Alain Kassab

Alain Kassab is a Professor and Biomedical Engineering Program Coordinator at the University of Central Florida (UCF), affiliated with the College of Engineering and Computer Science. He holds the UCF Pegasus Professor title and has received multiple accolades including UCF Trustee Chair (2019), Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (2019), and multiple Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awards since 1994.

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering – University of Florida
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering – University of Florida
• B.S. in Engineering Sciences – University of Florida

Kassab specializes in computational biomechanics and biomedical engineering, with a focus on multiscale hemodynamics modeling for congenital heart disease, boundary element methods (BEM), meshless methods, and inverse problems in engineering. His work spans cardiovascular simulations, thermal analysis, and applications in energy systems.

Recent publications emphasize inverse problem algorithms, BEM applications in non-Fourier heat transfer, GPU-accelerated fluid dynamics, and biomedical modeling of Fontan circulation. Keywords include Computational Biomechanics, Boundary Element Method, and Multiscale Hemodynamics.

• UCF Trustee Chair (2019)
• Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (2019)
• UCF Pegasus Professor (2017)
• ASME Fellow (2000)
• Multiple Excellence in Graduate Teaching Awards (1994–2017)

Kassab leads the Computational Mechanics Lab at UCF, collaborating on multidisciplinary projects in medicine and energy systems. His research integrates numerical methods with experimental validation, particularly in pediatric cardiovascular device design and thermal-fluid systems.