Pinar Acar
Assistant Professor
- Thrust Area Specialty: Design Materials & Manufacturing

213A Goodwin Hall
635 Prices Fork Rd.
Blacksburg, VA 24061
635 Prices Fork Rd.
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Research Interests
- Computational Multi-Scale Modeling of Materials
- Optimization
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Reduced Order Modeling
- Machine Learning
See Dr. Acar's publications and research on Google Scholar and Researchgate.
- 2018-Present, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
- 2017, Research Fellow, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
- 2014-2017, Graduate Research Assistant, Multi-Scale Structural Simulations Laboratory, University of Michigan
- 2020 - AFOSR Young Investigator Award
- 2016 - Amelia Earhart Fellowship, Zonta International Foundation
- 2012 - Honor student, Istanbul Technical University, ranked 1st in M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering
- 2012 - Ph.D. Scholarship from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
- Ph.D. - Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, 2017
- M.Sc. - Aerospace Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, 2012
- B.Sc. - Astronautical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, 2010