University at Buffalo (UB)
Souma Chowdhury
PhD
Professor
Adjunct Associate Professor
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
Education
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2012
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, Florida International University, 2008
- BTech, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, 2007
Awards and Honors
- Fellow of ASME, 2025
- Associate Fellow of AIAA, 2024
- UB Exceptional Scholar – Sustained Achievement Award, 2025-2026, University at Buffalo
- ASME Design Automation (DAC) Executive Committee, 2023-2028
- SEAS Senior Researcher of the Year 2023 Award, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo
- Best Paper Award, AI and Agents Theme, ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, Avila, Spain, Apr 2024
- NSF CAREER Award, Project Title: Automated Design of Decentralized Robust and Explainable Swarm Systems (ADDRESS), 2021
- Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS’21), Cambridge, UK, Nov 2021
- SEAS Early Career Researcher of the Year 2019 Award, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo