Hi, I am Nitesh Arora. I am a Ph.D. Candidate at Soft Matter Laboratory working with Prof. Stephan Rudykh at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Broadly, I am interested in the design and mechanics of soft architected materials.

Research areas:

  • Active (magnetic/electric) soft materials

  • Soft actuators and sensors

  • Inverse design using Machine Learning

  • Tunable architected materials

  • Metamaterials

  • Instability-induced pattern transitions

  • Wave propagation

Feel free to contact me: narora7[at]wisc.edu

Education

2018-Ongoing: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Advisor: Prof. Stephan Rudykh

2014-2018: B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Advisor: Prof. M. M. Joglekar

Awards

  • Thomas J. R. Hughes Fellowship, U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM)

  • Future Investigator Travel Award, Division of Soft Matter (DSOFT), APS

  • Distinguished Student Award, American Physical Society Forum on International Physics (FIP)

  • Best Presentation Award, ICRAM

  • NSF Presenter Fellowship, ICTAM 2020+1

  • Chester E. & Flora Jane LeRoy Fellowship, Mechanical Engineering, UW–Madison

  • International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Grant, ICTAM 2020+1

  • MRSEC Honored Scholar Travel Award, University of Wisconsin MRSEC

  • APS Division of Soft Matter Meeting Grant, APS March meeting 2021

  • Student Research Grants Competition–2019, UW–Madison

  • Summer Undergraduate Research Award, IIT Roorkee