Samantha Daly

Biography

Sam Daly is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She received her Ph.D. from Caltech in 2007 and subsequently joined the University of Michigan, where she was on the faculty until 2016 prior to her move to UCSB. Her research interests lie at the intersection of experimental mechanics, materials science, and data science. Currently, the group is engaged in the development of new methods for multi-scale material characterization and application of machine learning to understand the deformation and failure of advanced structural materials. Prof. Daly is a Fellow of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and serves as an Associate Editor of Applied Mechanics Reviews, Experimental Mechanics, and Strain.

Research

Research in the Daly group lies at the intersection of experimental mechanics, materials science, and data science. The group is engaged in the development of new methods for multi-scale material characterization and in the integration of physics-informed machine learning to understand the deformation and failure mechanisms of metallic alloys and ceramic composites.