The 2023 JN Reddy Medal Inaugural Recipient

Arif Masud

John and Eileen Blumenschein Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and
Department of Aerospace Engineering,
The Grainger College of Engineering;
Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences,
Carle-Illinois College of Medicine;
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Citation:

For contributions to the mechanics of coupled field problems, stabilized and variational multiscale methods, and discontinuous Galerkin methods.

Arif Masud is John and Eileen Blumenschein Professor of Mechanics and Computations in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences at the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine, UIUC. His research interests lie in the broad field of computational science and engineering, and he is well-known for his seminal work on Stabilized and Variational Multiscale Methods for complex multiphysics problems in engineering science. He has pioneered the Variational Multiscale Discontinuous Galerkin (VMDG) class of coupling methods for discrete interfacial mechanics in fluids and solids. These methods facilitate the embedding of Data-Driven techniques while preserving the consistency of the underlying physics-based models. His work on mixture theory-based computational material models for coupled thermo-chemo-mechanical processes in the curing of materials has led to novel applications in additive manufacturing. Dr. Masud has also made fundamental and pioneering contributions to the development of variationally derived closure models for turbulence, mixed methods for thermally driven nanofluids, and stabilized methods for non-Newtonian fluids for application in biofluid dynamics.

Arif Masud is President of the Society of Engineering Science (SES) 2023, and President-Elect of the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) 2024. He has served as an Associate Editor (AE) of the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics (2004-2018), AE of the ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics (2006-2012), and currently serves on the editorial boards of twelve international journals in engineering and applied mechanics. He is former Chair of the Computational Mechanics Committee of ASCE, and former Chair of the Fluid Mechanics Committee of ASME. Arif was the General Conference Chair for the Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference of ASME (McMAT- 2011), Co-Chair for the Finite Elements in Flow Problems Conference (FEF-2019), and the General Conference Chair for the US National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM-2021). Dr. Masud has received several honors and awards for research accomplishments from various prestigious organizations. He is a Fellow of USACM, IACM, AAM, ASME, EMI, and SES. He was awarded the 2019 G.I. Taylor Medal by the Society of Engineering Science, and the 2022 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award and Medal by AMD-ASME.

Link to Web Page: http://amasud.web.engr.illinois.edu/