Çağlar Oskay

Çağlar Oskay is an engineer and Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering at Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, he is a professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering; since 2022 he serves as chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is also the director of the Multiscale Computational Mechanics Laboratory.

Oskay received a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, as well as M.Sc. degrees in applied mathematics and civil engineering and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He joined Vanderbilt in 2006.

In 2017, he was named a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He was additionally made a fellow of the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics in 2025.