Ujjal Kumar Bhowmik

Ujjal Kumar Bhowmik is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), affiliated with the Grainger College of Engineering. His expertise spans biomedical imaging, signal processing, and engineering education. He has held academic roles since 2008, with a focus on curriculum innovation and student learning experiences in ECE courses.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville (2012)
• MSE in Electrical Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville (2008)
• M.Tech in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (India)
• B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (Bangladesh)

Research Interests: His work focuses on mitigating motion artifacts in 3D medical imaging systems, computational methods for engineering education, and GPU-accelerated solutions for environmental models. He has pioneered algorithms for crack segmentation in X-ray CT images and adaptive learning paths in parallel computing curricula.

Awards & Honors:

• Collins Scholar (Grainger College of Engineering, 2019-2020)
• Strategic Instructional Innovations Program (SIIP) Award 2019
• Kaman Best Teacher Award (2015, Catholic University of America)
• Best Technical Paper Award at IEEE SoutheastCon 2014
• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (2011)

Recent Contributions: His 2023 publications address curriculum improvements for parallel computing education, while earlier work (e.g., 2014) demonstrated a best paper in biomedical sensor design. He integrates computational thinking into lower-level courses through extended learning modules.