Suman Chowdhury Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), has joined the Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World.
Dr. Chowdhury’s research areas include computational biomechanics, traumatic brain injury, multiscale brain modeling, ergonomics, and helmets, exoskeleton and prosthetic designs.
Before joining the University of Florida, he served as an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering at Texas Tech University. He received his Ph.D. degree in occupational biomechanics from West Virginia University in 2016. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Pittsburgh from 2016 to 2017 and an Assistant Research Scientist at Texas A&M University from 2017 to 2019.
He served as the Chair of the Occupational Ergonomics Technical Group of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, USA, from 2020 to 2022. To date, he has secured about $2.2 million in grants and contracts as a lead principal investigator from various federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the CDC’s National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, and the National Science Foundation’s prestigious CAREER award (2023).
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