Alan Shih

Trained in aerospace engineering, Dr. Shih began his research in turbomachinery performance simulations under NASA support. At the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, he served as the key liaison between NCSA and the Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in scientific visualization technologies. He later joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he co-founded and directed the Enabling Technology Laboratory (ETLab) for over nine years advancing cross-disciplinary collaborations across aerospace, automotive, biomedical, and health sciences. Dr. Shih secured funding from NASA, DOD, DOE, DHS, NIH, and industry partners, leading to more than 15 disclosed inventions and several patent applications, many of which were licensed and commercialized. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Modeling and Simulation Council (2005–2014), promoting Alabama’s national recognition and collaboration in modeling a