Prof. Kumar K. Tamma is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the U of Minnesota. He is a highly recognized leading researcher, scientist and an educator specializing in computational sciences and engineering. He is particularly recognized for his depth, breadth of knowledge, and his leading role and scientific contributions encompassing the novel numerical developments, novel computational algorithms and framework which encompasses the entire spectrum of LMS methods developed over the past 50 years or so (including new and optimal designs and existing designs) for both 1 st /2 nd order systems, and algorithm designs for linear/nonlinear time dependent problems. He has also made significant contributions in the computational developments of time dependent problems [ODE’s/DAE’s] with an interplay between 1 st /2 nd order time dependent systems, in interdisciplinary research, and in the public understanding of the role of time dependent computational algorithms by design in science and engineering applications. He is an expert in the areas of numerical time dependent algorithms and design/analysis for ODE’s/DAE’s. His contributions preserve the much- coveted 2 nd order in time accuracy in all primary variables and Lagrange multipliers as well, Finite Element (FE) methods, PDEs, mechanics/dynamics, and the interplay between these fields. Much of his recent efforts have been directed towards enabling a general purpose nature of the designs and general applicability to 1 st /2 nd order time dependent systems with novel algorithms by design, and in the design of novel universal error estimators and adaptive features encompassing the entire spectrum of LMS methods that are 2 nd order time accurate in contrast to traditional approaches and error estimators which are limited to only an algorithm-by-algorithm basis. His more recent contributions and efforts that are noteworthy are the novel developments with features enabling altogether different selection of space/time integration methods for the different subdomains within a body including features with model order reduction. His textbook on “Advances in Computational Dynamics of Particles Materials, and Structures,” is highly recognized and he is a leading researcher in his google scholar search profile for areas of time integration/computational dynamics. He is currently finishing two book contracts with Springer publishers; “A First Course in Computational Mechanics: Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation,” and “Numerical Modeling and Simulation for Process Modeling, Manufacturing of Composites, and Heterogeneous Materials with Complex Microstructures”.

Prof. Tamma received his Ph.D. degree while stationed at NASA Langley Research Center and graduated from ODU in Mechanical Engineering in 1983; and he was on the faculty at West Virginia University from 1982-1987. He was an Assistant Professor from 1982-1985 and as an Associate Professor from 1985-1987. He then moved to the U of Minnesota as an Associate Professor in 1987 and was promoted to and is a full Professor from 1993 to-date. He also previously served as Technical Director for the Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC) at the University of Minnesota ($22.5 Million, approximately). Prof. Tamma has published over 250+ research papers in high quality archival journals and refereed book chapters; and over 350+ in refereed conference proceedings, and conference abstracts. He has presented several invited Plenary/Keynote lectures in national/international conferences. He serves on the Editorial Boards for over 20+ archival national/international journals and is Editor-in- Chief (one which is co-shared) of 2 online journals, and Editor and Advisory Editor for 2 other journals; and he is the Fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute. He is a member of the IACM and the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) where he is a Fellow in both; member/Fellow of ASME, member/Assoc Fellow AIAA, and IUTAM where he is Secretary of International Congresses on Thermal Stresses. He is the recipient of numerous research awards including the “ICCES Outstanding Research Medal for Contributions to Computational Structural Dynamics, June 2014”; the “George Taylor Research Award” for Significant/Exceptional Contributions to Research in 2001; the "Outstanding Researcher of the Year Award" in College of Engr.1987; the "Halliburton Researcher Award" as the "The Most Outstanding Researcher in the College of Engineering", 1986, and is the recipient of numerous Outstanding Teaching and other National and University awards. Prof. Tamma had the honor of hosting USNCCM-11, Minneapolis, MN and was Conference Chairman/Organizer with over 1250 participants world-wide. Prof. Tamma serves or has served on a variety of advisory and scientific boards.