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February 6, 2020
National Academy of Engineering Elects 86 Members and 18 International Members
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 86 new members and 18 international members, announced NAE President John L. Anderson today. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,309 and the number of international members to 281.
Prof. Kevrekidis was recognized for his research on multiscale mathematical modeling and...
May 30, 2017
Engineer and applied mathematician Ioannis Kevrekidis has developed computer models that aided scientists in studies of how clusters of neurons synchronize, the swarming patterns of insects, the development of bubbles in fluidized reactors, and the phenomenon of urban sprawl.
April 12, 2017
Johns Hopkins faculty member Yannis Kevrekidis has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
From his citation: He transformed simulation and analysis of complex, nonlinear transport and reaction processes across multiple time and space scales. His work encompasses algorithms for systematic computation of instabilities and spatiotemporal pattern formation in flow and reacting systems; computer-assisted, data-informed model reduction...
May 24, 2016
Yannis G. Kevrekidis was elected as Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), as approved by the AIChE Board of Directors. Kevrekidis was recognized as “both an inspired and original researcher and an effective educator… due to the interdisciplinary nature of his work, he has also been an ambassador and a link between our profession and the applied and computational mathematics, physics, and chemistry communities.” As described in AIChE's...
March 3, 2016
Prof. Kevrekidis was selected to receive the 2016 W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize. The Prize, consisting of an engraved medal and a monetary award of $10,000, is awarded every year by the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) at their Annual Meeting. Kevrekidis was cited for his “pioneering work on the ‘equation-free’ framework for computational...
January 14, 2016
Prof. Kevrekidis was selected by the University of Houston Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering faculty as the 2016 Payatakes Memorial Lecturer. Alkis Payatakes was a former member of the UH faculty who made seminal contributions to transport phenomena and fluid mechanics focus on porous media, colloidal systems, and biological media. The lecture will be given in April 2016.
November 4, 2015
Prof. Yannis Kevrekidis was elected as a Corresponding Member by the Parliament of the Academy of Athens on the 29th October 2015. He is associated with the branch of Chemical Engineering Classroom of Sciences. Click here to see the full announcement on the academy's website (in Greek...
October 6, 2015
As a Einstein Visiting Fellow, Prof. Kevrekidis has a two year association with all universities in Berlin to support collaborative research. The Einstein Foundation Berlin supports exceptionally talented academics to work in Berlin as international Visiting Fellows with research groups in Berlin. Founded in 2009 by the State of Berlin, the...
October 6, 2015
Prof. Kevrekidis will participate in the semester-long program Stochastic Dynamical Systems in Biology: Numerical Methods and Applications to be held at the Isaac Newton Mathematical Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge in the Spring of 2016.
The program theme notes that "in the past decades,...
June 3, 2015
Yannis Kevrekidis, Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been appointed as a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow at the Technical University of Munich Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS). Named for Professor Hans Fischer, 1930 Nobel...
February 25, 2013
At a lunch and ceremony on February 22, open to the entire School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Princeton Engineering Council (E-Council) and Graduate Engineering Council (GEC) jointly recognized a record-breaking FOUR members of the CBE department for their excellence in teaching during Fall 2012. Professor Yannis Kevrekidis was recognized for his teaching in the graduate-level course CBE 502, “Mathematical...
April 20, 2012
Fourth-year Chemical and Biological Engineering Ph.D. student Karthikeyan Rajendran has been named as one of three 2012 recipients of the Ray Grimm Memorial Prize. Rajendran, who is working with Professor Yannis Kevrekidis, was recognized with the $4,000 prize, “for his...
June 17, 2010
Yannis Kevrekidis, Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering, will receive the 2010 R. H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). Named in honor of the award’s...