Kaushik Chowdhury is Professor and holds the Chandra Family Endowed Distinguished Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering #2 in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a member of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG). He received his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in August 2009 and M.S. from the University of Cincinnati in 2006.  Prior to joining UT Austin, he spent fifteen years as a professor at Northeastern University, Boston.

Prof. Chowdhury is the winner of the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2017, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award in 2017, the Office of Naval Research Director of Research Early Career Award in 2016, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2015. He is the recipient of best paper awards at IEEE GLOBECOM'19, DySPAN'19, INFOCOM'17, ICC'13,'12,'09, and ICNC'13. He serves as area editor for IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, IEEE Trans. on Networking, and IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications. He is Sr. Member of the IEEE, co-directs the operations of Colosseum RF/network emulator, as well as the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research project office, a joint $100 million public-private partnership between the NSF and wireless industry consortium to create city-scale testing platforms. He enjoys bridging the wireless systems and ML communities within the NSF AI Institute for Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence, led by The Ohio State University. 

Prof. Chowdhury has served in several leadership roles, including Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Simulation, and as Technical Program Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2021, IEEE CCNC 2021 , IEEE DySPAN 2021, and ACM MobiHoc 2022.