Yannis Kevrekidis Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Yannis Kevrekidis, who will join the Whiting School of Engineering’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering as Bloomberg Distinguished Professor on July 1, was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 12. He will hold joint appointments in WSE’s Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Department of Urology.

Kevrekidis, currently the Pomeroy and Betty Perry Smith Professor in Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University, specializes in mathematical modeling of complex/multiscale systems and machine learning, with applications to chemical/biological reaction dynamics, transport, and pattern formation. He holds concurrent appointments at Princeton as faculty in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, and as associated faculty in the Department of Mathematics.

He is one of 228 members of the Academy’s 237th class, which includes some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, artists, as well as civic, business, and philanthropic leaders. Other members include philanthropist and singer-songwriter John Legend, award-winning actress Carol Burnett, chairman of the board of Xerox Corporation Ursula Burns, mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, immunologist James P. Allison, and writer and Hopkins alumna Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the country’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers, convening leaders from the academic, business, and government sectors to respond to the challenges facing—and opportunities available to—the nation and the world. Members contribute to Academy publications and studies in science, engineering, and technology policy; global security and international affairs; the humanities, arts, and education; and American institutions and the public good.