Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry (born 1 January 1959) is a Pakistani electronics engineer and academic. He is a professor emeritus at the Mehran University of Engineering & Technology (MUET), Jamshoro, Sindh, and served as Dean of the School of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Engineering from 2011 to 2018.
He was born on 1 January 1959 in Kantio, Sindh, Pakistan. In 1983, he graduated at MUET with a First Class Honours in Bachelor of Engineering. He then joined MUET as a faculty member.
In 1984, Chowdhry received a scholarship from the University of Southampton to study at the Ministry of Science and Technology in the United Kingdom, where he completed his PhD in 1990.
In 1990, Chowdhry returned to MUET as a full-time professor and later served as Chairman of the Department of Electronic Engineering at MUET from 1993 to 2011.
In 2003, Chowdhry established the Department of Biomedical Engineering at MUET and consequently became chairman.
In 2008, Chowdhry completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science, sponsored by the Higher Education Commission. His research interests included wireless sensor networks. The same year, he was appointed as the director of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT), where he continued in that position until 2011.
Chowdhry is a guest associate editor of the International Journal of Wireless Personal Communication, published by Springer Germany.
Chowdhry was the MUET lead representative for the Erasmus Mundus project Mobility of Life at Aalborg University in Aalborg, Denmark. In 2013, he participated in the Erasmus Fellowship under the Strong Ties program at the University of Limerick in Ireland. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Hyderabad Information & Software Association (HiSHA).
In 2002, Chowdhry received the Millennium Gold Medal for academic services at the 12th Star Awards by South Asia Publication.
On 14 August 2022, the President of Pakistan, Arif Alvi, conferred Chowdhry with the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, the nation's third-highest civilian honor, for his services to the country's public and education sector.