Emerging Topics in Mechanics

2022 Attendees

Fatemeh Ahmadpoor

Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology

Marco Amabili

Professor and Canada Research Chair in Vibrations and Fluid-Structure Interaction in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada

Haleh Ardebili

Bill D. Cook Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston

Roberto Ballarini

Thomas and Laura Hsu Professor and Department Chair at the University of Houston

Theocharis Baxevanis

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston

Zdeněk Pavel Bažant

McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University

Yuri Bazilevs

E. Paul Sorensen Professor of Engineering at the Brown School of Engineering

Markus J. Buehler

Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Engineering and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jian Cao

Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Civil and Environmental Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the Northwestern Initiative for Manufacturing Science and Innovation (NIMSI) at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University

Wei Chen

Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Wilson-Cook Professor in Engineering Design at the Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering

Huanyu Cheng

Assistant Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics (ESM) and Materials Research Institute (MRI) at The Pennsylvania State University

Richard Christensen

Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of Mechanical Engineering, Emeritus at Stanford University

Samantha Daly

Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Renata Dmowska

Research Associate in Geophysics, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and occasional Lecturer (for a graduate course on Earthquake Source Processes), Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University

Horacio D. Espinosa

James N. and Nancy J. Farley Professor in Manufacturing & Entrepreneurship; Director, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Program; Director of the Institute for Cellular Engineering Technologies; Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Biomedical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University

Huajian Gao

Walter H. Annenberg Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Brown University; Distinguished University Professor at Nanyang Technological University; Scientific Director of the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore

Rinaldo Garziera

Professor at the University of Parma

Steve Granick

Professor Emeritus at The Grainger College of Engineering
Institute for Basic Science in South Korea

Pradeep Guduru

Professor of Engineering in the Experimental Solid Mechanics Laboratory at the School of Engineering at Brown University

Yuhang Hu

Associate Professor in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology

Thomas J.R. Hughes

Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and Peter O’Donnell Jr. Chair in Computational and Applied Mathematics at the Oden Institute at the University of Texas at Austin

John W. Hutchinson

Abbott and James Lawrence Research Professor of Engineering and Senior Research Scientist at Harvard University

Hanqing Jiang

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Westlake University

Shailendra Joshi

Bill D. Cook Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston

Yashashree Kulkarni

Bill D. Cook Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston

Liping Liu

Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Nanshu Lu

Temple Foundation Endowed Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin

Kalyana Nakhsatrala

Associate Professor at the University of Houston

Alan Needleman

Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering; University Distinguished Professor; Royce E. Wisenbaker ’39 Chair II at Texas A&M University

Thao (Vicky) Nguyen

Professor and Marlin U. Zimmerman, Jr. Faculty Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering

Julio M. Ottino

Dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor, and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University

Glaucio Paulino

Sin-I Cheng Professor of Engineering Science at Princeton University

George M. Pharr

TEES Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Materials Science at Texas A&M University

David Y.H. Pui

Regents Professor, LM Fingerson/TSI Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota

Guruswami Ravichandran

Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Otis Booth Leadership Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology

J. N. Reddy

Distinguished Professor, Regents’ Professor, and inaugural holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University

James R. Rice

Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at Harvard University

John Rogers

Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Chemistry and Neurological Surgery; Founding Director of the Center on Bio-Integrated Electronics at Northwestern University

Ares Rosakis

Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology

M Taher A Saif

Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor at The Grainger College of Engineering
University of Illinois

Pradeep Sharma

M.D. Anderson Chair Professor & Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston

Thomas Siegmund

Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University

Katepalli Raju Sreenivasan

Dean Emeritus of NYU Tandon School of Engineering, The Eugene Kleiner Professor for Innovation in Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Physics (Faculty of Arts and Science) and Mathematics (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) at New York University

Zhigang Suo

Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett Professor of Mechanics and Materials at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Subra Suresh

President and Distinguished University Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Michael Sutton

Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Carolina

Shuodao Wang

Assistant Professor in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Oklahoma State University

Jianliang Xiao

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder

Shelly Zhang

Assistant Professor at both the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and the Mechanical Science and Engineering Department in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Faculty Fellow at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Ruike Renee Zhao

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University

Yong Zhu

Andrew A. Adams Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University