2026 Kaushik Bhattacharya: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	58	7651	7398	1903	1764	236	12934

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Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Warner T. Koiter Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
2013 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to mathematical aspects of materials science, especially the modeling of martensitic transformation and its consequences.

Overview

Kaushik Bhattacharya is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on Mechanical Engineering and Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their work also covers subfields such as Mechanics of Materials, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research interests are reflected in a range of main topics:

Advanced Materials and Mechanics
Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
Composite Material Mechanics
Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Structural Analysis and Optimization
Model Reduction and Neural Networks
Liquid Crystal Research Advancements

Bhattacharya has contributed extensively to academic literature, frequently publishing in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
Mechanics of Materials
Extreme Mechanics Letters
Experimental Mechanics

Their recent publications include the following papers:

Fourier Neural Operator for Parametric Partial Differential Equations (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
Multipole Graph Neural Operator for Parametric Partial Differential Equations (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
Neural Operator: Graph Kernel Network for Partial Differential Equations (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
A nonlinear beam model of photomotile structures (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
DIC Challenge 2.0: Developing Images and Guidelines for Evaluating Accuracy and Resolution of 2D Analyses (2022), published in Experimental Mechanics

Collaborations have played a prominent role in Bhattacharya's work, with frequent co-authors including:

Andrew M. Stuart
Burigede Liu
Nikola Kovachki
Zongyi Li
Kamyar Azizzadenesheli

The scientist's contributions have been recognized through awards such as the Warner T. Koiter Medal from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2015. Additionally, they were named a SIAM Fellow in 2013 for their work in mathematical aspects of materials science, particularly in modeling martensitic transformation and its consequences.

Best Publications

Microstructure of martensite : why it forms and how it gives rise to the shape-memory effect

Kaushik Bhattacharya

1599
Citations
Domain switching in polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics.

J. Y. Li;R. C. Rogan;R. C. Rogan;E. Üstündag;K. Bhattacharya

469
Citations
Crystal symmetry and the reversibility of martensitic transformations.

Kaushik Bhattacharya;Sergio Conti;Giovanni Zanzotto;Johannes Zimmer

446
Citations
A computational model of ferroelectric domains. Part I: model formulation and domain switching

W. Zhang;K. Bhattacharya

375
Citations
A theory of thin films of martensitic materials with applications to microactuators

K. Bhattacharya;Richard D James

317
Citations
Symmetry, texture and the recoverable strain of shape-memory polycrystals

K. Bhattacharya;R. V. Kohn

301
Citations
Domain patterns and macroscopic behaviour of ferroelectric materials

Y. C. Shu;K. Bhattacharya

295
Citations
Electrooptic Modulation in Thin Film Barium Titanate Plasmonic Interferometers

Matthew J. Dicken;Luke A. Sweatlock;Domenico Pacifici;Henri J. Lezec

288
Citations
All-organic dielectric-percolative three-component composite materials with high electromechanical response

Cheng Huang;Q. M. Zhang;Gal deBotton;Kaushik Bhattacharya

259
Citations
Stress-induced martensitic phase transformation in thin sheets of Nitinol

S. Daly;G. Ravichandran;K. Bhattacharya

251
Citations
Wedge-like microstructure in martensites

K. Bhattacharya

240
Citations
Effective toughness of heterogeneous media

M.Z. Hossain;C.-J. Hsueh;B. Bourdin;K. Bhattacharya

238
Citations
Self-accommodation in martensite

Kaushik Bhattacharya

230
Citations
THE INFLUENCE OF TEXTURE ON THE SHAPE- MEMORY EFFECT IN POLYCRYSTALS

Y.C. Shu;K. Bhattacharya

229
Citations
Gaussian curvature from flat elastica sheets

C. D. Modes;K. Bhattacharya;M. Warner

189
Citations
Ferroelectric perovskites for electromechanical actuation

K. Bhattacharya;G. Ravichandran

184
Citations
Large strain electrostrictive actuation in barium titanate

E. Burcsu;G. Ravichandran;K. Bhattacharya

184
Citations
Quasi-continuum orbital-free density-functional theory : A route to multi-million atom non-periodic DFT calculation

Vikram Gavini;Kaushik Bhattacharya;Michael Ortiz

183
Citations
Depletion Layers and Domain Walls in Semiconducting Ferroelectric Thin Films

Yu Xiao;Vivek B. Shenoy;Kaushik Bhattacharya

180
Citations
Kinetics of phase transformations in the peridynamic formulation of continuum mechanics

Kaushik Dayal;Kaushik Bhattacharya

173
Citations
Elastic Energy Minimization and the Recoverable Strains of Polycrystalline Shape‐Memory Materials

Kaushik Bhattacharya;Robert V. Kohn

167
Citations