Sankaran Mahadevan, John R. Murray Sr. Professor of Engineering, is being honored by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for his outstanding research and leadership.
Mahadevan, who is also professor of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical engineering, will receive the esteemed Alfredo Ang award for risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure, and he has also been elected a Distinguished Member of ASCE, the highest honor bestowed by the society.
He will get the Alfredo Ang award this month at the ASCE Structures Congress in Phoenix, Arizona, and he will be formally inducted as a Distinguished Member at the ASCE Convention in October, in Seattle, Washington.
“Professor Ang was one of the great pioneers of risk and reliability methods, thus it is especially gratifying to receive an award bearing his name,” said Mahadevan.
As for becoming a Distinguished Member, he said he’s “greatly honored to join the ranks of illustrious senior colleagues at ASCE, and to have had the opportunity to contribute to the engineering community through research, teaching, and service.”
Mahadevan’s contributions in engineering research are in the fields of risk and reliability analysis, uncertainty quantification, systems health management, and decision-making under uncertainty. He is author of the definitive textbook in probabilistic methods in structural engineering.
In 2023, the ASCE honored Mahadevan with the George Winter Award for technical contributions as a structural engineer, creativity as a professional musician, composer and teacher, and exemplary research in the fields of risk and reliability and machine learning.
Mahadevan is a professionally trained vocalist in Carnatic music, commonly associated with South India, and has performed for more than 30 years in concerts and music festivals in India and the United States.
Contact: Lucas Johnson, lucas.l.johnson@vanderbilt.edu