Anastasia Hanifah Muliana is an Indonesian [1] and American mechanical engineer whose research concerns the solid mechanics and viscoelasticity of asphalt, laminates, smart materials, and other composite materials. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University, where she is also Linda & Ralph Schmidt ‘68 Professor, chair for faculty mentoring and success in mechanical engineering, and faculty ombudsman for the college of engineering. [2]
Muliana majored in civil engineering at the Bandung Institute of Technology, graduating in 1997. She went to Georgia Tech for graduate study in engineering, and earned a master's degree in civil engineering there in 1999, but switched to structural engineering and mechanics for her 2004 Ph.D. [2]
She joined Texas A&M as an assistant professor mechanical engineering in 2004, and was tenured as an associate professor in 2010. [3] She was named by the university's college of engineering as a TEES Faculty Fellow and Cain Faculty Fellow in 2016, [4] [5] and was appointed as G. Paul Pepper ’54 Professor in 2017. [6]
Muliana was a 2006 winner of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, [7] and a 2008 winner of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. [8] She was named an ASME Fellow in 2016. [9]