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J.N. Reddy earned a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, was Research Scientist for Lockheed Missiles and Space Company during l974.75, and taught at the University of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1980 and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University from 1980 to 1992. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor and the inaugural holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair at Texas A&M University, College Station. Dr. Reddy has published over 400 journal papers and 16 textbooks on theoretical formulations and numerical simulations of problems in solid and structural mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, numerical heat transfer, computational biology, geology and geophysics, mechanics of nanosystems, and applied mathematics.

Dr. Reddy is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the 1998 Nathan M. Newmark Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers, the 2003 Computational Solid Mechanics award from the U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics, the 2004 Distinguished Research Award from the American Society for Composites, and an honorary degree (Honoris Causa) from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (2009). Dr. Reddy is a fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society for Composites, International Association of Computational Mechanics, U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics, the Aeronautical Society of India, and the Institution of Structural Engineers, U.K. Dr. Reddy serves on the editorial boards of two dozen journals, and as the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Mechanics Reviews, Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, International Journal of Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, and International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics. As a result of his extensive publications of archival journal papers and books, Dr. Reddy is recognized by ISI Highly Cited Researchers with over 10,000 citations and an H-index of over 40 to his credit. A more complete resume with links to journal papers can be found at http://authors.isihighlycited.com/ or http://www.tamu.edu/acml.

D.K. Gartling is a senior scientist in the Engineering Sciences Center at Sandia Nationa Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and completed the diploma course at th von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Brussels, Belgium. After completion of his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, he joined the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Dr. Gartling was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Sydney, Australia, under a Fulbright Fellowship, and later he was a Supervisor in the Fluid and Thermal Sciences Department at Sandia National Laboratories. Dr. Gartling has published numerous papers dealing with Þnite element model development and finite element analysis of heat transfer and fluid dynamics problems of practical importance. He is the recipient of the 2001 Computational Fluid Dynamics Award from the U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics and is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Dr. Gartling is presently a member of several professional societies, serves on the editorial boards o several journals, and is the Co-Editor of International Journal for Numerical Methods I Fluids.