Michael D. Shields, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Michael D. Shields is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Civil & Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University where he is also the Director of the Center on High-Throughput Materials Discovery for Extremes (HT-MAX), holds a secondary appointment in the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, and is a fellow of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute. Prof. Shields conducts research in uncertainty quantification (UQ) and probabilistic modeling for problems in structural mechanics, materials science, and physics with applications ranging from multi-scale material modeling to assessing the reliability and safety of large-scale structures. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from Columbia University in 2010, after which he was employed as a Research Engineer in applied computational mechanics at Weidlinger Associates, Inc. He joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2013. For his work in UQ, Prof. Shields has been awarded the ONR Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the DOE Early Career Award, and the Johns Hopkins University Catalyst Award. Prof. Shields and his group also develop the open-source UQpy (Uncertainty Quantification with Python) software, which is a general toolbox and development environment for UQ in computational, mathematical, and physical systems.