Jacob Fish

Civil Engineering

Jacob Fish is a computational scientist that creates simulation-based design approaches that: (i) remove traditional scale related barriers between physics, chemistry, biology, and various engineering disciplines; (ii) is predictive rather than diagnostic; and (iii) multiphysics-multiscale rather than phenomenological.

  • The Carleton Professor of Engineering, civil engineering and engineering mechanics, Columbia University, 2011-
  • Director, Multiscale Science and Engineering Center at Columbia University, 2011-
  • Founder and president, Multiscale Design Systems, 2008-15
  • Director, Multiscale Science and Engineering Center at Rensselar Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 2006-10.
  • The Redfern Professor in Engineering; mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear Engineering (MANE) and civil and environmental engineering (CEE), RPI, 2006-10
  • Professor, MANE and CEE, RPI, 1998-2010
  • Visiting chair professor, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France, 2001
  • Associate professor, CEE and MANE (joint), RPI, 1994-1998
  • Assistant professor, CEE, RPI, 1989-1994
  • Research engineer, Methods Development Group, Aircraft Industries, Israel, 1984-86
  • Structural engineer, Civil Engineering Consulting, Inc., Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1982-84
  • US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)
  • International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)
  • IACM Computational Mechanics Award, 2010
  • Best Journal Award, Begell House, 2008
  • Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics, 2007
  • USACM Computational Structural Mechanics Award, 2005
  • Rensselaer School of Engineering Research Award, 2003
  • Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics, 2001
  • Fellow, US Association for Computational Mechanics, 2000
  • J. Fish, “Practical Multiscaling,” John Wiley, 2013. 
  • J. Fish and T. Belytschko, “A First Course in Finite Elements,” John Wiley, 2007.
  • J. Fish, “The s-version of the finite element method,” Computers and Structures, Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 539-547, (1992).
  • J. Fish, K. Shek, M. Pandheeradi, and M.S. Shephard, “Computational Plasticity for Composite Structures Based on Mathematical Homogenization: Theory and Practice,” Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Engng., Vol. 148, pp. 53-73, (1997)
  • J. Fish and V. Belsky, “Multigrid method for a periodic heterogeneous medium. Parts 1 & 2. Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Engng., Vol. 126, 1-38, (1995).
  • C. Oskay and J. Fish, “Eigendeformation-Based Reduced Order Homogenization,” Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Engng., Vol. 196, pp. 1216-1243, (2007).
  • J. Fish and S. Kuznetsov, "Computational Continua,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 84, pp. 774-802, (2010).
  • J. Fish, V. Filonova and S. Kuznetsov, “Micro Inertia Effects in Nonlinear Heterogeneous Media,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 91, Issue 13, pp. 1406-1426, (2012).
  • J. Fish and N. Hu. Multiscale Modeling of Femur Fracture. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 10.1002/nme.5450, 2017.
  • Y. Jiao and J. Fish. Is an additive decomposition of a rate of deformation and objective stress rates passé? To appear in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2017.