Aditi Chattopadhyay is an Indian-American mechanical and aerospace engineer known for her research on wide-ranging topics including composite laminates.
[1] She is Regents Professor and Ira A. Fulton Chair Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Arizona State University, where she directs the Adaptive Intelligent Materials & Systems Center.
[2] Chattopadhyay earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 1980.
She went to Georgia Tech for graduate study in aerospace engineering, earning a master's degree and Ph.D.
In 2013 the Indian Institute of Technology gave her their Distinguished Alumnus Award.