Prof. Dr. B.S. Chowdhry has varied teaching and research experience of nearly 4 decades in diversified fields such as Electronics, Telecommunication, Microprocessor Technology, Internet of Things, Telemedicine, Wireless sensor networks, ICT etc. After completing his first degree in Electronic engineering discipline in 1983 with first class first position, he joined MUET as a faculty member. He did PhD in the field of Microprocessor Based Intelligent Instrumentation from the school of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton, UK in 1990. He rejoined the MUET after his PhD in 1990 and was appointed as an Associate Professor and in 1996, he was appointed as a full Professor. He also served as a Chairman Electronic Engineering in 1993 to 2011. In 2001, he became founding Chairman of Telecommunication Engineering in addition to his assignment as a Chairman Electronics department. In 2003, he pioneered Biomedical Engineering department and became its founding Chairman. In 2008, he was appointed as a Director Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT) which he continued till 2011. He served as a Dean, Faculty of Electrical, Electronics, & Computer Engineering from 2011 to 2018.
He has remained PhD examiner as well as expert to evaluate promotion applications for several European and Pakistani universities. He has supervised/co-supervised more than dozen PhD’s and more than 50 MPhil/Master’s thesis in the area of ICT. His list of research publication crosses to over 100 in national and international journals, IEEE and ACM proceedings. He also has credit of becoming one of the editor of books “Wireless Networks, Information Processing and Systems”, CCIS 20, and “Emerging Trends and Applications in Information Communication Technologies”, CCIS 281, and “Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries”, CCIS 366 published by Springer Verlag, Germany in addition to more than dozen books , guides published nationally. He is having vast international exposure, as he remained Guest Scientist/Associate of the ICTP (under umbrella of UNESCO/UNU), Trieste Italy for Twelve (12) Years and European Union Erasmus Fellow. In the capacity of Guest Scientist/Associate, he visited the UNESCO/UNU ICTP, Trieste Italy for more than 18 months in 8 different intervals to attend international workshops and carry out research in Italian Labs. Under these Fellowships, he delivered Keynote lectures in Italy, England, Ireland, USA, France, Germany, Malaysia, China, Singapore, Pakistan, Spain, Cyprus, Norway, Bahrain, UAE, Thailand and Switzerland.
He has travelled to more than 40 countries for presenting research papers, attending professional development trainings and meetings. He is actively serving national and international professional and scientific bodies in various capacities.