u00a0Human Systems Engineering Lab Other Affiliations: Center for Human Performance and Wellness Warren B. 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