Prof. Paulino was elected to the National Academy of Engineering on February 9th, 2021 for contributions to topology optimization and its applications to medicine and engineering. View the full list of new members. View the article from the College of Engineering and the article from the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech .

Prof. Paulino will join the Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) effective July 1, 2020. The committee was founded by Timoshenko in 1927. Timoshenko was Prof. Paulino's academic great-grandfather. That is, he was the advisor of the advisor of Prof. Paulino's advisor. More info on the AMD.

Prof. Paulino was awarded the 2020 JN Reddy Medal "for pioneering contributions to theoretical and computational mechanics leading to advances in mimetic inspired methods (Virtual Element Method, VEM), topology optimization, and geometric mechanics associated to origami engineering including configurational metamaterials and reconfigurable structural systems." The medal will be awarded at the banquet of the 3rd International Conference on Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures at Texas A&M University, College Station, on March 27, 2021. Read article from CEE at Georgia Tech.

Prof. Paulino and former group member, Evgueni Filipov's, paper entitled Deployable Sandwich Surfaces with High Out-of-PLane Stiffness, written in collaboration with University of Tokyo's Tomohiro Tachi, was awarded ASCE's 2019 Best Paper Award in Analysis and Computation.