Faculty Director of the Richmond Field Station
Tarek I. Zohdi is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Chair of the Designated Emphasis Program in Computational and Data Science and Engineering, Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering and holder of the W. C. Hall Family Endowed Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley. He also holds a Faculty Scientist position at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and Faculty Director of the Richmond Field Station https://rfs.berkeley.edu/contact-us/. He has published over 200 archival refereed journal papers and eight books. He is an Editor-in-Chief of the leading journal in his field, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME) and serves on 11 boards of international journals. He is also the co-founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Computational Particle Mechanics (CPM). Overall, he has given more than 240 plenary, keynote and contributed lectures at conferences, universities and other research institutions. He is active in modeling, high-performance simulation and machine-learning to develop digital-twin technologies in six industrial research areas (1) drone, LiDAR and hyperspectral technologies (2) advanced manufacturing processes (3) fire-control technologies (4) next-generation food systems (5) high-strength fabric and (6) highly heterogeneous and composite materials. In 2000, he received the Zienkiewicz Prize and Medal given by The Royal Institution of Civil Engineers in London. In 2003, he received the Junior Achievement Award given by the American Academy of Mechanics. In 2008, he was elected Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) and in 2009 he was elected Fellow of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM). In 2017, he received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award; the highest award for teaching at UC Berkeley. In 2012, he was elected President of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (2012-2014). In 2019 he was elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM)-only one new Fellow is inducted in the nation and in the Americas each year. In 2020, he received the prestigious Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Prize) in the area of Mechanics in recognition of lifetime achievements. For more information see http://www.me.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/tarek-i-zohdi.
