Alan Shih

Title

Director of Research Development

Department

Office of Research

Institution

Central Office, City University of New York

alan.shih@cuny.edu

Education

Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering

Research Interests

Soft Robotics, Soft Robots Drones, Drone STTR

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Biography

Dr. Shih started his graduate research by developing technologies associated with turbomachinery performance simulations. It led to the successful commercialization of a software package for turbomachinery meshing. During his tenure at NCSA, University of Illinois, he held the role of onsite lead in the Scientific Visualization area, collaborating with the Army Engineer Research Development Center for four years to develop and transfer cutting-edge visualization technologies to the research communities within the Department of Defense. Following this, Dr. Shih became a faculty member at UAB's Department of Mechanical Engineering, where he led the Enabling Technology Laboratory (ETLab). This lab concentrated its research efforts on numerical geometry, mesh generation, virtual environments, and high-performance computing. Dr. Shih served as the inaugural Director of the ETLab for nine years. His leadership and dedication to research fostered collaborations in various fields such as aerospace, automotive, biomedical, and health sciences. Notably, he secured consistent research funding from sponsors such as NASA, DOD, DOE, DHS, NIH, and industry partners. The outcomes of these research endeavors resulted in the disclosure of over 15 inventions by Dr. Shih and his colleagues at ETLab, many of which were successfully licensed and commercialized. Before joining CCNY, Dr. Shih assumed the role of VP of Business Development at Relecura, Inc., a company specializing in the development of patent analysis tools for intellectual property professionals. Between 2005 and 2014, Dr. Shih served on the Board of Directors for the Alabama Modeling and Simulation Council (AMSC). This organization was established with the primary objective of creating an environment that promotes collaboration and cooperation among practitioners of modeling and simulation (M&S) nationwide, for the collective advancement of the industry. Dr. Shih has actively engaged in organizing international conferences and has taken on the role of research mentor for students from the Ph.D. program to undergraduate and high school students. He currently holds the title of Associate Fellow at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).

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Soft Robotics, Soft Robots Drones, Drone STTR Sbir Energy Resilience Marine Energy Renewable Energy Ar Vr Injury Severity Analytic Sensitivities Traditional Methods Mesh Generation Guest Editorial Motor Vehicle Crashes Multiple Positions Real World Discrete Geometry Hybrid Approach Non Uniform Rational B Spline Radio Frequency Identification Grid Generation Computational Fluid Dynamics Finite Element Modeling, Finite Element Model High Quality Complex Geometries Feature Aligned Improved Set Material Identification New Set Surface Meshes Case Management Tool Efficient Evaluation Web Services

List of Publications (52)

In 2014

Gary C. Cheng and Roy P. Koomullil and Yasushi Ito and Alan M. Shih and Somsak Sittitavornwong and Peter D. Waite. "Assessment of surgical effects on patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome using computational fluid dynamics simulations" (2014)
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Jong-Eun Kim and Il Hwan Kim and Phillip C. Shum and Alan M. Shih and Frank Pintar and Wei Shen and Xiaoguang Ma and Purushottam W. Laud and Steven B. Heymsfield and David B. Allison and Shankuan Zhu. "A computational study of injury severity and pattern sustained by overweight drivers in frontal motor vehicle crashes" (2014)
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BETH L. ELIAS and JACQUELINE A. MOSS and ALAN SHIH and MARCUS DILLAVOU. "Development of a Simulated Smart Pump Interface" (2014)
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In 2013

Sittitavornwong, S. and Waite, P.D. and Shih, A.M. and Cheng, G.C. and Koomullil, R. and Ito, Y. and Cure, J.K. and Harding, S.M. and Litaker, M. "Computational fluid dynamic analysis of the posterior airway space after maxillomandibular advancement for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome" (2013)
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Ito, Y. and Murayama, M. and Yamamoto, K. and Shih, A.M. and Soni, B.K. "Efficient hybrid surface/volume mesh generation using suppressed marching-direction method" (2013)
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Elias, B.L. and Moss, J.A. and Dillavou, M. and Shih, A. and Azuero, A. "Evaluation of nursing student perspectives of a simulated smart pump" (2013)
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In 2012

Johnson, D. and Wyss, J.M. and Gray, J. and Daily, S. and Shih, A. and Abbot, G. "Broadening participation in computing: The multi-tiered approach" (2012)
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Bhagat, N. and Blair, M. and Shih, A. and Taylor, R. "The development of a geometry engine with analytic sensitivities" (2012)
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Paula S. Joe and Yasushi Ito and Alan M. Shih and Riedar K. Oestenstad and Claudiu T. Lungu. "Comparison of a Novel Surface Laser Scanning Anthropometric Technique to Traditional Methods for Facial Parameter Measurements" (2012)
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In 2011

Ito, Y. and Murayama, M. and Yamamoto, K. and Shih, A.M. and Soni, B.K. "Efficient hybrid surface and volume mesh generation for viscous flow simulations" (2011)
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Kumar, A. and Shih, A.M. "Hybrid approach for repair of geometry with complex topology" (2011)
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Ito, Y. and Shih, A.M. and Soni, B.K. "Hybrid mesh generation with embedded surfaces using a multiple marching direction approach" (2011)
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Ito, Y. and Cheng, G.C. and Shih, A.M. and Koomullil, R.P. and Soni, B.K. and Sittitavornwong, S. and Waite, P.D. "Patient-specific geometry modeling and mesh generation for simulating Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome cases by Maxillomandibular Advancement" (2011)
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Joydip Barman and Gitendra Uswatte and Touraj Ghaffari and Nilanjan Sarkar and Brad Sokal and Ezekiel Byrom and Eva Trinh and Christopher Varghese and Michael Brewer and Alan Shih. "Poster 8 Sensor-enabled Radio Frequency Identification Tags for Remotely Monitoring Everyday Arm Activity: Sensitivity and Specificity" (2011)
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Amitesh Kumar and Yasushi Ito and Tzu-Yi Yu and Douglas H. Ross and Alan M. Shih. "A novel hole patching algorithm for discrete geometry using non-uniform rational B-spline" (2011)
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X Ma and P W Laud and F Pintar and J-E Kim and A Shih and W Shen and S B Heymsfield and D B Allison and S Zhu. "Obesity and non-fatal motor vehicle crash injuries: sex difference effects" (2011)
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Yasushi Ito and Alan M. Shih and Bharat K. Soni. "Three-dimensional automatic local remeshing for two or more hybrid meshes" (2011)
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Mahesh B. Shenai and Marcus Dillavou and Corey Shum and Douglas Ross and Richard S. Tubbs and Alan Shih and Barton L. Guthrie. "Virtual Interactive Presence and Augmented Reality (VIPAR) for Remote Surgical Assistance" (2011)
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In 2010

Ross, D.H. and Ito, Y. and Dorothy, F.W. and Shih, A.M. and Peugeot, J. "Automatic mesh generation of hybrid mesh on valves in multiple positions in feedline systems" (2010)
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P{\'e}bay, P. and Shih, A.M. "Guest editorial: 15th International meshing roundtable special issue" (2010)
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Shankuan Zhu and Jong-Eun Kim and Xiaoguang Ma and Alan Shih and Purushottam W. Laud and Frank Pintar and Wei Shen and Steven B. Heymsfield and David B. Allison. "BMI and Risk of Serious Upper Body Injury Following Motor Vehicle Crashes: Concordance of Real-World and Computer-Simulated Observations" (2010)
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In 2009

Coolahan, J.E. and Kane, M.T. and Morse, K.L. and Schloman, J.F. and Koomullil, R.P. and Shih, A.M. and Kaisar, E.I. and Walsh, K.K. "Design of a Bioterrorism Crisis Management simulation for Preparedness and Response" (2009)
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Kim, J.-E. and Li, Z. and Ito, Y. and Huber, C.D. and Shih, A.M. and Soni, B.K. and Yang, K.H. and Eberhardt, A.W. "Development of a finite element model of a pediatric pelvis and material property estimation" (2009)
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Kim, J.-E. and Rao, V.N. and Koomullil, R.P. and Ross, D.H. and Soni, B.K. and Shih, A.M. "Development of an efficient aerodynamic shape optimization framework" (2009)
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Ito, Y. and Shih, A.M. and Soni, B.K. "Efficient hexahedral mesh generation for complex geometries using an improved set of refinement templates" (2009)
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Sittitavornwong, S. and Waite, P.D. and Shih, A.M. and Koomullil, R. and Ito, Y. and Cheng, G.C. and Wang, D. "Evaluation of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome by Computational Fluid Dynamics" (2009)
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Kim, J.-E. and Li, Z. and Ito, Y. and Huber, C.D. and Shih, A.M. and Eberhardt, A.W. and Yang, K.H. and King, A.I. and Soni, B.K. "Finite element model development of a child pelvis with optimization-based material identification" (2009)
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Y. Ito and A. Shih and R. Koomullil and N. Kasmai and M. Jankun-Kelly and D. Thompson. "Solution Adaptive Mesh Generation Using Feature-Aligned Embedded Surface Meshes" (2009)
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Yasushi Ito and Mitsuhiro Murayama and Kazuomi Yamamoto and Alan M. Shih and Bharat K. Soni. "Efficient Computational Fluid Dynamics Evaluation of Small-Device Locations with Automatic Local Remeshing" (2009)
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Yasushi Ito and Alan M. Shih and Bharat K. Soni. "Octree-based reasonable-quality hexahedral mesh generation using a new set of refinement templates" (2009)
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In 2008

Dillavou, M.W. and Shum, P.C. and Dorothy, F.W. and Shih, A.M. and Soni, B.K. "CaseMan, A CFD case management toolkit" (2008)
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Ito, Y. and Murayama, M. and Yamamoto, K. and Shih, A.M. and Soni, B.K. "Efficient CFD evaluation of small device locations with automatic local remeshing" (2008)
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Ross, D.H. and Dorothy, F.W. and Ito, Y. and Shih, A.M. and Soni, B.K. "Mesh generation transfer based on topology matching" (2008)
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Young-Ho Kim and Jong-Eun Kim and Yasushi Ito and Alan M. Shih and Brigitta Brott and Andreas Anayiotos. "Hemodynamic Analysis of a Compliant Femoral Artery Bifurcation Model using a Fluid Structure Interaction Framework" (2008)
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In 2007

Coolahan, J.E. and Kane, M.T. and Schloman, J.F. and Koomullil, R.P. and Shih, A.M. and Ito, Y. and Kaisar, E.I. and Walsh, K.K. and Abdullah, M.M. "Design of an Urban Chemical Disaster simulation federation for preparedness and response" (2007)
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Yasushi Ito and Alan M. Shih and Anil K. Erukala and Bharat K. Soni and Andrey Chernikov and Nikos P. Chrisochoides and Kazuhiro Nakahashi. "Parallel unstructured mesh generation by an advancing front method" (2007)
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Yasushi Ito and Alan M. Shih and Bharat K. Soni and Kazuhiro Nakahashi. "Multiple Marching Direction Approach to Generate High Quality Hybrid Meshes" (2007)
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In 2006

Shih, A.M. and Ross, D.H. and Dillavou, M. and Gopalsamy, S. and Soni, B.K. "A geometry-grid generation template framework for propellant delivery system" (2006)
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Ito, Y. and Shih, A.M. and Koomullil, R.P. and Soni, B.K. "A solution-based adaptive redistribution method for unstructured meshes" (2006)
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Ito, Y. and Shih, A.M. and Soni, B.K. and Nakahashi, K. "An approach to generate high quality unstructured hybrid meshes" (2006)
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Shih, A. and Shum, C. and Dillavou, M. and Noack, R. and Soni, B. and Power, G. "CaseMan: A case management tool for CFD applications" (2006)
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Gopalsamy, S. and Michal, T.R. and Shih, A.M. "Grid generation in the framework of the unstructured grid consortium API using the geometry and grid toolkit GGTK" (2006)
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Ito, Y. and Shum, P.C. and Shih, A.M. and Soni, B.K. and Nakahashi, K. "Robust generation of high-quality unstructured meshes on realistic biomedical geometry" (2006)
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In 2005

Holton, A.D. and Walsh, E.G. and Brott, B.C. and Venugopalan, R. and Hershey, B. and Ito, Y. and Shih, A. and Koomullil, R. and Anayiotos, A.S. "Evaluation of in-stent stenosis by magnetic resonance phase-velocity mapping in nickel-titanium stents" (2005)
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Gopalsamy, S. and Ross, D.H. and Ito, Y. and Shih, A.M. "Structured grid generation over NURBS and facetted surface patches by reparametrization" (2005)
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Yu, T.-Y. and Shih, A.M. "Surface reconstruction and mesh generation using reverse engineering approach" (2005)
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Sunil Unnikrishnan and Thanh N. Huynh and B. C. Brott and Y. Ito and C. H. Cheng and A. M. Shih and M. Allon and Andreas S. Anayiotos. "Turbulent Flow Evaluation of the Venous Needle During Hemodialysis" (2005)
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Alan M. Shih and Tzu-Yi Yu and Sankarappan Gopalsamy and Yasushi Ito and Bharat Soni. "Geometry and mesh generation for high fidelity computational simulations using non-uniform rational B-splines" (2005)
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In 2004

Holton, A.D. and Brott, B.C. and Walsh, E.G. and Venugopalan, R. and Shih, A.M. and Koomullil, R. and Ito, Y. and Anayiotos, A.S. "Comparative computational fluid dynamics and experimental phase-contrast MRI: Evaluations of in-stent restenosis" (2004)
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In 2003

Chew, P. and Chrisochoides, N. and Gopalsamy, S. and Heber, G. and Ingraffea, T. and Luke, E. and Neto, J. and Pingali, K. and Shih, A. and Soni, B. and Stodghill, P. and Thompson, D. and Vavasis, S. and Wawrzynek, P. "Computational science simulations based on web services" (2003)
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Jeong, H.-K. and Koomullil, R. and Shih, A. and Soni, B. "Toward enabling objective englneering designs for rocket injectors-efficient evaluation of larger design space via automated parametric grid generation" (2003)
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Unspecified

Amitesh Kumar and Alan Shih and Yasushi Ito and Douglas Ross and Bharat Soni. "A Hole-filling Algorithm Using Non-uniform Rational B-splines"
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