Atluri, Satya N.

Satya Atluri (October 7, 1945 – August 4, 2023) was an Indian-American engineer, educator, researcher, and scientist in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, and computational sciences. He was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Atluri was recognized for his contributions to computational methods for fracture mechanics and aerospace structures, earning membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 1996. He was subsequently elected to the Indian National Academy of Engineering (1997), the European Academy of Sciences (2002), the World Academy of Sciences (2003), the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2008, Stephen Timoshenko Institute) and the Academy of Athens (2013). He received the Padma Bhushan Award, the third highest civilian honor in the Republic of India, in the category of science and technology, from the president of India in 2013. His research interests lie in the areas of aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, applied mechanics & mathematics, Materials Genome, and computer modeling in engineering & sciences. He authored or edited 65 research monographs and authored more than 800 archival research papers.