Jason Hicken

About

Dr. Jason Hicken is an associate professor in the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering Department, and the co-director of the Rensselaer Augmented and Virtual Environment. His research interests include computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamic shape optimization, and simulation-based design. Dr. Hicken received his doctoral degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies. Before joining RPI in 2012, he held a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship at Stanford. He was awarded an AFOSR Young Investigator Award in 2015 and an NSF CAREER Award in 2016.

Education & Training
  • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Toronto (2005 - 2009)
    Advisor: Prof. David W. Zingg
    Thesis: Efficient algorithms for future aircraft design: contributions to aerodynamic shape optimization
  • M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Dalhousie University (2002 - 2004)
    Advisors: Prof. Julio Militzer and Prof. Murat Koksal
    Thesis: Turbulence modelling on an unstructured time-adaptive mesh
  • B.Math., Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo (1997-2002)

Research

Primary Research Focus
Simulation-based Design and Computational Fluid Dynamics

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Jason Hicken has 77 indexed publications in the subjects of Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science.

Zelalem Arega Worku, Jason E. Hicken, David W. Zingg
Journal of Scientific Computing
, 101
, 2024
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Habeeb B. Idris, Tucker Babcock, Jason E. Hicken
AIAA Aviation Forum and ASCEND, 2024
, 2024
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Tucker Babcock, Dustin Hall, Justin S. Gray, Jason E. Hicken
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
, 67
, 2024
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Jason Hicken, Vignesh Ramakrishnan
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
, 188
, 2024
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Soha Yusuf, Jason Hicken, Shaowu Pan
AIAA Aviation Forum and ASCEND, 2024
, 2024
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Xuanjie Wang, Luiz Victor Repolho Cagliari, Jason E. Hicken, Shankar Narayan
MRS Communications
, 13
, 2023
, pp.581-586
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Sharanjeet Kaur, Ge Yan, Jason E. Hicken
AIAA Journal
, 61
, 2023
, pp.4220-4229
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Garo Bedonian, Jason E. Hicken, Edwin Forster
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
, 66
, 2023
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Ge Yan, Sharanjeet Kaur, Jeffrey W. Banks, Jason E. Hicken
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
, 422
, 2023
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