Flexcompute Co-founder Dr. Shanhui Fan Elected to National Academy of Engineering

27 Feb 2024 By Qing Hu,   Wallace Scott

Flexcompute is proud to share that the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected our co-founder Dr. Shanhui Fan to its 2024 Class for showing that “the coldness of space” relative to Earth can be a major energy source for humankind.

Flexcompute Co-founder Dr. Shanhui Fan Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Dr. Shanhui Fan also serves as Joseph and Hon Mai Goodman Professor of the School of Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in Stanford, California. His induction into the NAE comes on the heels of Shanhui Fan’s previous accolade, where he was awarded Optica’s R. W. Wood Prize in 2022.

He is also the second member from Flexcompute to join the ranks of the NAE, following in the footsteps of Dr. Philippe Spalart. Flexcompute is honored to support excellence and leadership in engineering.

With this news, Flexcompute’s highly-recognized team continues to make waves in the simulation technology space with its award-winning research and by developing cutting-edge electrodynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) solvers.