J. N. Reddy is a University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, and the holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station. Prior to this current position, he was the Clifton C. Garvin Professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI&SU), Blacksburg.

Dr. Reddy is internationally known for his contributions to theoretical and applied mechanics and computational mechanics. He is the author of more than 480 journal papers and 18 books. Professor Reddy is the recipient of numerous awards including the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Worcester Reed Warner Medal and the Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the 1997 Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award from the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), the 1998 Nathan M. Newmark Medal from ASCE, the 2000 Excellence in the Field of Composites from the American Society of Composites (ASC), the 2003 Bush Excellence Award for Faculty in International Research from Texas A&M University, and the 2003 Computational Solid Mechanics Award from the U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics (USACM). Dr. Reddy received honorary degrees (Honoris Causa) from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2009 and Odlar Yurdu University, Baku, Azerbaijan in 2011.