Dr. Tamer El Sayed
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Principal Investigator: Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory (CSML)
Email: tamer[dot]elsayed[at]kaust[dot]edu[dot]sa
Upon Dr. El-Sayed's appointment at KAUST and prior to relocating to Saudi Arabia, he served as a Visiting Associate in Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His latest work is involved with formulating constitutive models for polymers and biological tissues for the purpose of predicting their damage behavior under dynamic impact. Prior to joining the KAUST faculty, Dr. El-Sayed held the position of Senior Research Scientist at nanoPrecision Products Inc. (nPP) in Los Angeles, California, where he conducted research on computational nano-precision manufacturing, uncertainty quantification and non-convex optimization.
In 2007, Dr. El-Sayed was appointed Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech in the Graduate Aeronautical laboratories where he established computational capability to determine ballistic-critical-impact-velocities on polymer-reinforced composite structures and formulated constitutive models for soft materials. His work also focused on the formulation of highly predictive computational models for head trauma that can aid in understanding the physiological dysfunctions associated with traumatic brain injuries.
Dr. El-Sayed is a regular reviewer of major journals in the field of computational mechanics. In 2007, he received a first place award in the material-modeling category of the student presentation competition at the 9th. United States Congress on Computational Mechanics. He was awarded the prestigious California Institute of Technology Fellowship for the academic year 2003-2004. He is a member of the International Association for Computational Mechanics, the United States Association for Computational Mechanics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and several honorary societies.
Dr. El-Sayed received his doctoral and master‘s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech. He graduated as valedictorian and summa cum laude with a bachelor‘s degree in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic University (Cal Poly), Pomona.