Prof. Hojjat Adeli

Hojjat Adeli received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976 at the age of 26. He is an Academy Professor at The Ohio State University where he held the Abba G. Lichtenstein Professorship for ten years. He has authored over 650 research and scientific publications in various fields of computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, and medicine, including 16 ground-breaking high-technology books, and holds a United States patent in the area of design optimization. He is the recipient of 76 awards and honors including eight Honorary Doctorates and several Honorary Professorships at European and Asian Universities. In 1998 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award, from The Ohio State University’s highest research award, "in recognition of extraordinary accomplishment in research and scholarship". In 2007 he received the Peter L. and Clara M. Scott Award for Excellence in Engineering Education and Charles E. MacQuigg Outstanding Teaching Award from OSU. In 2010, he was profiled as an Engineering Legend in the ASCE journal of Leadership and Management in Engineering. In 2023, he was awarded the Archimedes Medal from the International Olympiad Committee in Engineering Science, Greece. He has presented 123 Keynote/Plenary Lectures at conferences held in 47 different countries. He is a member of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and Academia Europaea, a corresponding member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, a foreign member of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences and Polish Academy of Science, a Distinguished Member of ASCE, and a Fellow of AAAS, IEEE, AIMBE, and American Neurological Association. He is a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in three categories of Computer Science, Engineering. and Cross Field.

Hojjat Adeli from Ohio State University, Columbus, OH was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 for contributions to computational intelligence in infrastructure engineering and also an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2019, Hojjat Adeli was distinguished with the Robert Moskovic Award in recognition of an outstanding contribution to Computational Intelligence and Smart Structures given by the ESIS TC12 technical committee of the European Structural Integrity Society.

Hojjat Adeli, Distinguished Member, ASCE, Fellow, IEEE, AIMBE, AAAS, and American Neurological Association
Academy Professor
The Ohio State University
Editor-in-Chief, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
Editor-in-Chief, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Neural Systems