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Raphael T. Haftka, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor

Dr. Raphael T. Haftka is currently Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. Dr. Haftka received his Ph.D degree in 1971 from the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Sciences from University of California at San Diego. He served as President of International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO) from 1995-99. He is also a member of the AIAA Technical Committee on Multidisciplinary Design Optimization. His research area is structural and multidisciplinary optimization. He has written several survey papers and reviews about 30-40 papers per year, mostly for the AIAA journals.

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Nam-Ho Kim, Ph.D., Associate Professor

Dr. Nam-Ho Kim is presently Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. He graduated with a Ph.D. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Iowa in 1999 and worked at the Center for Computer-Aided Design as a postdoctoral associate until 2001. His research area is structural design optimization, design sensitivity analysis, nonlinear structural mechanics, structural-acoustics, and meshfree method. He has published more than forty refereed journal and conference papers in the above areas.

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