Publications

Journal Articles @ ADAMS Lab, U Buffalo

2025

• Paul, S., and Chowdhury, S., Learning Multi-Robot Task Allocation using Capsule Networks and Attention Mechanism, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 193, pp. 105085, 2025.
• Bhatt, A., Witter, J., KrisshnaKumar, P., Paul, S., and Chowdhury, S., Learning-based Real-time Down-sampling for Scalable Decentralized Decision-Making in Bayes-Swarm Search, ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2025. [accepted]
• Oddiraju, M., Cleeman, J., Malhotra, R., and Chowdhury, S., A Differentiable Physics-Informed Machine Learning Approach to Model Laser-based Micro-Manufacturing Process, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 147, No. 5, pp. 051002, 2025.

2024

• Paul, S. and Chowdhury, S., Learning to Allocate Time-Bound and Dynamic Tasks to Multiple Robots using Covariant Attention Neural Networks, ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, Vol. 24, No. 9, pp. 091005, 2024.
• Jacob, R. A.*, Paul, S.*, Chowdhury, S.^#, Gel, Y. R., & Zhang, J.^# (2024). Real-time outage management in active distribution networks using reinforcement learning over graphs. Nature Communications, 15(1), 4766. [* joint first authors, ^# joint corr. authors]
• Paul, S., and Chowdhury, S. (July 3, 2024). “Learning to Allocate Time-Bound and Dynamic Tasks to Multiple Robots using Covariant Attention Neural Networks.” ASME. J. Comput. Inf. Sci. Eng. doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4065883

2023

• Zeng, C., Hecht, G., Chowdhury, S. and Botta, E., Concurrent Design Optimization of Tether-Net System and Actions for Reliable Space-Debris Capture, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2023.
•  Iqbal, R, Behjat, A., Adlakha, R., Callanan, J., Nouh, M., Chowdhury, S., Auto-differentiable Transfer Mapping Architecture for Physics-infused Learning of Acoustic Field, IEEE Transactions on AI, 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TAI.2023.3248561.
• Zhang, J., Chowdhury, S., Zhang, J. and Messac, A., Optimal selection of time windows for preventive maintenance of offshore wind farms subject to wake losses, Wind Energy, Vol. 26, No. 11, pp. 1103-1122, 2023.

2022

• Behjat, A., Maurer, N., Chidambaran, S., and Chowdhury, S., Adaptive Neuroevolution with Controlled Genetic Operators and Two-way Complexity Variation, IEEE Transactions on AI, 2022. PDF BIB
• Adlakha, R., Liu, W., Chowdhury, S., Zheng, M. and Nouh, M., Integration of Acoustic Compliance and Noise Mitigation in Path Planning for Drones in Human-Robot Collaborative Environments, Journal of Vibration and Control, 2022 (in press).
• Ghassemi, P., Balazon, M., and Chowdhury, S., A Penalized Batch-Bayesian Approach to Informative Path Planning for Decentralized Swarm Robotic Search, Autonomous Robots, 2022. PDF BIB
• Ghassemi, P., and Chowdhury, S., Multi-Robot Task Allocation in Disaster Response: Addressing Dynamic Tasks with Deadlines and Robots with Capacity Constraints, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 147, pp. 103905, 2022. PDF BIB

2021

• Callahan, J., Iqbal, R., Adlakha, R., Behjat, A., Chowdhury, S. and Nouh, M., Large Aperture Experimental Characterization of the Acoustic Field Generated by a Hovering Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol 50, No. 3, 2021. PDF BIB
• Berthelson, P., Ghassemi, P., Wood, J. W., Liu, Y. -C. , Al-Graitti, A. J., Jones, M. D., S. Chowdhury, and Prabhu, R. K., Evaluation of Occupant Neck Injury Response to Varied Impact Conditions using a Finite Element-Mathematical Surrogate Modeling Approach, International Journal of Crashworthiness. BIB
• Berthelson, P., Ghassemi, P., Wood, J. W. , Liu, Y. -C. , Al-Graitti, A. J., Jones, M. D., S. Chowdhury, and Prabhu, R. K., Assessment of Car Crash-Induced Occupant Neck Injury Trends Using Finite Element-Guided Mathematical Surrogate Modeling, International Journal of Crashworthiness, Dec 2021. (online)
• Oddiraju, M., Behjat, A., Nouh, M. and Chowdhury, S., Inverse Design Framework with Invertible Neural Networks for Passive Vibration Suppression in Phononic Structures, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Special Journal Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Engineering Design, 2021. PDF BIB
• Matei, I., De Kleer, J., Feldman, A., Rai, R., and Chowdhury, S., Machine Learning augmented Reduced Order System Modeling for Diagnosis, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2020. (under review)
• Berthelson, P. R., Ghassemi, P., Wood, J. W., Stubblefield, G. G., Al-Graitti, A. J., Jones, M. D., Horstemeyer, M. F., Chowdhury, S., and Prabhu, R. K., A Finite Element-Guided Mathematical Surrogate Modeling Approach to Assess Occupant Head Injury Risk Due to Vehicular Impacts, Medical and Biological Engineering & Computing, No. 5, 2021. PDF BIB
• Lulekar, S., Ghassemi, P., Alsalih, H., and Chowdhury, S., A Multi-fidelity Design Automation Framework to Explore Bio-inspired Surface Riblets for Drag Reduction. AIAA Journal, Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 880-892, 2021. PDF BIB
• Matei, I., Zeng, C., Chowdhury, S., Rai, R., and De Kleer, J., Controlling Draft Interactions between Quadcopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Physics-aware Modeling, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Vol. 101, 2021. PDF BIB
• Zhang, Z., Rai, R., Chowdhury, S. and Doermann D., MIDPhyNet: Memorized Infusion of Decomposed Physics in Neural Networks to Model Dynamic Systems, Neurocomputing, Vol. 428, Pages 116-129, 2021. PDF BIB

2020

• Behjat, A., Zeng, C., Rai, R., Matei, I., Doermann, D., and Chowdhury, S., A Physics-Aware Learning Architecture with Input Transfer Networks for Predictive Modeling, Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 96, pp. 106665, 2020. PDF BIB
• Callanan, J., Ghassemi, P., DiMartino, J., Dhameliya, M., Stocking, C., Nouh, M., Chowdhury, S., Ergonomic Impact of Multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Noise in Warehouse Environments, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Vol. 100, No. 3, pp. 1309–1323, 2020. PDF BIB
• Ghassemi, P., Mehmani, A., and Chowdhury, S., Adaptive In-Situ Model Refinement for Surrogate-augmented Population-based Optimization, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 62, pp. 2011-203. PDF  BIB
• Zeng, C., Abnous, R., Chowdhury, S. and Maldonado, V., A New Tilt-Arm Transitioning Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: Introduction and Conceptual Design, Aerospace Science and Technology. Vol. 99, pp.105755. April 2020. PDF BIB
• Ghassemi, P., and Chowdhury, S., An Extended Bayesian Optimization Approach to Decentralized Swarm Robotic Search, Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. Vol. 20, Issue 5, pp. 1-14, April 2020. PDF BIB

2019

• Behjat, A., Paul, S., and Chowdhury, S., Learning Reciprocal Actions for Cooperative Collision Avoidance in Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 121, 103270, 2019. PDF BIB
• Mu, D., Ge, Y., Sha, M., Paul, S., Ravichandra, N. and Chowdhury, S., Robust Optimal Selection of Radio Type and Transmission Power for Internet of Things, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2019. PDF BIB
• Odonkor, P., Ball, Z., and Chowdhury, S., Distributed Operation of Collaborating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Time-Sensitive Oil Spill Mapping, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Vol 46, pp. 52-68. PDF BIB

2017-2018

• Hernandez-R, E., Chowdhury, S., Coleman, S., Ghassemi, P., and Tschopp, M.A., Integrating Exploratory Data Analytics into ReaxFF Parameterization, MRS Communications, Vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1300-1310, 2018. PDF BIB
• Mehmani, A., Chowdhury, S., Meinrenken, C. J., and Messac, A., Concurrent Surrogate Model Selection (COSMOS): Optimizing Model Type, Kernel Function, and Hyper-parameters, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 1093-1114, 2018. PDF BIB

2016

• Johnson, K. L., Chowdhury, S., Lawrimore, W. B., Mao, Y., Mehmani, A., Prabhu, R., Rush, G. A., and Horstemeyer. M. F., Constrained Topological Optimization of a Football Helmet Facemask Based on Brain Response, Materials & Design, Vol. 111, pp. 108-118, 2016. PDF BIB
• Chowdhury, S., Mehmani, A., Zhang, J., and Messac, A., Market Suitability and Performance Trade-offs Offered by Commercial Wind Turbines across Differing Wind Regimes, Energies, Vol. 9 No. 5, pp. 352, 2016. PDF BIB
• Chowdhury, S., Maldonado, V., Messac, A., and Tong, W., A New Modular Product Platform Planning Approach to Design Macro-scale Reconfigurable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 53, No. 2, March–April 2016. PDF BIB
• Tong, W.,Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., A Multi-Objective Mixed-Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization with Multi-Domain Diversity Preservation, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol 53, No. 3, pp. 471-488, March 2016. PDF BIB
• Mehmani, A., Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., “Predictive Quantification of Surrogate Model Fidelity based on Modal Variations with Sample Density,” Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 353-373. PDF BIB

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Conference Articles (in Proceedings) @ ADAMS Lab, U Buffalo

2025

• Liu, F., Boonrath, A., Botta, E. M., and Chowdhury, S., Quantifying Uncertainty in Space Debris Capture with Active Tether-Net Systems Caused by Noisy Observations. AIAA AVIATION 2025 Forum. Las Vegas, NV, July 21-25, 2025
• Pothuri, J., Bhatt, A., KrisshnaKumar, P., Oddiraju, M., and Chowdhury, S., Learning Approach to Efficient Vision-based Active Tracking of a Flying Target by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. AIAA AVIATION 2025 Forum. Las Vegas, NV, July 21-25, 2025
• Poddar, P., Esfahani, E., Dantu, K., and Chowdhury, S., Automated Generation of Diverse Courses of Actions for Multi-Agent Operations using Binary Optimization & Graph Learning, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2025), Los Angeles, California, USA, August 2025.
• Maurer, N., Kaushik, H., Jacob, R. A., Zhang, J., and Chowdhury, S., Learning-aided Bigraph Matching Approach to Multi-Crew Restoration of Damaged Power Networks Coupled with Road Transportation Networks, ASME 2025 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC-CIE 2025), Anaheim, CA, Aug 17-20, 2025.
• Oddiraju, M., Penumatsa, B. V., Amin, D., Piedmonte, M., and Chowdhury, S., Exploring Efficient Quantification of Modeling Uncertainties with Differentiable Physics-Informed Machine Learning Architectures, ASME 2025 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC-CIE 2025), Anaheim, CA, Aug 17-20, 2025.
• Liu, F.*, Chowdhury, S.*, Boonrath, A., and Botta, E. M., Efficient Design Optimization over Mixed-Combinatorial Spaces Enabled by Graph-learning, ASME 2025 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC-CIE 2025), Anaheim, CA, Aug 17-20, 2025. [* equal contribution]
• Bhatt, A., Corra, M. K., Merlo, F., KrisshnaKumar, P., and Chowdhury, S., Experimental Setup and Software Pipeline to Evaluate Optimization based Autonomous Multi-Robot Search Algorithms, ASME 2025 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC-CIE 2025), Anaheim, CA, Aug 17-20, 2025.
• Dalland, K., Wang, C., Dantu, K., Chowdhury, S., and Esfahani, E. Hybrid Human Model for Time of Hike Prediction. IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC 2025), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2025.

2024

• KrisshnaKumar, P., Paul, S., and Chowdhury, S., A Talent-infused Policy-gradient Approach to Efficient Co-Design of Morphology and Task Allocation Behavior of Multi-Robot Systems, Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) 2024. (Accepted)
• Oddiraju, M., Hasnain, Z., Bandyopadhyay, S., Sunada, E., Chowdhury, S., Physics-Informed Machine Learning Towards a Real-Time Spacecraft Thermal Simulator. AIAA AVIATION 2024 Forum, Las Vegas, NV, Jul 29-Aug 2, 2024.
• Poddar, P., Paul, S., Chowdhury, S., A Graph-based Adversarial Imitation Learning Framework for Reliable & Realtime Fleet Scheduling in Urban Air Mobility, AIAA AVIATION 2024 Forum, Las Vegas, NV, Jul 29-Aug 2, 2024.
• Xiao, H., KrisshnaKumar, P., Pothuri, J., Soni, P., Butcher, E., Chowdhury, S., An Open-source Hardware/ Software Architecture and Supporting Simulation Environment to Perform Human FPV Flight Demonstrations for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Autonomy, AIAA AVIATION 2024 Forum, Las Vegas, NV, Jul 29-Aug 2, 2024.
• KrisshnaKumar, P., Paul, S., Manjunatha, H., Gupta R., Esfahani, E., and Chowdhury, S., Towards Physically Talented Aerial Robots with Tactically Smart Swarm Behavior thereof: An Efficient Co-design Approach, ASME 2024 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC 2024)
• Paul, S., Maurer, N., and Chowdhury, S., Bigraph Matching Weighted with Learnt Incentive Function for Multi-Robot Task Allocation , IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), May 13 – 17, 2024, Yokohama Japan.
• Boonrath, A., Liu, F., Botta, E. M., and Chowdhury, S. Learning-aided control of robotic tether-net with maneuverable nodes to capture large space debris. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), May 13 – 17, 2024, Yokohama Japan.
• Paul, S., Witter, J., and Chowdhury, S. (2024). Graph Learning-Based Fleet Scheduling for Urban Air Mobility Under Operational Constraints, Varying Demand Uncertainties. In Proceedings of the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. (Best Paper Award)
• KrisshnaKumar, P., Paul, S., Manjunatha, M., Gupta, R., Esfahani, E., and Chowdhury, S., A Talent-infused Reinforcement Learning Approach to CoDesign of Tactical UAV Swarm. The 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence for Design Problems Bridge Program (2024).

2023

• KrisshnaKumar, P., Witter, J., Paul, S., Cho, H., and Chowdhury, S., Fast Decision Support for Air Traffic Management at Urban Air Mobility Vertiports using Graph Learning, IROS 2023 PDF BIB
• Liu, F., Boonrath, A., KrisshnaKumar, P., Botta, E. M., & Chowdhury, S. (2023). Learning constrained corner node trajectories of a tether net system for space debris capture. AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2023-3920 . Zeng, C., Hecht, G., Chowdhury, S. and Botta, E., Concurrent Design Optimization of Tether-Net System and Actions for Reliable Space-Debris Capture, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2023 (accepted)., Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2023 (accepted). BIB
• Oddiraju, M., Amin, D., Piedmonte, M., & Chowdhury, S. (2023). Physics Infused Machine Learning Based Prediction of VTOL Aerodynamics with Sparse Datasets. In AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum (pp. 4376). PDF BIB
• S. Paul, W. Li, B. Smyth, Y. Chen, Y. Gel, S. Chowdhury, “Efficient planning of multi-robot collective transport using graph reinforcement learning with higher order topological abstraction”, International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, May 2023.
• KrisshnaKumar, P., Witter, J., Paul, S. and Chowdhury, S., Graph Learning based Decision Support for Multi-Aircraft Take-Off and Landing at Urban Air Mobility Vertiports, AIAA SciTech, AIAA 2023, National Harbor, MD, January 23-27, 2022. PDF BIB

2022

• Zeng, C., KrisshnaKumar, P., Witter, J. and Chowdhury, S., Efficient Concurrent Design of the Morphology of Unmanned Aerial Systems and their Collective-Search Behavior, 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, October, 2022. PDF BIB
• Paul, S. and Chowdhury, S., A Scalable Graph Learning Approach to Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem Using Capsule Networks and Attention Mechanism, ASME 2022 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC 2022), August 14-17, 2022, St Louis, MO. PDF BIB
• Prendergast, J., Oddiraju, M., Nouh, M. and Chowdhury, S., Conceptual Design of Cellular Auxetic Systems With Passive Adaptation to Loading, ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC 2022), August 14-17, 2022, St Louis, MO. PDF
• Oddiraju, M., Nouh, M. and Chowdhury, S, Efficient Inverse Design of Heterogeneous Locally Resonant Elastic Metamaterials for Targeted Vibration Suppression, AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum, June 2022, Chicago, IL. PDF BIB
• Paul, S. and Chowdhury, S, A Graph-based Reinforcement Learning Framework for Urban Air Mobility Fleet Scheduling, AIAA AVIATION 2022 Forum, June 2022, Chicago, IL. PDF BIB
• Paul, S., Ghassemi, P., and Chowdhury, S., Learning Scalable Policies over Graphs for Multi-Robot Task Allocation using Capsule Attention Networks, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022), May 23-27, 2022, Philadelphia, PA. PDF BIB
• Rahman, J., Jacob, R. A., Paul, S., Chowdhury, S. and Zhang, J., Reinforcement Learning Enabled Microgrid Network Reconfiguration Under Disruptive Events, IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), Manhattan, Kansas, April 25 – 26, 2022. PDF BIB
• Jacob, R. A., Paul, S., Li, W., Chowdhury, S., Gel, Y. and Zhang J., Reconfiguring unbalanced distribution networks using reinforcement learning over graphs, IEEE Sixth Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC) 2022), February 28 – March 1 2022, College Station, TX. PDF BIB
• Zeng, C., Hecht, G., KrisshnaKumar, P., Shah, R., Chowdhury, S. and Botta, E. Learning Robust Policies for Generalized Debris Capture with an Automated Tether-Net System. AIAA SciTech, AIAA 2022, San Diego, CA, January 3-7, 2022. PDFBIB

• Iqbal, R., Behjat, A., Adlakha, R., Callanan, J., Nouh, M. and Chowdhury, S. Efficient Training of Transfer Mapping in Physics-Infused Machine Learning Models of UAV Acoustic Field. AIAA SciTech, AIAA 2022, San Diego, CA, January 3-7, 2022. PDF BIB

2021

• Distefano, J., Manjunatha, H., Chowdhury, S., Dantu, K., Doermann, D. and Esfahani, E. Using Physiological Information to Classify Task Difficulty in Human-Swarm Interaction.  2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) PDF BIB

• Behjat, A., Manjunatha, H., Kumar, P. K., Jani, A., Collins, L., Ghassemi, P. and Distefano, J., Doermann, D., Dantu, K., Esfahani, E. and Chowdhury, S., Learning Robot Swarm Tactics over Complex Adversarial Environments, International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS’21), IEEE, Cambridge, UK, Nov. 4-5, 2021. (Awarded “Best Paper” in the conference) (Acceptance Rate: 30% (single track conference)). PDF BIB
• Oddiraju, M., Behjat, A., Nouh, M., and Chowdhury, S., Efficient Inverse Design of 2D Elastic Metamaterial Systems Using Invertible Neural Networks, AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, August 2-6, 2021. PDF BIB
• Shah, R., Zeng, C, Botta, E. and Chowdhury, S., Launch and Closure Optimization under Uncertainties for a Tether-Net Space Debris Capture System, AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, August 2-6, 2021. PDF BIB
• Collins, L., Ghassemi, P., Esfahani, E. T., Doermann, D., Dantu, K, and Chowdhury, S., Scalable Coverage Path Planning of Multi-Robot Teams for Monitoring Non-Convex Areas, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi’an, China, May 2021. PDF BIB

• Distefano, Joseph, Hemanth Manjunatha, Souma Chowdhury, Karthik Dantu, David Doermann, and Ehsan T. Esfahani. Using Physiological Information to Classify Task Difficulty in Human-Swarm Interaction. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. X-X. IEEE, 2021.

2020

• Manjunatha, H., Distefano, J., P., Ghassemi, P., Chowdhury, S., Dantu, K., Doermann, D., and Esfahani, E., Using Physiological Measurements to Predict the Tactical Decisions in Human Swarm Teams, In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pp. 256-261, 2020. PDF BIB
• Ghassemi, P., Behjat, A., Zeng, C., Lulekar, S., and Chowdhury, S., Physics-Aware Surrogate based Optimization with Transfer Mapping Gaussian Processes: for Bio-inspired Flow Tailoring. AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, June 15-19, 2020. PDF BIB
• Behjat, A., Zeng, C., Gabani, K., and Chowdhury, S., Concurrent Morphology-Optimization and Behavior-Learning: Co-Designing Intelligent Quadcopters. AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, June 15-19, 2020. PDF BIB
• Behjat, A., Oddiraju, M., Attarzadeh, M. A., Nouh, M., Esfahani, E., and Chowdhury, S., Metamodel based forward and inverse design for passive vibration suppression. International Design Engineering Technical Conferences &Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE, August 16-19, 2020. PDF BIB
• Somarakis, C., Matei, I., Zhenirovskyy, M., De Kleer, J., Chowdhury, S., and Rai, R., Joint Identification and Control in Hybrid Linear Systems, 21st IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany, 12-17 July 2020.  PDF  BIB

2019

• Ghassemi, P., and Chowdhury, S., Informative Path Planning with Local Penalization for Decentralized and Asynchronous Swarm Robotic Search, IEEE 2nd International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), New Brunswick, New Jersey, August 22-23, 2019. PDF  BIB (Acceptance: 33%)
• Singh, S.K., Yang, R., Behjat, A., Rai, R., Chowdhury, S., Matei, I., PI-LSTM: Physics-Infused Long Short-Term Memory Network, In 2019 18th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), December 2019. PDF BIB
• Ghassemi, P., DePauw, D., and Chowdhury, S., Decentralized Dynamic Task Allocation in Swarm Robotic Systems for Disaster Response, IEEE 2nd International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), New Brunswick, New Jersey, August 22-23, 2019. PDF  BIB (Acceptance: 33%)
• Ghassemi, P., and Chowdhury S., Decentralized Informative Path Planning with Exploration-Exploitation Balance for Swarm Robotic Search, Proceedings of the ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 1: 39th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Anaheim, California, USA. August 18–21, 2019. V001T02A058. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2019-97887PDF  BIB (Identified as one of the strongest CIE 2019 papers; invited to submit to Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering)
• Behjat, A., Gabani, k., S. and Chowdhury, S., A Neuroevolution-Based Learning of Reciprocal Maneuver For Collision Avoidance in Quadcopters Under Pose Uncertainties, Proceedings of the ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 2A: 45th Design Automation Conference. Anaheim, California, USA. August 18–21, 2019. V02AT03A005. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2019-97975 PDF BIB
• Behjat, A., Collins, L., Hoffman, A., Chidambaran, S., Dhameliya, M., Chowdhury, S., Conceptual Design & Prototype Development of a Solar-powered Ground Robot for Energy-autonomous Operation, Proceedings of the ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 5B: 43rd Mechanisms and Robotics Conference. Anaheim, California, USA. August 18–21, 2019. V05BT07A018. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2019-98361 PDF BIB
• Nguyen, R., Amaria, A., J. A. Davidson, Chowdhury, S., and Hall, J., Optimization Model for Owner-based Microgrids using LSTM Predicted Deman for Global Development, Proceedings of the ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 2A: 45th Design Automation Conference. Anaheim, California, USA. August 18–21, 2019. V02AT03A025. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2019-97964 PDF BIB
• Behjat, A., Gabani, k., S. and Chowdhury, S., Training Detection-range-frugal Cooperative Collision Avoidance Models For Quadcopters via Neuroevolution, AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, Dallas, (AIAA-2019-3312), Texas, June 17-21, 2019. PDF BIB
• Ghassemi, P., Lulekar, S., and Chowdhury S., Adaptive Model Refinement with Batch Bayesian Sampling for Optimization of Bio-inspired Flow Tailoring, AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, Dallas, (AIAA-2019-2983), Texas, June 17-21, 2019. PDF  BIB (Won 3rd place prize in MDO Student Paper Competition)
• Zeng, C., Behjat, A., Gabani, k., S. and Chowdhury, S., Artificial Life-inspired Morphology/Learning CoDesign Framework: Towards Conceptual Design of Intelligent Hybrid Quadcopters, AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, (AIAA-2019-3457), Dallas, Texas, June 17-21, 2019. PDF BIB
• Behjat, A., Chidambaran, S. and Chowdhury, S., Adaptive Genomic Evolution of Neural Network Topologies (AGENT) for State-to-Action Mapping in Autonomous Agents, 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, May 2019. PDF BIB

2018

• Ghassemi, P. and Chowdhury, S., Decentralized Task Allocation In Multi-robot Systems Via Bipartite Graph Matching Augmented With Fuzzy Clustering, The ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2018), (DETC2018-86161), Quebec City, Canada, August 26-29, 2018. PDF
• Chidambaran, S., Behjat, A. and Chowdhury, S., Multi-criteria Evolution of Neural Network Topologies: Balancing Experience and Performance in Autonomous Systems, The ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2018), (DETC2018-86104), Quebec City, Canada, August 26-29, 2018. PDF
• Liu, Y., Ghassemi, P., Chowdhury, S., and Zhang, J., Surrogate Based Multi-objective Optimization of J-type Battery Thermal Management System, The ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2018), (DETC2018-85620), Quebec City, Canada, August 26-29, 2018.
• Dhameliya, M., Sher, S. and Chowdhury, S., Prototyping and Simulated Analysis of Autonomous Swarm-bots, The ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2018), (DETC2018-86226), Quebec City, Canada, August 26-29, 2018.
• Asbach, J., Chowdhury, S. and Lewis, K., Using an Intelligent UAV Swarm in Natural Disaster Environments, The ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2018), (DETC2018-86112), Quebec City, Canada, August 26-29, 2018.
• Lulekar, S., Ghassemi, P., and Chowdhury S., CFD-based Analysis and Surrogate-based Optimization of Bio-inspired Surface Riblets for Aerodynamic Efficiency, AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, June 25-29, 2018. PDF BIB
• Zeng, C., Behjat, A., and Chowdhury S., Uncertainty-aware Optimal Flight State Selection for a Transitioning UAV via Simulation-based Learning, AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, June 25-29, 2018. PDF BIB
• Zhu, K., Chowdhury, S., Sun, M., and Zhang, J., Grid Optimization of Shared Energy Storage Among Wind Farms Based on Wind Forecasting, 2018 IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (T&D), Denver, CO, April 16-19, 2018.

2017

• Mu, D., Ge, Y., Sha, M., Paul, S., Ravichandra, N., and Chowdhury, S., Adaptive Radio and Transmission Power Selection for Internet of Things, 2017 IEEE/ACM 25th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), June 14-16, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain. PDF BIB
• Ghassemi, P., Zhu, K., and Chowdhury, S., Optimal Surrogate and Neural Network Modeling for Day-Ahead Forecasting of the Hourly Energy Consumption of University Buildings, ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC 2017), Cleveland, OH, August 6-9, 2017.
• Mehmani, A., Ghassemi, P., and Chowdhury, S., Optimal Metamodeling to Interpret Activity Based Health Sensor Data, ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC 2017), Cleveland, OH, August 6-9, 2017.
• Abnous, R., Zeng, C., Chowdhury. Dynamics and Control Design of a Blended Wing-body Transitioning UAV, AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, Denver, Colorado, 5 – 9 June 2017.
• Odonkor, P., Ball, Z., and Chowdhury, S., A Distributed Intelligence Approach to using Collaborating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Oil Spill Mapping, ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC 2017), Cleveland, OH, August 6-9, 2017. PDF
• Zeng, C., Abnous, R., Chowdhury, S. Aerodynamic Modeling and Optimization of a Blended-Wing-Body Transitioning UAV, AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, Denver, Colorado, 5 – 9 June 2017.
• Chowdhury, S, Vani, D., Maldonado, V., Salazar, M., and Soujoudi, R. Bio-inspired Active and Passive Surface Flow Control for Aerodynamic Efficiency, AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, Denver, Colorado, 5 – 9 June 2017.
• Ball, Z., Odonkor, P., and Chowdhury, S. A Swarm-Intelligence Approach to Oil Spill Mapping using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, AIAA Information Systems-AIAA Infotech @ Aerospace, AIAA SciTech Forum, (AIAA 2017-1157), Grapevine, Texas, January 2017.
• Abnous, R., Zeng, C., Chowdhury, S., Maldonado, V., and Mancuso, P. Conceptual Design of a Blended-Wing-Body Tilt-Arm Hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, 58th AIAA/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, AIAA SciTech Forum, (AIAA 2017-1072), Grapevine, Texas, January 2017.
• Rinauto, B., Gupta, S. K, Maldonado, V., Chowdhury, S., An Object-Oriented and Modular Computational Framework for Designing Reconfigurable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, AIAA Information Systems-AIAA Infotech @ Aerospace, AIAA SciTech Forum, (AIAA 2017-1159), Grapevine, Texas, January 2017.
• Larsen, C., Paul, S., Svensson, A., and Chowdhury, S. Optimizing Endurance and Stability of a Modular UAV Design, AIAA Information Systems-AIAA Infotech @ Aerospace, AIAA SciTech Forum, (AIAA 2017-0244), Grapevine, Texas, January 2017.

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Journal Articles of Dr. Chowdhury (prior to U Buffalo)

• Tong, W., Chowdhury, S., Mehmani, A., Messac, A., and Zhang, J., Sensitivity of Wind Farm Output to Wind Conditions, Land Configuration, and Installed Capacity, Under Different Wake Models, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 137, No. 6, pp. 061403, June 2015. PDF BIB
• Zhang, J., Chowdhury, S., Messac, A., and Hodge, B-M., A Hybrid Measure-Correlate-Predict Method for Long-term Wind Condition Assessment, Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 87, pp. 697-710, November 2014. PDF BIB
• Zhang, J., Chowdhury, S., Messac, A., and Castillo, L., A Comprehensive Measure of the Energy Resource: Wind Power Potential (WPP), Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 86, pp. 388-398, October 2014. PDF BIB
• Zhang, J. Q., Messac, A., Zhang, J., and Chowdhury, S., Adaptive Optimal Design of Active Thermoelectric Windows Using Surrogate Modeling, Optimization and Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 469-483, June 2014. PDF BIB
• Chowdhury, S., Zhang, J., Tong, W., and Messac, A., Modeling the Influence of Land-Shape on the Energy Production Potential of a Wind Farm Site, ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Vol. 136, No. 1, pp. 011203, February 2014. PDF BIB
• Zhang, J., Chowdhury, S., Mehmani, A., and Messac, A., Characterizing Uncertainty Attributable to Surrogate Models, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 133, No. 3, pp. 031004, January 2014. PDF BIB
• Chowdhury, S., Messac, A., and Khire, R., Investigating the Commonality Attributes for Scaling Product Families using Comprehensive Product Platform Planning (CP³), Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 48, No. 6, pp. 1089-1107, December 2013. PDF BIB
• Chowdhury, S., Zhang, J., Messac, A. and Castillo, L., Optimizing the Arrangement and the Selection of Turbines for Wind Farms Subject to Varying Wind Conditions, Renewable Energy, Vol. 52, pp. 273-282, April 2013. PDF BIB
• Chowdhury, S., Tong, W., Messac, A., and Zhang, J., A Mixed-Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm with Explicit Diversity Preservation, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2012, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 367-388, March 2013. PDF BIB
• Zhang, J., Chowdhury, S., Zhang, J., Messac, A., and Castillo, L., Adaptive hybrid surrogate modeling for complex systems, AIAA Journal, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 643-656, March 2013. PDF BIB
• Zhang, J., Chowdhury, S., Messac, A., and Castillo, L., A Multivariate and Multimodal Wind Distribution Model, Renewable Energy, Vol. 51, pp. 436-447, March 2013. PDF BIB
• Messac, A., Chowdhury, S., and Zhang, J., Characterizing and Mitigating the Wind Resource-based Uncertainty in Farm Performance, Journal of Turbulence, Special Issue on Turbulence and Wind Energy Vol. 13, No. 13, pp. 1–26, April 2012.PDF BIB
• Zhang, J., Chowdhury, S., Messac, A., and Castillo, L., A Response Surface-based Cost Model for Wind Farm Design, Energy Policy, Vol. 42, pp. 538-550, March 2012. PDF BIB
• Chowdhury, S., Zhang, J., Messac, A. and Castillo, L., Unrestricted Wind Farm Layout Optimization (UWFLO): Investigating Key Factors Influencing the Maximum Power Generation, Renewable Energy, Vol. 38, pp. 16-30, February 2012 (Best Paper Award, Renewable Energy, Elsevier). PDF BIB
• Zhang, J., Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., An Adaptive Hybrid Surrogate Model, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 223-238, January 2012. PDF BIB
• Chowdhury, S., Messac, A., and Khire, R., Comprehensive Product Platform Planning (CP³) Framework, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Special Issue on Designing Complex Engineered Systems, Vol. 133, No. 10, pp. 101004, October 2011. PDF BIB
• Chowdhury, S. and Dulikravich, G. S., Improvements to Single-Objective Constrained Predator-Prey Evolutionary Optimization Algorithm, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization Journal, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 541-554, April 2010. PDF BIB
• Chowdhury, S., Dulikravich, G. S. and Moral, R. J., Modified Predator-Prey Algorithm for Constrained and Unconstrained Multi-Objective Optimization, J. of Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Optimization, Vol. 1, No. 1-2, pp. 1-38, December 2009. PDF BIB
• Chakraborti, N., Shekhar, A., Singhal, A., Chakraborty, S., Chowdhury, S., and Sripriya, R., Fluid Flow in Hydrocyclones Optimized through Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms, Inverse Problems in Science & Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 8, pp. 1023–1046, December 2008. PDF BIB
• Bansal, K., Chowdhury, S. and Gopal, M. R., Development of CLTD Values for Buildings located in Kolkata, India, Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 28, No. 10, pp. 1127-1137, July 2008. PDF BIB
• Basu, S., Chowdhury, S. and Chakraborty, S., Influences of Pressure Gradients on Freezing Poiseuille–Couette Flows, Intl. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 50, No. 21-22, pp. 4493-4498, October 2007. PDF BIB

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Conference Articles (in Proceedings) of Dr. Chowdhury prior to U Buffalo

• Chowdhury, S., Mehmani, A., and Messac, A., Adaptive Model Refinement in Surrogate-based Multiobjective Optimization, AIAA SciTech, AIAA 2016-0417, San Diego, CA, January 4-7, 2016. PDF
• Mehmani, A., Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., Variable-Fidelity Optimization with In-Situ Surrogate Model Refinement, DETC2015-47188, ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Boston, MA, August 2-5, 2015. PDF
• Jafari-Marandi, R., Hu, M., and Chowdhury, S., A System of System Approach for Smart Complex Energy System Operation Decision, ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Boston, MA, August 2-5, 2015.
• Mehmani, A., Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., “Adaptive Switching of Variable-Fidelity Models in Population-based Optimization Algorithms,” AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, Paper No. AIAA2015-3233, Dallas, Texas, June 22-26, 2015.
• Tong, W., Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., “Multi-Domain Diversity Preservation to Mitigate Particle Stagnation and Enable Better Pareto Coverage in Mixed-Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization,” AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, Paper No. AIAA2015-2944, Dallas, Texas, June 22-26, 2015.
• Chowdhury, S., Tong, W., Mehmani, A., and Messac, A., “A Visually-Informed Decision-Making Platform for Wind Farm Layout Optimization,” 11^th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (WCSMO-11), Paper No. 1347, Sydney, Australia, June 7-12, 2015.
• Mehmani, A., Tong, W., Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., “Surrogate-based Particle Swarm Optimization with Adaptive Model Refinement,” 11^th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (WCSMO-11), Paper No. 1330, Sydney, Australia, June 7-12, 2015.
• Tong, W., Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., “Multi-Objective Wind Farm Optimization Simultaneously Optimizing COE and Land Footprint of Wind Farms under Different Land Plot Availability,” 2015 AIAA SciTech Conference, Paper No. AIAA2015-1802, Kissimmee, Florida, January 5-9, 2015.
• Chowdhury, S., Mehmani, A., and Messac, A., “Concurrent Surrogate Model Selection (COSMOS) Based on Predictive Estimation of Model Fidelity,” ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), Paper No. DETC2014-35358, Buffalo, New York, August 17-20, 2014.
• Tong, W., Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., “A New Multi-Objective Mixed-Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm,” ASME 2014 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), Paper No. DETC2014-35572, Buffalo, New York, August 17-20, 2014.
• Chowdhury, S., Maldonado, V., and Patel, R., Conceptual Design of a Multi-Ability Reconfigurable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) through a Synergy of 3D CAD and Modular Platform Planning, The AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, Paper No. AIAA 2014-2178, Atlanta, Georgia, June 16-20, 2014.
• Mehmani, A., Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., “Managing Variable Fidelity Models in Population-based Optimization using Adaptive Model Switching,” AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, Paper No. AIAA2014-2436, Atlanta, Georgia, June 16-20, 2014.
• Chowdhury, S., Mehmani, A., Tong, W., and Messac, A., “A Visually-Informed Decision-Making Platform for Model-based Design of Wind Farms,” AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum and Exposition, Paper No. AIAA 2014-2727, Atlanta, Georgia, June 16-20, 2014.
• Tong, W., Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., “A Consolidated Visualization of Wind Farm Energy Production Potential and Optimal Land Shapes under Different Land Area and Nameplate Capacity,” 2014 AIAA SciTech, Paper No. AIAA2014-0998, National Harbor, Maryland, January 13-17.
• Zhang, J., Chowdhury, S., and Hodge, B-M., Analyzing Effects of Turbulence on Power Generation Using Wind Plant Monitoring Data, AIAA 2014-0708, AIAA SciTech, National Harbor, MD, January 13-17, 2014.
• Mehmani, A., Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., “A Novel Approach to Simultaneous Selection of Surrogate Models, Constitutive Kernels, and Hyper-parameter Values,” 2014 AIAA SciTech, Paper No. AIAA2014-1487, National Harbor, Maryland, January 13-17, 2014.
• Chowdhury, S., Maldonado, V., Tong, W., and Messac, A., “Comprehensive Product Platform Planning (CP³) for a Modular Family of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), Paper No. DETC2013-13181, Portland, Oregon, August 4-7, 2013.
• Zhang, Jie, Chowdhury, S., Messac, A., and Hodge, B.-M., “Assessing Long-term Wind Conditions by Combining Different Measure-correlate-predict Algorithms,” ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), Paper No. DETC2013-12695, Portland, Oregon, August 4-7, 2013.
• Tong, W., Chowdhury, S., Mehmani, A., Zhang, Jie, and Messac, A., “Sensitivity of Array-Like and Optimized Wind Farm output to Key Factors and Choice of Wake Models,” ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), Paper No. DETC2013-13196, Portland, Oregon, August 4-7, 2013.
• Chowdhury, S., Maldonado, V., Tong, W., and Messac, A., “Macro-scale Reconfigurable Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Civilian Offshore Applications,” 10th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Paper No. 5597, Orlando, Florida, May 19-24, 2013.
• Mehmani, A., Chowdhury, S., Zhang, Jie, and Messac, A., “Model Selection based on Generalized-Regional Error Estimation for Surrogate,” 10th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Paper No. 5447, Orlando, Florida, May 19-24, 2013.
• Zhang, Junqiang, Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., “Characterizing Probability-based Uniform Sampling for Surrogate Modeling,” 10th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Paper No. 5378, Orlando, Florida, May 19-24, 2013.
• Tong, W., Chowdhury, S., Mehmani, A., and Messac, A., “Multiobjective Wind Farm Design: Exploring the Trade-offs between Capacity Factor and Land Use,” 10th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Paper No. 5590, Orlando, Florida, May 19-24, 2013.
• Mehmani, A., Chowdhury, S., Zhang, Jie, Tong, W., and Messac, A., “Quantifying Regional Error in Surrogates by Modeling its Relationship with Sample Density,” 54th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2013-1751, Boston, Massachusetts, April 8-11, 2013.
• Zhang, Junqiang, Chowdhury, S., Zhang, Jie, Tong, W. and Messac, A., “Optimal Preventive Maintenance Time Windows for Offshore Wind Farms Subject to Wake Losses,” 14th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2012-5435, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 17-19, 2012.
• Mehmani, A., Chowdhury, S., Zhang, Jie, and Messac, A., “Regional Error Estimation of Surrogates (REES),” 14th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2012-5707, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 17-19, 2012.
• Tong, W., Chowdhury, S., Zhang, Jie, and Messac, A., “Impact of Different Wake Models on the Estimation of Wind Farm Power Generation,” 14th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2012-5430, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 17-19, 2012.
• Chowdhury, S., Zhang, Jie, Mehmani, A., Messac, A. and Castillo, L., “Exploring the “Cost – Capacity Factor” Tradeoffs Offered by the Best Performing Commercial Wind Turbines,” 14th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2012-5433, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 17-19, 2012.
• Zhang, Jie, Chowdhury, S., Mehmani, A., and Messac, A., “Uncertainty Quantification in Surrogate Models Based on Pattern Classification of Cross-validation Errors,” 14th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2012-5437, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 17-19, 2012.
• Chowdhury, S., Messac, A. and Khire, R., “Comprehensive Product Platform Planning (CP3) Using Mixed-Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization and A New Commonality Index,” ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), Paper no. DETC2012-70954, Chicago, IL, August 12-15, 2012.
• Chowdhury, S., Zhang, Jie, Messac, A. and Castillo, L., “Characterizing the Influence of Land Area and Nameplate Capacity on the Optimal Wind Farm Performance,” ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability & 10th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, Paper no. ESFuelCell2012-91063, San Diego, CA, July 23-26, 2012.
• Zhang, Jie, Chowdhury, S., Messac, A. and Castillo, L., “A Hybrid Measure-Correlate-Predict Method for Wind Resource Assessment,” ASME 2012 6th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and 10th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, Paper no. ESFuelCell2012-91070, San Diego, CA, July 23-26, 2012.
• Zhang, Junqiang, Messac, A., Zhang, Jie, and Chowdhury, S., “Improving the Accuracy of Surrogate Models Using Inverse Transform Sampling,” 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2012-1429, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 23-26, 2012.
• Chowdhury, S., Zhang, Jie, Catalano, M., Mehmani, A., Notaro, S., Messac, A., and Castillo, L., “Exploring the Best Performing Commercial Wind Turbines for Different Wind Regimes in a Target Market,” 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2012-1352, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 23-26, 2012. (One of six finalists for best student paper competition).
• Chowdhury, S., Zhang, Jie, and Messac, A., “Avoiding Premature Convergence in a Mixed-Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization (MDPSO) Algorithm,” 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2012-1678, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 23-26, 2012.
• Mehmani, A., Zhang, Jie, Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., “Surrogate-based Design Optimization with Adaptive Sequential Sampling,” 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2012-1527, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 23-26, 2012.
• Zhang, Jie, Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., “Domain Segmentation based on Uncertainty in the Surrogate (DSUS),” 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2012-1929, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 23-26, 2012.
• Messac, A., Chowdhury, S., and Zhang, Jie, “Modeling the Uncertainty in Farm Performance Introduced by the Ill-predictability of the Wind Resource,” 6th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27-30, 2011.
• Zhang, Jie, Chowdhury, S., Messac, A., and Castillo, L., “Multivariate and Multimodal Wind Distribution Model Based on Kernel Density Estimation,” ASME 2011 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability & 9th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, Paper no. ESFuelCell2011-54507, Washington, DC, August 7-10, 2011.
• Zhang, Jie, Chowdhury, S., Messac, A., and Castillo, L., “A Comprehensive Measure of the Energy Resource Potential of a Wind Farm Site,” ASME 2011 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability & 9th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, Paper no. ESFuelCell2011-54677, Washington, DC, August 7-10, 2011.
• Chowdhury, S., Zhang, Jie, Messac, A. and Castillo, L., “Developing a Flexible Platform for Optimal Engineering Design of Commercial Wind Farms,” ASME 2011 5th International Conference on Energy Sustainability & 9th Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, Paper no. ESFuelCell2011-54503, Washington, DC, August 7-10, 2011.
• Zhang, Jie, Chowdhury, S., Messac, A., Zhang, Junqiang, and Castillo, L., “Surrogate Modeling of Complex Systems Using Adaptive Hybrid Functions,” ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), Paper no. DETC2011-48608, Washington, DC, August 28-31, 2011.
• Chowdhury, S., Zhang, Jie, Messac, A., and Castillo, L., “Characterizing the Influence of Land Configuration on Optimal Wind Farm Performance,” ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), Paper no. DETC2011-48731, Washington, DC, August 28-31, 2011.
• Zhang, Jie, Chowdhury, S., and Messac, A., “A New Robust Surrogate Model: Reliability Based Hybrid Functions,” 52nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2011-2152, Denver, Colorado, April 4-7, 2011.
• Chowdhury, S., Zhang, Jie, Messac, A. and Castillo, L., “Characterizing the Uncertainty Propagation from the Wind Conditions to the Optimal Farm Performance,” 52nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2011-1821, Denver, Colorado, April 4-7, 2011.
• Zhang, Junqiang, Messac A., Chowdhury, S., and Zhang Jie, “Adaptive Optimal Design of Active Thermally Insulated Windows Using Surrogate Modeling,” 51st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2010-2917, Orlando, FL, April 12-15, 2010.
• Zhang, Jie, Chowdhury, S., Messac, A. and Castillo, L., “Economic Evaluation of Wind Farms Based on Cost of Energy Optimization,” 13th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis Optimization Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2010-9244, Fort Worth, Texas, September 13-15, 2010.
• Zhang, Junqiang, Messac, A., Zhang, Jie, and Chowdhury, S., “Comparison of Surrogate Models Used for Adaptive Optimal Control of Active Thermoelectric Windows,” 13th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis Optimization Conference, Paper No. AIAA-2010-9279, Texas, September 13-15, 2010.
• Zhang, Jie, Chowdhury, S., Messac, A., Castillo, L., and Lebron, J., “Response Surface Based Cost Model for Onshore Wind Farms Using Extended Radial Basis Functions,” ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), Paper No. DETC2010-29121, Montreal, Canada, August 15-18, 2010.
• Chowdhury, S., Messac, A., Zhang, Jie, Castillo, L., and Lebron, J., “Optimizing the Unrestricted Placement of Turbines of Differing Rotor Diameters in a Wind Farm for Maximum Power Generation,” ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE), Paper No. DETC2010-29129, Montreal, Canada, August 15-18, 2010.
• Chowdhury, S., Messac, A., and Khire, R. A. “Comprehensive Product Platform Planning (CP3) Framework: Presenting a Generalized Product Family Model,” 51st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, 6^th AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Specialist Conference, Orlando, Paper No. AIAA-2010-2837, Orlando, Florida, April 12-15, 2010.
• Chowdhury, S., Messac, A. and Khire, R., “Developing a Non-gradient Based Mixed-Discrete Optimization Approach for Comprehensive Product Platform Planning (CP³),” 13th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis Optimization Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2010-9174, Fort Worth, Texas, September 13-15, 2010.
• Chowdhury, S., Zhang, Jie, Messac, A. and Castillo, L., “Exploring Key Factors Influencing Optimal Farm Design Using Mixed-Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization,” 13th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis Optimization Conference, Paper No. AIAA 2010-9280, Fort Worth, Texas, September 13-15, 2010.
• Chowdhury, S., Moral, R. J. and Dulikravich, G. S., Modified Predator-Prey Algorithm for Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization, Evolutionary Methods for Design Optimization and Control, CIMNE, Barcelona, Spain, 2009.
• Chowdhury, S., Moral, R. J. and Dulikravich, G. S., Predator-Prey Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm: Performance and Improvements, 7^th ASMO-UK/ISSMO International Conference on Engineering Design Optimization, Bath, UK, July 2008.

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Book Chapters

• Zhang, Z., Nyugen, R., Rai, R., and Chowdhury, S., Physics-Infused Learning: A DNN and GAN Approach, in: In Knowledge-Guided Machine Learning (pp. 305-326). Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2023. 
• Zhang, Z., Nyugen, R., Rai, R., and Chowdhury, S., Physics-Infused Learning: A DNN and GAN Approach, in: Science-guided Machine Learning: Emerging Trends in Combining Scientific Knowledge with Data-driven Methods, Ch. 7, A. Karpatne, R. Kanan, & V. Kumar, Eds. VA: CRC.
• Mehmani, A., Chowdhury, S., Tong, W., and Messac, A., Adaptive Switching of Variable-Fidelity Models in Population-based Optimization, Engineering and Applied Sciences Optimization, Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, Vol. 38 (Ch. 22), pp. 175-205, 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-18320-6, Springer Intl. Publishing. PDF BIB
• Messac, A., Chowdhury, S., and Khire, R., One-Step Continuous Product Platform Planning: Methods and Applications, in: Advances in Product Family and Product Platform Design, pp. 295-321, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4614-7936-9, Springer New York. PDF BIB

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Abstracts, Workshops, Presentations, and Posters

2018

• Callanan, J., Ghassemi, P.,Dimartino, J., Stocking, C., Chowdhury, S., and Nouh, M., Human Response and Perception of UAV Noise in Simulated Warehouse Environments, ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), Pittsburgh, PA, November 9-15, 2018. (accepted)
• Ravichandra, N., Behjat, A., and Chowdhury, S., Conceptual Design and Modeling of an Insect Inspired Hexapod Robot, 2018 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference, Cambridge, MA, October 5-7, 2018. (accepted)
• Hernandez, E., Chowdhury, S., Coleman, S., Ghassemi, P. and Tschopp, M., Parametric Sensitivity and Exploratory Data Analysis of the ReaxFF Potential as Applied to Boron Carbide, Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) 2018, Columbus, OH, October 14-18, 2018. (accepted)

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MS Thesis 

• Guo, C. and Chowdhury, S., Optimal Online Path Planning with Multi-Obstacles Avoidance for Autonomous Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Master Thesis in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, 2017. PDF
• Gupta S. and Chowdhury, S., Small Autonomous System for Emergency Response: Platform Development, Computer Vision and Flight testing, Masters Thesis in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, 2017. PDF
• Paul S. and Chowdhury S., A Bio-inspired Neural System for Energy Optimal Collision Avoidance by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Masters Thesis in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University at Buffalo, 2017. PDF

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 PhD Dissertation

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