Jaime Peraire

Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Co-Director, Interdiscplinary Masters Program in Computation for Design and Optimization (CDO)
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
37-451
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

(617) 253-1981
peraire@mit.edu
Web site: http://raphael.mit.edu/PERAIRE.bio.html

Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, 1983, University of Barcelona
Ph.D., 1986, University of Wales
Doctor Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, 1987, University of Barcelona,

Specialization and Research Interests

Numerical Analysis, Finite Element Methods, Computational Aerodynamics

Teaching Interests

Computational Mechanics, Numerical Methods for PDEs, Dynamics

Positions Held at MIT

Professor, 1999-present; Associate Professor, 1993-1999; Director, Aerospace Computational Design Lab, 1993-present; Chair, Graduate Program, 1996-2000, 2004-present

Honors and Awards

The Research Corporation Trust, UK Young Researchers Award, 1986; NASA Group Achievement Award, 1989; D.Sc, University of Wales, 1997; NASA Exceptional Achievement Award, 1997; IACM Young Researchers Award in Computational Mechanics, 1998; Raymond L. Bisplinghoff Faculty Fellow; Honorary Professor, School of Engineering, University of Wales Swansea

Society Memberships

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Associate Fellow; US Association for Computational Mechanics, Fellow; International Association for Computational Mechanics, Fellow; American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Member

Comments

Before joining MIT, Professor Peraire was a member of the faculty at the University of Walesv and at Imperial College, London.