Biography

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, May 2007

M.S. in Applied Mathematics, May 2007

M.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering, May 2002

B.Tech in Civil & Environmental Engineering, May 2000

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

ACADEMIC GENEALOGY