Kaushik Bhattacharya

Kaushik Bhattacharya
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Minnesota
Scientific career
Fields	Material Science, Mechanical Engineering
Institutions	Caltech Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Thesis	Microstructure of Martensite  (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Richard James

Kaushik Bhattacharya is an Indian American mechanician and material scientist. He is currently the Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Professor of Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He is also vice-provost at Caltech. ^[1]

Bhattacharya is known for his mathematical and computational contributions to material science, especially the study of microstructure. ^[2]

Education and career

Bhattacharya received a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, in 1986. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Richard James. ^[3] He was a post-doctoral associate at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences between 1991 and 1993. He joined Caltech in 1993 and has held visiting positions at Cornell University (1988), Heriot-Watt University (1992), Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (1997-98), Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge (1999), Indian Institute of Science (2001) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2006). In 2016, he was named vice provost at Caltech. He also served as editor of the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids from 2004 to 2015. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

Awards and recognition

• Koiter Medal in 2015 awarded by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ^{[7] [8]}

• Theodore von Kármán Prize in 2020 awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ^{[2] [9]}

• Infosys Prize in 2023 awarded by the Infosys Science foundation. ^[10]

References

1. "Kaushik Bhattacharya". Caltech Materials Sciences. Caltech. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
2. "Theodore von Kármán Prize History". SIAM Prizes and Recognitions. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
3. "Kaushik Bhattacharya - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.mathgenealogy.org. Math genealogy. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
4. "Infosys Prize - Jury 2023 - Kaushik Bhattacharya". www.infosysprize.org. Infosys Science Foundation. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
5. "Kaushik Bhattacharya". Caltech Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Caltech. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
6. "Professor Bhattacharya Named Vice Provost". Caltech Division of Engineering and Applied Science. Caltech. 14 July 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
7. "Koiter medal awardees". ASME Achievement Awards. American Society for Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
8. "Professor Bhattacharya Receives the Warner T. Koiter Medal". Caltech Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Caltech. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
9. "Kaushik Bhattacharya Awarded 2020 Theodore von Kármán Prize". California Institute of Technology. Caltech. 11 September 2020.
10. "Kaushik Bhattacharya". Infosys Prize. Infosys Science Foundation. Retrieved 25 August 2024.

External links

• Kaushik Bhattacharya at Google Scholar