Jayathi Murthy

Jayathi Murthy
Murthy in 2021

16th President of Oregon State University
Incumbent
Assumed office September 9, 2022
Preceded by	F. King Alexander Becky Johnson (interim)

Personal details
Education	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (BS) Washington State University (MS) University of Minnesota (PhD)

Scientific career
Fields	Mechanical engineering
Institutions	Arizona State University Carnegie Mellon University Purdue University University of Texas at Austin University of California, Los Angeles Oregon State University
Thesis	A calculation procedure for the prediction of confined flow through irregular geometries (computational, fluid, mechanics) (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Suhas Patankar
Doctoral students	Columbia Mishra

Jayathi Y. Murthy is an Indian-American mechanical engineer who is the current President of Oregon State University. Previously, she was the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean of the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles where she was also a distinguished professor. Her research interests include macroelectronics, computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and phase-change materials. Murthy has served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize since 2018.