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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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