Alexander F. Vakakis has a Ph.D. from Caltech (1990), an M.Sc. from Imperial College (1984), and a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece (1984). He is the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of the College of Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at UIUC, where he co-directs the LNDV Laboratory (http://lndvl.mechse.illinois.edu/). He received the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2020), the Edmond J. Safra Fellowship at Technion (2020), the ASME Thomas K. Caughey Award in nonlinear dynamics (2014), the Thomas Bernard Hall Prize (2012), and the PE Publishing Award (2009) both from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK). Since 2015 he is a National High-End Foreign Expert in China. He has published over 300 archival publications, three patents, and
Six technical monographs. His research interests include, among other topics, dynamics, vibrations and acoustics, NEMS/MEMS, and system identification and reduced-order modeling