Peyman Givi

Givi is from Iran, and now lives in Pittsburgh. He received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the Youngstown State University in 1980 and his master's and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 and 1984, respectively. Prior to joining University of Pittsburgh in 2002, he held the rank of University Distinguished Professor in Aerospace Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he received the Professor of the Year Award by Tau Beta Pi (2002). He also worked as a Research Scientist at the Flow Industries, Inc. in Seattle.

Givi has taught 32 different courses during his career in a wide range of topics including thermal-fluids, systems & controls, vibrations & shock, machine design, engineering mathematics, numerical methods, and data analysis. He was the first scientist who introduced the concept of filtered density function for accurate prediction of turbulent combustion.[5][6][7] His current research interests include high performance computing, turbulence, combustion, computational fluid dynamics, data-driven modeling, and stochastic processes.

Givi received the NASA's Public Service Medal (2005).[8] He is amongst the first 15 engineering faculty nationwide who received the White House Presidential Faculty Fellowship from President George Bush. He also received the Young Investigator Award of the Office of Naval Research, and the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation.[9] Givi has achieved Fellow status in AAAS, AIAA, APS, and ASME; and was designated as ASME's Engineer of the Year 2007 in Pittsburgh.