M Arshad Zahangir Chowdhury

Mechanical Engineering, Machine learning, Energy, Sustainability, Design

M Arshad Zahangir Chowdhury

Muhammad Arshad Zahangir Chowdhury

Lecturer, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Hello!
Welcome to my website. I am a Lecturer at the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY. I received my PhD from the same institute in Mechanical Engineering supervised by Prof. Matthew Adam Oehlschlaeger. I have worked as a Research Aide at the Data Science and Lea Division of Argonne National Laboratory under the mentorship of Dr. Aniket Tekawade. Broadly, I am interested in automated instrumentation and sensing systmes. I develop nearest neighbors, random forest, neural network and support vector machine based frameworks for supervised learning of patterns from measurements to make experiments automated. As part of my PhD research I developed machine learning based gas sensing methods from THz and IR spectra. My current research interests include Intelligent automated environmental monitoring, climate change management and mitigation, scientific and applied machine learning, design optimization, energy, sustainability, and combustion.

Previously, I obtained my Master's degree from at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, supervised by Prof. Mohamed Razi Nalim. I earned my Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from BUET, Bangladesh.

Interests
  • Machine learning
  • Sensors
  • Climate monitoring and remote sensing
  • Thermofluids, Design & Combustion
Education
  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 2023

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • MS in Mechanical Engineering, 2018

    Purdue University

  • BSc (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering, 2014

    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Deep Learning for Gas Sensing via Infrared Spectroscopy

In this project, A deep learning model is trained on simulated absorbance spectra to recognize infrared spectra of up to three component mixture in a broad 400-4000 1/cm wavenumber range. The proposed model is capable of highlighting important frequencies for multi-gas sensing and probable cause for misclassification within a user defined frequency range.

TSMC-Net : Deep Learning Mixture Component Identification

In this project, A deep learning model is trained on simulated absorbance spectra to recognize THz spectra of up to eight component mixture in 220-330 GHz frequency range. The workflow proposed is capable of highlighting important frequencies for multi-gas sensing and probable cause for misclassification by the model.

IR Spectra Classification

In this ongoing project, ML classifiers are trained on simulated absorbance spectra to recognize IR spectra in a broad frequency range.

Traversing Jet
Ignition Delay Measurement

In this project, I implemented a seal plate and a some data acquisition systems to measure ignition delay of hydrocarbon fuels by a traversing and chemically reactive hot turbulent jet issued from a rotating pre-chamber.