LEADERSHIP

Bharat K. Soni, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham

Chair and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UAB
President, CSS, Inc.

Dr. Bharat K. Soni earned a BS (1971) in statistics (minor: mathematics) and an MS (1974) in statistics (minor: operations research) at M.S. University in India; he earned his PhD (1978) in applied mathematics at the University of Texas in Arlington, TX. After finishing his PhD, he served as a program analyst at Sverdrup Technology, Inc., and adjunct associate professor in mathematical sciences at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. In 1987, he became an associate research professor in the computer science department at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, then was appointed associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University in 1988, where he achieved the rank of professor in 1994. In 1991 he became president of CSS Inc. in Starkville, MS, and in 2000 became Director of the Center for Computational Systems at the Engineering Research Center at MSU. In 2002, he was appointed Chair and Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

Dr. Soni is a reviewer for several peer-reviewed academic journals, including the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computations and the Journal of Computer Aided Design. He has chaired a number of national and international conferences. In 2000 he was recognized as an Outstanding Researcher at MSU, and in 2001, he was recognized as an eminent scholar in the College of Engineering at MSU. He was the Hearin-Hess Distinguished Professor in the MSU College of Engineering in 1991-92, 1993-94, 1996-97, 1998-99 and 2000-01.