Alumnus of Electrical Engineering Department, B.E.

(Electronics) class of
2003 honoured by US President Barrack Obama with Presidential Early
Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, (PECASE) on January 9, 2017

Dr. Kaushik
Chowdhury

Kaushik Chowdhury is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering and Faculty Fellow of the College of Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston
USA. He was named a winner of the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers,
or PECASE, in 2017, which is the highest honour bestowed by the United States government on
science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research
careers. The award carries a US Dollar one million grant. He earlier won the Office of Naval Director
of Research, Early Career Award in 2016, and the US National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career
Development, or CAREER, award in 2015, which are the most distinguished awards in support of
junior faculty from these two agencies who excel as both researchers and teachers and exhibit the
potential to lead advances in their chosen academic disciplines. He is the recipient of best paper
awards at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) in 2013, 2012 and 2009 and
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) in 2013. He is the
Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation and is Senior Member of the IEEE. He serves as
the area editor for the journals: Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier Computer Communications, and
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He was earlier Assistant Professor at Northeastern
University from 2009-2015. He received his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in August
2009, under Prof. Ian F. Akyildiz, M.S. from the University of Cincinnati in 2006, advised by Prof.
Dharma Agrawal, and B.E. (Electronics) from VJTI Mumbai, under the project supervision of
Prof. Rohin Daruwala. His current research is mainly focused on dynamic wireless spectrum access
networks and 5G, wireless energy transfer and IoT, and implantable/wearable sensor networks.