Yannis Kevrekidis named to National Academy of Engineering
Johns Hopkins chemical and biomolecular engineer Yannis Kevrekidis has been named to the National Academy of Engineering, a career distinction that recognizes the most accomplished engineers in the world. He is among 87 new members and 18 international members selected for the honor this year.
Established in 1964, the NAE is made up of more than 2,000 peer-elected members and international members who advise the U.S. government on matters regarding engineering and technology.
“Yannis has continued to redefined his area of research,” says Ed Schlesinger, dean of the Whiting School of Engineering. “This is wonderful and well-deserved recognition and I couldn’t be more thrilled.”
Kevrekidis, who joined Johns Hopkins as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in 2017, is an expert in complex systems modeling and researches the dynamic behavior of physical, chemical, and biological processes. He pioneered equation-free computation, which draws from data mining and machine learning techniques to apply observations made in small space-time scales to systems on larger scales. He holds appointments in the Whiting School’s departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and in the Department of Urology at the School of Medicine.
“I am happy that this happened, and that it happened while at Hopkins, where I joined just three years ago,” Kevrekidis said. “I only wish that my father, whom I very recently lost, was still around; it would have given him real joy.”
Kevrekidis is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been a Packard Fellow, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, and a Guggenheim Fellow, among other honors. He has been the Gutzwiller Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden and a Rothschild Distinguished Visitor at the Newton Institute at Cambridge University.
Kevrekidis, and the other individuals selected for membership this year will be formally inducted during a ceremony at the NAE annual meeting on Oct. 4 in Washington, D.C.