Thomas Joseph Robert Hughes
Thomas J.R. Hughes 2014
Born	July 25, 1943 (1943-07-25) (age 82)[1]
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Pratt Institute University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Computational mechanics Finite element method
Awards	ASME Medal(2018) Timoshenko Medal(2007) Theodore von Karman Medal(2009) Society for Industrial and Applied Mechanic's (SIAM) Ralph E. Kleinman Prize(2021)
Scientific career
Fields	Computational mechanics Finite element method
Institutions	The University of Texas at Austin

Thomas Joseph Robert Hughes (born 1943) is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and currently holds the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair (III) at theOden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences atThe University of Texas at Austin.^[2][3]Hughes has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by theISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company.^[4]

A leading expert incomputational mechanics, Hughes has received numerous academic distinctions and awards for his work. He is a research fellow of theNational Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Engineering,American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science, and has been elected as a foreign member ofThe Royal Society. He is a founder and past President of USACM and IACM, and past chairman of the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME.

Hughes began his career as a mechanical design engineer atGrumman Aerospace, subsequently joiningGeneral Dynamics as a research and development engineer. After receiving his Ph.D. fromUniversity of California, Berkeley,^[3][5] he joined theBerkeley faculty, eventually moving toCalifornia Institute of Technology. He then moved toStanford University before joining The University of Texas at Austin. At Stanford, he served as chairman of the Division of Applied Mechanics, chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and chairman of the Division of Mechanics and Computation, where Hughes occupied the Mary and Gordon Crary Chair of Engineering. While at Stanford, he served as a member of International Advisory Committee,ICTACEM (2001).^[6]

Hughes has developed computational methods for understanding solid, structural and fluid mechanics. He recently has applied this expertise to develop customized models of blood flow for patients using their individual imaging records such asCT scans andMRIs.

Hughes was elected to theNational Academy of Engineering in 1995 for contributions to the development of finite element methods for solid-structural and fluid mechanics.

• Thomas J. R. Hughes andJerrold E. Marsden, A Short Course in Fluid Mechanics, Mathematics lecture series, v. 6, Boston: Publish or Perish, 1976.
• Thomas J. R. Hughes, D. Gartling, Robert L. Spilker, Applied Mechanics Division, Vol. 44: New Concepts in Finite Element Analysis,ASME, 1981.
• Thomas J. R. Hughes, A. Pifko, A. Jay, Applied Mechanics Division, Vol. 48: Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Plates and Shells,ASME, 1981.
• Thomas J. R. Hughes, Stress-point algorithm for a pressure-sensitive multiple-yield-surface plasticity theory, Unknown Binding, Available from National Technical Information Service, 1982.
• Computational methods for transient analysis, edited by Ted Belytschko and Thomas J.R. Hughes, Computational methods in mechanics, Volume 1: Mechanics and mathematical methods, New York: Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1983.
• Thomas J. R. Hughes and Englewood Cliffs, The finite element method: linear static and dynamic finite element analysis, NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1987), 1985.
• Thomas J. R. Hughes,Ernest Hinton. Finite Element Methods for Plate and Shell Structures, Volume 1: Element Technology, Pineridge Press Ltd, 1986.
• Thomas J. R. Hughes, Ernest Hinton. Finite Element Methods for Plate and Shell Structures, Volume 2: Formulation and Algorithms, Pineridge Press Ltd, 1986.
• Jerrold E. Marsden and Thomas J. R. Hughes, Mathematical Foundations of Elasticity, Dover Publications, 1994.
• J.C. Simo and T.J.R. Hughes, Interdisciplinary applied mathematics, Volume 7: Computational inelasticity, New York: Springer, 1998.
• Thomas J. R. Hughes,The Finite Element Method: Linear Static and Dynamic Finite Element Analysis, Dover Publications, 2000.
• Erwin Stein, René de Borst, Thomas J.R. Hughes, Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, Volume 1: Fundamentals, Wiley, 2004.
• Erwin Stein, René de Borst, Thomas J.R. Hughes, Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, Volume 2: Solids and Structures, Wiley, 2004.
• Erwin Stein, René de Borst, Thomas J.R. Hughes, Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, Volume 3: Fluids, Wiley, 2004.
• J. Austin Cottrell, Thomas J. R. Hughes,Yuri Bazilevs, Isogeometric Analysis: Toward Integration of CAD and FEA, Wiley, 2009.

• Hughes has received several awards, including the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from ASCE, the Melville Medal from ASME, the Computational Mechanics Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, the von Neumann Medal from USACM and the Gauss-Newton Medal from IACM.
• In 1995 he was elected a member of theNational Academy of Engineering
• In 1998 he was awarded theWorcester Reed Warner Medal^[7] and in 2007 theTimoshenko Medal, both byASME.^[8]
• In 2007 he was awarded an honorary degree by theUniversity of Pavia, Italy.
• In 2009 he was awarded anhonorary doctorate by theNorwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).^[9]
• In 2011 he was elected aForeign Member of the Royal Society.^[10]
• On June 21, 2013, Professor T.J.R. Hughes has named Doctor Honoris Causa from Escuela Técnica Superior Engenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (E.T.S.I.C.C.P), at University of A Coruña (U.D.C) - Spain, into the ambit of Civil Engineering for his contributions in computational mechanics.
• In 2020 he was awarded theEringen Medal of the Society of Engineering Science.^[11]
• In 2021 he was inducted as anHonorary Member into theJapan Association for Computational Mechanics (JACM).
• In 2021 he was awarded the Society for Industrial and Applied Mechanic's (SIAM)Ralph E. Kleinman Prize.
• In 2024 he was awarded anhonorary doctorate byNational Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) Lyon, France.

• Together with theTexas Advanced Computing Center, he developed the video"Simulating Patient-specific Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery for the Treatment of Vulnerable Plaques".

• T.J.R. Hughes webpage
• T.J.R. Hughes Faculty, Directory Page, The University of Texas at Austin

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