Research Bio

Robert Taylor is a Professor of the Graduate School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Taylor’s research focuses on computational mechanics, mechanics of solids, finite element methods, and finite element software. He is a recipient of the prestigious Daniel C. Drucker Medal awarded by the American Society of Mechanical Engineering in 2005, the Gauss-Newton Award Congress Medal from the International Association for Computational Mechanics in 2002, the Von Neumann Medal from the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics in 1999, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.

Research Expertise and Interest

computational mechanics, mechanics of solids, finite element methods, finite element software