informationGeorgia Institute of Technology, USA
Dr. Akash Dixit holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is an independent consultant and engineering educator, serving aerospace and structural engineering markets in Europe and the U.S., including work for organizations such as NASA. His research focuses on structural health monitoring (SHM), damage mechanics, and computer-aided design/engineering (CAD/CAE). He developed a unified damage modeling framework that enables damage identification and characterization in engineering structures and extends to cross-disciplinary problems, including biological pathologies and financial market fluctuations. He is the author of 7 journal articles and 23 conference papers (all first-authored), holds two patents, and has delivered over 30 invited talks at institutions including IIT Delhi, Penn State, Virginia Tech, and Stanford University. He has held faculty positions as a Special Instructor at Oakland University (with job security equivalent to tenure) and a Teaching Fellow at Georgia Tech’s Woodruff School, where he received teaching excellence awards and the Worldwide Research Award from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His scholarly contributions include influential papers on damage mechanics in the Journal of Applied Mechanics and the Journal of Sound and Vibration, a foundational paper on the axioms of structural health monitoring. Dr. Dixit also has a recent 2025 paper challenging time dilation concept of the Theory of Relativity of Einstein, which became a top download on SSRN in the physical sciences.
