Isaac Elishakoff is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department in the Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. He is a figure in the area of mechanics. He has made several contributions in the areas of random vibrations, solid mechanics of composite material, semi-inverse problems of vibrations and stability, functionally graded material structures, and nanotechnology.
He has over 590 journal papers, 33 authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited books and has given over 200 national and international talks at conferences and seminars.
His selected lectures on (a) Elastic Stability, (b) Vibration Syntheses and Analysis and (c) Intermediate Strength of Materials are available on the internet.
In 2021, Elishakoff received the Blaise Pascal Medal in Engineering from the European Academy of Sciences, “to recognise an outstanding and demonstrated personal contribution to science and technology and the promotion of excellence in research and education.” He was simultaneously elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences. At the award ceremony he lectured on “Uncertainty Analysis in Engineering: From Blaise Pascal and Pierre Fermat to Modern Times.”
National and international recognitions
Frank M. Freimann Visiting Chair Professorship, University of Notre Dame, United States 1985/86 Henry J. Massman Jr. Visiting Chair Professorship, University of Notre Dame, Fall Semester, United States, 1986/87 (inaugural holder) Fellow of American Academy of Mechanics, 1991 ("For outstanding achievements and pioneering contributions in random vibrations”.) Visiting Castiliagno Distinguished Professorship, University of Palermo, Italy 1992 Fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan 1992 ASME Distinguished Lectureship (1996–2002) Visiting W.T. Koiter Chair Professorship, Delft University of Technology 2000 (inaugural holder) Visiting Professorship, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy 2005, 2010, 2017 Fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Kyoto University, Japan (2006–2007) Visiting Eminent Scholar, Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, P.R. China (2007, 2009, 2010) Foreign Member, Georgian National Academy of Sciences (“For seminal contributions to the theoretical and applied mechanics”) (2010) Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2011) Fellow, ASME (2011) Visiting Distinguished Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, United Kingdom (2015) Worcester Reed Warner Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016 Visiting Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2014–2018 In 2019 he was awarded the William B. Johnson Inter-Professional Founders Award “In recognition for a lifetime achievement of accomplishments in applied mechanics research and instruction which affect world-wide advancement of business, culture, and learning”, by the Engineers Council. In 2019 he served as the S. P. Timoshenko Visiting Scholar at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University.
Special symposium
ASME International Congress and Exposition, Lake Buena Vista, FL. Nov. 2009; special “Symposium on Stability, Structural Reliability, and Random Vibrations in Honor of Prof. Isaac Elishakoff” with 3 keynote lectures and 18 contributed lectures by authors of 12 countries (2009) "International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics" published a special issue, Vol. 11, number 4, in Honor of Prof. I. Elishakoff (2011)