Samir Ziada
McMaster University, Canada
Biography
Samir Ziada is a Professor at McMaster University and former Chair of Mechanical Engineering. He had 17 years of industrial experience with Sulzer Innotec Ltd. in Switzerland, before joining McMaster University in Canada in 1998. He has received several awards, including the Premier Research Excellence Award of Ontario, the McMaster Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and the McMaster President Award for Excellence of Graduate Supervision. His research expertise is in the areas of industrial aeroacoustics, flow-induced vibration and unsteady flows. He is currently a regular consultant to several industrial institutions, including the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, among others. He served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Fluids and Structures and the Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology. He is a Fellow of the ASME and the CSME and has been the Chair of the ASME Technical Committee on Fluid-Structure-Interaction.