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Quick Facts:
- Professor Paulino is the Raymond Allen Jones Chair of Engineering
- Professor Paulino has over 240 scholarly publications in peer-refereed journals and one original book
- A total of 19 students have graduated from Professor Paulino's research group with a PhD and 11 with an MS degree
- Researcher's in Professor Paulino's group are currently investigating over a dozen topics in computational mechanics
News: Last updated 8/4/2025
| Yifan Rao selected to attend the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop | |
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Congratulations to group member Yifan Rao for being selected to attend the workshop at MIT in October, aimed at women graduate students and Ph.D holders considering future careers in academia. See more here. |
| Prof. Paulino awarded the Belytschko medal | |
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Prof. Paulino was awarded the prestigious Belytschko medal at the 18th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics for "pioneering contributions to multiscale and multiphysics topology optimization, including its translation to industry, and its transformative applications to science and engineering." |
| Prof. Paulino elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts | |
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Prof. Paulino was elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts on May 14th. |
| Emily defends her thesis | |
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Group member Emily Alcazar defended her thesis "Topology optimization: From spatially varying loads to elastoplasticity" on Friday, May 2nd at 9AM. |