Mahdy Rahman

Mahdy Rahman Chowdhury is currently working as an Associate Professor (effective from 1st May 2019), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (full time) and Dept. of Math & Phys. at North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Just after submitting his PhD thesis, he joined as an Assist. Professor at North South University, in January 2017.

He passed SSC (2003) and HSC (2005) from Pabna Cadet College. Later, he secured 13th merit position in BUET admission test 2005. In February 2011, he received B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) from BUET, Bangladesh. After that he was a lecturer (full time) in University of Asia Pacific and (later) in Presidency University (full time), Bangladesh. Later, he started his PhD as a direct PhD student (without MSc) in Electrical and Computer Engineering dept., National University of Singapore, Singapore from January, 2013. He submitted his PhD thesis at the end of 2016 (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Qiu Cheng Wei). In his PhD, he worked on the theory of electromagnetic/optical force and proposed the modified version of Einstein-Laub equations. Official date of his PhD degree confirmation: 30th April, 2017.

So far (2011-2021; 10 years) he has published 40 peer reviewed international journals (with moderate to high impact factor) including five in Nature Publishing Group , 10 refereed conference articles, one international book chapter and one text book of physics in Bengali language. His total impact factor of published 40 journals (all theoretical works so far) is around 140 and his total google scholar citations is around 1100 (with h-index 17).

Notably, his one theoretical journal, with all Bangladeshi authors (mostly undergraduate students), published as the cover story of Q1 international physics journal – Annalen Der Physik in December, 2015. He was the corresponding author. After joining North South University (NSU), Among his several published journals, two articles have been published in very high impact factor journals with the affiliation of Bangladesh and NSU: (i) Nature Publishing Group’s journal: Light Science and Applications (impact factor over 18 in 2022) and ACS NANO (impact factor over 15 in 2022).

He has won 2018 TWAS international research grant (physical science & engineering). In 2021, North South University has awarded him as one of the best researchers of SEPS (NSU) for his contribution in research during the years of 2018-2020. He has also won UGC GOLD MEDAL AWARD 2018 in physical science (announced: 7th November, 2021). This award is handed over by the President of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh.

He is also a reviewer of several reputed international journals like Journal of Physical Chemistry, Annalen Der Physik, JOSA B and IEEE AWPL.

His current research interests are primarily in Optical force, Photonics, Quantum Mechanics, Matter wave tractor beams, Biomedical engineering, Applied Machine Learning (for early disease detection, for share market prediction etc), Antenna design, and Optical fiber theory/simulations.

Research Areas

• Modeling and Simulation
• Broadband Access and Communication Technologies
• Artificial Intelligence & Robotics

Research Interests

Optical force, Photonics, Quantum mechanics, Plasmonics, Matter wave tractor beams, Biomedical engineering, Applied Machine Learning (for early disease detection, for share market prediction etc), Antenna design, and Optical fiber theory/simulations.