Curriculum Vitae Bharat K. Soni Business Address One William Jones Drive, Derryberry Hall 305 Tennessee Tech University P. O. Box 5036 Cookeville, TN 38505 Phone: (931) 372-6074 E-mail: bsoni@tntech.edu Personal Data Birth: May 6, 1950 Citizenship: U.S.A. Married, 2 Sons and 1 Gran-son Education Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas, 1978. M.S., Statistics (Minor: Operations Research), M.S. University, Baroda, India, 1974. B.S., Statistics (Minor: Mathematics), M.S. University, Baroda, India, 1971. Professional Experience Vice President of Research and Economic development Tennessee Technological University, August 1, 2013 to Present Professor and Chair University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Mechanical Engineering, July 2002 to July 31, 2013 Co-Chair, UAB School of Medicine Strategic Research Plan for Imaging Senior Scientist, Nephrology Research & Training Center, UAB Senior Scientist, Biomatrix Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (BERM) Center, UAB Senior Scientist, Center for Computational Structural Biology, UAB Executive Committee Member, International Programs Development, UA System Executive Committee Member, UAB Research Computing Executive Committee Member, Simulation Research Task Force, UAB Mentor for Trainees, Center for Nursing Research, UAB Member, Comprehensive Neuroscience Center, UAB Member, Injury Control Research Center, UAB Member, Center for Metabolic Bone Disease, UAB Member, Health Services Foundation, General Endowment Fund Committee, UAB Sr. CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) CTA (Critical Technology Area) Lead PET (Productivity Enhancements and Technology transfer) program, sponsored by the DOD (Department of Defense) HPCMO (High Performance Computing Modernization Office), June 1996 to August 2009 Professor
Mississippi State University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 1994 to 2002 Director, Center for Computational Systems Mississippi State University, Engineering Research Center, 1999 to 2002 President CSS, Inc., Starkville, MS, 1991 to 2002 Grid Generation Thrust Leader Mississippi State University, NSF Engineering Research Center for Computational Field Simulation, 1990 to June 1999 Associate Professor Mississippi State University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, 1988 to 1994 Associate Research Professor University of Alabama at Huntsville, Computer Science Department, Huntsville, AL, 1987 to 1988 Engineering Program Analyst Sverdrup Technology, Inc., Arnold Engineering Development Center, Tennessee, 1979 to 1986 President IASE, Inc., Tullahoma, TN, 1986 to 1988 Associate Professor (Adjunct) University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, TN, 1980 to 1988 Computer Engineer Bell Helicopter, Textron, Fort Worth, Texas, 1978 to 1979 Teaching Assistant Department of Mathematical Science, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas, 1975 to 1978 Instructor Mathematics and Statistics, Navjivan Arts and Commerce College, Dohad, India, 1971 to 1974
Professional Activities Professional Societies & Editor/Co-Editor AIAA (Associate Fellow) ASME (Fellow) ASEE SAE ACME (Alliance for Continuous Medical Education) ISGG (Founder, President, International Society of Grid Generation) Co-Editor, Special Issue of Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation (biannual) Co-Editor, Special Issues of Electronic Journal of Differential Equations Co-Editor, Hand Book of Grid Generation, CRC Press, 1999 Reviewer Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computations Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering AIAA Journal of Spacecraft Journal of Computational Physics Journal of Computer Aided Design IEEE, Journal of Computer Graphics Conferences Co-Chairman, International Conference on Applied Modeling & Information Security Systems, October 2009 General/Executive Chairman, Biannual ISGG International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, 1996 - present Co-Chairman, Biannual Mississippi State Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations, 1993-2002. Biannual Mississippi State and UAB Conference on Differential Equations and Computational Simulations, 2005-2010 Co-organizer, Annual MASCOT (Meeting on Applied Scientific Computing & Tools) and Continuous Education Workshop, Italy, 1998 - present Co-Chairman/ Member of the Steering/Organization Committee/Session Organizer: International Conference on Chimera/Overset Methods, Eighth and Ninth International Meshing Roundtable, SAROD (Symposium on Applied Aerodynamics and Design of Aerospace Vehicles), India, and Parallel CFD Conference Member of the Board, JECRC University, Jaipur, India, January 2012 present Award & Honors Recognition for Innovation and Economic Development, Alabama India Business Partnership Organization, Birmingham, Alabama, 2010 Hearin-Hess Distinguished Professor, College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1991-1992, 1993-1994, 1997-1998 Hearin Professor of Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1999-2000 Outstanding Research Award, College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, 2000 Eminent Scholar, College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, 2001 N.M. Bhatt Gold Medal, Ranked First in Master s Statistics Class at Maharaja Sayajirao University, 1974
Dr. Bharat Soni Vice President of Research and Economic Development Tennessee Tech University (TTU) Cookeville, TN 38501 Email address: bsoni@tntech.edu A Brief Profile: Dr. Soni received his BS and MS degrees in Statistics with minor Operations Research and Econometrics from Maharaja Sayajirao University, India and doctoral degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Texas in 1979. After 2 years industry experience at Bell Helicopter Company, Texas and 7 years at Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold AFS, Tennessee as well as adjunct teaching at University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI), he joined the academic world at Mississippi State University (MSU) as an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering in 1988. Until, June 30, 2002, He was the Director for the Center for Computational Systems (CCS), Engineering Research Center (ERC), and a Professor and Eminent Scholar of Aerospace Engineering at MSU. He joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) as a Chair and Professor of Mechanical Engineering in July 2002. Effective August 1, 2013, he joined the Tennessee Technology University as the Vice President of Research and Economic Development. Dr. Soni's research interests include studies in computational science and engineering with an emphasis on computational field simulation, grid/mesh generation and adaptation, visualization and virtual reality, computer aided geometry design, multidisciplinary design and optimization, and high performance computing. The software modules (GENIE++, PMAG, GGTK, CAGI, HYB3D, CoreVR etc.) used for computational field simulations, immersive visualization and mesh generation and adaptation developed under his direction are widely used in the industry and academic institutions. Dr. Soni has a long history of contributions in cross-disciplinary research and education with strategic focus on research to build technologies to address 21 st Century engineering grand challenges: Advance Personalized Learning, Engineer the Tools of Scientific Discovery, Enhance Virtual Reality, and Develop Carbon Sequestration Methods covering a wide-spectrum of disciplines including aerospace, automotive, homeland security, energy and environment, healthcare, biomechanics, and biomedical and medical science. Dr. Soni led the establishment of the immersive visualization and Virtual Reality environment at UAB with applications to medical, health-care and general education and training, rehabilitation, engineering design, analysis, evaluation and marketing, and homeland security. He provided a leadership in building UAB High Performance Computing capabilities from less than 1 TeraFlops in 2002 to 11+ TeraFlops combined performance in 2011. Under Dr. Soni s leadership, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UAB was grown from $250K in annual research expenditures, 6 faculty members, and 70 undergraduate and 6 graduate students in 2002 to $4M in annual sponsored research expenditures, 19 faculty members, 7 research associates, and 250 undergraduate and 47 graduate students in spring 2013. Dr. Soni s group has well established collaborations with academic institutions and industry in the US, China, India, and Europe. The intellectual properties generated by his group have resulted in three spinoff commercial companies in Birmingham: VIPAAR (integrates remote expertise directly and indirectly into local field of operation), Amplicode (provides consulting and engineering support associated with computer aided geometry design and meshing to the engineering simulation community) and VSim- Global (Immersive Visualization and Virtual Reality Content and Software Development and
Applications Support). In 2010, he was recognized for Innovation and Economic Development by Alabama India Business Partnership Organization, Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Soni has been internationally recognized for his research, educational and professional services and contributions in the area of numerical grid generation and computational fluid dynamics. He has authored more than 170 publications and is a co-editor of the CRC Handbook of Grid Generation, published in 1999. He is an ASME Fellow and an Associate fellow of AIAA.