Gianluca Iaccarino
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University | HAI Faculty Affiliate, Stanford HAI
Gianluca Iaccarino is the Robert Bosch Chair and a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford University (https://me.stanford.edu).
He received his PhD in 2005 from the Politecnico di Bari in Italy and spent several years at the Center for Turbulence Research (a joint institute between NASA Ames and Stanford) before joining the Stanford faculty in 2007. Since 2014, he has served as Director of the Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP) Center at Stanford, a $20 million research initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. The Center focuses on multiphysics simulations, uncertainty quantification, and exascale computing (http://exascale.stanford.edu).
In 2010, he was honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by President Obama. In recent years, he has received best paper awards from AIAA, ASME IMECE, and Turbo Expo Conferences.
Throughout his career, his research and teaching interests have spanned a wide range of topics, consistently centered on the use of computing and data to solve complex problems in energy, biomedicine, aerodynamics, propulsion, and design.