Aditi Chattopadhyay

Regents Professor, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Dr. Aditi Chattopadhyay is a Regents’ Professor at Arizona State University (ASU) and Ira A. Fulton Endowed Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She is also the Founding Director of the Adaptive Intelligent Materials & Systems (AIMS) Center at ASU (http://aims.asu.edu),  one of ASU’s premier centers for research and discovery fostering mutually beneficial partnerships between ASU and research entities from government and industry in areas that have significant impact on future aerospace and mechanical systems, civil infrastructure, and other related fields. 

Dr. Chattopadhyay received her B. Tech (Hons) in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, followed by M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.  She has held a Research Scientist position at the NASA Langley Research Center and a summer faculty position at the NASA Ames Research Center. Her research focuses on composites and nano-enhanced composites, multifunctional materials, multiscale modeling, systems health monitoring and prognosis, and multidisciplinary design optimization. Her research activities span from fundamental concept development to applied projects with immediate benefits to the industry. Dr. Chattopadhyay’s current research areas include multiscale modeling, multifunctional materials and adaptive structures, systems health management and prognosis, and multiaxial fatigue of heterogeneous systems. She has been the Principal Investigator on numerous grants and collaborated with defense and government laboratories on significant technical transitions. She serves on the technical committee of many professional organizations. She has served as an associate editor and/or editorial board member of many journals and is currently serving on the editorial board of Journal of Structural Durability and Health Monitoring and Digital Engineering and Digital Twin. She has published over 245 journal papers and over 385 other publications (conference papers, book chapters, and NASA Technical Memorandums) and five patents. She has graduated 45 Ph. D. students and 25 MS students and supervised 20 Postdoctoral Fellows and 4 Research Assistant Professors. Her research has led to several academic, research, and best paper awards. She received the Georgia Institute of Technology Council of Outstanding Young Engineer Award and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). She is the recipient of the Faculty Achievement Award – Excellence in Research, Arizona State University. Dr. Chattopadhyay is a Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA) and a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).