Biography

K. Jimmy Hsia is President’s Chair Professor in the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and School of Chemical & Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He received B.S. from Tsinghua University, China, M.S. from Beijing University of Aeronautics, and Ph.D. from MIT. He is Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE), Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and recipient of NSF Research Initiation Award, Max-Planck Society Scholarship, and Japan Society for Promotion of Science Fellowship. He was Founding Dean of Graduate College and Vice President (Alumni & International Affairs) at NTU. Before joining NTU, Hsia was Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering and Vice Provost for International Programs at Carnegie Mellon University, and before then was W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). From 2005-2007, Hsia served as Founding Director of Nano and Bio Mechanics Program in the Directorate for Engineering at NSF. He is Founding co-Editor-in-Chief of an Elsevier journal, Extreme Mechanics Letters.