Kaushik Dayal

Kaushik Dayal is the Walter J. Blenko, Sr. Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests focus on theoretical and computational multiscale methods applied to materials science, particularly bridging atomic to continuum scales in the context of functional behavior, non-equilibrium response, and electromagnetic effects. Dayal received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2000 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2007. He is affiliated with several research centers at Carnegie Mellon University.

Kaushik Dayal is a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, focusing on advanced materials and their mechanical behavior. His work explores the mechanics of mixtures of viscous compressible fluids, bioinspired nanocomposites, and oxide thin films for RF/microwave applications. He investigates phase transformations, peridynamic formulations, and electromechanical coupling in materials. Dayal also examines grain boundary migration, piezoelectricity, and electroelasticity in polymer networks. His research integrates computational methods, such as phase-field models and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics, to understand complex microstructures and their properties. His studies aim to enhance the performance of multifunctional materials for energy and electronic applications.