Hughes Professor and Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Education
Biography
Assad Oberai is a Professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department at the Viterbi School at USC. Prior to joining USC, he was a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the School of Engineering, and the Associate Director of the Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC). Assad was an Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Boston University from 2001 to 2005, and joined the Rensselaer faculty in 2006. He received a PhD from Stanford University in 1998, an MS from the University of Colorado in 1994, and a Bachelor’s degree from Osmania University in 1992, all in Mechanical Engineering. Assad is on the Editorial Board of three journals, including PlosOne.
Research Summary
Assad heads the Computation and Data Driven Discovery (CD3) group in AME. The CD3 group designs, implements and applies data- and physics-based models and algorithms to solve interesting problems in engineering and science. Problems such as better detection, diagnosis and care of diseases like cancer, understanding the role of mechanics and physics in medicine and biology, modeling the evolution of multi-physics and multiscale systems, and reduced-order models for aerospace and mechanical systems.
Awards
- 2023 American Academy of Mechanics Fellow
- 2020 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Fellow
- 2016 American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow
- 2015 United States Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM) Fellow
- 2015 School of Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Research Excellence Award
- 2014 School of Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Outstanding Team Award
- 2010 Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona Erasmus Mundus Master Course Lectureship
- 2009 Humboldt Foundation Humboldt Foundation Award for experienced researchers
- 2007 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award
- 2005 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
- 2004 Department of Energy Early Career PI Award
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