PI: Professor Evgueni T. Filipov
I am an Associate Professor at the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. My research interests lie in the field of deployable, reconfigurable, and adaptable structures. Folding and adaptable structures based on the principles of origami can have practical applications ranging in scale and discipline from biomedical robotics to deployable architecture. I am interested in exploring the fundamental mechanics of these thin sheet systems and creating analytical tools that can simulate mechanical and multi-physical phenomena in such structures. I teach the CEE 212 Solid and Structural Mechanics, CEE 511 Structural Dynamics, and the CEE 501 Deployable and Reconfigurable Structures Courses in the department.
More detailed information on my research, publications, teaching, and research group.
My brief biographical information is below, and a CV is available here.
Education
| Ph.D. | Civil Engineering | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Thesis: Tailoring Stiffness of Deployable Origami Structures | 2016 |
| M.S.
| Civil Engineering | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Thesis: Nonlinear Seismic Analysis of Quasi-Isolation Systems for Earthquake Protection of Bridges | 2012
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| B.S. | Civil Engineering | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY | 2009 |
Academic Appointments
| Assistant Professor | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Michigan | 2017 – present |
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
| National Science Foundation CAREER Award | 2020 |
| UM Nominee for Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering | 2019 |
| DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) | 2018 |
| UM Nominee for Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Inventors Fellowship | 2018 |
| ZF Automotive Award | 2018 |
| ASCE Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) Fellowship | 2017 |
| National Academy of Sciences 2015 Cozzarelli Prize | 2015 |
| CEE Ph.D. Professional Development and Mentoring Certificate, UIUC | 2015 |
| National Science Foundation – Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) Fellowship | 2014 |
| Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) – Visiting Scholar Fellowship | 2014 |
| National Science Foundation – Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) | 2010 – 2015 |
| Mavis Future Faculty Fellows Award, UIUC (Awarded Twice) | 2012 & 2013 |
| Graduate Teacher Certificate – Center for Teaching Excellence, UIUC | 2013 |
| Structural Engineers Foundation Scholarship, Chicago, IL | 2010 – 2011 |
| Page Fellowship, Karol Fellowship and Sargent & Lundy Fellowship, UIUC | 2009 – 2010 |
| Howard N. Blitman P.E. Patroon Scholar, RPI | 2005 – 2009 |
| Alumni Scholarship, RPI | 2005 – 2009 |
Professional Memberships
| American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) | 2017 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 2014 |
| American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) | 2006 |
| Chi Epsilon – National Civil Engineering Honor Society | 2008 |
| Society of Engineering Science (SES) | 2016 |
| Tau Beta Pi – National Engineering Honor Society | 2009 |