Research Expertise

•	Structural and Multidisciplinary optimization
•	Reliability-based and robust optimal design
•	Design of experiments and metamodeling techniques
•	Evolutionary optimization algorithms
•	Nonlinear transient dynamic analysis
•	Finite element analysis for solids and structures
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Education

•	Doctorate	:	Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) Toulouse, France, 1999
•	D.E.A	:	Mechanical Engineering, INSA, Toulouse, France, 1996 (equivalent to MS)
•	M.S.	:	Computer-Aided Engineering, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, 1995
•	---	:	Generalist Engineering Degree, Alés School of Mines, Alés, France, 1995 (dual degree with M.S.)
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Courses Taught  (since Fall 2005)

•	AME 324a	:	Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials
•	AME 413a/b	:	Mechanical Engineering Design [supervised projects]
•	AME 465/565	:	Design Optimization
•	AME 563	:	Advanced Finite Element Analysis
•	AME 564a	:	Mechanics of Deformable Solids
•	ENGR 498a/b	:	Cross-Disciplinary Design [supervised projects]
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Employment

•	8/05-date	:	Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Arizona: Assistant Professor
•	9/02-7/05	:	Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Léonard de Vinci (ESILV), Département Mécanique des Systèmes, Paris La Défense, France: Assistant Professor
•	7/99-6/02	:	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Department: Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Honors and Awards

•	Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, US Air Force (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base), 2007
•	Foreign Travel Grant, International Affairs, University of Arizona, 2007
•	Aerospace America (No. 12, p. 41) - project on artificial intelligence techniques to improve probabilistic optimal design and integrated data mining for the design of nonlinear structural problems under uncertainty, mentioned in "Multidisciplinary Design Optimization" by E. H. Winer, 2006
•	Winner at the Scottish level of the National Lecture Competition organized by The British Institute of Materials (Finalist at the UK level), 1995
•	Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars
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Professional Societies

•	AIAA	:	American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: Member
•	ASME	:	American Society of Mechanical Engineers
•	ISSMO	:	International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization: Member
•	SAE	:	Society of Automotive Engineers
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Publications  (since 2005)

•	Basudhar, A. and Missoum, S., Adaptive Sampling for the Construction of Decision Functions Using Support Vector Machines, Computers and Structures (submitted).
•	Basudhar, A., Missoum, S., and Harrison., S., Limit State Function Identification Using Support Vector Machines for Discontinuous Responses and Disjoint Failure Domains, Prob. Eng. Mech. (accepted).
•	Arenbeck, H., Missoum, S., Basudhar, A., and Nikravesh, P. E., Simulation Based Optimal Tolerancing for Multibody Systems, Proceedings of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conference, IDETC, Paper DETC2007-35706, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 4-7, 2007.
•	Basudhar, A. and Missoum, S., Parallel Update of Failure Domain Boundaries Constructed with Support Vector Machines, Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Seoul, South Korea, May 2007 [CD].
•	Gupte, A., Missoum, S., Desai, J., and Sen, S., A Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Algorithm with Distributed Autonomous Subsystems, Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Seoul, South Korea, May 2007 [CD].
•	Layman, R., Missoum, S., and Vande Geest, J., Failure Prediction and Robust Design of Grafts for Aortic Aneurysms, Proceedings of the 48th Conference AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC on Structures, Dynamics and Materials, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007 [CD].
•	Basudhar, A. and Missoum, S., Update of Limit-State Functions Constructed with Support Vector Machines, Proceedings of the 48th Conference AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC on Structures, Dynamics and Materials, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2007 [CD].
•	Missoum, S., Ramu, P. and Haftka R.T., A Convex Hull Approach for the Reliability-Based Design of Transient Dynamic Problems, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng. 196:2895-2906, 2007.
•	Missoum. S., Probabilistic Optimal Design in the Presence of Random Fields, Struct. Multidisc. Optim., Research Paper DOI 10.1007 S00158-004-0464-2, 2007.
•	Missoum, S., Controlling Structural Failure Modes During an Impact in the Presence of Uncertainties, Struct. Multidisc. Optim., Research Paper DOI 10.1007/s00158-007-0100-z, 2007.
•	Harrison, A., Missoum, S., and Martinez Teuscher, J., Design Space Decomposition Using Support Vector Machines for Reliability-Based Design Optimization, Proceedings, 11th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Portsmouth, Virginia, AIAA-2006-6927, 2006 [CD].
•	Missoum, S., Controlling Structural Impact Failure Modes During an Impact in the Presence of Uncertainties, Proceedings, 47th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Newport, Rhode Island, AIAA 2006-1709, 2006 [CD].
•	Missoum, S., Gürdal, Z., and Setoodeh, S., Study of a New Local Update Scheme for Cellular Automata in Structural Design, Struct. Multidiscip. Optimization 29:103-112, 2005.
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Research Grants  (since 2000)

•	"Scaled Model Technology for Flight Research of General Aviation Aircraft" [with Advanced Ceramics Research, Inc. (ACR)], NASA-STIR Phase 2, 5/2/07-5/218/09 (with H. Fasel).
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