Jacob Fish
—The Rosalind and John J. Redfern, Jr. ’33 Chaired Professor in Engineering
— Professor of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Information Technology,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Education:
— B.S., Structural Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 1982
— M.S., Structural Mechanics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 1985
— Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, 1989

Career Highlights:
Dr. Fish has 20 years of experience (both industry and academia) in the field of multiscale computational engineering, which bridges the gap between modeling, simulation and design of products based on multiscale principles. Dr. Fish has published over one hundred journal articles and book chapters. Two of his papers, one on development of multilevel solution techniques for large scale systems presented at the 1995 ASME International Computers in Engineering Conference and the second one, on fatigue crack growth in aging aircraft presented at the 1993 Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference have won the Best Paper Awards. Dr. Fish is a recipient of 2005 USACM Computational Structural Mechanics Award given “in recognition of outstanding and sustained contributions to the broad field of Computational Structural Mechanics”. Dr. Fish is a Fellow of both the United States Association for Computational Mechanics and the International Association for Computational Mechanics. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering and Editorial Board Member of International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering and International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science & Mechanics. He served as the Associate Editor of Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Editor of the Bulletin of United States Association for Computational Mechanics and chaired the ASCE Computational Mechanics committee. He is the past President of United States Association for Computational Mechanics, past member of the National Research Council for the Air and Ground Vehicle Technology and currently serves on the IUTAM Working Party on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics.

Dr. Fish received an NSF Young Investigator Award, NASA Langley research grant related to High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT), contracts from Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Sikorski, ALCOA, Northrop-Grumman, GE and Allison Engines on various aspects of structural integrity, AFOSR, ONR, SANDIA and DARPA grants for development of multiscale computational techniques for advanced materials and structures. Dr. Fish is currently directing the National Science Foundation Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT) program at Rensselaer. For his "significant contributions to computational science and engineering" he received 2003 Rensselaer School of Engineering Research Award. Dr. Fish co-chaired the Seventh U.S. National Congress of Computational Mechanics (over 1200 participants), and the First International Workshop on Multiscale Computational Engineering. He delivered over fifty invited talks in US, Europe, South America and Japan, presented several international keynote lectures and taught short courses on multiscale computational engineering in US and Europe. Dr. Fish served as a consultant to NY Department of Law, GE RD, Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, ANSYS, SDRC and EMRC software houses.

Research Areas:
Fish's research interests include advanced materials, high performance computing, and structural integrity.

Selected Publications:
J. Fish, "Bridging the scales in nano engineering and science," to appear in Journal of Nanoparticle Research, (2006).

H. Waisman and J. Fish, "Space-time multigrid method for molecular dynamics simulations," submitted to Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Engng., (2005).

J. Fish , W. Chen, and Y. Tang, "Generalized Mathematical Homogenization of Atomistic Media at Finite Temperatures," International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, Vol.3 Issue 4,(2005).

J. Fish and Z. Yuan, "Multiscale Enrichment based on Partition of Unity for Nonperiodic Fields and Nonlinear Problems," submitted to Computational Mechanics , (2005).

W. Chen and J. Fish, "Mathematical Homogenization Perspective of Virial Stress," accepted in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, (2005).

J. G. Michopoulos, C. Farhat and J. Fish, "Survey on Modeling and Simulation of Multiphysics Systems," Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering Vol 5, Issue 3, 198-213 (2005)

J. Fish and C. Oskay, "Nonlocal Multiscale Fatigue Model," Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures Vol 12, Issue 6, 485-500 (2005)

W. Chen and J. Fish, "A Generalized Space-Time Mathematical Homogenization Theory for Bridging Atomistic and Continuum Scales," submitted to International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (2004)

Contact Information:
Jacob Fish
4042 Jonsson Engineering Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street
Troy, N.Y. 12180 USA
(518) 276-6191

E-mail: fishj@rpi.edu
www.rpi.edu/~fishj/

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