A study conducted by Stanford University recently recognized Dr. J.N. Reddy and Dr. Alan Needleman as the most highly cited researchers in the Texas A&M University College of Engineering.
Reddy is ranked No. 13 in all engineering fields and Needleman is ranked 22. Texas A&M and Harvard are the only universities with two researchers ranked in the top 25. The study was published in PLoS and analyzed data collected during the period of 1996-2017, covering more than six million scientists in 22 major fields and 176 subfields.
Reddy, a University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor and the Oscar S. Wyatt Jr. Chair Professor in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, is the author of 21 textbooks and nearly 700 journal papers, and has been a leader in the applied mechanics field for more than 45 years. He is widely known for his significant contributions to the field of applied mechanics through the authorship of widely used textbooks on the linear and nonlinear finite element analysis, variational methods, composite materials and structures, and continuum mechanics and elasticity.
Needleman, a University Distinguished Professor, TEES Eminent Professor and professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering with a joint appointment in the mechanical engineering department, is a preeminent leader in the area of mathematical modeling of materials. His contributions include the development of a ductile fracture computational methodology, the development of cohesive surface methods for fracture analysis and creation of a framework that enables the use of discrete dislocation plasticity to solve general boundary value problems. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.