[2] He worked briefly at Dunlop India Ltd. before taking a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Polymer Science, at the University of Akron from 1981 to 1984.
He was head of the Rubber Technology Centre during 1990-91 and 2005–2007, and dean of sponsored research and industrial consultancy during 2000–2003 at IIT Kharagpur.
He was the director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna until joining the University of Houston in 2019.
Bhowmick co-authored with University of Akron professor Howard L. Stephens the popular text Handbook of elastomers.
[4] Bhowmick reported what is possibly the most complete set of measurements of the fatigue threshold for a number of elastomers.