Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award
| ASME Unit: | Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) |
| Date Established: | 1998 |
| Achievement: | Special achievement for young investigators in Applied Mechanics. |
| Limitations: | The candidate must not have reached her/his 41st birthday by December 31st of the year of the awards presentation. |
| Nomination Deadline: | 9/15 |
| Form of Award: | $1000 |
| Frequency of Award: | Annual |
| Administrative: | Applied Mechanics Division |
| Level of Award: | Division |
| Selected By: | Executive Committee of Applied Mechanics Division. |
| Selecting Process: | Nominations from Technical Committees of AMD, individuals of ASME and members of selection committees. For information on how to nominate a candidate, visit the ASME Unit Award Nominations Page. Full nomination packages will only be accepted via email in a one document PDF file to the contacts listed on this page. |
| Funding: | Custodian fund of Applied Mechanics Division |
| Date Created: | 10/18/2000 |
| Date Modified: | 7/3/2019 |
| Contact Names: | Narayana Aluru (Division Chair), April Tone (ASME Staff) |
| Contact Emails: | aluru@utexas.edu; tonea@asme.org |
Winners of the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award
| 1998 | Mary C. Boyce |
| 1999 | Huajian Gao |
| 2000 | Pedro Ponte-Castaneda |
| 2001 | Zhigang Suo |
| 2003 | L. Cate Brinson |
| 2004 | Kaushik Bhattacharya |
| 2005 | George Haller |
| 2005 | L. Mahadevan |
| 2006 | Jian Cao |
| 2007 | Assad Oberai |
| 2008 | Chad M. Landis |
| 2009 | Pradeep Sharma |
| 2010 | Harley T. Johnson |
| 2011 | Markus J. Buehler |
| 2011 | Ioannis Chasiotis |
| 2012 | Yuri Bazilevs, Kenji Takizawa, Xi Chen |
| 2013 | Wei Cai |
| 2014 | Katia Bertoldi, Ryan S. Elliott |
| 2015 | Thao (Vicky) D. Nguyen |
| 2016 | Pedro Miguel Reis |
| 2017 | José Andrade |
| 2018 | Liping Liu, Dennis Kochmann |
| 2019 | Yihui Zhang |
| 2020 | Xuanhe Zhao |
| 2021 | Sinan Keten |
| 2022 | Nanshu Lu and Shawn A. Chester |
| 2023 | Cunjiang Yu |