Summary
Abhik Chowdhury is a researcher and PhD student with 9 years of engineering experience building end-to-end prototypes—hardware, firmware, and software—primarily in wearables and human-centered IoT. He designs PCBs, writes embedded firmware, and even sews prototypes, translating cross-disciplinary ideas into patentable implementations and classroom-ready courseware. At ASU he combines citizen-centered smart cities research with hands-on HCI work, including haptic devices for visually impaired users and IoT sensor systems. He blends interest in unsupervised machine learning and blockchain with practical product delivery, prioritizing customer value over technical novelty. Comfortable in skunkworks teams and formal research settings, he bridges academic rigor and rapid prototyping to move concepts toward real-world impact. He maintains a public portfolio at humanitariantechnologist.com that highlights the unusual mix of engineering, design, and social-technology thinking.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Arizona State University