J. TINSLEY ODEN MEDAL

2023Karen Willcox, The University of Texas at Austin

For contributions to model reduction and multi-fidelity methods for the design and optimal control of high-dimensional systems with uncertainties.

2021Somnath Ghosh, Johns Hopkins University

For outstanding fundamental contributions to Computational Mechanics of Materials through the development of innovative methodologies in spatio-temporal multi-scale modeling of heterogeneous materials transcending the Mechanics and Materials communities.

2019Suvranu De, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

For pioneering contributions to meshfree methods, multiscale modeling and real time computing.

2017, Narayana Aluru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

For outstanding contributions to multiphysics and multiscale analysis of micro and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS & NEMS) and micro and nanofluids, and for leadership in computational science and engineering education

2015, Douglas Arnold, University of Minnesota

For seminal contributions as a research mathematician and educator specializing in computational mathematics, interdisciplinary research, numerical analysis, FEM, PDEs, mechanics, the interplay between these fields, and FE exterior calculus

2013, George Em Karniadakis, Brown University

For outstanding contributions to stochastic differential equations, in particular modelling uncertainty with polynomial chaos and development of spectral and hp element methods on unstructured meshes

2011, K.C. Park, University of Colorado at Boulder

For inventing staggered time-integration procedures, and subsequently generalizing to it partitioned methods for a wide class of multiphysics application in computational mechanics

2009, Leszek Demkowicz, The University of Texas at Austin

For pioneering work in both the theory and implementation of hp-Finite Element Methods, its application to numerous areas of computational mechanics, and in particular to computational electromagnetics

2007, Stanley Osher, University of California, Los Angeles

2005, Thomas (Yizhao) Hou, California Institute of Technology

For his outstanding contributions in developing innovative multiscale analysis and computational methods, and their applications to flows in porous media and turbulence.

2003 Joseph E. Flaherty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

For pioneering work on adaptive methods including a posteriori error estimation, strategies for time dependent problems, order variation and refinement, and parallel computation with dynamic load balancing

2001, Charbel Farhat, Stanford University

1999, Carlos A. Felippa, University of Colorado at Boulder

1997, Mark Shephard, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute