Faculty Profile

Arthi Jayaraman

Professor

Joint Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

Education

Post-Doctorate – 2008 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Doctorate – 2006 North Carolina State University
Masters – 2002 North Carolina State University
Bachelors – 2000 Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)

About Arthi Jayaraman

Arthi Jayaraman is currently a full professor in the Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Delaware (UD), Newark. She is also the director for an NSF-funded NRT graduate traineeship program on ‘Computing and Data Science Training for Materials Innovation, Discovery, and Analytics’. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University and conducted her postdoctoral research in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Jayaraman’s research has been recognized with honors/awards including ACS PMSE Fellow (2025), AIChE COMSEF IMPACT Award (2021), Fellow of the APS (2020), ACS PMSE Young Investigator (2014), AIChE COMSEF Young Investigator Award (2013), and Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Award (2010).

Select Publications

For a complete listing of publications, please view the Full CV.

For a complete listing of publications, please view the Full CV.
1. Modeling and simulations of polymers: a roadmap
  TE Gartner III, A Jayaraman, Macromolecules 52 (3), 755-786
1. Machine Learning for Analyses and Automation of Structural Characterization of Polymer Materials
  S Lu, A Jayaraman, Progress in Polymer Science, 101828
1. Computational Reverse-Engineering Analysis for Scattering Experiments for Form Factor and Structure Factor Determination (“P(q) and S(q) CREASE”)
  CM Heil, Y Ma, B Bharti, A Jayaraman, JACS Au 3 (3), 889-904
1. Computational reverse-engineering analysis for scattering experiments (CREASE) with machine learning enhancement to determine structure of nanoparticle mixtures and solutions
  CM Heil, A Patil, A Dhinojwala, A Jayaraman, ACS central science 8 (7), 996-1007
1. Polydispersity for Tuning the Potential of Mean Force between Polymer Grafted Nanoparticles in a Polymer Matrix
  TB Martin, PM Dodd, A Jayaraman, Physical review letters 110 (1), 018301
1. Understanding the effect of polylysine architecture on DNA binding using molecular dynamics simulations
  RM Elder, T Emrick, A Jayaraman, Biomacromolecules 12 (11), 3870-3879
1. Wetting–dewetting and dispersion–aggregation transitions are distinct for polymer grafted nanoparticles in chemically dissimilar polymer matrix
  TB Martin, et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society 137 (33), 10624-10631
1. Computationally linking molecular features of conjugated polymers and fullerene derivatives to bulk heterojunction morphology
  E Jankowski, HS Marsh, A Jayaraman, Macromolecules 46 (14), 5775-5785
1. Molecular dynamics simulation and PRISM theory study of assembly in solutions of amphiphilic bottlebrush block copolymers
  I Lyubimov, MG Wessels, A Jayaraman, Macromolecules 51 (19), 7586-7599
1. Effect of peptide sequence on the LCST-like transition of elastin-like peptides and elastin-like peptide–collagen-like peptide conjugates: Simulations and experiments
  A Prhashanna, PA Taylor, J Qin, KL Kiick, A Jayaraman, Biomacromolecules 20 (3), 1178-1189

Patents (h3)

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Awards

For a complete listing of awards, please view the Full CV.

2025 American Chemical Society (ACS) Polymeric Materials Science & Engineering (PMSE) Fellowship
2025 Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Chemical Engineering, inaugural “R Kumar Distinguished Visitor & Lecturer”
2025 Featured as Women We Admire’s Top 50 Women Leaders in Delaware
2025 Dow Collegeville Asian Diversity Network Lectureship
2024-25 Selected to be among 15 faculty members in the Presidential Academic Leadership Program, of Delaware
2024 Wayne State BASF Distinguished Lectureship
2023 College of Engineering Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Univ. of Delaware
2021 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum (COMSEF) IMPACT Award
2020 American Physical Society (APS) Fellow
2018 Featured as an Emerging Investigator in Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data
2016 Saville Lectureship, Princeton University
2016 Featured as an Emerging Investigator in Materials Research Express
2014 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award in the Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
2014 Outstanding Faculty Graduate Teaching Award in Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
2014 ACS PMSE Young Investigator
2013 Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
2013 Featured as an Emerging Investigator in Soft Matter
2013 Featured as an Emerging Investigator in Journal of Polymer Science B: Polymer Physics
2013 AIChE COMSEF Young Investigator Award
2011-2012 College of Engineering Dean’s Faculty Fellowship, University of Colorado, Boulder
2011 Outstanding Faculty Undergraduate Teaching Award, Chemical Engineering Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
2010 Department of Energy (DOE) Early CAREER Research Award

Research Areas

Jayaraman’s research lab develops and use molecular models, theory, simulations, and machine learning methods to design and characterize soft materials for a variety of applications. Currently, these are key research thrusts

Machine learning (ML) enabled automated analysis of materials’ characterization data
ML and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for solving chemical industry problems
Polymer, composites, & formulations
Bioderived, bioinspired, & biocompatible soft materials