CV
Get to know me a little better
Basics
| Name | Bibekananda Datta |
| Label | Postdoctoral Research Associate |
| Url | https://bibekanandadatta.com |
| Summary | Mechanical engineer by training with interests in understanding material behaviors through theory, computation, and experiments. |
Education
Awards
- 2021.08
Best Poster Award
Society of Engineering Science (SES)
- 2012
Dean's Scholarship
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Interests
| Mechanics | |
| Continuum mechanics | |
| Multiphysics theory | |
| Micromechanics | |
| Computational methods |
| Materials | |
| Polymers | |
| Active hydrogels | |
| Porous materials | |
| Additively manufactured materials |
Skills
| Programming | |
| Fortran | |
| MATLAB | |
| C | |
| Python |
| Computational tools | |
| Abaqus | |
| ANSYS | |
| LS-DYNA | |
| FEniCSx |
Work
- 2025.10 - Present
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Theoretical and computational modeling of polymers in extreme environments.
- 2020.08 - 2025.08
Graduate Research Assistant
Johns Hopkins University
Performed research on understanding the multiphysics behaviors of soft hydrogel materials for soft sensing/ robotics, energy and water harvesting applications.
- 2019.08 - 2020.07
Instructor and Research Assoiciate
Washington State University
Developed continuum dislocation plasticity model for additively manufactured metals and taught classes on numerical method-based engineering analysis.
- 2017.08 - 2019.08
Graduate Research Assistant
Washington State University
Performed research on failure mechanisms of Cu interconnects and growth of intermetallics in Cu-Sn micro solder joints in 3D electronic packagings.
Publications
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2026.08 A finite viscoelastic constitutive model for low to high strain rate response of elastomers with application of strain rate-induced glass transition
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
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2024.05 A Reactive Electrochemomechanical Theory for Growth and Remodeling of Polyelectrolyte Hydrogels and Application to Dynamic Polymerization of DNA Hydrogels
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
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2022.12
Volunteer
- 2023.08 - 2024.04
Organizer, Mechanics and Materials Seminar
MechE, Johns Hopkins University
Organized student-run seminar classes, managed communication, presentation schedule, speaker invitations, and food distribution.
- 2012.05 - 2016.12