Masud wins J.N. Reddy Medal

Professor Arif Masud has been awarded the J.N. Reddy Medal for Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures “for contributions to the mechanics of coupled field problems, stabilized and variational multiscale methods, and discontinuous Galerkin methods.” 

Established in 2018, the J.N. Reddy Medal is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of advanced theoretical and computational methods for the modeling of natural and engineered materials. It honors J.N. Reddy, a well-known authority in applied and computational mechanics and founding Editor-in-Chief of MAMS Journal, and commemorates his contributions as a researcher, teacher and author of numerous textbooks on numerical methods for the broad fields of solid mechanics, fluid mechanics and nonlinear material modeling.
The award will be presented at the International Conference on Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures in College Station, Texas, in August 2023, where Masud will present the J.N. Reddy Medal Plenary Lecture.

Masud is the 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. 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.