Special Awards and Honors
- Engineering Foundation Initiation Award
- National Science Foundation Career Award
- Zienkiewicz Prize and Medal (1998)
- Forschungsstipendium der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (1999)
- Fellow of the US Association for Computational Mechanics (2015)
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Forschungspreis (2018)
- Fellow of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (2025)