Nahil Sobh is the site-lead of NCN at the University of Illinois. He received a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1990, and a Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics/Structures/Civil Engineering in 1987 both from the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests are in High Performance Scientific Computing, Distributed Computing, Massively Parallel Processing, Computational Solid and Fluid Mechanics, Large Scale Applications in online nano-biotechnology and Imaging, Large Scale Reservoir Simulation, Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI), Space-Time Finite Element Techniques, Discontinuous Galerkin Methods, Wave Propagation, Shape Optimization, Numerical Linear Algebra, Domain Decomposition Methods, Software Engineering, Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Research and Development.

Nahil Sobh is also affiliated with University of Illinois Computational Science and Engineering Program, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Sciences, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.