Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharya
Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science; Vice Provost Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharya received his B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India in 1986, his Ph.D from the University of Minnesota in 1991 and his post-doctoral training at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences during 1991-1993. He joined Caltech in 1993. He has held visiting positions at Cornell University (1988), Heriot-Watt University in Scotland 1992), Max-Planck-Institute at Leipzig (1997-98), Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge (1999), Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore (2001) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2006) and the University of Cambridge (2008-09). He has received the von Kármán Medal from the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2020), Distinguished Alumni Award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (2019) the Outstanding Achievement Award of the University of Minnesota (2018), the Warner T. Koiter Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (2015) and the Graduate Student Council Teaching and Mentoring Award at Caltech (2013) amongst other distinctions. He was Editor of the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (2004-2015), and currently serves on the editorial board of a number of archival publications. He has delivered numerous plenary, keynote and named lectures including the Midwest Mechanics Lecturer for 2006-07, Southwest Mechanics Lecturer for 2007-08 and Spanish Mechanics Lecturer in 2013. He has served as consultant to a number of medical device companies.