Kritzer Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Affiliate, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Affiliate, Department of Bioengineering
Mailing address:
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 333-1180
Fax: (217) 244-4333
e-mail:aluru@illinois.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
Post-Doctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA), 1995-1997
Academic Positions:
Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC, 2006 - present
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
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
ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award, 2006
USACM Gallagher Young Investigator Award, 2007
Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor, 2009
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
Honors/Awards for Teaching:
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 Program Committee Member: MSM (1998-present),
ASME MEMS (1999-2001),
ICCES (2000-2003),
ICCAD (2002,2003),
IEEE-Nano (2003),
USNCCM X (2009),
USNCCM XII (2013),
WCCM (2018)