I'm a researcher primarily working with various aspects of blockchain technology. I have diverse, yet well-connected research experiences gathered from three nations in the British and Irish Isles: Ireland, Scotland and England. I presently hold a Research Associate position in the Open Blockchain group at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of the Open University where I investigate the problems of blockchain learning verifications as well use-cases that can be fit into this new and innovative technology. Beside blockchain, I also have a keen interest in Wireless Networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Privacy & Trust and Data Science. Prior to my current position, I completed two other postdocs, one at the KMi and the other in the Department of Computing and Communication in the same university where I worked in the Strategic Data Science project and smart city project MK-Smart respectively.

I obtained my PhD from the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, as a recipient of the Scottish ORS Scholarship in conjunction with the Glasgow University College of Science and Engineering Scholarship. I was also a research scholar at the School of Computer Science in Trinity College Dublin where I received Govt. of Ireland IRCSET Embark Initiative Scholarship. My earlier background is in Computer Science and Engineering at East West University, Bangladesh where I pursued a bachelor and a masters degree with Gold Medal distinction.

Keys: Blockchain, Internet of Things, Data Science, Privacy

Team: Michelle Bachler, Rachel Coignac-Smith, John Domingue, Zeeshan Jan, Alexander Mikroyannidis, Kevin Quick, Manoharan Ramachandran, Allan Third, Chris Valentine

Athena Swan Award Success!

Ferdous, M., Biswas, K., Chowdhury, M., Chowdhury, N. and Muthukkumarasamy, V. (2019) Integrated platforms for blockchain enablement, Advances in Computers, 113, Elsevier

Chowdhury, N., Price, B., Smith, A., Gooch, D. and Linden, J. (2018) 50 Shades of Green and Brown: Comparing Grid Carbon Intensity with Consumption for Households with PV Generation and Battery Storage, 6th IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability Technologies, Long Beach, California

Ferdous, M., Chowdhury, M., Biswas, K. and Chowdhury, N. (2018) Immutable Autobiography of Smart Cars, 3rd Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology, Gold Coast, Australia

Chowdhury, N. and Moore, J. (2018) Attention Management for Improved Renewable Energy Usage at Households using IoT-enabled Ambient Displays, ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) 2018 Adjunct, Singapore, Singapore, pp. 1215-1221

Chowdhury, N. and Weber, S. (2017) Mobile Ad hoc Networks: Rapidly Deployable Emergency Communications Opportunistic Networking: Vehicular, D2D and Cognitive Radio Networks, pp. 47-82, CRS Press, Taylor & Francis Group