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Dr. Alexander H.-D. Cheng came to Ole Miss in 2001 as Professor and Chair of Civil Engineering. He is currently Dean of Engineering. 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 Vice President of Engineering Mechanics Institute, ASCE. 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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