Dr. H Alicia Kim – NESC Academy Biography

Dr. H Alicia Kim is Jacobs Scholar Chair Professor in the Structural Engineering Department of the University of California San Diego. She leads the Multiscale Multiphysics Design Optimization (M2DO) lab. Her research is in the area of convergent engineering via optimization with high-fidelity digital twin, specifically optimization of coupled multiscale and multifunctional structural systems. She has published over 200 journal and conference papers in the fields spanning computational mechanics, structural optimization, multidisciplinary design optimization, composite materials and material discovery. Her research in topology optimization began in the 90’s at the University of Sydney, Australia where she developed one of the first boundary based topology optimization methods. She continued her research at the University of Warwick and the University of Bath, UK for 15 years before moving to San Diego in 2015.