Harold S. Park

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215
Curriculum Vitae (January, 2024)
Publons Publication Summary
Google Scholar Publication Summary

News

  • Congratulations to former group member Penghui Cao, who started a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC-Irvine in January 2019!
  • Congratulations to Dr. Saman Seifi, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on May 18, 2018! Dr. Seifi's dissertation title was "Computational Modeling of Electro-Elasto-Capillary Phenomena in Dielectric Elastomers."
  • Congratulations to Dr. Weiwei Tao, who successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on May 7, 2018! Dr. Tao's dissertation title was "Assessing the Mechanical Behavior of Proteins and Metal Nanowires using Long Timescale Atomistic Simulations."
  • Dr. Park was promoted to Professor of Mechanical Engineering (February, 2017)
  • Dr. Park was elected a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (July, 2016)
  • Dr. Park was awarded the John Argyris Award for Young Scientists from the International Association for Computational Mechanics (March, 2016)
  • Congratulations to Dr. Xue Ben, who successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on April 10, 2015! Dr. Ben's dissertation title was "Opto-Mechanical Coupling Effects on Metallic Nanostructures."
  • Congratulations to Dr. Zenan Qi, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on April 1, 2015! Dr. Qi's dissertation title was "Strain Engineering of Graphene."
  • Dr. Park was named an Associate Editor of the journal Journal of Applied Mechanics (January, 2015)
  • Dr. Park was named an Associate Editor of the journal Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics (November, 2014)
  • Congratulations to Dr. Penghui Cao, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on August 28, 2014! Dr. Cao's dissertation title was "Atomistic Simulation of Amorphous Solids and Proteins at Long Time Scales."
  • Dr. Park was named to the Editorial Board of the journal Finite Elements in Analysis and Design (April, 2014)
  • Dr. Park was named to the Editorial Board of the journal Nature Scientific Reports (March, 2014)
  • Congratulations to Dr. Shuangxing Dai, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on December 11, 2012! Dr. Dai's dissertation was entitled "Atomistic study of Surface Effects on the Electromechanical Behavior of ZnO Nanostructures."
  • Dr. Park was awarded the 2012 Sia Nemat-Nasser Early Career Award from the ASME (September 2012)
  • Dr. Park was awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor effective September 1, 2012
  • Dr. Park was named Assistant Editor of the journal Computational Mechanics for the 2012-2015 period.
  • Dr. Park was named to the editorial board of the journal Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • Congratulations to Dr. Geng Yun, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on April 9, 2010! Dr. Yun's dissertation title was "Multiscale Analysis of Surface Dominated Nanomaterials."
  • Dr. Park was awarded the R.H. Gallagher Young Investigator Award from the US Association for Computational Mechanics (July, 2009)
  • Dr. Park was awarded the Young Faculty Award from DARPA (March 18, 2008)
  • Dr. Park was awarded the CAREER Award from the NSF (August, 2007)
  • Congratulations to Dr. Changjiang Ji, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on July 2, 2007! Dr. Ji's dissertation title was "Surface Effects on the Mechanical Properties of FCC Metal Nanowires."

    Education

    PhD, Northwestern University (2004)
    MS, Northwestern University (2001)
    BS, Northwestern University (1999)

    Current Research Interests

  • Topological mechanics
  • Mechanics of soft, active materials
  • Phononic metamaterials
  • Mechanics of discrete/continuous systems

    Journal Publications

  • List Of All Publications (Journal Articles, Books, Book Chapters, Journal Special Issues Edited)
  • Topological Mechanics Papers
  • Machine Learning Papers
  • 2D Materials Papers
  • Soft Materials Papers
  • Piezoelectric/Flexoelectric (Electromechanical Coupling) Papers
  • Long Timescale Atomistic Modeling Papers
  • Protein Papers
  • Surface Plasmon Resonance Papers
  • Surface Cauchy-Born/Surface Elasticity Papers
  • Nanowire Papers
  • Multiscale Papers
  • Finite Element Papers

    • Books

    1. W.K. Liu, E.G. Karpov and H.S. Park. Nano Mechanics and Materials: Theory, Multiscale Methods and Applications, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN:0-470-01851-8, 2006.

    Current Research Group

  • Dr. Jiachen Luo
  • Dr. Punith Prakasha
  • Lingxiao Yuan (Graduate student - co-advised with Prof. Emma Lejeune)
    Harold Park
    Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Boston University
    730 Commonwealth Avenue, ENA 212
    Boston, MA 02215
    Phone: 617.353.4208
    Fax: 617.353.5866
    Email:parkhs@bu.edu
    Last Modified January 7, 2024