Education
Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mathematics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1994
M.S., Mining Engineering (Rock Mechanics), University of Utah, 1991
B. Tech., Mining Engineering, (IIT) Indian Schoolof Mines, India, 1988
Appointments
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, July 2007, Materials Science and Engineering (by courtesy), Carnegie Mellon University
Member, Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Professor, Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, 2015-18
Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Jul. 2003
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Aug. 2000-2003
Research Scientist, Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998-2000
Senior Research Engineer, ABAQUS, Inc., Rhode Island, 1995-1998
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, MEAM, University of Pennsylvania, 1994-1995
Research and Teaching Assistant, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990-1994
Research and Teaching Assistant, Mining Engineering, University of Utah, 1988-1990
Honors and Awards
Simons Foundation Pivot Fellow, Inaugural Class, 2022.
Invited GIAN (Global Initiative for Academic Networks) advanced short course lecturer at Dept. of Mechanical Engg., IIT, Madras, India, 2017 (A program of the Ministry of Higher Education, India)
Opening Plenary Lecturer at Dislocations 2016, quadrennial international conference.
INdAM (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi) Visiting Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Pavia, Italy, 2016
Rosi and Max Varon Visiting Professorship, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2015
Visiting Professorship of the Leverhulme Trust to the University of Bath, U.K., Dept. of Mathematics, 2015
Invited Mini-course lecturer at Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Dept. of Mathematics, Trieste, Italy, 2015
Visiting Positions
Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, UK, 2008
Laboratoire de Mecanique et d’Acoustique, CNRS, Marseille, France, 2008-2009
Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, UK, 2009
Laboratoire d’Etude des Microstructures et de Mecanique des Materiaux, Universite de Lorraine, Metz, France, 2010/2011
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012
Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, UK, 2015
Weizmann Institute of Science, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Israel, 2015-16
University of Pavia, Dept. of Mathematics, Italy, 2016
ETH Zurich, Dept. of Mathematics, Switzerland, 2018
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany, 2019, 2023
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, 2023
Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Universitat Bonn, Germany, 2023