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Nickolas Vlahopoulos is a Professor in the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering program at the University of Michigan. His expertise lies in computational methods, structural acoustics, and multi-discipline ship design, particularly focusing on uncertainty in design decision-making and blast event simulations. He has developed optimization algorithms for complex system designs and has published extensively on topics such as finite element methods and energy finite element analysis. Vlahopoulos has chaired numerous Ph.D. committees and has received various awards including the NA&ME Outstanding Graduate Student Award. He teaches graduate-level courses including Marine Structures, Foundations of Ship Design, and Marine Hydrodynamics, and he is actively involved in research concerning vibrational analysis and optimization in engineering contexts.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science