George Karniadakis, Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering at Brown University, has been named to the 2024 Highly Cited Researchers List by Clarivate Analytics. This list recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top one percent by citations for field and year in Web of Science. Of the world’s population of scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers™ are one in 1,000. This year marks the third year in a row Karniadakis has been on the prestigious list.
Karniadakis has published 640 articles in refereed journals which have been cited more than 118,243 times, as well as five books. He has an h-index, a measure of both scholarly productivity and impact, of 148. In 2024 so far, his work has been cited over 23,000 times. One of his most impactful papers, “Physics-informed neural networks: A deep learning framework for solving forward and inverse problems involving nonlinear partial differential equations” has been cited over 11,000 times.
Karniadakis was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in February of 2022, one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer. He was elected in recognition of his contributions to engineering for “computational tools, from high-accuracy algorithms to machine learning, and applications to complex flows, stochastic processes, and microfluidics.” He is a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow and also a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He has been a recipient of the SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (2021), Computational Fluid Dynamics award (2007) and the J. Tinsley Oden Medal (2013) by the U.S. Association in Computational Mechanics. Karniadakis also holds seven patents.
He was recently named an academic researcher in collaboration with the Department of Defense’s class of 2025 Laboratory-University Collaboration Initiative (LUCI) fellows. This will be the second time Karniadakis has been named academic collaborator to a LUCI fellow.
Other Brown University researchers on the 2024 highly cited researchers list include Kenneth Mayer, Stephen Salloway, and Shouheng Sun.