Jayathi Murthy

Jayathi Y. Murthy is an Indian-American mechanical engineer whose research interests include macroelectronics, computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and phase-change materials. She is the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles,[1] and a distinguished professor at UCLA.[2] She has also served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize from 2018.[3]

Education and career

Murthy is the daughter of an Indian civil engineer.[4] Originally from Hyderabad, she was a student at St. Ann's High School, Secunderabad.[5] After graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, she earned a master's degree at Washington State University before completing her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1984 at the University of Minnesota.[6][4]

She became an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Arizona State University in 1984, but left academia in 1988 to co-found Fluent Inc., a computational fluid dynamics firm that was later acquired by Ansys.[6][4] She returned to academia in 1998 as an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, moved to Purdue University in 2001,[4] and became Robert V. Adams Professor of Mechanical Engineering there in 2008.[6] She moved again to the University of Texas at Austin in 2012, as department chair,[4] before becoming dean at UCLA in 2016, the first woman to hold that position.[6]

Recognition

Murthy was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020, "for the development of unstructured solution-adaptive finite volume methods for heat, mass, and momentum transport".[2] She is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).[6] With Brent W. Webb and Raj M. Manglik, she won the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award in 2016,[7] and she was the 2012 winner of the ASME K16 Clock Award for "outstanding and continuing contributions to the science and engineering of heat transfer in electronics".[8]

References
  1. "Jayathi Y. Murthy Bio | UCLA Samueli School Of Engineering". Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  2. "Dr. Jayathi Y. Murthy", Member profiles, National Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2020-10-20
  3. "Infosys Prize - Jury 2020". www.infosys-science-foundation.com. Retrieved 2020-12-09.
  4. Mechanical Engineering Welcomes New Chair, Jayathi Murthy, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas, February 19, 2012, retrieved 2020-10-20
  5. Somasekhar, M. (November 24, 2015), "Indian-origin Jayathi scales heights in US academia", Business Line, The Hindu
  6. Jayathi Y. Murthy, UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, retrieved 2020-10-20
  7. Heat Transfer Memorial Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, retrieved 2020-10-20
  8. K16 Clock Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, retrieved 2020-10-20
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