Reza Abedi

Reza Abedi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Space Institute (UTSI), part of the Tickle College of Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2010) and has expertise in computational mechanics, fracture mechanics, and discontinuous Galerkin methods.

Education:

• B.S. Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 1999
• M.S. Structural Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2001
• M.S. Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
• Ph.D. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010

Research Interests: Focus on spacetime discontinuous Galerkin methods, fracture modeling, computational electromagnetics, and structural health monitoring. His work emphasizes adaptive meshing, multiscale modeling, and dynamic contact/fracture processes.

Publications: Over 30 peer-reviewed articles, including studies on radiative transfer, metamaterials, and fracture mechanics. Recent work explores dynamic homogenization and machine learning in fragmentation analysis.

Awards:

• Henry J. Langhaar Award (2006)
• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Membership (2004–present)
• Firdawsi Science Fellowship (2004)

Labs/Teams: Leads research in SDGFEM (spacetime discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods) and collaborates on projects involving computational fracture mechanics and energy storage materials.