Dr. Nam-Ho Kim is presently Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. He graduated with a Ph.D. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Iowa in 1999 and worked at the Center for Computer-Aided Design as a postdoctoral associate until 2001. His research areas include structural design optimization, design sensitivity analysis, nonlinear structural mechanics, structural-acoustics, and meshfree method. He has published more than forty refereed journal and conference papers in the above areas.