Dr. Thevamaran joins the Department of Engineering Physics of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2017. Prior to joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Rice University. Dr. Thevamaran has obtained his PhD and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, CA, and his BScEng(Hons) in Civil Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.