Prof. Jayathi Y. Murthy
Dean, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles
Prof. Jayathi Y. Murthy has received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota, an M.S. from Washington State University and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. She is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the author of more than 280 technical publications. She serves on the editorial boards of Numerical Heat Transfer and the International Journal of Thermal Sciences.
Prof. Murthy is currently Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to her appointment as dean, she served as department chair of the Mechanical Engineering department at The University of Texas at Austin, holding the Ernest Cockrell Jr. Memorial Chair in Engineering. She has also held faculty positions at Purdue University, Carnegie Mellon University and Arizona State University.
Her research interests include nanoscale heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics, and the Simulation of fluid flow and heat transfer for industrial applications.