
Ming-Chen Hsu
Email: jmchsu@iastate.edu
Phone: 515-294-4632
Title(s):
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Biomedical Engineering
Office
2032 Black Engr.
2529 Union Dr.
Ames, IA 50011
Information
Education
- PhD, Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, September 2012
- MS, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2008
- MS, Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University, June 2005
- BS, Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University, June 2003
Fellowships, Awards, and Honors
- 2025 Fellow Award, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)
- 2020 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field
- 2020 CoE Award for Early Achievement in Research
- 2019 Gallagher Young Investigator Award, USACM
- 2019 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field
- 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science
- 2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering
- 2017 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science
- 2016 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science
- 2013 UCSD Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal
Leadership and Services
- Member-at-Large, USACM Executive Committee, 2024–2028
- Associate Editor, Journal of Mechanics, 2021–present
- Editorial Board Member, Engineering with Computers, 2025–present
- Editorial Board Member, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022–present
- Chair, Isogeometric Analysis Technical Thrust Area Committee, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), July 2023–July 2025
- Chair, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Fluid–Structure Interaction Technical Thrust Area Committee, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), July 2019–July 2021
- Chair, Technical Committee on Computational Fluid–Structure Interaction, Applied Mechanics Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), July 2016–July 2019
- Conference Organizer, 2022 USACM Thematic Conference on Isogeometric Analysis (IGA 2022), Banff, Canada, November 6–10, 2022
- Conference Organizer, Virtual Isogeometric Analysis 2020 (VIGA 2020), August 11–12, 2020
Publications
Primary Strategic Research Area
Engineered Medicine
Departments
Affiliations
Interests
AeroelasticityBiomechanicsCardiovascular ModelingComputational MechanicsDigital thread/Digital twinFinite Element methodsFluid-Structure InteractionIsogeometric Analysis