Ramesh Agarwal receives 2025 IDSAI Lifetime Achievement Award
Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the fields of data science and artificial intelligence
Ramesh Agarwal, the William Palm Professor of Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has received the 2025 (Second) Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI).
The highest honor conferred by the institute, the Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes international scholars who have made lifelong, outstanding contributions to the fields of data science and artificial intelligence. The selection committee noted Agarwal’s significant impact in computational fluid dynamics, rarefied gas dynamics, hypersonic flows, multidisciplinary optimization design and sustainable energy technologies. His pioneering research has advanced innovations in aerospace engineering, wind energy use and geological carbon sequestration, earning him recognition as an international leader in fluid mechanics and aerodynamics.
Prior to joining WashU in 2001, Agarwal was chair of the aerospace engineering department at Wichita State University from 1994 to 1996 and the executive director of National Institute for Aviation Research from 1996 to 2001. From 1994 to 2001, he was also the Bloomfield Distinguished Professor at Wichita State University.
Previously, Agarwal held various scientific and managerial positions at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis, at NASA Ames Research Center and at Rao and Associates. He earned a doctorate in aeronautical sciences from Stanford University in 1975.
Agarwal is the author and coauthor of more than 600 publications and four books on diverse engineering subjects in aerospace, energy and environment, and serves on the editorial board of more than 20 journals. A fellow of 28 professional societies, he has received numerous international honors, including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Reed Aeronautics Award, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Medal of Honor, Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) Honorary Fellowship, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Honorary Membership.
The IDSAI, an affiliated society of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI), fosters the advancement of data science and artificial intelligence.