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Ibrahim Karaman received his Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. He joined the faculty of Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2000. He was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2011. He served as the Chair of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Materials Science and Engineering (MSEN) from 2010 to 2013. The MSEN program became a new department in summer of 2013. Dr. Karaman currently serves as the first head of the department. His main research interests are processing-microstructure-mechanical/functional property relationships in metallic materials including 1) ultrafine and nanocrystalline materials, and 2) conventional, high temperature and magnetic shape memory alloys; micro-mechanical constitutive modeling of crystal plasticity; twinning and martensitic phase transformation. Dr. Karaman received several national and international awards including the NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, The Robert Lansing Hardy Award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), an Honorable Mention for the Early Career Faculty Fellow Award from TMS, and Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award from ASME and AIAA. He is an author or co-author over 180 refereed journal articles.