Julián Norato

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor

Dr. Julián Norato is an Associate Professor at The University of Connecticut and a Castleman Professor in Engineering Innovation. Prior to joining UConn in 2014, he worked for Caterpillar, where he was responsible for the Product Optimization Group. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Norato is a recipient of a 2017 ONR Young Investigator Program award, a 2018 NSF CAREER Award, and the 2019 ASME Design Automation Young Investigator Award. He is a Review Editor for the Journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization and an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. He currently serves as the Chair of the ASME Design Automation Committee.