NarayanaAluru

Narayana Aluru
ProfessorCockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #9

Research Areas
Research Interests

Multiscale methods; Nanofluidics; Nanomechanics; Neuromorphic ionic computing; Quantum computing; Energy-water nexus; Solid-liquid interfaces

About

Narayana Aluru joined the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in August 2021. He is also a principal faculty member in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Prior to joining UT Austin, he was on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He received the B.E. degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India, the M.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Prior to joining UIUC, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge.

Educational Qualifications

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 1995
  • M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1991
  • B.E.(Hons), Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India, 1989

Select Awards & Honors

  • Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2006)
  • USACM Gallagher Young Investigator Award (2007)
  • Fellow, United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) (2011)
  • Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) (2011)
  • J. Tinsley Oden Medal, USACM (2017)
  • Fellow, American Physical Society (APS) (2017)
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2018)
  • Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Division Award, ASME (2020)
  • Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, ASME (2024)
  • A.C. Eringen Medal, Society of Engineering Science (2025)

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