Haym Benaroya is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University. His research interests are focused on the conceptualization and analysis of structures placed in challenging environments. These include wave forces on offshore drilling structures, vortex-induced oscillations, and lunar surface structures for manned habitation. In the past few years he has expanded his research interests to the modeling of certain aspects of cellular energetics.

Professor Benaroya earned his BE degree from The Cooper Union in New York, and his MS and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Prior to joining Rutgers University in 1989, Professor Benaroya was a senior research engineer at Weidlinger Associates in New York for eight years. While at Rutgers, Professor Benaroya has mentored twelve students to their PhDs, a similar number to their MS degrees, and many dozens of undergraduate students. He is the author of over 90 refereed journal publications, two text books - one in Vibration and the other in Probabilistic Modeling - and three research monographs with four former PhD students on structural dynamics in the ocean. He has also written two books on the settlement of the Moon. His book, "From Dust to Gold - Building a Future on the Moon and Mars," presents a vision of settling the solar system. It was selected as the 2012 Best Engineering Sciences Book by the International Academy of Astronautics. His second book is titled “Building Habitats on the Moon - Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements”. Professor Benaroya is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics.