Charbel Farhat

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Charbel Farhat is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering Professor, and by courtesy, of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University in Palo Alto California.

Farhat and his research group design, analyze, develop, and validate mathematical models and computational methods for the high-performance simulation of multidisciplinary engineering and technological problems. They specialize in distributed computing and massively parallel processing. Recent efforts focused on and continue to address structural dynamics, contact problems, nonlinear aeroelasticity of fighter aircraft, fluid-structure interaction, underwater acoustics, inverse problems, and shape optimization. Current emphasis is on multiscale methods, dynamic data-driven systems, model reduction, near-real-time computing, and large-scale applications in aerospace, mechanical, naval, and marine engineering.

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Charbel Farhat is Professor, former Chair of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, and former Director of the Center for Aerospace Structures at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (1987). He is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society Gordon Bell Award (2002), the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM) Computational Mechanics Award (2002), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Rocky Mountain Section Engineer of the Year Award (2001), the Department of Defense Modeling and Simulation Award (2001), the US Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM) Medal of Computational and Applied Sciences (2001), the IACM Award in Computational Mechanics for Young Investigators (1998), the USACM R. H. Gallagher Special Achievement Award for Young Investigators (1997), the IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award (1997), the IBM Sup'Prize Achievement Award (1995), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Aerospace Structures and Materials Best Paper Award (1994), the Society for Automotive Engineers (SAE) Arch T. Colwell Merit Award (1993), the CRAY Research Award (1990), a TRW fellowship (1989), the United States Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989), and the Control Data Corporation PACER Award (1987).

Professor Farhat is Vice Chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics' Activity Group on Supercomputing (2003-2006), Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2003), Fellow of the International Association of Computational Mechanics (2002), Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (2001), Fellow of the US Association of Computational Mechanics (2001), and Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1999). He has been an AGARD lecturer on aeroelasticity and computational mechanics at several distinguished European institutions, and a keynote speaker at numerous international scientific meetings. He is the author of over 200 refereed publications on aeroelasticity, computational fluid dynamics on moving grids, computational structural mechanics, computational acoustics, supercomputing, and parallel processing. His research program has been and is currently funded by several government and private agencies including the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the NASA Langley Research Center, the NASA Ames Research Center, the NASA Lewis Research Center, the Naval Research Laboratory, the Office of Naval Research, the Department of Energy, the Sandia National Laboratories, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, TRW, the FMC Corporation, and the Lockheed-Martin Corporation.