Jayathi Y. Murthy Dean, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Los Angeles jmurthy@ucla.edu

Jayathi Murthy is Dean, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA. She received her Ph.D degree from the University of Minnesota in the area of numerical heat transfer and has worked in both academia and in industry. Previously, she served as Ernest Cockrell Jr. Department Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. She also served as Director of PRISM: NNSA Center for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Survivability of Microsystems. During her employment at Fluent Inc., a leading vendor of CFD software, she developed the unstructured solution-adaptive finite volume methods underlying their flagship software Fluent, and the electronics cooling software package ICEPAK.

More recently, her research has addressed sub-micron thermal transport, multiscale multiphysics simulations of MEMS and NEMS and uncertainty quantification in these systems. She is the recipient of the IBM Faculty Partnership award 2003-2005, numerous best paper awards, the 2009 ASME EPPD Woman Engineer of the Year Award and the 2012 ASME EPPD Clock Award. In 2012, she was named a distinguished alumna of IIT Kanpur, India. Prof. Murthy serves on the editorial boards of Numerical Heat Transfer and International Journal of Thermal Sciences and is an editor of the 2nd edition of the Handbook of Numerical Heat Transfer. She has served on numerous national committees and panels on electronics thermal management and CFD, and is the author of over 280 technical publications.