Sudipta Chowdhury

Assistant Professor of Industrial Distribution

Co-Director, Advanced Transportation, Logistics & AI for Resilient Systems (ATLAS) Lab

Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution
Texas A&M University

My research centers on the resilience of infrastructure systems of systems. I study how interdependent infrastructure networks are planned for disruption and restored after disasters, using optimization, agent-based simulation, and AI informed decision analytics. Related work covers supply chain and logistics and the use of technology in engineering education.

Restoration sequence on interdependent power and water networks Two stacked network layers. Power nodes return to service in sequence from a source. Each water node returns after the power node above it. Three nodes remain out of service. Water Power

Illustration of restoration in progress on two interdependent networks. A water node returns to service only after the power node it depends on.

  • Source
  • Restored
  • Out of service
  • Dependency

Research areas

Infrastructure system of systems resilience

Resilience planning and disaster risk management for interdependent infrastructure systems. This work addresses post-disaster restoration planning, agent-based models of network and community recovery, and future-proofed infrastructure planning.

  • Supply chain and logistics

    Value chain risk management, humanitarian logistics, and logistics service sharing.

  • Engineering education

    Design and application of innovative technologies in engineering education.

Research methods and experience

ATLAS Lab

I co-direct the Advanced Transportation, Logistics & AI for Resilient Systems (ATLAS) Lab. The lab focuses on advanced transportation systems, logistics optimization, artificial intelligence, and resilient infrastructure.

Recent publications

Journal articles, 2026

  1. Hughes, W., Chowdhury, S., Zhu, J., and Zhang, W. (2026). “Strengthening Resilience: An Agent-Based Model for Poststorm Restoration and Grid Hardening in Power Distribution Systems.” ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, 12(3), 04026038.
  2. Hatfield, J., Chowdhury, S., and Alzarrad, A. (2026). “Modeling Community Resilience Under Prolonged Disruption: An Agent-Based Framework Integrating Social Connectivity, Migration, and Policy-Driven Allocation.” Analytics, 5(3), 20.
  3. Chowdhury, S., Quddus, M. A., and Alzarrad, A. (2026). “Structural Ethical Infeasibility in AI-Enabled Infrastructure Systems: A Constraint-Based Diagnostic Framework.” Applied Sciences, 16(12), 6222.
  4. Chowdhury, S., Patra, P., King, M. R., and Sander, E. A. (2026). “Technological Singularity in Biomedical Science and Engineering.” Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 1-4.
  5. Dickerson, M., Chowdhury, S., Quddus, M. A., and Alzarrad, A. (2026). “Measuring Cotton’s Environmental Burden: A Dual LCA–Emergy Framework for Conventional and Organic Systems.” Frontiers in Agronomy, 8, 1857974.
  6. Ali, S., Alzarrad, A., Chowdhury, S., and Narman, H. S. (2026). “Benchmarking YOLOv8-YOLOv12 Models for Image-space Near-miss Detection in Construction Safety.” Frontiers in Built Environment, 12, 1827664.

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