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- ↑ Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Accessed March 22, 2018
- ↑ "2018 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize-Professor Jose Andrade". Computational Geomechanics at Caltech.
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