Kaushik Bhattacharya
Kaushik Bhattacharya
Howell N. Tyson, Sr., Professor of Mechanics and Materials Science
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, 1986; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1991. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 1993-99; Associate Professor, 1999-2000; Professor, 2000-10; Tyson, Sr., Professor, 2010-; Executive Officer, 2007-16; Vice Provost, 2016-25.
Research interests: mechanics of materials, continuum mechanics, active materials, shape-memory alloys, heterogeneous materials, density functional theory
Overview
Professor Bhattacharya studies the mechanical behavior of solids, and specifically uses theory to guide the development of new materials. Current research concerns three broad areas: (i) Active materials such as shape-memory alloys, ferroelectrics and liquid crystal elastomers, (ii) Heterogeneous materials and designing unprecedented properties by exploiting heterogeneities, (iii) Coarse-grained density functional theory to understand defects in solids.
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2026-27
ME/MS/AM 221 – Effective properties of heterogenous and meta-materials
ME/CE/AM 296 – Artificial Intelligence in Mechanics
2025-26
AM/ACM 127 – Calculus of Variations
Ae/Ge/ME 160 ab – Continuum Mechanics of Fluids and Solids