Haim Waisman
Associate Professor
Civil Engineering &
Engineering Mechanics
624 S.W. Mudd
500 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027-6699
Phone: (212) 851-0408
Fax: (212) 854 -6267
Email: waisman@civil. columbia.edu
Biography
Haim Waisman is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (CEEM) at Columbia University.
His research interests are in Computational Mechanics, broadly
defined as the intersection of mechanics, applied mathematics and computer science.
Dr. Waisman obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (1999, 2002) and a Doctorate in Civil Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2005), with concentration in Computational Mechanics. During his PhD he spent three summers as an intern at the Computer Science Research Institute (CSRI) at Sandia National Labs. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the Scientific Computing Research Center (SCOREC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2006) and in the Mechanical Engineering department at Northwestern University (2007).
Dr. Waisman is the recipient of the 2012 Department of Energy Early Career Award, the 2014 Leonardo Da Vinci Award from the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, and several best paper awards. He is currently serving as an associate editor of the ASCE journal of Engineering Mechanics, an elected member of the executive council of US Association for Computational Mechanics. He was also the past chair of the ASCE-EMI computational mechanics committee.
SELECTED Honors and Awards
Member-at-Large of the executive USACM council, US Association for Computational Mechanics, May 2018-present
Chair of the Computational Mechanics Committee, Engineering Mechanics Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, Sep. 2017-Oct. 2019.
Associate Editor, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, American Society of Civil Engineers, Jan. 2017-present
EMI Leonardo da Vinci Award, Engineering Mechanics Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014
Department of Energy Early Career Research Program Award, Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, Department of Energy, May 2012
Finalist Paper, The Robert J. Melosh medal competition in Finite Element Methods, Duke University, NC, Apr 2006
Best Student Paper Award, 10th Copper Mountain Conference on Iterative Methods, CO, Apr 2006
Best Student Paper Award,12th Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, CO, Apr 2005
Best Teaching Assistant Award, Technion, Israel Dec 2001
Excellency Scholarship, Technion, Israel Dec 2000
Gutwirth Award, Technion, Israel 2000-2001
Positions Held
07/2013 - Associate Professor, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University
07/2008 - Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University
2008 Senior Research Scientist, private sector
2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University. (with Prof. Ted Belytschko)
2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Scientific Computation Research Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. (with Prof. Jacob Fish)
Summers 2002-2004 Intern at the Computer Science Research Institute, Sandia National Laboratories (with Dr. Ray Tuminaro and Dr. John Shadid)
2002-2005 Research Assistant, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
1999-2002 Teaching Assistant, Aerospace Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.