February 11, 2003

Mahinthakumar Receives NSF Career Award

Dr. Mahinthakumar (Photo: Kumar Mahinthakumar)

Dr. Gnanamanikam (Kumar) Mahinthakumar, assistant professor of civil engineering at North Carolina State University, is the recipient of a Faculty Early Career Development (Career) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), effective July 1, 2003, to run through June 30, 2008.  The award is one of the highest honors given by NSF to university faculty in science and engineering.

As part of the award, NSF will provide $400,000 in funding over the next five years. Mahinthakumar will use the award to support his research project entitled, “High-End Computing in Environmental Engineering with Application to Subsurface Characterization.”

Mahinthakumar's research interests include groundwater flow and transport, computational fluid dynamics, parallel computing, inverse problems and optimization.  In addition to his work at NC State, he is an adjunct R&D participant at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).  Prior to joining NC State he was a research staff member at ORNL's center for computational sciences for five years.  He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematicians (SIAM).

Mahinthakumar received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka in 1985, his master’s of engineering in environmental engineering from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand in 1988, his master of science in applied mathematics from Claremont Graduate School in California in 1990 and his doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1995.

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