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Dr. Alexander
H.-D. Cheng came to Ole Miss in 2001 as Professor and Chair. Prior
to joining Ole Miss, he taught at University of Delaware (1985-2001),
Columbia University (1982-85), and Cornell University (1981-82).
His research interests include water resources, boundary element
methods, mechanics of porous materials, and nanomechanics. He is
currently Editor of the international journal Engineering Analysis
with Boundary Elements (Elsevier), Editor-in-Chief of a book series
Progress in Water Resources (WIT Press), and was an Associate Editor
of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics (ASCE). He was awarded the
Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize by ASCE in 1994,
the Basic Research Award by the U.S. National Committee for Rock
Mechanics, National Research Council in 1994 and 1999, and the Eminent
Scientist Award, Wessex Institute of Technology in 2001. At Ole
Miss, he received the School of Engineering Faculty Service Award
in 2004, and the Outstanding Engineering Faculty of the Year in
2007. He is the author of two books: Multilayered Aquifer Systems
(Dekker, 2000), and Trefftz and Collocation Method (WIT Press, 2008).
He has also edited more than a dozen books, and more than a dozen
journal special issues. He has published more than one hundred referred
journal papers. He has founded two international conference series:
the International Conference on Saltwater Intrusion and Coastal
Aquifers, and the Biot Conference on Poromechanics. He is an Honorary
Professor of the Department of Engineering, Kings College, University
of Aberdeen, and is on the Board of Directors of the Wessex Institute
of Technology, UK. He served as Chair of Executive Committee of
Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE, and the Vice President for
Academic Affairs of the American Institute of Hydrology. He currently
serves as the Vice President of the newly formed Engineering Mechanics
Institute. He is the PI and co-PI of several million-dollar size
research grants on nanocomposites, infrastructure protection, and
levee protection. He is cited in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who
in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and American Man
and Woman of Science.
Personal web page:
www.olemiss.edu/~acheng
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