Public profile
Biography
Satish Nagarajaiah is a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering and is affiliated with the Materials Science and Nano-Engineering Departments at Rice University, Houston, Texas. He is renowned for his research contributions in seismic isolation, structural control and monitoring, adaptive stiffness systems, smart tuned mass dampers, sparse structural system identification, and low rank methods. He is the earliest researcher who invented and developed noncontact structural strain sensing using nanomaterials. He serves as the Editor of Structural Control and Health Monitoring, Wiley. He is a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors, a fellow of ASCE, and a fellow of ASCE-SEI. He has received numerous awards, including the 2025 George W. Housner Medal, 2020 ASCE Newmark Medal, 2017 ASCE Raymond Reese Research prize, 2015 Moissieff award, and NSF CAREER award in 1998. More details on his teaching, research, service, publications, and news can be found on his website at satishnagarajaiah.rice.edu.
Research areas
Computational structural dynamic systems, seismic isolation, adaptive structures/systems & sensing, and sparse structural system identification with Machine Learning (ML)—with a current focus on the development of physics-informed methods with ML/artificial intelligence.