Sudipta Chowdhury

Publications

The record lists 40 journal articles, 21 conference proceedings and presentations, and 3 technical reports. Citation counts are on Google Scholar.

Journal articles

40 published and accepted manuscripts

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.

2025

  1. Quddus, M. A., Chowdhury, S., Jasper, W., and Das, L. (2025). “Enhancing Cotton Yield Prediction with Robust Deep Neural Network-based Framework.” European Journal of Agronomy, 170, 127750.
  2. Chowdhury, S., and Alzarrad, A. (2025). “Examining Key Challenges in Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Decision-Making: Expert Perspectives Using the Fuzzy Delphi Method and Analytic Hierarchy Process.” Journal for STEM Education Research, 1-33.
  3. Chowdhury, S., and Alzarrad, A. (2025). “Advancing Community-Based Education: Strategies, Challenges, and Future Directions for Scaling Impact in Higher Education.” Trends in Higher Education, 4(2), 21.

2024

  1. Miller, M., Chowdhury, S., Alzarrad, A., and Hossain, N. (2024). “Synergetic Decision-Making: Analyzing the Interplay of Human Behavior and Physical Infrastructure in Emergency Evacuations via an Analytical Approach.” Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, 1-19.
  2. Jamil, A., Mustofa, R., Hossain, N., Rahman, A., and Chowdhury, S. (2024). “A Structural Equation Modeling Framework for Exploring the Industry 5.0 and Sustainable Supply Chain Determinants.” Supply Chain Analytics, 6, 100060.
  3. Chowdhury, S., Zhang, R., Rouhana, F., Wang, J., and Zhu, J. (2024). “Exploring Sustainability in Resource Management: Implementation of a Water-Energy-Human Nexus Framework at a University Campus.” Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 150(10), 04024140.
  4. Alzarrad, A., Miller, M., Durham, A., and Chowdhury, S. (2024). “Revolutionizing Construction Safety: Introducing a Cutting-Edge Virtual Reality Interactive System for Training US Construction Workers to Mitigate Fall Hazards.” Frontiers in Built Environment, 10.
  5. Chowdhury, S., Dey, A., and Alzarrad, A. (2024). “Charting Pathways to Holistic Development: Challenges and Opportunities in the Navajo Nation.” Environment Systems & Decisions, 44(3).
  6. Alzarrad, A., Wise, C., Chattopadhyay, A., Chowdhury, S., Cisko, A., and Beasley, J. (2024). “Railroad Infrastructure Management: A Novel Tool for Automatic Interpretation of GPR Imaging to Minimize Human Intervention in Railroad Inspection.” CivilEng, 5(2), 378-394.

2023

  1. Alzarrad, A., Miller, M., Chowdhury, S., McIntosh, J., Perry, T., and Shen, R. (2023). “Harnessing Virtual Reality to Mitigate Heat-Related Injuries in Construction Projects.” CivilEng, 4(4), 1157-1168.
  2. Alzarrad, A., Al-Mhdawi, M. K. S., and Chowdhury, S. (2023). “The Applications of Smart Wearable Sensors to Improve Safety in Construction Projects.” Available at SSRN 4504782.
  3. Durham, A., Chowdhury, S., and Alzarrad, A. (2023). “Unveiling Key Themes and Establishing a Hierarchical Taxonomy of Disaster-Related Tweets: A Text Mining Approach for Enhanced Emergency Management Planning.” Information, 14(7).
  4. Chowdhury, S., and Alzarrad, A. (2023). “Applications of Text Mining in the Transportation Infrastructure Sector: A Review.” Information, 14(4).

2022

  1. Chowdhury, S., and Zhu, J. (2022). “Investigation of Critical Factors for Future-proofed Transportation Infrastructure Planning Using Topic Modeling and Association Rule Mining.” ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 37(1).
  2. Zhu, J., and Chowdhury, S. (2022). “Building Resilience in Civil Infrastructure Systems: System-Level Biomimicry to Address Complex Managerial Challenges.” ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems.

2021

  1. Chowdhury, S., Shahvari, O., Marufuzzaman, M., Li, X., and Bian, L. (2021). “Drone Routing and Optimization for Post-disaster Inspection.” Computers & Industrial Engineering, 159, 107495.

2020

  1. Chowdhury, S., Zhu, J., and Zhang, W. (2020). “Optimized Restoration Planning of Infrastructure System-of-Systems using Heterogeneous Network Flow Simulation.” ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 34(5).
  2. Chowdhury, S., Zhu, J., Rasoulkhani, K., Mostafavi, A., Jaselskis, E., Stoa, R., Li, Q., Banerjee, S., Alsharef, A., and Brannen, L. (2020). “Guidelines for Robust Adaptation to Environmental Regulations in Infrastructure Projects.” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 146(10).
  3. Li, Q., Brannen, L., Rasoulkhani, K., Mostafavi, A., Stoa, R., Chowdhury, S., Alsharef, A., Banerjee, S., Zhu, J., and Jaselskis, E. (2020). “Regulatory Adaptation in the Construction Industry: Case Study of the OSHA Update to the Respirable Crystalline Silica Standard.” Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction, 12(4).
  4. Rasoulkhani, K., Brannen, L., Zhu, J., Mostafavi, A., Jaselskis, E., Stoa, R., Li, Q., Alsharef, A., Banerjee, S., Chowdhury, S. (2020). “Establishing a Future-Proofing Framework for Infrastructure Projects to Proactively Adapt to Complex Regulatory Landscapes.” Journal of Management in Engineering, 36(4).

2019

  1. Chowdhury, S., Shahvari, O., Marufuzzaman, M., Francis, J., and Bian, L. (2019). “Sustainable Design of On-Demand Supply Chain Network for Additive Manufacturing.” IISE Transactions, 744-765.
  2. Chowdhury, S., Marufuzzaman, M., Tunc, H., Bullington, W., and Bian, L. (2019). “A Modified Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Solving a Dynamic Traveling Salesman Problem: A Case Study with Drones for Wildlife Surveillance.” Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, 6(3).
  3. Khanzadeh, M., Chowdhury, S., Marufuzzaman, M., Tschopp, M.A., and Bian, L. (2019). “In-Situ Monitoring of Melt Pool Images for Porosity Prediction in Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing Processes.” IISE Transactions, 1-19.
  4. Poudel, S., Chowdhury, S., Marufuzzaman, M., Bian, L., Mudbari, M., and Pradhan, G. (2019). “Drone Transportation Cost Analysis for Emergency Medical Products.” International Journal of Business Continuity and Risk Management, 9(3).
  5. Emelogu, A., Chowdhury, S., Marufuzzaman, M., and Bian, L. (2019). “Distributed or Centralized? A Novel Supply Chain Configuration of Additively Manufactured Biomedical Implants for Southeastern US States.” CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, 24:17-34.

2018

  1. Poudel, S., Marufuzzaman, M., Quddus, M.A., Chowdhury, S., Bian, L., and Smith, B. (2018). “Designing a Reliable and Congested Network for Bio-fuel Supply Chain.” Energies, 11:7.
  2. Khanzadeh, M., Chowdhury, S., Marufuzzaman, M., Tschopp, M.A., and Bian, L. (2018). “Porosity Prediction: Supervised-learning of Thermal History for Direct Laser Deposition.” Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 47:69-82.
  3. Quddus, M.A., Chowdhury, S., Marufuzzaman, M., and Yu, F. (2018). “A Two-stage Chance-constrained Stochastic Programming Model for a Bio-fuel Supply Chain Network.” International Journal of Production Economics, 195:27-44.

2017

  1. Chowdhury, S., Khanzadeh, M., Akula, R., Zhang, F., Zhang, S., Medal, H., Marufuzzaman, M., and Bian, L. (2017). “Botnet Detection Using Graph-based Feature Clustering.” Journal of Big Data, 4:14.
  2. Roni, M.S., Chowdhury, S., Mamun, S., Marufuzzaman, M., Lein, W., and Johnson, S. (2017). “Biomass Co-firing Technology With Policies, Challenges, and Opportunities: A Global Review.” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 78:1089-1101.
  3. Chowdhury, S., Emelogu, A., Marufuzzaman, M., Nurre, S.G., and Bian, L. (2017). “Drones for Disaster Response and Relief Operations: A Continuous Approximation Model.” International Journal of Production Economics, 188:167-184.

2016

  1. Emelogu, A., Chowdhury, S., Marufuzzaman, M., Bian, L., and Eksioglu, B. (2016). “An Enhanced Sample Average Approximation Method for Stochastic Optimization.” International Journal of Production Economics, 182:230-252.

2015

  1. Chowdhury, S., Haque, K. A., and Sumon, M. (2015). “Implementation of Lean Strategies In a Furniture Manufacturing Factory.” IOSR Journal of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, 12(1):45-50.

2014

  1. Chowdhury, S., Haque, K. A., and Shahwath, A. (2014). “Implementation of 5S and Its Effect in a Selected Garments Factory: A Case Study.” Bangladesh Research Publications Journal, 10:291-297.

Conference proceedings and presentations

21 entries

2026

  1. Hatfield, J., Narman, H. S., Chowdhury, S., & Alzarrad, A. (2026, May). Scenario-Driven VR Training for Hydroelectric Performance Evaluation. In 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  2. Hatfield, J., Narman, H. S., Chowdhury, S., & Alzarrad, A. (2026, May). Assessing Procedural Content Generation in Reinforcement Learning Prompt-Based Feedback via Adaptive Virtual Reality Industrial Environments for Workforce Training. In 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments (ROSE) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

2025

  1. Chowdhury, S., Alzarrad, A., & Youn, S. (2025, March). Evaluating the Impact of a Summer NSF REU Program on Undergraduate Students' STEM Career Aspirations and Educational Goals: A Case Study. In 2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference.
  2. Alzarrad, A., Ali, S., Chowdhury, S., & Narman, H. (2025). Reducing Gun-Related Incidents on Construction Sites: An AI-Driven Approach for Automated Detection of People, Tools, and Firearms. In Computing in Civil Engineering 2025: Computational and Intelligent Technologies (pp. 303-312).

2024

  1. Alzarrad, A., Chowdhury, S., and Al-Bayati, A. J. (2024). Novel virtual reality interactive system for training construction workers to mitigate fall hazards. In Proceedings of the ASCE 2024 International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, July 28-31.
  2. Burbank, H.*, Dickerson, M.*, Panta, A., Youn, S., & Chowdhury, S. (2024, December). Economic and Technical Reviews for Reducing Coal Mine Methane Emissions in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2024, No. 1959, pp. A23B-1959).

2023

  1. Chowdhury, S., and Alzarrad, A. (2023, March). Sociocultural and Sociopolitical Challenges for STEM Education in the Current Era. In 2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference.
  2. Alzarrad, A., Chowdhury, S., and Delduque, F.* (2023). The National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project impact on STEM education in K-12 schools. In Proceedings of the ASEE North Central Section Conference, Morgantown, WV, USA, March 24-25.
  3. Alzarrad, A., Song, S.*, Hatamleh, H., Awolusi, I., and Chowdhury, S. (2023). Guideline for automated construction of reinforced concrete beams using 3D printing and BIM. In Proceedings of the ASCE 2023 International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, June 25-28.
  4. Alzarrad, A., Al-Mhdawi, M. K. S., and Chowdhury, S. (2023). The applications of smart sensors to improve safety in construction projects. In Proceedings of the 33rd European Safety and Reliability Conference, Southampton, United Kingdom, September 3-8.
  5. Chowdhury, S., and Alzarrad, A. (2023). A systems approach to analyzing the resilience of critical infrastructure systems restoration. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Management 2023 International Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, October 25-28.

2021

  1. Chowdhury, S., and Zhu, J. (2021). “An Agent-Based Model for Resilient Power Distribution System Restoration in Dynamic Environments.” ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, September 12-14, 2021, Orlando, FL.
  2. Chowdhury, S., and Zhu, J. (2021). “The Usage of Association Rule Mining towards Future-proofed Transportation Infrastructure Planning.” ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, September 12-14, 2021, Orlando, FL. (Invited to submit a full paper in a special issue of ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering)

2020

  1. Rasoulkhani, K., Alsharef A., Banerjee S., Chowdhury, S., Li, Q., Mostafavi A., Zhu, J., Jaselskis E., Stoa R. B. (2020). “A Process Map for Regulatory Adaptation in the Construction Industry.” ASCE Construction Research Congress, March 8-10, 2020, Tempe, AZ.

2019

  1. Alsharef A., Jaselskis E., Mostafavi A., Zhu, J., Stoa R., Banerjee S., Rasoulkhani, K., Li, Q., and Chowdhury, S. (2019). “Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Changes on Capital Projects in the United States.” CIB World Building Congress, June 17-21, 2019, Hong Kong, China.
  2. Chowdhury, S. and Zhu, J. (2019). “Towards The Ontology Development for Smart Transportation Infrastructure Planning Via Topic Modeling.” 36th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, May 21-24, 2019, Banff, AB, Canada.
  3. Chowdhury, S. and Zhu, J. (2019). “Heterogeneous Network Flow Model for Optimized Restoration Planning of Interdependent Infrastructure System-of-Systems.” ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, June 17-19, 2019, Atlanta, GA. (Invited to submit a full paper in a special issue of ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering)

2017

  1. Chowdhury, S., Emelogu A., Marufuzzaman M., Bian L., and Smith B. (2017). “Drone Routing and Optimization for Wildlife Surveillance.” INFORMS Annual Meeting, 22-25 Oct., Houston, TX, USA.

2016

  1. Chowdhury, S., Emelogu A., Marufuzzaman M., and Bian L. (2016). “A Continuum-Approximation Approach to Optimize Routing Decisions for Drones under Extreme Events.” INFORMS Annual Meeting, 13-16 Nov., Nashville, TN, USA.
  2. Chowdhury, S., Kabli M., and Marufuzzaman M. (2016). “Efficient and Reliable Package Delivery Path Planning for Drones.” INFORMS Annual Meeting, 13-16 Nov., Nashville, TN, USA.
  3. Chowdhury, S., Emelogu A., Marufuzzaman M., and Bian L. (2016). “An Enhanced Sample Average Approximation Technique to Solve a Two-Stage Chance-Constrained Optimization Problem.” INFORMS Annual Meeting, 13-16 Nov., Nashville, TN, USA.

Technical reports

3 reports

2021

  1. “Disaster Resilience through Diverse Evacuation and Emergency Transportation Systems”, Center for Advanced Multimodal Mobility Solutions and Education, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 2021.

2019

  1. “A Guide to Regulatory Future-proofing for the Construction Industry”, Construction Industry Institute, Final Report PUI-01, 2019.

2018

  1. “Using Self-Organizing Maps for In-situ Monitoring of Melt Pool Thermal Profiles for Porosity Prediction in Laser-Based Additive Manufacturing Processes”, US Army Research Laboratory, ARL-TN-0888, 2018.