(UB)
University at Buffalo (UB)
Center for Embodied Autonomy and Robotics

Souma Chowdhury

PhD

Souma Chowdhury.

Souma Chowdhury

PhD

Souma Chowdhury

PhD

Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Co-Director
Center for Embodied Autonomy and Robotics (CEAR)
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Co-Director
Engineering Science MS in Robotics
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Research Interests

Design Optimization, MINLP, Bio-inspired Computing, Physics-informed Machine Learning, Graph Reinforcement Learning, and Physical AI, with applications to Autonomous Aerospace Systems, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (aka Drones), Multi-Robot Systems, Robot Swarms, and Physical Networks

Biography Publications Teaching Research Latest News

Latest News

  • Study: AI could remediate future power outages
    6/25/24

    University at Buffalo engineers, partners create model to make nation’s grid more resilient amid extreme weather, projected spikes in demand.

  • Federation Of American Scientists Among Leading Technology Organizations Pushing Congress To Support Responsible AI Innovation NIST Funding Request
    4/23/24

    UB’s Center for Embodied Autonomy and Robotics signed a letter asking congress to fully fund the National Institute of Standards and Technology budget request for AI-related work in the upcoming fiscal year.

  • Chowdhury named AIAA Associate Fellow
    11/6/23

    Souma Chowdhury was elected an associate fellow by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics for significant and lasting contributions to the aerospace profession.

  • Using AI to automate real-time decision making for swarm robots
    1/7/22
    A team of University at Buffalo researchers received the Best Paper award at the IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems.
  • An online method to allocate tasks to robots on a team during natural disaster scenarios
    10/19/21
    Tech Xplore interviews Souma Chowdhury, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, in a story on the development of a technique that could enhance the performance of robot teams during disaster response missions. 
  • Souma Chowdhury receives NSF CAREER award
    5/6/21
    An assistant professor in the University at Buffalo Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering is being recognized for his impactful research with a National Science Foundation CAREER award.
  • Real-life mind-control technologies governments are actually working on
    3/23/21
    Interesting Engineering reported on “real-life mind-control technologies” and mentioned that last year UB’s Artificial Intelligence Institute received a grant to accelerate research into biometric information gathering from brain waves and eye movements — while playing a computer game.