Prof. Farhat Charbel
Charbel Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures and the Director of the Stanford-KACST Center of Excellence for Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering (US); a Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK); a Doctor Honoris Causa from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, and Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay; a designated ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering; and a Fellow of AIAA, ASME, IACM, SES, SIAM, USACM, and WIF. He has trained so far about 100 PhD and post-doctoral students. For his research on aeroelasticity, aeroacoustic scattering, CFD, dynamic data-driven systems, fluid-structure interaction, high performance computing, model reduction, and physics-based machine learning, he has received many professional and academic distinctions including: the Ashley Award for Aeroelasticity and the Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Award from AIAA; the Spirit of St Louis Medal and a Lifetime Achievement Award from ASME; the Gordon Bell Prize and the Sidney Fernbach Award from IEEE; the Gauss-Newton Medal from IACM; the Grand Prize from the Japan Society for Computational Engineering Science; the John von Neumann Medal from USACM; and the Olof B. Widlund Prize for Excellence in Domain Decomposition Methods from DDM.org. He served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the US Air Force and on the Space Technology Industry-Government-University Roundtable. He was also selected by the US Navy recruiters as a Primary Key-Influencer and flown by the Blue Angels.
