He received his Ph.D. in structural engineering from University of Notre Dame in Fall 2014. After his Ph.D., Dr. Yellavajjala worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Notre Dame and Brown University. Among other awards, he received 2014 O.H. Ammann structural engineering research fellowship, stood runner-up in 2014 computational mechanics poster competition and received 2008 German academic exchange fellowship. Dr. Yellavajjala is interested in enabling engineers to design resilient and sustainable structures by developing a fundamental understanding of how construction materials behave until failure under service and extreme loading conditions using principles of theoretical and experimental solid mechanics. Close