Mailing address:
Oden Institute, 201 E. 24th Street
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1229

Phone: (512) 471-1769
e-mail: aluru@utexas.edu

Education:

B.E. (Hons), Birla Institute of Technology & Science (Pilani, India), 1989
M.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY), 1991
Ph.D., Stanford University (Stanford, CA), 1995
Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA), 1995-1997

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Academic Positions:

Professor, Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin, 2021 – present
Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC, 2006 – 2021
Director, Computational Science and Engineering, UIUC, 2012 – 2017
Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, UIUC, 2004 – 2006
Associate Professor, Dept. of General Engineering, UIUC, 2002 – 2003
Assistant Professor, Dept. of General Engineering, UIUC, 1998 – 2002

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External Leadership Positions/Activities:

Board of Directors, Society of Engineering Science (SES), 2025 – 2027
Vice Chair, Applied Mechanics Division, ASME, 2024 – 2025
Director, United States (U.S.) Association for Computational Mechanics, 2024 – 2028.
President, United States (U.S.) Association for Computational Mechanics, 2022 – 2024.
Vice President, United States (U.S.) Association for Computational Mechanics, 2020 – 2022.
Secretary, United States (U.S.) Association for Computational Mechanics, 2018 – 2020.
Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Nano-Mechanical Interfaces, 2015.
Vice Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Nano-Mechanical Interfaces, 2013.

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Honors/Awards for Research:

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1999
NCSA Faculty Fellow, UIUC, 1999 – 2000, 2006 – 2007, 2014 – 2015
CMES Distinguished Young Author Award, 2001
Willett Faculty Scholar, College of Engineering, UIUC, 2002 – 2008
Xerox Award, College of Engineering, UIUC, 2002
Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2006
USACM Gallagher Young Investigator Award, 2007
Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor, UIUC, 2009 – 2021
University Scholar, UIUC, 2010
Fellow, United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), 2011
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2011
Speaker, Southwest Mechanics Lecture Series, 2017
J. Tinsley Oden Medal, USACM, 2017
Distinguished Alumnus Award (BITS, Pilani), 2017
Fellow, American Physical Society (APS), 2017
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018
Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), 2020
Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Division Award, ASME, 2020
Ernest Cockrell, Sr. Chair in Engineering #1, The University of Texas at Austin, 2021 – 2023
Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #9, The University of Texas at Austin, 2023
Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, ASME, 2024

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Honors/Awards for Teaching at UIUC:

• College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, 2012
• Engineering Council Award for Excellence in Advising, 2012
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students: Fall 2008 (for ME370), Spring 2009 (for ME310), Fall 2009 (for ME 471), Spring 2010 (for ME598: Meshless & Particle Methods), Fall 2010 (for ME370), Spring 2011 (for ME370), Fall 2011 (for ME598: Computational MEMS & Microfluidics), Spring 2012 (for ME471), Fall 2012 (for ME370); Fall 2014 (for ME310); Fall 2017 (for TAM 470); Spring 2018 (for ME471)

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Editorial Boards/Conference Committees:

Editorial Board, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2011 — Present
Associate Editor, IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2004 — 2014
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Jan, 2005 — Dec, 2005
Editorial Board, International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, 2003 — Present
Editorial Board, International Journal of Computational Methods, 2013 — Present
Editorial Board, Interaction and Multiscale Mechanics. An International Journal, 2007 — Present
Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 2017 — Present
Associate Editor, Journal of Computational Electronics, 2002 — 2014
Associate Editor, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2015 — 2020
Technical/Scientific Program Committee Member: MSM (1998-2006), ASME MEMS (1999-2001), ICCES (2000-2003), ICCAD (2002,2003), IEEE-Nano (2003), USNCCM X (2009), USNCCM XII (2013), WCCM (2018), USNCCM 17 (2023), WCCM (2024)