Charbel Farhat

Charbel Farhat is the Vivian Church Hoff Professor of Aircraft Structures in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, where he also serves as a professor in the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. From 2008 to 2023, he chaired the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, serving from 2022 to 2023 as its inaugural James and Anna Marie Spilker Chair. He directed the Stanford-King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Center of Excellence for Aeronautics and Astronautics (2014--2024) and has served on multiple national advisory boards, including the Space Technology Industry-Government-University Roundtable (2017--2023), the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (2015--2019), and the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Emerging Technology and Research Advisory Committee (2008--2018). From 2007 to 2018, he was Director of the Army High Performance Computing Research Center at Stanford. Recognized by the U.S. Navy as a Primary Key-Influencer, he flew with the Blue Angels during Fleet Week 2014.

He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a member of three national academies: the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), and the Lebanese Academy of Sciences. His honors include a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the Department of Defense and Docteur Honoris Causa degrees from Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, and Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Metiers. He is a laureate of the 2024 Kuwait Prize in Applied Sciences (Engineering Sciences), the Takreem USA Foundation Award for Scientific and Technological Achievement, and is recognized as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering.

Farhat is a Fellow of several professional societies, including AIAA, ASME, IACM, SES, SIAM, USACM, and WIF. He was knighted in the Order of Academic Palms and awarded the Chevalier Medal by the Prime Minister of France. His distinctions include the ASME Lifetime Achievement Award and Spirit of St. Louis Medal; the AIAA Ashley Award for Aeroelasticity, Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials Award, Collier Aerospace HyperX/AIAA Structures Award, and Journal Authors Seminar Award; the SAE International Computational Fluid Dynamics Award; the Aurel Stodola Medal from ETH Zurich; and the ALERT Geomaterials Medal. From USACM, he has received the John von Neumann Medal, the Computational & Applied Sciences Award, and the R.H. Gallagher Special Achievement Award. His contributions to computational mechanics have also been recognized with the Gauss-Newton Medal, IACM Award, Computational Mechanics Award, and Young Investigator Award from IACM. Additionally, he has received the IEEE Gordon Bell Prize and Sidney Fernbach Award, the Grand Prize from the Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science, the Department of Defense Modeling & Simulation Award, and the NSF/White House Presidential Young Investigator Award.

From 2014 to 2024, Farhat served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering and, from 2017 to 2024, of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational Physics and a member of the editorial boards of eight international scientific journals. Provided by Wikipedia