Phani Saketh Dasika earned his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 2020 from Ramaiah Institute of Technology, India. He earned his master's degree in civil engineering in 2022 at Purdue, where he will earn his PhD in CE in August 2025. During his doctoral research, he has investigated bioinspired architected materials using solid mechanics, computational modeling, and experimental design. He has contributed to projects on sound filtering, mosquito antennae, feather-based shape memory, and beetle-inspired thermal regulation. His research has led to a licensed biopsy medical device, a patent application for a UTM test rig, and a multitude of awards, honors, conferences, panel discussions, and publications. In his future research, he will combine solid mechanics, AI, and biological insights to build adaptive materials for robotics, sensing, infrastructure, and healthcare. He believes every educator must ask: "What is the value we offer that AI cannot replace?" At Purdue, Dasika won the Lyles Teaching Fellowship, leading instruction for 150+ students in a structural analysis course. He also helped co-develop and taught 3D printing for infrastructure applications, guiding students in a semester-long project that culminated in the installation of a concrete picnic table on campus. His goal as a professor is to create a lab where transparency, access, and collaboration are built into the culture. He believes classrooms should not just be active in format, but reflective in tone, where inclusion is not a bonus, but a baseline.

Research Interests

Materials, Machine Learning, Bio-inspired