Honors and Awards:

· Magna-Cum Laude, MS, Tel-Aviv University, Isarel, (1989)

· Chester P. Siess Award for outstanding graduate, University of Illinois (1996)

· National Science Foundation (NSF), CAREER award, USA, (1999)

· Outstanding Paper(s) Faculty Award, CEE, Georgia Tech, USA, (2002)

· Outstanding Research Faculty Award, CEE, Georgia Tech, USA, (2005)

· Maof fellowship, PBC-Kahanoff Foundation, (2008)

· EU-IRG Marie Curie Fellow, (2008)

Research Interests:

· Mechanics and Micromechanics of Composite Materials

· Computational Mechanics and Nonlinear Structural Analysis

· Damage and Fracture Mechanics

· Constitutive Models

· Biomaterials

· Biomechanics of Aortic Valves

· Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering Applications