Aluru Invested as Named Professor

6/25/2012 By Kathryn L. Heine

Professor Narayana AluruProfessor Narayana Aluru was invested as the Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor on October 17. Since joining Illinois as an assistant professor in 1998, he has significantly advanced the understanding of physics at the micro- and nanoscale--particularly with respect to micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) and nanofluidics.

Written by By Kathryn L. Heine

Professor Narayana Aluru
Professor Narayana Aluru
Professor Narayana Aluru
Professor Narayana Aluru was invested as the Richard W. Kritzer Distinguished Professor on October 17. Since joining Illinois as an assistant professor in 1998, he has significantly advanced the understanding of physics at the micro- and nanoscale--particularly with respect to micro- and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS and NEMS) and nanofluidics. He has published more than 100 journal articles on multiphysics and multiscale computational analysis of micro- and nano-devices, while developing advanced computational methods and novel theories for non-continuum effects in mechanical, electrostatic and fluidic energy domains at small scales. A coauthor of Microflows and Nanoflows: Fundamentals and Simulation, his findings have received more than 1600 citations and appeared in such prestigious publications as Physical Review Letters and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Aluru received a PhD in civil engineering (major) and electrical engineering (minor) from Stanford University in 1995, an MS in civil engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1991, and a BS in civil engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS, Pilani) in 1989. He received a Faculty Early Development (CAREER) Award in 1999, two National Center for Supercomputing Applications Faculty Fellow Awards (1999 and 2006), the Distinguished Young Author Award from the international journal Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, a Xerox Award for Faculty Research in 2002, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award in 2006, and the R. H. Gallagher Young Investigator Award from the United States Association for Computational Mechanics in 2007. He was named a Willett Faculty Scholar for the period 2002-2008.

An affiliate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Department of Bioengineering, and six research centers, he co-chairs the Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures Research Theme at the Beckman Institute, and served as the campus leader of the National Science Foundation’s effort to share knowledge and resources about nanotechnology with others in academia. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems and serves on the Editorial Board of a number of other journals.


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This story was published June 25, 2012.