Rate My Professor Vivek Shenoy

Vivek Shenoy is the Eduardo D. Glandt President's Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds primary appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and secondary appointments in Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Shenoy earned a BE (Hons) in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in India in 1991, followed by an MS in Physics in 1996 and a PhD in Physics in 1998 from Ohio State University. His research focuses on developing theoretical concepts and numerical methods to understand the basic principles that control the behavior of both biological and engineering systems, with emphasis on multiscale mechanobiology and biomaterials through multiphysics continuum or mesoscale theories drawing from soft matter physics, solid mechanics, chemistry, materials science, and applied mathematics. Shenoy leads the Multiscale Mechanobiology and Biomaterials Laboratory. His honors include the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2000, the Richard and Edna Solomon Assistant Professorship from 2002 to 2005, the Heilmeier Research Award, and election as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.