Prof. Sivasambu Mahesh
Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras
Prof. Sivasambu Mahesh received his PhD from Cornell University in 2001, after graduating with a BTech from IIT Madras in 1996. Before joining academia, he spent 3 years (2001-04) as a post doctoral fellow in Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico, USA. He joined IIT Kanpur in 2004 as an Assistant Professor with joint appointment between the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. He joined IIT Madras in 2013 as an Associate Professor in Aerospace Engineering.
Prof. Sivasambu Mahesh got the INAE Young Engineer award in 2010. He is a Member of the editorial board of “International Journal of Plasticity” since 2015. He is an excellent teacher and has been consistently ranked among the top 3 teachers in the Aerospace Engineering Dept every year. He has also won the best teacher award.
On the research front, he studies the relations between microstructure and macroscopic mechanical properties (plasticity and fracture) in crystalline materials, composites and gels. He has excellent publications in reputed International refereed Journals which are highly cited and are considered as excellent contributions to the scientific community.