Biography
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, May 2007
Major: Structural Engineering
Certificate in Computational Science and Engineering
Dissertation title: Stabilized Finite Elements & A Domain Decomposition Method for First-Order Transient Problems (Download)
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, May 2007
M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, May 2002
B.Tech in Civil & Environmental Engineering, May 2000
Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai, India
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
September 2017 -- present: Associate Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Houston
April 2012 -- present: Courtesy Faculty Appointment
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston
February -- April 2019: Visiting Associate
Department of Mechanical & Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
September 2011 -- August 2017: Assistant Professor
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Houston
January 2009 -- August 2011: Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station
June 2007 -- December 2008: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
August 2000 -- May 2007: Graduate Research Assistant
Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES (present and past)
Member, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute
Member, American Society for Engineering Education
Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Professor Kalyana Nakshatrala is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a courtesy appointment in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston (UH). In 2019, he was a faculty associate at the California Institute of Technology. Before becoming a faculty member, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in collaboration with Los Alamos and Pacific Northwest National Laboratories. Nakshatrala received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a certificate in Computational Science and Engineering along with two M.S. degrees, one in structural engineering and the other in applied mathematics, from UIUC. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras. Professor Nakshatrala is devoted to student mentorship and recently had a PhD advisee win first prize at the 2018 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and another doctoral student win the 2016 Robert J. Melosh Medal, an international award given to the best student paper in Computational Mechanics. He is also dedicated to teaching, with recognition, including the 2019 Kittinger Teaching Excellence Award—the highest teaching honor conferred by the Cullen College of Engineering at UH. He remains active in the academic community as an associate editor for the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics and serves on the early career research board for IOPScience’s Multifunctional Materials.
ERODOS NUMBER
My Erdos number is 4 in multiple ways.
P. Erdos ==> J. Pach ==> T. K. Dey ==> A. Hirani ==> K. B. Nakshatrala
P. Erdos ==> P. Hell ==> J. Kratochvil ==> K. R. Rajagopal ==> K. B. Nakshatrala